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    Told off by an Orp!

    Yesterday 4 of my girls decided to check out what I was doing ont he far side of the front yard. normally they're fine to be there but I was using some toxic stuff to strip paint so I didn't want them around. At first they herded ok but then the two orps peeled off to try and get back to where...
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    Regular double ylkers

    I have a duck who regularly lays double yolkers. At least twice sometime 3 times a week she drops one of these huge eggs. Is this goignot cause her problems in the long run? There's no blood on the egg like it damages her to pass them.
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    Nest box size for very small banties?

    the usual 12x12 seems a little orver kill for birds the size of pigeons. Will 8x8 be good enough for my future japanese banties?
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    Bantam vs. Heavy chick mortality rates

    I am order bantie chicks for the first time next spring. Usually I expect to lose 1 out of 15 or 20 standard sized chicks. With banties being so small is their chick mortality rate higher? I ask because we're goign in with some other folks on an order and need to end up with a minimum amount of...
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    Ducks holding eggs?

    Yesterday no eggs and I know they weren't hidden in the straw becuase I cleaned the coop yesterday afternoon. This morning 7 eggs:D in the ducks nest and I only have 5 duck hens. Can ducks retain eggs internally for a day?
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    Any bought chicks from MyPetChicken.Com?

    they are the only place in the country that offers sexed bantams.
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    Any ever orderd from MyPetChicken.com?

    They seem really nice and knowledgable.
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    Calcium lack

    I'm caring for a neighbors chickens while he's gone. their coop is terrible, unclean, with a tiny run and he feeds crappy. sadly they are actually far better off than previous hens he's had. He doesn't give them any calcium supplements at all. The egg shells are definitely way thinner than...
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    How hot is tooo hot?

    Here in the Pacific NW we don't get the melting heat, but right now we're heading twoard our second day over 100 and they say it'll be that hot tomorrow too. My girls have shade and I wanter down their run at night so there's some cooling from the evaporation. The ducks have a freshly filled...
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    Japanese tea house coop

    I am going to build a coop for my husbands furture japanese bantams that looks like a japanese tea house. I salvaged 4 old fashioned wooden 6 pane windows that I want to use on the sides to look like shoji screens. I plan to white wash the glass of three of the windows to keep the coop cooler...
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    Favorite hatchery?

    I have had nothing but good results with McMurray, but the breed I want doesn't seem to be of good quality from them. Japanese Bantams. So I'm scouting out other sources for JB's and other future chickens. What hatcheries have folks bought from that they've really liked or had bad things...
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    Laying ducks

    I'd sure like to hear form someone with experience with laying ducks. I have 3 Campbells and 2 Cayugas who are 23 wks old. I've gotten 1 egg almost every day for the last 2 wks, but just one. It's a campbell laying, I can almost always see the egg bump on her belly the night before. They are...
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    Bantams vs standard sizes

    So if a coop will house 3 standard hens comfortable will it house 5 banties comfortably? I don't want to overcrowd, but I don't want more coop than 5 little Japanese banties will need. Normally I overbuild, but with my husband and chickens it just means he gets more chickens. So I'm hoping a...
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    Soft shell

    Well my tardy ladies all have apparently decided to start laying, but they are all laying soft shells. I found one under the roost and three others in the run yesterday. This morning there was one under the roost. I'm assuming it would take multiple hens to lay 4 in one day. I have 5 hens...
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