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    First duckling hatched today!

    We had our first baby duck hatch today and three more have little holes in their eggs! She's so sweet!! A little Runner Duck... Questions, though! I only have medicated chick starter, do I feed the duckling that? I put a teeny bit of water in a babyfood jar lid becuase I've had chicks drown...
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    HELP! Baby chicks are dying! Lost 25 in 2 days

    Our chicks were healthy, happy, chirping and eating. They were getting crowded so we put half in the brooder and half in another brooder. We moved the first brooder out on the porch-still with heat lamp and a blanket over the small window to keep heat in. That night it was around 50 degrees...
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    Help! My Muscovies won't stay home!

    We have a nice big pond, far off the road and our Muscovies were raised here. For the past month, they've been waddling through the woods into our neighbor's pond and ticking off our should-be-living-in-the-city-suburbs neighbors. "Ducks poo!" is what we hear. And we're like, no, really?!?! We...
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    Very FIRST try with an incubator--Duck eggs (I think)

    I found the mother load of eggs in our bushes and we have been searching for months for where the ducks and geese are laying. Wow! We finally found them!! It was like Christmas on V-day!! hehehe I fired up the incubator for a whole /night to get the temp right and saw that duck eggs hatch from...
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    Can I see your duck or geese photos??

    Show me your waterfowl, prettty pleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. I'm soo falling in love with water birds!! Next on my list is the Sebastopools
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    Just rescued a lot of chicks from chicken houses....Help, please

    Hi, all! Hubby and I just got the ok to drive to one of our local chicken houses and catch the ones that were too "small" to take to butcher. WOW!! I have never smelled anything like that before in my life!! It was like swimming in a kitty litter box!!! (I think I'll need to burn our clothes)...
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    My duck was injured (PHOTOS)

    Hi, guys! Long time, no post! So, my sweet little duck was attacked by a dog :thun 2 Sundays ago (See AMAZING photos--I am SOO sorry these are gruesome, but I had to share this wonderful miracle with my BYC friends!) and I've kept her in our bathtub "hospital" to heal. She was so bad, I...
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    Our animals are acting very strange....Help?

    Is anyone else's animals acting weird?? And what part of the US are you? For the past week, I've mentioned to my husband that our animals seemed to of gone mad. We're in a farm and have LOTS of animals! We're also in the southern US in Alabama; the weather has dipped and is chilly now. Our...
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    Are your animals acting strange, too?? HELP?!

    Is anyone else's animals acting weird?? And what part of the US are you? For the past week, I've mentioned to my husband that our animals seemed to of gone mad. We're in a farm and have LOTS of animals! We're also in the southern US in Alabama; the weather has dipped and is chilly now. Our...
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    Our puppy thought our duck was a toy!! (PHOTOS)

    My baby, my smallest little duck, Ben, came to our house to look for me and our new Mastiff puppy, Monroe thought she was a toy! Eeeek! Ben is the one with the bent beak and is smaller than the others. Thank God, Allen (hubby) saw the dog through the window and boy, I can run like the wind...
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    How do we get our Peafowl BACK into the coop??

    Our 3 peafowl (2 hens and a cock) have been in trees for 4 days and won't come back into their coop! I could only hear them beeping a few days ago; now I don't hear anything! They've been in the coop for about 2 months and I left the door open to let it air out and hoping the chickens would...
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    2 of my 5 Jap Bantams died. Skinny, won't eat, tiny bugs in feathers??

    You all know that I'm terribly new at having chickens and please forgive my ignorance with these sweet birds. Yesterday, I just sat helplessly and watched the second of my Black Tailed Japanese Bantams die in my hands.. The first started to just sit there and tick her head and she was...
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    Hen or Rooster?

    So I think I was "had" Saturday. Is there a way by looking at a large chicken to tell if it's a rooster or hen? I answered an ad in our Swapper for Laying Hens, but the lady put 2 larger birds with combs in a bag and one with a small comb (that looked like a hen). When we put them in our...
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    Where are my ducks laying their eggs?

    We let our runner ducks into our pond and we were getting 2 eggs each morning (from 2 ducks) while they were in our barn. Now, they're free to stay at our pond, but we have yet to find their eggs! We walked all around the pond and can't find a nest. Does anyone have an idea of how to find...
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    Help! Bantam GASPING for air?!?

    She just sits there and opens and closes her mouth over and over again, her body is breathing HEAVY up and down, up and down?!? She won't make noise or run from me when I pick her up. She's not eating, just sitting. She's about 5 months old and not laying yet. What should I do? The others are...
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    PHOTO of the new "Konrad" Lorenz, but with ducks and female style..

    Everyone kept telling me that my ducklings "imprinted" me because they lost their momma, and about Konrad Lorenz's Geese photo, so I thought it was time to try and make my own..hahaha This was a tough one to get using a 10 second self timer, I'll tell ya that, but it was fun! Notice, little...
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    Are these Brahmas or Super HUGE Cochins?

    These are the largest chickens I've seen. Cleopatra & King Tut are only around 5 months old and are supposed to get bigger... Are they Brahmas or Cochins or are there Brahma Cochins? And the last pair, are these the Mille Fleur d'Uccles? Rameses (the biggest) Cleopatra King Tut
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    Sebright Bantam picking on HUGE Brahmas and now my Turkey (Photo)

    Now, what's amazing is that I was worried that these big Cochins would beat up my little Bantams, oh was I WRONG! The Sebright Bantam Roo chases and picks on these HUGE Roos!! He also took on our newest TURKEY last evening. I was stunned. Here's this TEENY little guy going at it and chasing...
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    What kind of duck is this?

    He's our newest rescuee and has had a bit of bad luck with his poor bill. It curves to the side and looks like it's dripping off. His tongue is exposed and he eats by putting his head on the ground and shoveling the food in his mouth. He was so pitiful, I knew no one would want him for anything...
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    Got our first turkey this weekend! Slate-PHOTO

    Here he is. He's a slate (?) turkey. Grey/silver and so cool! I'm worried about his foot, though; he has a ball/growth on his heel on his right foot, but not on the other..
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