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    Duck hatched w yolk sac

    We had a goose setting on duck eggs. They are all in about the 4th week. We've lost a couple already because there are chickens in there also. So yesterday husband had me bring eggs to the house. One had started to hatch. I helped it some today. Now that it's out it still has the yolk sac...
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    Duck eggs being hatched by a goose

    We have a goose who went broody end of December. She had one of her own eggs and a bunch of duck and chicken eggs she was setting. At one time she was over a dozen. A chicken egg hatched but she was too heavy for it. When she was off the nest a few weeks ago I checked the eggs. Her egg felt...
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    Indoor duck

    So I've posted before about my Rouen duck that is periodically lame. Thought it was male when younger. Named Igor. Turned out to be female. Renamed Iggy. She has been spending a lot of nights in our spare bathroom. I guess because she's the runt she ends up on the bottom of the sleep pile or...
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    Females presenting to males

    Ok to talk about ducks and geese here also? Got mine in mid April. 4 rouens 3 Indian runners 2 geese. I'm not sure if the ducks are 4 male and 3 female or the other way around. I know the geese are 1 male 1 female. Today it seemed like several of the females were 'presenting' to the males. If...
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    Lame duck

    2 Lame duck Lame duck I'm new to ducks. We have 7 ducks and 2 geese together in our garden area separate from our hens. They are about 2 months old. Yesterday my husband said one duck looked sick. This morning While feeding everyone I noticed the duck wasn't walking but using her wings to pull...
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    Wild flower seed safe?

    We are working on permaculture beds, planning on buckwheat for starter to get the bed going, my dh wants to mix in some wild flower seed. Any issues with the chicks and wild flowers?
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    3 year old RIR. How much longer will they lay?

    My flock is mixed. 21 total. 5 RIR are 3 years old, all others are 2 years old. I seem to be averaging 8 eggs daily. I have 2 Easter eggers they usually lay daily. So I'm getting about 6 brown eggs from 19 hens. Do you think the RIRS are laid out? I really don't have a good way to separate...
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    Want to puchase laying hens

    I've purchased a chicks for 2 years from Heartland Hatchery, and been very happy. However, I'd kind of like to purchase hens that are either already laying or getting close. Any recommendations? I live in Amsterdam, MO by the way.
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    Should I raise turkeys?

    We are in our second year of raising chickens, we have a variety of egg layers. This weekend two wild turkeys came into the soybean field behind our property and hung out. Actually, there were three Saturday, but Sunday morning brought a scene of carnage; one turkey with a missing head and...
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    Strange new roosting habits

    I have 5 RIR hens, and 1 RIR rooster, about 18 months old. I also have 6 month old hens, combos of black sexlinks; gold comets, barred rocks, and Easter eggers, along with 2 Easter egger roosters. We have a shed that the RIRs sleep in, and the 6 month olds all sleep in a roofed outdoor pen...
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    Feed for laying hens

    So, my husband and I have always just fed cracked corn and scratch grains to our flock. We currently have 6 Rhode Island Reds that are laying they are about 1.5 years old; but we only get 3-4 eggs per day. We also have 7 black sexlings; 6 gold comets; 5 barred rocks and 3 Easter eggers that...
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