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    Are ducks/geese safe at night by the water?

    Here's my plan. I want to build a small shack by the water for a couple ducks and geese to sleep in at night and live free range. It will basically be just to keep them in shelter but not provide any actual security from predators. I have a spotlight that I could aim at the shack and...
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    Can chickens drink pond water?

    I built a small chicken coop and run near my pond with the intention of using a submersible fountain pump to fill a water trough with a float switch to control the shutoff point. I figured out a way to prevent this setup from freezing in the winter, but I just want to know if its even worth...
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    Are 110V float switches safe to use outside of a sump pump?

    I'm planning on putting a big 50 gallon water trough in my duckhouse to use as a pool. It would have a motorized drain valve like this that would run on a timer so that every afternoon it drains and gets flushed out until it closes and the pump shuts off when full. I figured out everything at...
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    Heres my design for a self filling and cleaning duck pond/water source that is freeze resistant

    My idea to have a water source for my ducks to clean and drink out of is to have fresh water below the surface of a near by pond pumped in 24/7 into a kiddie pond with a drain (that could be blocked if needed), so that water is constantly circulating between these two reservoirs. I want all my...
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    How could I automate the watering process in the winter?

    I have a pond that I occasionally let my ducks loose in when home, but I would like to somehow use that as a source of water in their coop/run. I am thinking of buying a big 5 gallon bucket with the chicken nipples installed, and then run a water fountain pump with the hose about 2 feet under...
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    Hawk Killed my favorite chicken

    That was a video a year ago, now she was big and beautiful with full feathers. A hawk today attacked her and broke her neck. This happened 3 times last year with no fatalities, just injured chickens. I was close to one time capturing the hawk but it flew off. What Happened was I let them all...
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    hen wont stop the hiccups!

    Edited by Staff My neighbor grabbed her <my hen> by her neck becuase he was being mean when i wasnt home and she hasn't stopped the hiccups since then about 2 months ago. every day she hiccups even at nighttime i hear hiccups. I felt the inside of her throat something felt like it was inside...
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    give away a chicken what steps to make sure he is in a good home

    I have an orange rooster named nick and a white brahma hen. Basically I have 2 coops and he stays in one while my other newer rooster stays in the other with most of the flock. I gace him this one unwanted chicken i didnt really care much about with him and they are supposivly lovers or...
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    hole in chickens side!!!

    I will take a picture tommorow. Basically one of the roosters that i am giving away mated with this chicken and its spur punctured a whole in the chickens side. I stiched it together and it was healing but today it opened up and its bigger its about 3 cm long and 1 cm wide now. Im considering...
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    Orange chicken bought from hackery LOOKS LIKE ROOSTER??

    I got this thing in may i got 9 chicks that were female they told me but as this one grew it was always the biggest one and it has little spurs but has a hen face and sounds like a hen http://s1189.photobucket.com/albums/z423/Matt_Tewell/?action=view&current=IMG_0167.jpg...
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    5 month old orpington hole in crop

    i recently added some new nest boxes for my coop for my new 8 chicks and my old chickens and they like to roost kinda on the roof about 10 feet from the ground and they knock each other down and this chick couldnt get up right when she fell. so she was acting werid seperating herself in the pen...
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