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    Ohio - 7 pretty bantam hens with one rooster need new home

    I have seven bantam hens and one bantam rooster in need of a new home in Ohio. Unfortunately I have to move and I need to find them a home in the next few weeks. The rooster is a silver duckwing OEGB, he's about 5 1/2 years old. There is a golden Sebright hen who is also 5 1/2 years old, and...
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    Ohio - Seeking homes for surprise mixed bantam chicks

    A few days ago something crazy happened. I checked on all four of my little hens that are brooding fake or infertile eggs right now, and I discovered that my Sebright hen was somehow not sitting on infertile eggs as I had thought, but was actually in the midst of hatching a whole clutch of...
  3. DeckDuck

    My little bantam hen Float: She fell asleep perching on my laptop

    This is Float. She was being picked on and jumped into my arms when I was putting the birds away for the evening. She seemed to want a break from her broody and aggressive sister, so I brought her inside with me while I worked on homework. She decided to perch on my laptop! She hopped up there...
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    Come with us on a duck walk! I found an old video featuring my drake wearing his harness and leash.

    Hi everybody! Last night I was looking through an old external hard drive, and I found a video I made years ago that I thought had been lost forever. I'm really excited to have found it, so I thought I'd share it. This video was made way back when I was just learning to drive (on private...
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    Thinking about accepting Coturnix hatching eggs, but I have chickens

    My mother just got some mixed coturnix quail for eggs, and I love them! What wonderful little guys. She has offered to send me the eggs they lay this week to hatch for myself. So I'm thinking about it and have been doing some research, and I thought I should ask the quail people what they...
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    What do rotten eggs look like when you candle them? Like this?

    My little bantam hen has been trying to hatch some eggs. Unfortunately for her it seems that my old rooster isn't doing his job right now because all of our eggs have been infertile. She's tried several batches and they've all candled at seven days to be empty, so today I was going to take her...
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    A video of my sweet Silkie rooster brooding his girls like a mamma hen

    My old Silkie rooster has always been very affectionate, but I never knew he did this until tonight. I checked on the flock and saw him sleeping like he was broody with a hen under each wing. Aww! I happened to have my camera handy and I thought this was so sweet that I felt compelled to share...
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    One of these bantam pullets is crowing, but who? Stumped

    These guys are Silver Duckwing OEGB x Golden Sebright. They're a little over three months old. When I got them, I picked these four out of their siblings because they seemed to have the most pullet-looking combs. The day after I brought them home, they were only four weeks old and I swear the...
  9. DeckDuck

    Epic fail on shipping eggs experiment

    I tried to ship some duck eggs to my mother last week. These were not for hatching, it was more of an experiment a failed experiment. I wrapped each egg in small sized bubble wrap and taped the ends over to provide extra cushioning. Then I lined a Ziplock bag with several layers of the same...
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    8 week bantam w/ swollen throat. Associated diseases?

    I bought a few Sebright x OEGB chicks a month ago when they were 4-5 weeks old. I quarantined them for 21 days in an enclosure far from my main coop. There was a bit of sneezing when they first arrived but It seemed to be from their bedding and went away by the end of the first week. On day...
  11. DeckDuck

    They're crushing their eggs!

    Maddy, my Blue Swedish duck, laid her first egg on Saturday. She laid it in the middle of the duck coop floor, right in front of the water and food buckets and in perhaps the most high traffic area of the coop. It was trampled into the straw and covered in poop when I found it, though it was...
  12. DeckDuck

    4 week old chicks; what to feed them?

    I'm picking up some four week old bantam chickies tomorrow. They're a very neat cross between a Golden Sebright and a Duckwing Old English Game. I'm super excited but it has been years since I've cared for chicks; all of my chickens are adults. I would just consult the Storey's guide on this one...
  13. DeckDuck

    Beginnings of angel wing. What should I do?

    Well, my one-month-old Blue Swede duckling looks like she's starting to develop angel wing in her left wing. She started growing wing feathers the other day and now they're perhaps 3/4 of an inch long. Her left wing looked a little different this morning but now, just twelve hours later, it's...
  14. DeckDuck

    My Ducklings Splishin' 'n Splashin'

    I just love when ducklings swim under the surface of the water! It's such a fascinating and hilarious behavior. I got a video of my girls really going to town at it the other day and I thought I'd share the cuteness (or hilarity perhaps; they're going through that awkward stage). Ah, but I don't...
  15. DeckDuck

    They're here! Baby duckling pictures; come see the cuteness!

    My new baby duckies came this morning! I ordered them from Metzer Farms and I was worried about just two ducklings traveling across the country for three days but they both arrived safe and sound. I thought that the Duck forum deserved some pictures after helping me figure out which breeds...
  16. DeckDuck

    Getting some girlfriends for my drake! A few questions.

    Hello everybody! I'm new to BackYard Chickens but not to keeping chickens in the backyard; I've always had one manner of poultry or another wandering around back there. I have a Pekin drake named Casper (world's most cliche name! I swear I thought he was going to be brown when I named him that)...
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