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    My ducks aren't laying - Help!

    I have 10 females and 2 (maybe 3) males. This is my third winter with them. I used to get about 9 eggs per day, it didn't matter what the season. Toward the end of summer the amount of eggs started to drop off. I thought maybe it was seasonal/molting/etc. Well, it has been about 2 or 3 months...
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    Need help sexing Tufted Roman - pics included

    I got a pair of Tufted Roman geese on March 8 from Ideal. They're now 11 1/2 weeks old. I'm having a hard time telling which is the male and which is the female. It kind of looks to me like one has a little bit bigger tuft than the other. I'm guessing the male has the bigger tuft. Their...
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    My guineas are crazy!

    Last night I heard quite a ruckus from inside the house. I walked out to find them all lined up along the edge of the garage roof, raising hell! I grabbed my phone and in true guinea form, got spooked. Then, off they went! Here are a couple of pictures I was able to get. The ones in the...
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    Duck house - almost done! PIC HEAVY

    We had duck eggs in the incubator. With 6 days left we gave the eggs to a broody chicken. We set up a giant brooder box in the house. Everyone told us how dirty and STINKY ducks are. Well, they are! The eggs were days from hatching and I still had no coop built. Scratch that. I didn't...
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    Welsh Harlequin babies hatching now!

    We have a broody chicken hatching out some WH eggs that we got on ebay. The wait is over, they're finally here!!! Every four or five hours we check and see what's happening. I'm at work, DH is home. (lucky guy!) At least 4 out of the 6 had pipped when I left for work this morning and 1...
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    Giving duck eggs to broody chicken

    We have had duck eggs in an incubator. Today is day 21. We have a broody chicken and were thinking of transferring the eggs to her to hatch instead of doing lockdown in the incubator. Will this be ok or should we wait until they hatch to give them to her? All input is appreciated!
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    My babies are hatching!

    Well, I guess I need to give credit to the broody that has been keeping them warm! We found her sitting on the nest 2 weeks ago but didn't know how long she had already been there. I have been checking her every couple of days just in case. I got home from work yesterday and found half of an...
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    1st time using homemade incubator - set 10 Welsh Harlequin duck eggs

    DH made an incubator out of a cooler. He has done SO much research on BYC. I'm hoping this works out well. We're both very excited. Last night we set 10 duck eggs and 3 guinea eggs. We're hoping that since it's a similar incubation time we will be successful with ducks and guineas hatching...
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    When will they start sitting on a nest?

    We feel extremely fortunate to have found the nest that the guineas are laying in. On Sunday there were 10 eggs. Monday there were 13, and Wednesday there were 19. (We have 3 females and 3 males.) When will someone start sitting on the eggs? Or will they keep laying there and then find...
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    How RUDE!

    I work for a city in the Dallas area. We have a "swap meet" that is city-wide which is similar to Craigslist. I put a post on there a couple days ago for "Farm fresh eggs from free range chickens - $3." I have posted eggs for sale several times in the last couple years. WELL..... I just got...
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    Can a roo re-gain alpha status?

    Zeus was my first roo. He has been king for the last 2 years. He is a proud, beautiful boy. He's an outstanding roo... friendly to humans, protective and alert when the ladies are concerned, etc. Well, I got home last night to find out that Zeus (RIR/EE) has been de-throned. Sancho (EE) has...
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    Ex-race horse will be here soon!

    DH and I are getting a retired racehorse this weekend. I'm not sure if he will be delivered Friday night or Saturday. We can hardly wait! Hopefully my Quarter Horse is as happy about the new addition as we are! Here are some pics... Handsome boy! (imho) I caught him mid-blink...
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    What kind of barred hen is this?

    My friend has a barred bird. For a long time she assumed that it was a Barred Rock. This hen is over a year old and lays white eggs. She's a bully (kind of like my BR hens!) I went to visit yesterday and took these pics. Her wattles are much bigger than my BR hens, and her dark color is...
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    I must have lost my mind!

    I have this addiction and I know I'm not the only one here. I can't seem to stop getting more chickens! I can't even tell people at work when I get more because they think it's ridiculous the amount that we have now. (26 including the one I just got on Saturday!) ...or is it 27? Every...
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    2 bantams with eyes swollen shut, runny eyes *Updated-still need help*

    In my tractor I have 5 assorted bantams, 4 Polish, and 3 Buff Orps. One of the banties is about 3 months old, the others are about 6 weeks old. (I think.) Yesterday we noticed that the older one had her eye half shut and it looked a little watery. Today we noticed that the other had both eyes...
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    Bad Broody hen!

    I have a broody Java. She keeps messing with me. We have 3 nest boxes in the coop. At first she was on 4 or 5 eggs in the far left nest box. She sat for two days then got up. Then she started sitting on a few eggs in the middle box. She was there for a day, then got up. NOW she's in the...
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    My hubby is so cute!

    This little one is our first hatch! Most of the others have come to us as day-olds. We have handled her a lot since her mama left her. (only one egg hatched.) She started out on his arm, then shoulder, then... and after about 10 minutes.... I love them! ("Nugget" is the...
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    Broody on eggs - day 21...coop smells bad

    This is my broody's first set of eggs that she's on. (And our first experience with a broody hen!) DH and I noticed her sitting on them in a hidden nest on Sept 1st. We had to move her from her nest in the grass to the tractor last week due to fire ants. She started out with 21 eggs, then...
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    Broody hen covered in fire ants-eye swollen shut-need advice quick!

    Our broody hen has been sitting on her eggs since about Sept 1. She made a nest in some tall grass. We covered her with a cage to protect her. Today we mowed the grass near her so we could turn the cage around her. When I crawled in the cage to check on her, I noticed that she was covered...
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    Broody hen with LOTS of eggs

    Our buff Chantecler has gone broody for the first time. She just turned 6 months old. She went missing 3 nights ago and we finally found her hidden nest this morning. When she got up we were absolutely amazed. We counted 21 eggs! They are eggs from all of the girls, not just hers. Our...
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