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My 10-year-old showed poultry for just the second year at our county fair and earned overall Grand Champion Poultry Showperson out of about 35 kids. I'd like to support her interest, but our flock has always been for production. We are ready to add a couple coops of show-quality birds. We've...

We're new to incubating. This is our second batch of fawn and white runner ducks. We have the Farm Innovators 4200 series incubator with a fan and turner. The instructions mentioned to use the built-in thermometer as a guide only. I bought a $5 Accurite bulb thermometer and set it right on one...

We received 11 Jumbo Pekin ducklings from Murray McMurray Hatchery a week ago for my daughters to raise as a 4-H project. Five have died in the past two days! They looked so perfectly healthy upon arrival and until dying that I can't figure out what is going on. I have brooded and raised...

I would like to deworm our entire flock with one product. I've read about good dewormers for the various species we own (ducks, peafowl and chickens), but what can I use on all of them?

We have two peafowl, a male and female, about 9 months old. I have studied what to feed them. But how much do we feed them? We do feed them free choice (all they can eat), but there is a lot of waste. My very responsible kids do most of the feeding, so I'm not always out there right away to...