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    Ducks can DROWN?!

    Alas, we are down one adorable duckling. He went missing this morning, and there weren't any signs of a break-in or struggle. He was just gone. Then The Fella found the poor thing at the bottom of the duck tub. We buried him in the pet cemetery. He was the most enthusiastic about diving in...
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    Overly Complicated

    I've been overthinking again. I have been toying with adding a splash pond to the chickens' enclosure to keep a couple ducks for eggs and special occasions. However, I recently learned the hard way that ducks are filthy. I mean, FILTHY. Now, you can read those words and think "yes, yes...
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    Best High Desert Breeds?

    The coop is under construction and I'm reading up on breeds. We live in the high desert of southern New Mexico, where summer temps top 100 and winter temps can dip below freezing at night. At every temperature, the weather is dry,sunny, and often very windy. Now, the coop is designed to...
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    Materials Purchased!

    I first started reading about chicken keeping a couple years ago. I stumbled into the hippie/homesteader stuff on Pinterest and it called to me. Except, at the time, I was an urban apartment dweller with a 9-5 job. Fast forward to today, when I just unloaded a pile of building materials from...
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    Neighbor Objects to Chicken Smell

    I've been planning my chicken run and garden for months, and I've finally finished my design. I live in the desert, so I'm going to use a grey-water irrigation system for the garden. I'm fencing it in sections, and I plan to rotate the sections and have one to sit fallow each year. The...
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    Menomonie, WI Ordinance Questions

    I didn't see anything for Menomonie or Dunn County in the Learning area of the site... Does anyone live there who could answer a couple questions for me? I see that they do allow chickens, but it seems like they don't want to... because the rules are kinda ridiculous. Limit five chickens...
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    Natural Limb Roosts

    I've never been a bird owner, but I know that pet birdies are supposed to sit on natural branch perches instead of straight bars because the natural irregularities in the branch are better for their feet- a strait, uniform bar forces them to keep their feet in the same pose, while natural...
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    Starting My Reasearch

    I was told to start here with an introduction. So, hi, I'm someone interested in chickens, obviously. I have two (very little) kids, boy and girl, and we live with my mother. Our little family is planning to move up to somewhere central or northern WI soon. We fully intend to have a rural...
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