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  1. RocketChick

    Clicker-training a chicken!

    Sounds crazy, doesn't it? Has anyone tried this? I saw a youtube video of it, and it seemed to go very well! I got a clicker today, and tried it on my chickens. It scares the freak out of four of the chickens, makes one a bit nervous, then the last one is fine with it, that's the one I'm...
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    They keep breaking into my house....uh oh...and stealing....

    stealing what??? Crumbs!! So I have six very naughty chickens and one duck. I'd say three of the chickens like me, three of them don't care about me. The duck hates me but will eat from my hand HA. But ALL of them go crazy when I open my backyard door. They HAVE to go inside. Even if I'm...
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    Names&Names!

    Okay, I have 6 chickens and one duck. There is Owl, Coconut, Pumpkin, and Kodiak. 4 names and 7 birds! See something wrong here? I can't figure out a name for my duck, my little rhode island red hen, and my silver laced wyandotte!! Just to get more info... Owl looked like a little owl as a...
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    *horror music* Duck Pond Cleaning...

    I have one duck. In one day, this duck turns beautiful clean water to dark green swamp water. Since I am not strong enough to pick it up, I have to get it all out by by stepping on the edge. That is swamp water going over on my foot. Not fun, and wasting water everyday. Is the only way to...
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    Am I just pathetic?

    Hi...need to rant. (By the way, yes, ha, im a teenager with chickens) It just hit me out of the blue that I have no real friends and no social life...and it makes me really really sad. And I don't even have anybody I can tell about how sad I am about this because well...I have no friends...
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    Tame Chickies

    I have two batch of chicks. The two-monthers and the one-monthers. The two-month chicks were my first-ever chicks and I held them often, took them out a lot, and "babied" them. When I kicked them outside, they would follow me around like mama hen and they sit on my lap often, still. I...
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    Presenting @ School!

    My younger sister wants to present two of my chickens at school. (They are almost two months old) She is a 7th grader if that's important to know. I was going to keep them standing on my elbow like they like to do and then sometime, put them down on garbage bags and feed them shredded cheese...
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    Temporary Warmth?

    This morning I went into my room to check on the chicks and noticed the room looked darker than usual. I had just woke up from a very bad sleep so I wasn't thinking straight. Then I went to school and then my dad messaged me and told me the chicks heater was out(oh!) but he had to go to work...
  9. RocketChick

    Molting Duckling?

    I have a single pekin duckling that lives with three chicks. (last one in the store, so only duck there. D: It bonded instantly with the chicks and can never be anywhere without them, same with the chicks without the duck, cute little flock!) Well it's a pekin female, and it's 3 and a half...
  10. RocketChick

    Muscovy Vs. Pekin

    I'm deciding on some ducks and I'm wondering which one would be best suited for me? Which duck is quieter?(the female duck, I'm not getting any males) I know the muscovy ducks dont quack but is the hissing loud? Or are the pekin quacks more loud? Which duck is generally more friendly with...
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    They literally grow up TOO FAST.

    Holy COW! :O I got a few chicks but all on different days. Wasn't very smart of me but they all get along. My first two chicks were a jersey giant and a silver laced wyandotte. The latter were only a day or two old, the former being over a week. The SLW was SOOO tiny and adorable! I felt...
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    NAMES NAMES NAMES!

    I have four chicks and a duckling, all almost a month old. I love them sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!! But I need NAMES! Ahh! I'm sick of saying "the bigger black chicken" "the smaller black chicken" "The red one" "the brown one" etc. and "the duck" So far...
  13. RocketChick

    Hutch?

    If I let my chickens free range all day until it gets dark, will a hutch be okay for them? I only have $30 to spend on a coop, and so far a hutch is my only idea, OR converting the playground into a coop and I have no idea how to do that. If it is okay, how many chickens per hutch? I'd get...
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    Hmmm....food beasts.

    I was watching my chicks and duckling down oats like no tomorrow and it made me wonder... Will they eat and eat until the food is gone even if they aren't hungry? Or will they only eat what they need?
  15. RocketChick

    Air Freshener!

    One of my friends sprayed some air freshener in the room with the chicks in it. It was just one spray, directed at the opposite corner of the chicks, but ahhh! She didnt know any better so Im not mad but Im worried! The whole room smells like apple pie! Will the chicks be okay? The brooder is...
  16. RocketChick

    Free Range

    Hi! When are most chickens fully grown? Like from chicks that go peep peep to the fat little all feathery birds that go buck buck buck? Just curious ha. One of my chicks are a black giant and I'm aware they grow slower, correct? (well, it takes longer for them to get fully grown since they get...
  17. RocketChick

    Cheapest Predator-Safe Coop?

    I don't have much money(I'm a teenager fully responsible for my five birds) So I'm trying to figure out a way to make a cheap coop that can happily fit five birds. (They'll go free range during the day, but locked up at night, so that means less room is necessary, right? Well, I had an idea...
  18. RocketChick

    Death Scare!

    (I posted this in another one of my boards but I thought it would get more attention here) My duckling does this weird thing to my new chick, the sebright. It grabs it (it doesn't seem to try to be hurting it) and starts rubbing the bottom of its neck on the chick. It freaked the chick out but...
  19. RocketChick

    Shuttup! D:

    I have a chick that I've had for about a week. It WON'T SHUT UP. It's a silkie and it's so annoying! It's not THAT loud....but it's chirp is just one of those sounds you do not want to listen to all day. (or all night! I sleep by the brooder! A high school teen girly(me!) needs some beauty...
  20. RocketChick

    Should I just stick with chickens?

    So at the feed store, there was one lone pekin duckling, and I've always heard good things about them and already knew how to take care of them so I took it home. It bonded instantly with the other four chicks and I was glad it was happy. It's a girl. And it's supposed to be LOUD when she...
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