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    Electric fencing recs

    Hi everybody! In April I'm planning on adding a coop to the land where we run our business - so it would be outside of town and no one living there, but someone is there 7 days a week during at least daylight hours. I'm thinking about all the ways I can predator-proof this coop and run, as I...
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    Tips for moving adult ducks and ducklings to new location

    Hi all! I have 3 adult ducks (2 female and a drake) and we've just had 6 ducklings hatch a couple of days ago. Black swedish and Blue swedish. I also have 2 chickens and this is all in an urban backyard. We have a business on some more rural land and there's already a coop on the property...
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    Help! Duck sitting on eggs outside of coop!

    Hi there! I have 3 ducks (2 girls and a drake) and 2 chickens. Normally they all sleep inside the same coop at night and I shut the door each night when it gets dark. Tonight, Bubbles, one of my girl ducks, was not in the coop when I went to shut the door, and unsurprisingly I found her...
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    Need Help! Want to double-check re saddle feathers on roos before I cull :(

    Hello All, First time chicken (and duck) keeper - I was sent way more from the hatchery than I ordered, all straight run, all hatchery's choice on breed. So I currently have 3 ducks (1 boy 2 girls, definitely), and 12 chooks. They are now 21 weeks old. Nobody's started laying and I'm...
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    Thumb Twiddling Waiting for My Eggs!

    Okay, they're 20 weeks old! Starting to get a little impatient for my eggs! I have one rooster (at least) that has started a very sweet, unobtrusive crowing at the very civilized hour of 7:30am. We had named him "Likely" because the forum said he was likely a rooster, but now we're calling...
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    Thumb Twiddling waiting for my eggs!

    Okay, they're 20 weeks old! The drake and my two ladies have been learning about the birds and the bees quite a bit the last few weeks, and they squawk all day long (when they're not eating and pooping). So where are my eggs???? The SO is sharpening his knife and talking about duck...
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    First drake feather!

    Just noticed that my (long suspected) drake, Toupee, has gotten his drake feather! He's 16 weeks old but it may have been a couple of weeks earlier. Not at all a surprise as he is quiet as a mouse but the grumpy ladies quack all day long. But for some reason I am feeling very proud and...
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    Hello! Here's my little poultry family

    Hello All! I'm new to BYC and to chicken keeping. I have 13 chickens and 3 ducks, all nine weeks old this very day. I don't know their gender or breed, and it's a good thing they're new to life otherwise they'd probably tell me I'm doing A LOT of stuff wrong. But I've managed to keep them...
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    First timer - do my chickens look fat? Skinny? Boyish? Girly? Breed?

    Hello All, I'm a new BYC member and chicken flock herder (with three ducks thrown in!). 13 chicks and 3 ducks - all 9 weeks old today! I ordered 4 ducks and 5 chicks but they sent me 4 ducks and 14 chicks. lost one duckie the first day and one chickie in the first week I ordered a "straight...
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