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    Odd Call Duck Question...Drake with chickens

    Hello folks, I hatched a bunch of ducks and this call duckling bonded with my husband and seemed to quack real early. I've hatched Pekin, call ducks, reopen, runners and muscles. This duck QUACKS. BUT, now at 5mo I'm noticing a sex feather. I'm prepared this duckling is a male. Will he hurt...
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    Best Standard size layers for with silkies?

    I kept chickens for 10 years, but we moved and I couldn't for a couple years. Back into it. I need 6 standard size layers to keep up with my family of 6, but my 9yo son has fallen in love with my aunties silkies and frizzles. Are there any standard size laying breeds that would do well with...
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    Ducklings and electric hen ???

    Hello!! THE first of my duckling hatch are in the brooder. I am using an electric hen for the first time...does it look to be at an appropriate height for the ducklings? Thanks so much!!
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    Pekin Duck Hatch Cam: Due Apr 29

    I woke up this morning to 6 of my pekin eggs pipped! Originally set 50 eggs...46 made it to this point. I candled 24 hours ago and all were wigglin' and alive. Due to hatch Saturday, but my incubator ran steady and reliable so I'm not surprised by these pips. Very excited for this hatch! My...
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    Duckling with overbite

    Hello I have hatched two rouen ducklings and one has an overbite...the bottom beak extends farther than the top beak. Is this an issue I should be concerned about? She is eating and drinking without issue thus far. Thanks so much! Emily
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    My backyard banty coop!

    r We finished our coop for our three bantam easter eggers today! The run is 3'x8' and the coop 3'x4'. The only improvement we will make is replacing the pvc coated galvanized chicken wire for hardware cloth. DH put the wire in trying to be helpful. :-) I hope our girls will be happy!
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    5 week EEs. Thoughts?

    Hi All! I am a small backyard operation. We hatched out 4 EE chicks 5 weeks ago and are hoping to root out any roo's early to avoid making noise for our neighbours. Their moms were bantam EE's. Their dad is a standard BBS Ameracauna. Barbara: Rosalina: Carmela...
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    What will they be? BBS ameraucana question

    Hello all! I am hoping someone can help me with my chicks. I ordered eggs from a farm and was told they are bantam ameraucanas. The lady said it was a BBS roo over buff hens. I'm wondering what colours I can expect my chicks to be? My pickle is that like many other backyard enthusiasts I...
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    Day 17 & a PIP!

    I set 24 jumbo coturnix eggs in my ancient 1976 Lyon Turn-X 'bator and today is day 17 of incubation! I candled on day 12 and got rid of 2 glowing eggs but left the remaining 22 dark eggs. One of the eggs was pipped when I noticed at 4am (lol) and is a slightly bigger pip now at 8:30am...
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    What is this chick? There are options

    My aunt gave me eggs from her chickens. She ordered them all from a hatchery here in Canada last year and gave me 15 eggs to hatch. She keeps Buff Orps, Barred Rocks, and "ameraucanas" all with a buff orp rooster. Apparently the amaraucanas aren't good layers, so she only gave me brown...
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    Set up my eggcam now that I have pips! *2 born!*

    http://www.ustream.tv/channel/hatch-due-apr-16 Two pips so far! Day 21 starts at 3pm.
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    Help a girl out? Retrofit shed to coop...

    Hello! I'm Emily. My husband isn't keen on chickens but he's agreed that my happiness is more important. In respecting his feelings about birds, I'd like to do this coop by myself. I have an empty metal shed in the back corner of my yard. It is 5.5'x7.5' (is that weird? I was expecting...
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    Candling Pic: 72 hour embryo

    I got a great pic of one of my 72 hour embryos today and thought I'd share! I used my regular pocket digital camera on low light setting. I had the egg on a skirt of duct tape that I'd taped around the top of the $ store LED flashlight I used. Worked pretty well! This is a buff orp egg...
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    Help me brainstorm about my old incubator

    Hello, I have recently inherited a Turn-X RX4 incubator. It's from 1976 (LOL) but after setting up it came to temperature within 3 minutes and then hovered between 98-101*. It seems to work quite well and the previous owner (original owner) told me it's always worked fine for the dozen time...
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    Do chickens only mate with adequate light?

    My quail stop mating when they get less than 14 hours of sunlight a day. With this in mind, I'm curious if that's why I haven't seen my serama's mating yet at 24 weeks old? Pls help! Thanks!
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    One of my coturnix has a mildly broken beak...will it mend itself?

    She's broken the tip of her beak? The only thing attaching it to the rest of the beak is the end of the quick. It's not affecting her eating or anything...so I should just leave it, right? It will grow off, won't it? Thanks! Emily
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    I made the paper! And I need a small favour of all of you.

    http://newsdurhamregion.com/news/article/141220 That's the direct link to the article! Even BETTER is that it's the FIRST story on the newspaper's website...have a look here at the front page of the online edition: http://newsdurhamregion.com/news/clarington Now, if you don't mind, could you...
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    A reporter is coming to my house! *Updated with article in reply*

    I spoke, for 5 minutes, at our recent Municipal Council meeting on why the Municipality should amend their bylaws to allow backyard hens. A reporter from our local paper heard me and called me this morning! She said she heard me speak and was impressed with the story. She's coming by...
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    Anyone else make The Dutch Henhouse?

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/web/viewblog.php?id=34095 A fellow BYC was kind enough to make his extensive plans available and I really like the design. Of course, the plans themselves are fantastic. I'm thinking of making a few small changes...a 2x4 for a roost instead of a 1x2. Did...
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    Sweet little coturnix babies hatching today!

    They take 16-18 days to hatch...my last hatch took a full 18 so I didn't figure this would be earlier. But, my new incubator works so smoothly that I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I woke up to one of the 13 pipped! A nice big pip too! Hopefully she'll come quickly and then the others...
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