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    Why no duck eggs?

    I have 6 ducks: 2 Swedish, 2 Cayuga and 2 Welsh Harlequin. My girls started laying in the spring, and I was getting about 4-6 eggs per day in their hut. It was late in Fall when all changed... they started to molt and one girl went broody on a nest she made near my deck! She was sitting on a...
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    Getting some silkie chicks today!

    A month ago, I purchased a silkie rooster, Steve. I decided that I would like to raise silkie chicks, so today I'm going to buy Steve some girlfriends. Once they are full grown, I plan on keeping them in my smaller coop where they won't have to be bullied by my bigger girls. Is it okay to keep...
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    Steve the Silkie Roo

    I stopped at a Tractor Supply chicken swap by chance and saw a delightful little silkie rooster. The owners were desperate to get rid of him because they already had 3 roosters and "Stella" turned into "Steve"! I've raised chickens for almost 4 years, but I've never had a rooster. Steve turned...
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    Landscaping Issues

    I need some help with landscaping. I appreciate any suggestions. We had to level the coop using landscaping bricks and then we back filled the coop. So the bricks must stay. I would like it to be more visually appealing...
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    Introducing a new Roo

    I have 18 chickens. 12 are older girls and are in their own coop. 6 are about 8 months old and are in their own smaller coop. I recently tried to introduce my new Roo, Steve (A Silkie - my girls are all average size) to my flock. I put him into the coop with the younger hens when they went to...
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    Help me! I'm so lost!

    So I have had 18 chickens for several years and on an impulse buy, I added 4 ducks to my backyard flock. I currently have 2 coops for my chickens and thought that I would just integrate the ducks into one of those coops. Then I started doing my research and found that chickens and ducks don't...
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    Lame Chicken

    A few days ago, my husband checked on my younger chickens (about 3 months old) and one was not moving around and was laying awkwardly in the run of the coop. Most of the girls were in the coop, due to the extreme cold (single digits with a wind chill of -7), with the heat bulb to keep them warm...
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    Help! My coop makes my chickens poo in their nesting boxes!!!

    I have two coops: one I built, which is well constructed and extremely functional, and one I bought from a builder near my home. The one I purchased from the builder has a horrible design flaw! The roosts are right beside the nesting boxes and the chickens sleep in/poop in their nesting boxes...
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    Egg Bloom

    If I just rinse my eggs, am I removing the bloom?
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    Orange to yellow

    I have 14 chickens of varying breeds, and they have free range of 1 acre of grass and 9 acres of woods for at least 1/2 of the day. I supplement their diet with feed from a local store that guarantees no gmo, but they cannot call it "organic". I couldn't go to my usual supplier, so I bought the...
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