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    [GRAPHIC pic] What Killed My Duck?

    Found my poor Cayuga duck in pieces today and I'm bewildered. I have chronic insomnia, so I checked on the birds before going to bed at 5am when it started getting light out and everything was fine. NOBODY heard or saw anything, not even a peep from my last remaining duck or the chickens or my...
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    Sick Cayuga duck hen, HELP!!!

    Hi folks, I have a 1.5 year old mature Cayuga duck hen that's turned up poorly yesterday morning. Symptoms are: Yellow-green watery diarrhea Lethargic Some clear eye discharge Limping, right leg weaker than the other, doesn't seem broken. *** Still interested in mealworms, some feed...
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    Sick Duck, Need Advice

    I know this probably belongs in the duck thread, but I'm more likely to have someone see it here quicker. I have a 1-1/2 year old Cayuga duck hen that was fine yesterday but today is acting lethargic, limping a bit, and has watery diarrhea. She also seems to have lost a little bit of weight...
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    Losing our duck eggs, help!

    I know we have a duck section, but it's hard to get people down there to respond and I need help NOW. Mods can move this post to wherever is necessary but I need HELP. Ok, I've got three Cayuga ducks, one drake (Paris) and two females (Neri and Persy). We also have three chickens. Everyone...
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    Egg Eating in Nesting Mother Duck?

    So, I own three chickens and three ducks. My ducks are Cayugas; one drake and two hens. One of my hens is sitting on 8 eggs. The ducks and chickens all grew up together. Everyone gets along just fine. Everybody free ranges around our backyard and my expecting mother duck is sitting out of...
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    My Cayuga is Brooding! Need advice On What To Do (pictures included!).

    Was on vacation for a week and just came home to a wonderful surprise...my Cayuga duck Nerissa has gone broody and made a nest on the side of our house with 8 little eggs! We're thrilled. She's a year old and we've been waiting, waiting, waiting for somebody to go broody and try their hand at...
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    Help! Swollen Colons and Dying Chicks! *WARNING* Graphic Pictures Included

    Help! My chicks are dying! I have lost 4 of them so far. :( I received 13 Red Ranger chicks, 1 Crevecoeur chick, and 1 Golden-laced Polish chick from Murray McMurray on Monday. Crevecoeur was DOA. I figured since it was quite a bit smaller than the RR's (about 1/3rd of the size), it just...
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    Necropsy Photo: WARNING! Graphic!

    OK. So this morning my husband goes outside to let the birds out and finds our Red Ranger pullet (born 7/7/14) named Beep laying in the middle of the coop on her stomach with her head to the litter. She was still alive then, looked up at him when he came in, but he could tell by her heavily...
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    Mixed Flock Starting to Lay...Feeding Advice?

    So I have a mixed flock of 6 Red Ranger hens (meat birds) that are all transitioning from pullet to hen, 2 DP (a SLW and a PR) that are not, and 3 Cayuga ducks. No roosters. All were born on 7/7/14, so all of them are same age of 22 Weeks old. I have been feeding them Nutrena All Flock...
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    Help With the Coop Deck!

    Ok, so we just had a contractor finish up building a deck for our home and we decided right underneath would be the perfect spot for a deck, coop, and run. We're unoriginal, so it's just called the Coop Deck unless you guys can think of some cute and clever name for it. :P But that's not...
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    Our Dog is a Hero!

    Our dog has earned the title of real farm dog now! Sir Didymus (yes, from the movie Labyrinth) is a papillon mix. All of 13 pounds of adorable and sweet as honey. Had our 1-week-old chicks and ducklings out for their first foray into free ranging in our backyard, and the neighbor's cat heard...
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    Hate USPS

    Angry farmer is angry. I ordered chicks and ducklings from McMurray hatchery. Chicks arrived three days ago and are doing fantastic, but I still haven't gotten the ducks. They were packaged and shipped from California on July 7th, today is the 9th, and the stupid post office is staffed with...
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    Food for a mixed flock?

    Ok, so I'm ordering my first chicks and ducklings set to arrive 7/8 and I've got quite a mix coming. 12 Red Rangers for meat 3 dual purpose hens (Australorp, Rock, Wyandotte) for layers 1 "mystery chick" that McMurray is throwing in for free - no idea what sex or breed 3 Cayuga ducklings...
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    I'm gonna finally get my chickens and ducks!!!

    Been a really long time since I've posted here because I haven't had any birdies of my own. WHICH IS CHANGING NOW! I finally have a BYC worthy post and an update to this thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/724496/im-officially-a-home-owner We've been busy, busy, busy getting our...
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    I'm officially a home owner!!!!!

    It's been recorded with the court and the keys to our front door were laid in our hands. I'm finally getting to go home. I lost my home after my mother committed suicide 4 years ago. Had to sell the house to pay estate debts. With my inheritance, I promised to fulfill my mom's final dying...
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    They accepted our offer!

    We put an offer down on the cutest little yellow house. We won't be able to have a farm just yet, but we will be able to stop throwing our money away on rent and get a home for now, build up some equity, and get a place with land later. In the meantime, the home we found has a fully fenced...
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    Hating banks very, very much right now...

    Looks like I won't be getting my farm after all. With the meddling from the banks, we are severely restricted on our mortgage type in what we can get to purchase a home. For no real reason other than the banks are trying to gouge more loans out of us that we don't need and can't afford. We're...
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    WE GOT IT! WE GOT IT! WE GOT IT!!!!!

    We got pre-approved for a mortgage and we can finally move out of this apartment and out to a farm in the country! This old farm girl is going home. I'm finally going HOME after years of not really having one and losing my last one tragically. I can finally start my dreams. First project...
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    Mixing a meat bird with a heritage?

    I know that the mixed breed mutts like Cornish Cross, Freedom Rangers, Rainbow Rangers, and other of the larger faster-growing meat birds don't breed true. But has anybody taken a few to breed into their heritage flocks for some meaty mutts? Like kept a Cornish X and raised it until...
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    Ss...s?

    I was having coffee this weekend with a friend of mine, and she was catching me up on some neighborhood drama. Her neighborhood has had the typical story of stupid irresponsible owner and poultry-killer dog. Very long story short, this dog has gotten into several coops and there have been...
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