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    Help: Drake taken by fox last night, duck despondent. Want to add to my chicken flock.

    I was devasted just now to find only my drake's 2 legs and feet remaining in their pen. I believe it was a fox. (I had 2 Mallard ducks). I would like to place the female in with my chicken flock of 7 hens. There is plenty of space. Do I need to separate them for a week as when introducing a...
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    Duck- twitching wings and being bullied by drake

    Hello, I have 2 ducks and a drake who have lived happily together for 3 years. A couple of days ago I noticed the little mallard drake was pecking at and bullying my larger golden cascade duck. She seems well except her wings are twitching. She was always very assertive but now is submissive and...
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    Who is laying my green eggs???

    I have 12 chickens. 11 of them are 23 weeks old and one has started laying small green eggs every couple of days. I believed my breeds to be Australorp 3 x lavender orpingtons Buff Brahma 2 x Dominique's 1 barred rock 1 white leghorn 1 polish 1 Rhode island red 1 beige chicken who has been...
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    Help with Integrating Chickens

    I have 11x 18 week old pullets living in a large run/coop. I have 3x 2 year old hens who have been free ranging during the day and have been shut into the run with a tarp/roost overnight while the pullets are shut in the coop. For 6 weeks they lived together divided by a wire fence. I tried to...
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    Roos? What do you think? Please advise.

    Hello, I believe 2/3 of my lavender orpingtons are roos. Also not sure about my Australorp as she is so big. 12 weeks old.
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    Help; 6 week old chicks dying, lethargic

    Help. Last night temps went down to 35 degrees and I thought my chicks would be OK in the enclosed wooden coop with heat lamp as they are almost fully feathered. This morning one 6 week old chick was dead. (My single lacey wyandotte :-()The other chicks are lethargic and another chick looks...
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    duck attacking drake!

    I have placed a mallard drake in with my big golden cascade duck as she has just lost her previous mallard 'husband'. She is being very mean and getting on top of him, biting his chest and hissing every time he comes near. He is just trying to avoid her at this point. My mallard is 2 years old...
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    Sick chicken

    My rhode island red was found huddled in the corner of the coop. She is raising herself as upright as possible. Pressing her body right into the corner of the coop like she's trying to be invisible. Some poop around her backside area. She is eating and drinking. Other birds are leaving her be. I...
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    can small mallard drake mate with larger golden cascade duck?

    Just curious. Just introduced these two and they are all sweet together but he looks much smaller than her.He is around 3pm and she must be around 5lb.
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    Introducing grown duck to grown drake.

    I had posted last week as my mallard accidentally escaped her pen, flew away and never returned. As my male mallard has been fretting, today I bought a 1 year old golden cascade duck. She is slightly larger that the mallard. I have them in cages next to each other. When can I put them in...
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    Help. My mallard disappeared.

    I have a mated pair of mallards that have been together for 2 years. I rescued them as 2 month olds from a person who bred them to train hunting dogs. The female has disappeared and must have slipped out the gate when I fed them earlier. It is bitterly cold here. All lakes frozen. Do you think...
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    Bumblefoot? Want to try antibiotics.

    I have a hen with early stages of bumblefoot. Swelling and limping but no black scab. Would like to try antibiotics and have isolated her from the rest of the flock. Do Southern States sell these? Don't want to have to wait for delivery by ordering online. Thanks!
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    When can aggressive drake be reintroduced to his ducklings?

    We have 8 mallard ducklings hatched naturally. We removed the drake as he appeared to peck at them in the nest. They are a week old last Sat and today I tried putting the drake in with them. He immediately attacked a duckling so we removed the drake promptly. The drake is in our 10' x 10'...
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    help please!! ducklings hatched- one was found cold but alive 2 yards from nest laying almost dead

    My mallard duck has just hatched her first lot of babies. I went to check on her and found a cold but still alive duckling about 2 yards from the little kennel where her nest is. Mom came out of the nest and I saw a couple of others had also hatched and were alive. I put the cold but alive one...
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    do i have to separate the drake from the ducklings when they hatch?

    I have a sweet pair of young domestic bred mallard ducks that I rehabilitated after being horribly neglected. She has laid her first clutch of eggs which I candled a week ago and saw a moving embryo! So exciting! She has sat diligently on the for 3 weeks so far. I think they should hopefully...
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    Is my white leghorn a rooster or hen?

    Hello, This is the smallest of all my hens and she has a big comb and tail feathers. is she perhaps a he?[/IMG]
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    Mallard Duck Laying Eggs- advice please

    I have a young mallard duck pair. The female has laid 4 eggs in the past 4 days. We have had weird weather with some warm days but cold temps again this week. It is still winter! Each time I've touched the egg in the nest it has been freezing cold and I've never seen her near the nesting box. If...
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    Help: What is getting our chickens?

    Hello, Something ate a 6 inch diameter hole through the corner of our chicken coop a couple of days ago and one chicken was missing. No feathers or anything left. After reinforcing the corners of our coop by nailing plywood on, last night something tore through the plexiglass window, then...
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