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    Looking for Rooster utencils for the table

    Good Morning fellow chicken fanatic's!...wow its been awhile since I posted ... I need some help finding something and was hoping someone on this forum can help me . A couple years ago I bought two box's of " Rooster" silverware/dinnerware/flatware/utencils from JC Penny in Portland,Oregon. (...
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    Broody chicken in a Canadian winter....

    Okay one of my new " mama" broody hens an EE has decided that January seems like a good month to hatch out some chicks . This is her 2nd time around in being broody ...the last time was during the summer months, The first time ( and she's doing it again ) she was getting kicked out of the...
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    Do geese break / eat eggs?

    I have a pair of Embden geese and the female has started laying in this past week ....since its still cold here I have been bringing the eggs in and saving them ..hoping she'll go broody ...yesterday I had this bright idea of putting two of my white leghorn eggs in the nest BUT this morning I...
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    Question for the cold climate people ....

    Okay I live in Southern Ontario close to Toronto ....Michagan and New York State are across the borders ...right now the temperature this Sunday morning is around 30 degree's F . My goose coop is not insulated ....I do have straw down on the floor and I have an old " wine" making plastic barrel...
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    Goose Egg !!!

    I am down to two Embden geese .....and 5 muscovies and a male runner duck...all of them I hatched out in bator last spring ....first time also ... Today I checked the barrel nest box in the waterfowl coop and I got my first Goose egg !!!! Yeeee ha!!!!!! Do you think it could be fertile...
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    Embden gander "loves" me ...is this normal?

    I have a pair of Embden Geese that have been pended with 5 ducks .. Bruce and Joan are their names ...named after the couple that gave me the eggs ...I hatched out both last June ...and over the winter Everytime Bruce hissed or came towards me with his wings open I would pick him up and carry...
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    When Muskovies lay ......?

    Okay I just read the post about what age a female Musckovy starts to lay eggs ..... and using most of my fingers I have figured out that mine could start laying ...could ......I say as its getting colder here .....All the ducks and geese are relatively the same age AND I have seen them doing...
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    Colder folks .....regarding egg laying

    I have 5 geese( embden and production Toulouse) and 12 ducks( Muscovies and one runner) all hatched out relavely around the same time ....there roughly 5 months old now.. My silly questiuon is when should I look forward to eggs....... and When that starts up should I leave them locked up in...
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    Is it true?....Can you tell the sex of a Runner duck by....

    Its feathers on its "tail" area.....I have one young runner duck thats about 5 months old ....a friend was over yesterday and told me that it was a male because a couple of its tail feathers were curled up the opposite way ..I dont have another runner to compare it to ...Have you heard of...
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    Just Wondering....for a winter waterer has anyone tried.....

    This will be my first winter with ducks and geese ....For my chickens I use a heated dog dish during the freezing cold months. My ducks and geese naturally love their water dish in their duck yard and enjoy making a slippery mucky stinky mess....I have been searching out solutions for a winter...
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    HELP !Holes in the bottom of Styrafoam incubator ?? water !!!!

    I have some holes in the bottom of my styrafoam Hova incubator .....Its a used one ...dont know if the previous owner put them in or it comes like that....there are no holes in the two troughs that hold water but I keep on having water pour out of the incubator....thank goodness I am testing...
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    I am singing " I am so excited"

    I am about to loose control and I think I like it !!!.......Tomorrow is the BIG day !! Today I got the thermostat assembly for my incubator I have some lovely eggs ...bought from another lovely member off this forum who by the way has beautiful chickens and Roo's and a great set up !! This is...
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    Southern Ontario..Canada.....Guelph Area

    I just wanted to let some local people know that want or have chickens that the 'Wellington Centre for Continuing Education" in Guelph is offering a "Urban Chicken" one night course at John F Ross ... local high school ....from 7 - 9:30pm April 14th .....the course booklet has not came out...
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    My Kids are ANGRY ! because of the weather in Ontario....

    All I heard this morning was WHY havnt they had one snow day this winter ! Not once have the buses been cancelled because of snow....Like it was my fault.... They feel their getting ripped off because 3 years or more ago we lived walking distance to the school and we told them living out...
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    DD dropped a carton of eggs this morning .....

    it happened while she was grabbing for her lunch bag BEFORE taking the carton of eggs....once a week we give our wonderful bus driver a dozen .....she covered her face and said ohhhh sorry mom and I grit my teeth ...twas an accident... but then once she ran out the door to catch the bus with...
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    Has anyone had a scope done on their knee for

    torn Cartleridge ? and have some Artheritis also in that knee? What was your out come? I had a scope done last Thursday .....oh yes and I am in my 40's ....Now I have to go to Physiotherapy
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    Toys for Pot Belly Pigs ...any ideas

    As some of you know I recently got a 12/13 week old Pot Belly Pig .As of now she is in my kitchen until the weather turns warmer and she'll be out in her own penned in area with a pig hut .... I have used an emptied plastic pop bottle with holes in it filled with frozen peas and cherrios . My...
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    DARN I AM LUCKY ! Just got a .....

    5 1/2 by 2 1/2 inches calender from our State Farm Insurance broker and its PERSONALIZED what more could I ask for this YEAR!!!
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    House training Pot Belly Pig using a bell at door

    Okay I have a 12 week old Pot Belly Pig that is the cutest little thing right now ....Bella.... I am home 24/7 I have house broke puppies ...children....and a husband .. but still working on picking up his underwear next to the laundry basket though....but thats a different topic ...anywho I...
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    Introducing Bella my Piggie

    I just wanted to share a photo of my Pot Belly Pig .....Bella 12 weeks old
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