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    Free Re-home a 3 yr old Pekin Drake

    Paul Drake will soon be the lone pet duck at our home and that will be unfair. Willing to re-home him for 0$ to someone who has ducks and looking for a male, but not just free duck soup. We are located in Springfield, OR
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    Chickens with no intrest in composting

    My 10 hens and 1 rooster came from a place that had them in a run without grass and were fed from a feeder. I have a chicken coop, run, a enclosed yard, and acres of pasture with three 4 ft high mounds of horse manure. It's been 2 weeks since I let them in the pasture and I can tell you they...
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    Normal Egg Quantity

    I have one, 5 month old hen and nine, 18 month old hens that I bought 4 weeks ago. I bought them largely to compost manure from our 2 horses, but the eggs are nice and I am hoping to donate what we don't eat to a food bank. These are my first chickens. It took me a couple months to renovate a...
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    Squirrels eating the duck feed!

    3 fat grey squirrels were caught leaving the scene. The duck's feed bowl was empty. The sneaky squirrels will be back. I have been letting my 2 pekin ducks eat at will. Do I need to put it in a fenced coop? Do ducks eat primarily in the morning? Any ideas on how to deal with this?
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    Duck house floor

    i am converting an awesome plastic "step 2" playhouse that is 5' x 5' for my 2 peking ducks for a nightime coop. Would a layer of straw over 6" of sand on a earth floor be ok? I live in the rainy part of oregon. Never had ducks before so not sure of the best way to floor a duck house. Your...
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    Molting and non molting

    I am a new chicken owner. I just got 10 chickens 2 days ago, about 5 golden comets are molting and the other 5 mostly marans are not molting - do I give all the chicken the higher protein feed? I don't want to stress them anymore than they already are due to getting a new home. Thank you
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