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    Can you retain a pigeon...

    I recently acquired a mated pair of white homing pigeons and their coop that they have called home since birth/hatch. Thy are about 2 yrs old. How do I go about retraining them to "home in" here so that when I release they dont go back to where I got them from?
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    New quail hatchling issue....

    I have four successfully hatched quail chicks (may be more to follow). Three are very lively and speed around the brooder super fast. The other is still drying off as it was the last to hatch. I noticed it looked like one of its toes was shorter than the rest. When I picked it up to inspect it I...
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    Brooding question

    I have my first clutch of quail due to hatch any day now and will be bringing home a pair of yellow golden pheasant chicks tomorrow evening. Can quail and pheasant chicks be brooded together until old enough to separate?
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    According to the calculator....

    According to the calculator, if I cross my black Wheaton and my splash I would get blue. If this is the case, would the blues breed true?
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    Ripped vent! Please help!

    I bought three new chicks today. Two blue Ameracauna and a blue/black split. The split is 2 wks and the blues are almost 4 mos. I left them together long enough to make a tsc run and back. When I got back, the split had literally been split! The blues had pecked off her back and some wing...
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    How the heck do I get rid of these things?!

    Ok. So we have a rat problem. We have taken care of feed issues. And we are working on all the wire fencing (replacing with smaller welded wire). How the heck do we kill and run these guys off for good?
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    What would happen if.....?

    I currently have a black Wheaton Amerecauna Rooster. He is awesome. Full beard and muffs, fluffy neck and body, beautiful bright colors, great disposition and protective and watchful of "his" flock. I am hopefully bringing home this gorgeous lavender Amerecauna hen (arrow points to her)...
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    What was I given??

    What are these ladies? They lay large brown eggs and one even goes the extra mile and lays extra large eggs. I've heard ISA's and rainbows but would like to know something more definite. Had I bought them myself I would have known, however these were gifted to me.... My Amerecauna Roo photo...
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    I know they WERE laying eggs....

    My Hubbs and I recently bought 4 Texas A&M. 1 male 3 female. They were laying eggs galore for the woman we bought them from. We gradually switched over to our feed which is practically the same as what she was giving.... Only addition is the crushed corn..... I figured the stress of moving would...
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    Ducks and fishies???

    So.... Being new to raising ducks, and following @New2DuckyDoodles and her thread "what the ducky is this" raised some questions.... How the duck do I train my ducklings to eat fish? How often can they have them? How old do they need to be before giving them the little watery critters? And if I...
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    Oh No!!!!! Wolf Rat on the loose!

    So.... We saw our first wolf rat in the fall. Shot it. Thought yay, we nipped this in the bud. Until we saw two more about a month ago. Trapped two with those big rat traps. Thought yay again. Tonight I go to our basement to do my night time check on our new babies (7ducklings and 10chicks) ...
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    Oh no! Not the breed I was told they were!

    So I brought home our very first ducks today. (We have over 20 chickens and some rabbits too)! Well... Five little yellow Peking ducklings... Cool beans. Thought the other two were Khaki Campbell, however when I started looking up their images, they look nothing alike! Mine resemble Mallard or...
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    Our small slice of heaven!

    Hi all, I'm Jessica, co-owner of MatthewsHomestead with my husband Daniel. We currently have 6 breeds of chickens and a few rabbits; and are soon expanding to ducks and goats as well! (We get our baby ducks today!) Every expansion and addition we create is a unique learning experience for sure...
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