We decided to experiment with poults this year - we’ve raised ducks for three years and chickens for two. We got 15 turkeys - 6 Midget Whites, 4 Blacks, and 5 Royal Palms. I am already charmed by them, the cute little boogers, and I’m excited to have them around the yard. But I have a couple...
Hey everyone! So this is my first time incubating chicken eggs, and I’m using a Nurture Right 360 incubator. Humidity is controlled by adding warm water, but I had some issues keeping the humidity constantly around 50% because the air has been really dry around here lately. I’m also keeping the...
Hi, I already posted this in the South Carolina thread, but I'll cross post here as well.
I've got three Ancona drakes that we really cannot keep. Right now they are destined for our family's table, but I decided that I would offer them up here to anyone who might like one. They are under a...
So, we recently got some revenge chickens (tl;dr: Our neighbor hates us, shot our dog, we passive-aggressively decided that more birds was the best way to give him one,) and my daughters asked to get pet ducklings while we were at it. So, at our local TSC we picked up four ducklings I had...
Hi! My family and I recently got chicks, and I was wondering about the ratio of hens to roosters. We got ten chicks, and I expect to be culling several of them, but I was wondering how many hens should you keep for each rooster? My experience thus far has been exclusively ducks, so are roosters...
She goes to the vet on Thursday, but anyone seen this before?
My girl Fletcher is limping pretty badly. She is eating and drinking, and I couldn’t see any open wound.
Hello! I'm looking at getting some geese to add to my flock. I'm thinking of getting a pair or trio to breed some meat birds. I have a large family (three adults, five children) and we're doing the whole homesteading thing. I already have some ducks, but geese look like they'll be a nice...
Ironically, I joined a forum called Backyard Chickens . . . and I don't really have any interest in raising chickens. My main poultry interest is ducks, so, as I answer the intro questions, I'm going to substitute the "chickens" for "ducks." (However, chicken lovers don't despair - my second...