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    Could I get some help from my fellow chicken people?

    It's been awhile since I've visited BYC. Between work, kids, remodeling a home, etc., etc., it's been difficult for me to find some down time to even work on my favorite hobbies! I sure miss knitting! Anyways, here's my current situation...we entered into a contest out of San Antonio. The local...
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    Butchered a couple of mule ducks-Help please

    I butchered a couple of 8 week old mule ducks this afternoon. This is my first time doing ducks and I can tell you that plucking them is nothing like plucking a chicken! After all of their feathers were removed, there is this very fine layer of tiny feathers covering their belly and sides that I...
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    Help me ID these ducks please.

    Several weeks ago I hatched some mystery duck eggs we found at a pond. Two of them I have no idea what they are. Their eggs were a light green color and they took a few days longer to hatch than the other ducks. Any ideas? Thanks!
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    Hatching duck eggs

    I've got 5 duck eggs in my incubator. 3 of them are a pretty blue-green color and two of them are white and larger than the other 3. Next Wednesday will be day 28 since they've been incubating. When I candled them this morning, it's obvious at this point which ones are more along than the...
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    Hen decides to be an aunt. Has this happened to you?

    Three of my hens decided to go broody on me a few weeks ago. Two weeks ago, we found some duck eggs and decided to do the old egg switcharoo on them. One hen received all of the chicken eggs from two of the other hens. Those two hens each received 3 duck eggs each. The girl that got the chicken...
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    Electric Poultry Fencing

    We will be ordering our meat birds soon and have decided to free-range them but within the confines of electric poultry netting. Where is a good source for the electric fencing? Any tips or less expensive alternatives I could use? The price range I have found on the fencing is all over the...
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    What's your favorite recipe?

    I added 6 roosters to the freezer a couple of days ago. 5 of them are 20 week old Marans and the 6th is a Australorp that was probably about 8 months old? Not sure since he showed up at my house one day before the meanness and the constant crowing kicked in. I put one of the Marans in the fridge...
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    Found a chicken! Is it a cockerel?

    This stranger showed up in my yard last night. Must have been someone's pet because it sure is the sweetest bird I've ever seen. Follows us everywhere and tries to get up on our shoulder or into our laps. Lap chicken. LOL! Anyways, one second I think it's a pullet then the next I start thinking...
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    Found a young chicken! Roo?

    Sitting on my front porch and enjoying the evening when all of a sudden the dogs went nutso and started running at the fence! I heard the typical squawk of a frightened chicken and I was off to the rescue! Looks like a young black Australorp. Pinkish, grey on the bottom of the feet. I think its...
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    Need some thoughts/ideas for transforming building into a chicken coop

    We recently purchased some property and are trying to recylce/upcycle as much as possible with what was left behind. There is one building offset from the house that looks like it could have been a horse run in shelter. It has 3 sides and a sloped corrugated metal roof. We are thinking about...
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    Want some chickie love? D'uccle chick pics!

    I ordered some D'uccle eggs from ILOVEFRIZZLES and had the best hatch ever from shipped eggs!! Note: this is not meant to be any sort of feedback but I still wanted to brag. Out of a dozen eggs, 8 hatched out. I wanted to share some photos I took a few days ago. Ever tried taking a decent...
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    Does she have a snowball's chance? *Update-Poofy passed away*

    Had a puppy incident this morning. My hen is alive but bare of all feathers down her back and most of her wings. There is a small open wound on the back of her head that I had put Neosporin on right away. She's been inside all day in a laundry basket under a heat lamp. I've been offering her...
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    Eggs are hatching under my broody!!

    My poor Silkie hen can see the light at the end of the tunnel! I checked on the 8 D'uccle eggs under her this morning and two are currently pipped and all but two are either chirping or pecking inside of their eggs! I had candled all of them Monday and they all looked great. I'm expecting what...
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    WTH is wrong with TSC? Chick purchasing nightmare.

    My neighbor called me to inform me that TSC had just received their shipment of RIR today. I beat cheeks up there as soon as I got off the phone with her because she said the last shipment they received, they had sold out of chicks within two hours! I immediately headed off to TSC. Sure enough...
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    Do you play "Musical Animals?"

    I've got chicks in the brooder, eggs under my broody, big girls in the run, and a proven chicken killing puppy on the property. I play "musical animals" from the moment the sun comes up til dusk. The big girls are herded out of the coop in the morning so they don't steal my broody's eggs and...
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    Whoa! Check out my new Silkie chick! *pic heavy*

    This little beaut hatched this morning. Daddy was a black Silkie and mom is a white Silkie. The first egg that hatched yesterday is a gorgeous solid black. But this new one? I'm stumped!
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    I really ought to go to bed!

    Between checking on the eggs in the incubator, the chicks in the brooder, and the eggs under my broody...it's soooo hard to be able curl up into bed and call it a night. I might as well be a new mother to a human child!
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    Year of the Rooster?

    I thought this was the year of the rabbit! I have seen so many posts so far this year of people wanting/wishing that they have roos hatching! Same for me. I was dreading to discover whether or not I had a roo last year. But this year? I am hoping for as many of them as I can get. Not only to...
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    Broody dilemma. WWYD?

    She's hatching 2 more eggs at the moment and I'm thinking that I'll have a 3-3 hatch. 10 very good D'uccle eggs in the incubator. I can't leave the chicks out with her forever because I'm afraid the other girls will kill them even though I've got her separated in the coop while they are in the...
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    Mother Nature rocks! *Pictures Added!*

    The eggs under my broody are hatching! I went out to check on her a moment ago and oh so carefully lifted her chest up. Sure enough, there was a recently hatched chick under her. I could also hear her second egg peeping. The 3rd egg that's under her should hatch in about two days and it was...
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