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    What consitutes a nervous breakdown?

    I was going to have a 3 day shiva but I've been so stressed I realized I really did need seven. I've had a lot going on, as a lot of you know - and half of it I didn't post! Anyway, here's what's going on: I'm seeing things... sortof. I hit the brakes in the car the other night and scared my...
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    Gender-confused Rooster.

    My rooster is already strange, he doesnt crow. I finally got his new coop mostly finished today and gave it to the babies to test. Went out and found the rooster trying to brood an egg! Actually, the only one not in the box is the one who actually can lay eggs. Ha. It made me smile anyway.
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    I just found two more dead, I'm losing it. Update post #32.

    Three days ago a dog attacked what I thought to be my favourite duck and I had to kill her myself with a hatchet. It wasn't until plucking I realized it wasn't my favourite duck. Everyone was happy for me, but I was still miserable. Nobody seems to realize.. I still went through the turmoil...
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    Help BYC! I don't know who my babydaddy is.

    It wasn't until the muscovy baby started coming up a goooorgeous blue that I got concerned. His Suspected Papa 1 is a blue muscovy, nothing new. However, on the dates in which ovum passed the egg, the female of the party (henceforth referred to as Suspected Trollop Duck or STD) may have been...
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    I just ate my first Muscovy... (don't look if you love Muscovies!)

    The meat is INSANE. I think it honestly is my new favourite meat. I braised her for two hours in the oven with naught more than wine, thyme, water, carrots and onion and she came out more beautiful than she started. Plus she made 1/3rd of a beautiful pillow and about a cup of rendered duck...
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    So my honey looked at me and said...

    "What do you think of BLACK AND WHITE cows?" ... "Did you buy a cow....?" "Maybe." "Is it black and white?" "Maybe." "What is it?" This is when he held up his hands about a foot and a half apart and said, "It's about this big." "...you bought a calf?" "Maybe." "Where am I supposed to keep the...
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    Yeah yeah yeah pheasants and chickens can't be together but....

    When I got my pheasant he had been housed with three chooks as long as they've been alive (2 years, he's 6). He was given to me WITH his chicken house-mates. I was given them by a very very very reputable chicken breeder/shower (constant blue ribbon winner and a bloke that can talk your ear...
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    More Advice! This time, on house building!

    You ladies (and gentlemen) were so helpful last time I thought I'd ask for a little more, only this time a little more fun and imaginative. My husband's boss owns two acres with a house on it that needed demolished and he decided to build another property on it instead. Since we were looking...
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    Dehydrating seeds?

    Quickly: Can you dehydrate seeds using a dehydrator so they can keep for later planting? If so, how long and what temperature for what seeds? Anyone have a guide? Thank you! PS: What else do you dehydrate that's 'different'? I dehydrate my peppers to grind up and make pepper flakes. P...
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    Sticky Situation Advice?

    As some of you know, I am sheltering three homeless flood victims. It was supposed to be two but a third was asked to join last minute and then offered to pay his stay in a chicken coop! Well I thought, that's pretty sweet - yeah that would be helpful. It's been 3 weeks now and... this is not...
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    Henhenhenhenhen?! HEN!? Please say hen!

    I think my blue (splash or mottle???) Wyandotte is a hen!!!!! Please tell me I'm not wrong! And if anyone can also tell me.. does she look like a decent quality? Henhenhen?!
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    Remember that Curlew I saw?

    Apparently they're really not common to see because, get this, they are considered bad luck bringers of death!!! Considering I had -just- finished Day 2 of flood cleanup when I saw it...
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    Does anybody mind me sharing my wedding photos?

    I know it's been almost 4 months since I got married but I SERIOUSLY only got my photos a couple days ago. I'm really excited about them but I can't share them with anybody because it's been SO LONG nobody cares anymore about seeing them. I'd like to share them, because I think they really...
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    Duck wants nothing to do with drake. :(

    I've got two adult ducks, one just barely. She hasn't laid yet but her carbuncles are starting to redden and she's been caught sitting in the nesting box a lot looking all sooky and hopeful. However, every time my drake so much as looks at her, she scampers away. She's cute and polite about...
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    No, bad food!

    Ahhhh you guys know how I pick up roosters from different places and use them for food? I just picked up three roosters and they're... hand tame!! All the little roosters are cuddling up to me and letting me pat them and roosting on feet and being sweet!! What the..!? I've never picked up...
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    Ducks, ready to eat?

    My guess is that the duck is ready to be processed but not the drake. Should I wait a little longer on both, one or the other? Would you agree with my assessment?
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    Breakfast recipes for the decaffeinated?

    <-- I mean, really, we have a smilie dedicated to feeling like crud in the morning. So clearly, I am not the only one. I need to eat more breakfast but I find the challenge of even remotely doing anything productive involving food before 2 hours of wakey time to be more than enough to get...
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    Can an utter lack of common sense be a symptom?

    My baby ducks hatched ELEVEN of the TWELVE eggs!!! One died a day after it hatched, unknown causes. One of them is WAY behind the rest, even the ones that hatched later. It's smaller and really really...not smart. It will follow everyone and when everyone leaves it'll just sit in the middle...
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    My friends gave me some of their flood photos.

    This is their home. Staircase to their garage.
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    I think my duck is trying to escape prison!

    I have a few little runs for the chickens just in case. Just in case being a duckling injured it's foot and I wanted it to be alone so it could get better. Except... I'm looking outside right now and the duckling is smack in the centre of the cage talking and talking and talking... and the...
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