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    one late hatch - what now?

    So I had a big hatch of muscovies about 2 weeks ago. I put the straggler eggs in the incubator in case they wanted to hatch and lo and behold, they did! Except the second to last one hatched about 5 days ago and I was able to successfully stick it under the mama duck at night nbd. The last...
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    What's stealing my eggs?

    I have never had this happen before. I have about 15 hens, all laying regularly. Today and yesterday I only got two eggs. I thought they were hiding them somewhere and I hadn't found their new nest but today I came to check and the 14 eggs one of my hens had been sitting on all week were gone...
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    Hatching problems -duck is kicking hatching eggs out

    I have three muscovies sitting on a bunch of eggs sister-wife style. I posted yesterday that I accidentally disturbed the nest last night and ended up with a duckling that hatched and I put him in a brooder but he died :( The ducks are in a dog house with a hinged door that I shut every...
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    I did a terrible thing! Now what?

    OOPS! I have three muscovies that have been sitting on a huge batch of eggs since mid april. I had given them what I thought (based on my count) was more than enough time to hatch any out if they were going to and went tonight to take the eggs away, The ducks are about a year old and have...
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    Pictures for Miss Lydia

    My muscovies finally figured out that it was fun outside their pen. I also saw them mating this morning so maybe I will get eggs soon (they are young, I wasn't sure if they were sexually mature yet). Anywhere, here are some pictures as requested. They are cautiously inquisitive and my rooster...
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    Funny- ducks learning from chickens

    So I've had four young muscovies for a week now. They came from a place where they'd been completely unhandled and penned up in a really small area with smelly, deep, soaked wet bedding and no area at all to forage in. I wouldn't be surprised if they'd never been out of their pen before. A...
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    Socializing ducks

    What are your tips for socializing fearful or unsocialized ducks? What kind of food treats will make me irresistible? As per the other thread, I have four one year old muscovies that I just brought home who have not been handled very much. They are naturally wary of me because I am new, I'm...
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    New to ducks - some questions about Muscovies

    Hello! I just picked up four Muscovy ducks yesterday. I am new to ducks but have kept chickens for a few years now. I have done some research but have a few questions that seem to be more difficult to answer so I thought I'd pose them here. Basically, I want to start a small scale meat flock...
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    Hen with blood in her vent

    Apologies for reposting but I did not receive any responses and have googled and googled but am not finding much info to help and I'm worried about my hen. On Friday I noticed blood on the bedding of the coop and when I checked everyone out, she had blood on the feathers beneath her vent and a...
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    Hen with bloody vent- help needed

    I have a hen with a bloody vent. I noticed last night when I went out to the coop and saw blood on the bedding. I checked everyone out and one had blood and feces all over her vent. Stank to high heaven. Yuck and poor thing. I brought her inside and washed off her vent, there's brownish...
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    Raising broilers - failed to restrict feed, what now?

    I'm raising 21 broilers for the first time...have raised other birds for meat, but not specifically a broiler variety. I didn't realize you were supposed to restrict feed after the first 2 days, I thought it was 2 weeks. Went to look it up tonight (they are about 14 days old) and realized my...
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    Update - we did it anyway (was: Debraining knife)

    So the original person who was supposed to teach me to process my chickens has bailed on me and I've been forced to try calling around to various contacts to find someone else. I found a lady who will show me BUT she has said she will not do it unless I have a "debraining knife." She said that...
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    How many people ideal for processing?

    I'm going to be processing my chickens myself for the first time next month. I have a line up of people who'd like to help. What is the ideal number of people/stations in your experience? I have 40 birds. I will be giving each person who helps 2 birds so I'd like to keep the numbers down...
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    Chicken with huge patch of skin missing on back of neck

    I'm cross-posting an edited down version of the story from the predator's board because I'd like to get some treatment advice..... Last night I went out to check on the chickens and found one of my young pullets missing. [Snip] I found the little lost pullet on the wrong side of the fence...
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    Chicken with huge patch of skin missing on back of neck

    Last night I went out to check on the chickens and found one of my young pullets missing. I searched the entire coop for her and no luck but I DID find a small hole in the wire, in the corner. I put my four youngest pullets out with my laying flock last week and they've been pretty timid...
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    Free range heritage meat birds with laying hens

    Is this a terrible idea? I have one electronet and currently my hens and roo are in it and loving it. I bought it in order to use it with my little meat birds but I don't know if I have the heart to take it away from my hens. I could buy a second one but I wondered if there'd be too many...
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    Poultry Swap

    I'm going to a local poultry swap on Sunday, what should I expect? I'm hoping to get one or two of something interesting looking or easter eggers for my laying flock. Will there likely be young chicks or will they be older birds? I'm assuming there will be a slightly more exotic selection...
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    First year doing meat birds

    I want to do meat birds this year but I'm psychologically allergic to the typical meat Cornish Crosses that are painfully stupid and dreadfully large. My feed store can order "broilers" or Cornish crosses - what do you think would be the difference between these two types? Also, one website...
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