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    Our first turkey eggs

    I need to load a pic... My BBB hen (who is now a pet) just laid her first few eggs!!! She is 31 weeks old. I took a pic of turkey, duck, and chicken eggs together and brought it in to show off at work. My co-workers tolerate my poultry obsession and when they seem tired of it I bribe them...
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    What's wrong with my duck?

    I thought I'd post this here because I want answers from people who raise ducks... We have a Pekin that was hatched in July. She started laying, was healthy and split her time between the existing duck flock and the chickens who hatched her. In the past 10 days she is spending a lot of time...
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    My roos are ruining our egg production!

    Last year we had a roo who was horrible to us and the hens and went to freezer camp. As soon as he was gone our egg production went up significantly. This year I have 2-20 week old roos and 30 hens who are 1 1/2 years to 20 weeks old. Two of the older hens went broody two weeks ago but up...
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    Turkeys attacking chickens and ducks

    This is our first year raising turkeys. We have 4 BBW that have been attacking our ducks and chickens. Is this nornal? Tonight I put the turkeys in a fenced pasture so that our mama hen could bring her ducking out to forage. A full grown chicken got into the yard with the turkeys and was...
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    You will fall in LOVE. Pics of my ducklings and their mama

    After a long, stressful weekend they finally hatched last night. They are so cute and my broody is making a great mama to these fluffballs. [/img]
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    Help! Broody abandoning eggs during hatch. UPDATE!!_ NEED MORE HELP

    Does the hen normally sit on the eggs for the entire hatching time? We have duck eggs under our hens. The eggs have external pips. And THREE times today the hens have gotten off the nest. Once for a snack I was giving the pullets outside of the coop. Once she was sitting out side the nest...
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    My Pekin eggs are hatching! My Pekin eggs are hatching!

    We have no 10 adult chickens and no roo. This year 4 of our BA's went broody. We may not have roos but we do have a drake! Soooo... My hens have been brooding duck eggs. The first batch all died - an egg exploded, she stepped on one, etc. There are still two eggs left under another BA...
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    Help me with my chickens who are brooding duck eggs!

    We have FOUR broody BA's. That's out of 10 hens! Since we have no roos right now the first two that went broody got duck eggs to sit on. The girls are not getting off their nests at all so once a day I am lifting them off the nest to eat and drink and run around screaming like crazy...
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    How to treat 3 week old with significant injury?

    We've been having picking problems with our new chicks. Thought we had everything calmed down and went to work. When I got home it was horrible. About 2/3 of our chicks are bloody but one baby roo in particular has been picked clean from his throat all the way down one side of his body and...
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    Bloody chicks. How much space needed for 24 3 week olds?

    This is my second year brooding chicks and we are having a horrible time with this bunch. I just pulled out a chick that was bloody and being attacked by the others. There are several of the chicks that are ripping out feathers or pecking vents constantly. I"ve lowered the wattage in the lamp...
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    Sick poults - help needed

    This is the first year we are raising turkeys. We have 7 poults who are 3 weeks old in our mudroom in a brooder. In the past week I have heard some sneezing but today noticed some nasal discharge. Their poop looks normal but they are eating less than I would expect from birds of that are the...
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    Why did she decide to stop brooding today?

    OK, I'm sure no one here can read chicken minds but I've had a broody Australorp for a week. All weekend we debated buying fertilized eggs vs getting chicks to slip under her. This morning I went to TSC and they had baby Australorps so I figured my decision was made. Baby chicks to slip under...
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    20-10+16 = Flock Reduction (chicken math alert)

    Darn it. Chicken math will get you every time. I sold half my flock this week to someone who has a new farm and wanted laying hens. My reasoning was I already had too many eggs and wanted a second smaller flock so that when my first one molts I still have eggs (but not too many eggs)...
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    Is this egg fertilized?

    [/img] Please don't laugh at this question. We have 20 hens. No roo. The roo went into the crockpot in November. I keep finding eggs that look like there is a bullseye (below the spot from the flash). Not many maybe 3 or so out of 12-17 eggs we are collecting every day. Am I not really...
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    Need help figuring out what is wrong with my drake

    We have a 9 month old Pekin drake who seems to be sick and we cannot figure out what might be wrong with him. About a week ago my DH found him swimming and exhausted in the stock tank and he could not get out. My DH had to lift him out of the tank. Ever since that day he has seemed lethargic...
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    Too cold to clean duck pen. How do you deal with frozen poo?

    OK, we didn't get our barn built last summer so the ducks and chickens are living in pens in a huge garage and seem pretty darn happy. They go out to free range when someone is home. Two of the walls adjoining the house are connected to heated rooms and even with a window open at the top for...
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    Egg yolk on the outside of normal eggs?

    In the past week I've gone out to collect eggs and in one nest I'll find a few duck eggs (which is OK since I have ducks) and some chicken eggs but there is a substance that looks like a broken yolk on a few of the eggs. Yesterday one of my SLW was sitting in the nest and when she got out all...
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    Great Speckled Sussex source?

    I'm new to chickens and purchased a variety of breeds last year trying to determine which ones we liked best. The chicks were from Meyers and we lost over 1/2 our SS chicks in the first week. Now that the others are 30 weeks old we love our SS. They are the friendliest bird we have. No...
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    Ugh... hurt my roo tonight. *Update* He attacked DH.

    I've already posted here a few times about Stewy my roo. I was about to cull him a few weeks ago but I keep seeing how good he is with the hens and I'm reconsidering. Tonight after they had gone in their coop I picked up one of the hens for a health check and he ran at me. He does this every...
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    Lethargic hen - not egg bound?

    I'm new to chicken keeping and all my chickens are 30 weeks old. Most have been laying for the last month. For the last few days I 've noticed one of my Speckled Sussex seems a little sleepy and slow. Today when they were free ranging she was standing under a bush with her eyes closed and...
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