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    Help with male/female identification.

    I am going to look at some baby ducks. One set the mom is a Khaki Cambell and the dad is Ancona/Rouen mix. Anyone with any thoughts on how to identify the females from the males? Thanks
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    Is Pineapple toxic for chickens?

    Late yesterday around 6:30 in the evening I cored 2 pineapples. I cut what was left in half and fed it to my chickens (17) and ducks (4). I have done this a few times since we have had them. I never feed them to top of the pineapple. I always twist the top off then core the inside with a coring...
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    My ducks quit laying

    Not sure what's going on. I have 18 chickens and 4 Welsh Harlequin ducks all about 16 months old. Chickens kinda tailed off over the last couple months but have started laying more. Up until about 3 months ago the ducks were laying machines. I was getting 25 plus eggs a week from them. They all...
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    Egg count for January

    Being our ducks started laying in November I have started the new year keeping count of how many eggs we get for each month for this year. We have 4 Welsh Harlequins and 19 other various chicken breeds. All the birds were laying at the first of the year except one. The last hold out started...
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    Our first duck eggs

    Well after just starting their 29th week of life 3 of our 4 Welsh Harlequins finally decided to lay an egg sometime last night or during early morning hours today. We have 19 chickens 12 which are actively laying. 15 of the chickens are the same age and 4 are one month younger. I went out to...
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    Do our ducks really need a coop?

    I built a coop earlier this year in anticipation for 12 chickens and 4 ducks from a mail order hatchery. This has expanded to 19 chickens and still only 4 ducks. The ducks and most of the chickens are 21 weeks old. My run and coop is just big enough for all of them to sleep in at night but way...
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    Our first egg

    So after 19 weeks we finally got an egg. She has laid every day for 7 days straight. The grand daughter named her "Princess Layer"....lol. I know the eggs are small and will eventually get bigger just wondering how long it will take. Also when we ordered the chickens and they came in we bought 4...
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    Our ducks are now trained fly killers!!!!!

    We have 4 Welsh harlequins all female. They came with 16 other chickens we ordered and received on June 8th this year. So now as we speak we have 20 chickens and just the 4 ducks. We like to go out and feed them some kind of treat of left overs every day. Flies have been a small problem but I...
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    What I, as a newbie, have learned about ducks.

    So I told my grand daughter (only grandkid we have) about a year ago I "could" build a chicken coop. We had chickens when our son was about her age back when I could barely tell a 2X4 from a 2X6....lol but never a duck. From what I remembered from 20+ years ago and having a few chickens it was...
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    4 more chicks

    So we have 16 chickens and 4 ducks that will be 5 weeks old tomorrow. Anyways I go to Tractor Supply to get some meal worms so I always look to see what chicks they have. Last couple times they had golden sex links, white leghorns, and meat chickens. On the day ours came in the mail I bought 4...
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    Got tired of the ducks mess....lol

    I got tired of emptying a water pan every couple of hours. As they have gotten bigger they seem to make more of a mess. I know what they do but I don't know how they get it to stink so bad....lol. They drill holes in the mud with their beaks and rinse it in the water. I installed a small 50...
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    Ducks panting but seem ok

    We have four 3 week old Welsh Harlequin ducks along with 16 chickens. They have been let loose in the run for about the last 10 days. 80% of the run is covered and shaded along with the underside of the coop. We keep a tub of fresh water (they bath in) and a commonly used watering bowl for...
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    Brooding in the run

    We received our chicks and ducks on 6/10/2020. We are brooding them in a kiddie pool with hardware cloth on top and a red bulb heat lamp inside the run. They seem to be thriving well and growing at a quick pace. It will not be long before they outgrow this pool. I really did not want to brood...
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    New chicken owner

    Been reading the forum for about the past year in preparation of building a coop and getting some chicks for our grandbaby. We had chickens about 20 years ago when our son was young and it was great. He grew out of it though and we eventually gave up due to building a new garage where the...
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