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  1. Cuttlefishherder

    Our muscovie hen has set on her eggs. But I wonder?

    We have a trio of magpies that are new to the whole nesting thing. They have a good sized clutch of eggs that they aren't setting on. So I was thinking that since our scovie will take 35 days, if I throw in some magpie eggs at the right time(about 5 days from now), they should all hatch about...
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    lethargic duckling what to do!

    We have a really cute just hatched batch of muscovie ducklings, mama hatched them all by her self, we helped a few stragglers, but one duckling is really slow and has trouble keeping up, but he can walk just fine. He is almost completely black and is about three days old now and it almost looks...
  3. Cuttlefishherder

    I have heard that...

    If you split a roosters tongue, he can not crow. Don't bite my head off for wanting to try this, but we have tiny little silkie who is apparently a rooster. His name is Popcorn, and he is the largest of our tiny little silkie trio, and we feel that giving having to give him away would be such a...
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    little goose with splay leg! Help

    How do you fix this! He is my favorite little guy, but his legs are almost as long as he is tall and now he is having trouble getting around. He is about three weeks old and I dont know what to do! Could any one please help? He is a Toulouse, in case that's important.
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    Misscovie is finally setting on her eggs!

    I think our female muscovie is finally setting on her eggs! She has about 15 or 16 eggs under her, I was dating them up until a few days ago, she was spending more time than usual in the box but she was still laying, so yayyy! Duckling in 35 or so days!
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    Yay we have goslings!!!

    We have two Toulouse Goslings! Yayyyy! We have waited all month for our feed store to get the littlw guys! They are sooo cute!
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    What age is good for butchering ducks?

    We have Moscovies and Magpies, they scovies have 10 eggs in the nest right now, so she might set any day now, and the magpies wont be laying any time soon, but we are just curious on when to butcher them when we have them?
  8. Cuttlefishherder

    How do yall keep your ducklings dry!?

    Our little ducklings are having a grand ol' time emptying out their water dish twice a day and soaking their bedding, I know ducklings are messy and if I have to live with cleaning out their bedding daily I'm pretty cool with that, but if there is a way to keep them dry I would love to know...
  9. Cuttlefishherder

    We FINALLY found the only guy in Tucson with Scovies!

    Now we have 2 lovely moscovy ducks, they aren't as friendly as we like, but the guy we got them from was really cool and had the nicest chickens ever! He was off in the Philippines when His scovies hatched so his oldest son drove ALL the way to Benson, picked up the ducklings and after that all...
  10. Cuttlefishherder

    What color is this cochin? Pics*

    This cochin is about a month old. She is very sweet when you hold her but screams like shes getting killed when we go to pick her up. She is supposed to be a partridge cochin but she looks like the Rhode Island pullet we sold last week. And a blurry one
  11. Cuttlefishherder

    Feeding chickens ducks and geese all at the same time

    GameBird feed has a higher protein content but if Chickens can have it and still be healthy would it be okay? We are trying to establish a good meat stock in our back yard and apparently chicken has fallen off the menu so we are leaning toward geese, duck, and rabbit. Right now we feed our...
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    When are silkies big enough to go out side?

    We have never had any bantam breeds before and it seem that our silkies are just plain itty bitty and that the can squeeze through just about any thing. We have a chain link fence and they can easily fit through the holes. Right now they are in a dog crate in the coop because they haven't been...
  13. Cuttlefishherder

    Crash course in Mapie Ducklings, They are cuter than chicks!*pics*

    So we have been looking for a solution on how to shut up a panicking peeping chick that has been driving us nuts since we got her and her buddy(We love them dearly but she is sooo loud). We tried every thing and came down to the final opinion that if we got them a third little chick buddy that...
  14. Cuttlefishherder

    Need Magpie Duck info!!!

    We went to the feed store today to get a cochin and came home with three ducklings too. So what about magpies should we know? I know they are good layers and good meat birds, but do the ducks look any different from the drakes? Their hatchery miss informed the store because they told them that...
  15. Cuttlefishherder

    Help! Why are Muscovies so hard to find!

    We are trying to get a trio of scovies, two ducks and a drake, but they seem to be darned near impossible to find! Every where we look is sold out or we dont know what we would do with 15 or so scovies.
  16. Cuttlefishherder

    What do yall thing two Black Copper Marans would sell for?

    We have two out of four Maran chicks that are roos, they aren't mature enough to crow but they will be soon! Would they sell nicely or would we be better off eating them?
  17. Cuttlefishherder

    Toulouse Geese, Good eats?

    Are they good eats or should we look for another variety? I kinda just want toulouse any way, the are such cool birds, but if they are tasy then that just makes the deal even better!
  18. Cuttlefishherder

    Chick in constant state of panic, * UPDATE*

    Three days ago now we bought 2 mottled houdans from our favorite feed store. They are the cutest things ever and we are exited to finally have a crested variety on our farm, but one of them is driving us insane with her constant panicking and loud loud peeping. Shes so loud we can hear her...
  19. Cuttlefishherder

    We were gypped a toe!

    Lol We have our first crested chickens, Mottled Houdans!Yayayayayaya! But when we got home some one asked 'I thought they had 5 toes?' and sure enough, the one she was holding only had 4 toes! So we checked the other one and she has 5 toes. Lol So is it usual that they some times come with four...
  20. Cuttlefishherder

    Why do chickens like to die with no forward notice?

    I went out to feed the chickens and it looked like she had just fallen off the perch dead some time last night! I don't know what happened but I don't miss much when it comes to a change in behavior, I feed and count them every morning and the usually crowd around my feet. In the afternoons my...
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