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    Duck eggs day 27 safety holes or not

    4 duck eggs in incubator now day 27.5 2 are bigger eggs (Anconas) they both have nice big air spaces and I see some external pipping has begun yay 2 are smaller and their air spaces are pretty small so I’m considering safety holes . I see they have internally pipped . Don’t want to wait too...
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    Do crows make trades?

    Do crows make trades? Because I’ve been finding pieces of bagels in the duck yard after they been stealing eggs
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    Geese cartoon

    My daughter was picking some grass from the front yard to bring to the geese in the backyard. I told her don’t pick any onion grass, geese hate it, That night she made this silly cartoon and told me I could share it with my goose friends lol
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    Will this brooder heater be any good?

    I have 18 duck eggs in an incubator now, and I don’t want to use the stupid red heat lamp anymore after they hatch so I’m looking at this..
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    charcoal last night, coconut oil this morning

    3yo chocolate Orpington hen didn’t want to eat and was laying down unlike her usual self she did not run over for a treat like the others. I also found I had a container of scratch grains that got wet and was turning bad, and pretty sure she had ate some of it, so I brought her inside, and mixed...
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    Incubator Newby. Where to place hydrometers?

    I just got my first incubator, ready to put some duck eggs in, but want to make sure I do everything right as best as I can so I’ve been reading and researching. One thing I noticed is I should have extra thermometers and hydrometers. So I got some, but I don’t know where to put them. I got this...
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    Chicken injured bloody back of neck

    My son, halfway across the country is taking care of some chickens fora friend who left state on an emergency. there’s 10 hens about one-year-old and there is one male guinea in with them., my guess is the guinea may have injured the back of this hens neck and then the other hens probably made...
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    App frequently freezing

    I can click on about a dozen or so likes and maybe post one or two things and then it freezes again. I have to shut it down and start over. This has been happening ever since my iPhone updated to the newest version. I figured it was the updates fault. So I uninstalled byc , reinstalled. Still...
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    Kalmbach duck and goose

    My yard isn’t big enough for my geese to have enough grass 😭 they have about 3000 ft.² but a lot of of it is weeds there is some grass but they’ve eaten it down to tiny tiny stalks so I’ve been thinking about their feed and is it good enough? used to give them all flock by Nutrena but have...
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    Wheatgrass powder added to feed?

    Does anyone do this? Can I add some to their mash ? We have like no grass in the winter.
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    Can this be added to the duck sticky topics plz

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/safely-administering-oral-medications-to-all-poultry-and-waterfowl.73335/
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    Installing new door knobs/locks & dead bolts

    How hard is it really? I’ve been “afraid” to try and do of myself. Last time I tried, years ago, I couldn’t get the old knob hardware removed and took a hammer to it smash smash. Still couldn’t get it out. My front door knob is so dangerous. I can’t even lock it because if I do, I’ll be locked...
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    Leg/foot dragging video

    9 year old Khaki Campbell named Teeny Leg /foot injured I believe it was by slipping on ice I’ve been treating her for a full week already Inside in a large dog crate with a couple duck friends that are in the room for company, they have been sweethearts and lay right next to the crate to...
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    Solved Notification settings

    I’m getting a notification every time someone reviews a coop article that I had previously reviewed. I went to preferences and turned off most of my notifications, but I don’t see an option for this specific thing “when some one else reviews an article that you had also reviewed” I don’t see...
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    Little hole in webbing

    One of my young khaki Campbell girls who came to me as a rescue has a small circle hole in her webbing on one foot. The weather is cold and snowy lately and I noticed she sits on her feet a little more often than the other ducks her age so I’m just wondering if the small hole in the webbing is...
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    Why did she lose so much weight?

    My silver Appleyard hen who is not even two years old yet has lost weight and was shivering in the cold. Her feathers look ragged too. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her actually moult yet… except the very first teenage duck molt. Anyway she’s inside now and I’ve been giving her rooster booster...
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    Duck laying thin shells with calcium deposits on outside of shells

    ever seen eggs like this? The shell is thin, but has calcium deposits which suggests to me my duck is not properly absorbing calcium or something? This is my two year-old silver apple yard who prolapsed several months ago, but recovered after treatment with calcium gluconate and Manuka honey and...
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    glucosamine chondroitan dosage help

    i have one pekin duck who I think would benefit from taking this supplement. I’ve already been giving her extra niacin and meloxicam to help with her legs. And they are helping. But I thought I’d add a little of this too. I just can’t figure out a proper dosage. I don’t want to break open and...
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    Help with math please

    If 1/10 of a pizza is 370 calories, How many calories would 1/8 be? and who the heek slices their pizza into 10 slices now really
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    are tiny pumpkins ok?

    if i cut this little pumpkin in half is it ok for my chickens?
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