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    Rouens or Mallards?

    When I was given 5 ducklings, I was told they'd come from a particular local hatchery that specialised in raising ducks for meat. After a bit of Googling I decided they were Rouens. Now they've reached maturity, I've discovered I have 4 drakes and only one female. So i decided to try and get...
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    Wing injury

    I have a Female chicken one year old, average size. Cross between brown leghorn roo and either a red sex link or a brown lohman mum. It's displaying normal behaviour except, dragging it's left hand primaries on the ground to the extent of tripping on them sometimes. It's refusing to use or move...
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    What to do next

    I put a sitting hen in a rabbit hutch with some eggs & she hatched 4. I gave them a water drinker and a feeder with chick crumb. Been checking & changing it 2-daily Last year, 1st time, I messed up & the chicks didnt survive, I took them off their mum too early This year all's good so far...
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    Sudden death after home made grit

    Had 3 very healthy chicks all around 3 weeks old in an old rabbit hutch with the broody.. been feeding and watering them daily but ceased giving them exclusively chick crumb about a week ago, they've been foraging about in there over the last week on a mixed diet of full corn, remainder of the...
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    3rd chick

    My 3rd chick ever, just hatched. Still as enthralled as the first time. This one hadn't fully absorbed the yolk, but the cord ended up dry as a bone, brittle, really really thin so I took a chance on cutting it. No blood thankfully. All seems to have worked out - cheeping like a good'un. Don't...
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    So far so good

    Hi, new member, been lurking for a while since my new neighbour randomly turned up at my housewarming holding a red sex link under each arm as a welcome to the locality present. (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? About 2 years ago (2) How many chickens do you have...
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