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    Qurstion about ducks laying

    I have a pair of crested ducks & a pair of buff orpington ducks. They're 5 months old, each pair is a male & a female. I had to pen them up separate from my chickens bc they were harassing my hens and younger chicks. Right now we have a love hate relationship. Anyways I've searched all over and...
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    Under the hedges we go!!

    Sooo my chickens have done wonderful at laying in their nest boxes......until........I had 2 hens go broody, once that happened, I have recovered over 50 eggs from various places under the hedges.....how can I convince them that they need to go back to being good girls and laying in their nice...
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    Do ducks have to have niacin??

    Do ducks have to have niacin in their water? And if so is it alright for 2 week old chicks to have?
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    Just want to say THANK YOU!!!

    I've just got to say thank you to everyone who has posted about pasty butts! After reading the posts and working on "being prepared" for my new chicks, tonight I noticed one of my new chicks I got yesterday, had a yucky little pasty butt! I knew right away how to fix it thanks to all your posts...
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    First time with ducklings...help

    Soooo apparently my addiction to chicks and chickens has spread to ducks and ducklings. I've always wanted ducks and yesterday they had some at the poultry show. I picked up 4 of them and brought them home. Cutest little things ever. But here is the problem.... I know nothing about ducks or how...
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    Pretend Broodies? Or just me being paranoid?

    So I'm sure all the veteran chicken keepers out there this is going to be an annoying newbie post about broody hens......but....none the less I have a question..... I think 2 of my hens like pretending to be broody, or maybe I'm reading too much into their behaviors and with hopes of having a...
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    FINALLY got our coop and got it set up!!

    Our coop story: Since we are beginners and we have been researching chickens, keeping chickens and all that jazz for awhile, we decided we would start out small and build our own coop. Which I'd picked out an affordable one for our budget, one my bf and I could build together, and would handle...
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    Buff Brahma "it"

    A friend of mine gave me 3 buff brahma roo's and an "it". He/she is about 4 1/2 months old now, and has a roo in the pen the same age (he's all roo for sure!) But this one looks a lot like a hen. But i'm still not sure. The actions seem very hen like, and "it" is very submissive to the roo...
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    Gave chickens wormer, question about keeping eggs

    I gave my chickens wormer about a week ago, and I'm not sure if we can keep/eat their eggs. The first few we had I scrambled and gave to our baby chicks, and now we are getting an egg build up and I hate to waste all these eggs. Can we eat these since its only wormer we gave them? Or should we...
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    Broken feather bleeding? How to treat?

    One of my little week old Tetra Tints was being chased around the brooder yesterday, upon removing her, and close inspection, it seems a few of her tail feathers have somehow got broken and were bleeding. We cleaned her up and put neosporin on her broken feathers and around where the others had...
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    New Brooder!

    So our cardboard walls were not fooling our super smart chickies and they began finding ways to escape. So my super sweet BF and little brother built me a big huge brooder tonight. It's 6 ft long and 4 ft wide. right now there are only 8 chicks in there but come next week we'll be adding 25 more...
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    Sick Hen Mouth Breathing

    I have read through the previous/past posts about breathing problems and grapeworms and such. However, none of them seem to fit the symptoms of this hen, unless I missed something. She is 2+ years old, hasn't laid an egg in the 2-3 weeks since I got them. She's a Columbian Wyanddotte, just...
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    Curious...how do you call your chickens to you?

    I'm still new to the chicken game, I was raised on a dairy farm, and now live on another dairy farm with my bf, I know with cattle you can develop a "call" so to speak and the cattle will come to you. Does anyone do this for chickens? I've tried one on mine and the hens usually ignore me and my...
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    HELP!! Rooster attacked my teen chicks!

    I need help! Well me and my chickens! I have 2 roo's that are less than a year old, buff brahma's, 6 mixed hens 2+ years old and 2 "teenagers" they're 3 1/2 month old buff brahma's one roo and one unsure. In my attempted to integrate the teenagers into the flock, I gasped as my 2 roosters...
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    First Eggs!!

    So I got impatient waiting for my chickies to arrive (22 more days before they get here (25 light brahma hens)) and purchased some older hens that a man in town was going to butcher bc he had new chicks coming, also got them to give my 2 roo's something to do besides crow all day, and to give us...
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    WTB Brahma hens & chickens supplies

    I am just getting my flock started, and would like to get some Brahma hens either soon to start laying or already laying. I am also looking for any chicken supplies such as: feeders, fencing, posts, electric fence chargers, plastic trash cans, or any chicken related to get my new flock going...
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    What happens when.....

    Does anyone know what happens when you have buff brahma roo's mixing with light brahma hens? Will we have lighter buff chicks? Speckled chicks? Some light and some dark? I'm just beginning my happy chicken family and I am wondering what I can expect. Thanks for anyone's help who comments!
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    Movable vs stationary coops and runs

    I need help with deciding how to design out coop and run. My boyfriend wants to make the whole thing, coop and run movable, which I understand why. He wants it movable so that in the winter we can move it down to the basement/garage/side area of the house where it is less windy, and easier to...
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    Brahmas

    I am wanting to start keeping Brahmas, would love any advice on keeping them. We will be starting them as day old chickies, we are also beginners. I looked through the older topics and didn't see anything that covered this breed in particular. I'm sorry if I missed it and am now repeating a topic.
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    Hello from the Blue Ridge Mountains!

    Hello all! I live in VA, in the middle of the country of south west Virginia (not WVA, the south western part of VA) I always tell people I live on the skinny side of VA. LOL! I live with my darling boyfriend on his family own dairy farm. We are excited to get started raising some chickens...
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