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  1. dragonshiner

    Broody hens, but still too cold?

    Okay, My girls have officially been laying for a few weeks now, including the ducks, yay! But now some of them are starting to go broody. By "some" I mean two or three out of fifty. It's still hanging around upper 30s to low 40s around here and is expected to do so for a couple weeks still. I...
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    ...and still nothing!

    I still haven't gotten any eggs out of my chickens this year. Some of my flock is still too young to lay eggs, but the remainder are old enough and have laid eggs in the past. We let them out to free range in the yard but have thier nesting boxes inside the coop. I've been looking around the...
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    Pigeon laid the first eggs of the season

    Just when I thought winter would never end I found two eggs in the pigeon nesting boxes all warm and snuggly. My Archangel homers have apparently been busy and now Mom is the first of all my birds to lay eggs this year and the first to go broody and sit on them. Hope she's successful. It's still...
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    Duck Breeding Season

    Does duck breeding season usually take place during a specific set of months? Or is it usually just from spring thaw until they hatch a clutch? None of my kids have started laying yet. But it's still below freezing around here, so no surprise.
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    housing question about my pigeons and doves

    Okay, I have afew different breeds of pigeons that were given to us by my Uncle-in-law last spring. At first I wasn't really thrilled about it but we couldn't very well turn away a gift from Uncle. Over time I grew fond of the pigeons and the doves and we picked up a few more. We now have ten...
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    what to do with deceased birds in winter?

    Okay, we had a wave of some sort of respiratory virus sweep through our birds this past month. We medicated them and managed to save a majority of our flocks. But now I'm presented with a different dilemma. What to do with the dead birds? Normally we bury them so as not to attract any wild...
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    Feather pulling problem

    So, today we went to buy some more ducks/ducklings seeing as a fox nabbed some of our flock. We ended up buying 10 muscovy ducklings(1-2 weeks), and 2 muscovy juniors(4-5 weeks). While we were at the farm selling them they showed us all their ducks, almost a hundred muscovies! The thirtysome...
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    Duck Feed Question

    Okay, So until recently my flock of babies has been raised as free range ducks/ducklings. I would feed them about 3-16oz scoops of 18% Duck Grower, a few handfuls of rolled corn, and two scoops of corn and oats mix, then they would spend the rest of the day foraging for themselves. But with...
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    Whole lot to report!

    I just felt the need to share some updates with like minded people. Especially other first time poultry raisers. This is still my first year and every little thing that happens excites me. Well except for one. A fox found our property and started picking off my free range ducks. We lost about 8...
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    Tough choices

    Well kids it's about that time of the year when people need to start thinking about how many animals they want to hold during the winter and how many animals are going to encounter the pneumatic hammer. The chickens and guineas are relatively easy to figure out but with my ducks it's getting...
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    Fox help

    Okay, so I knew that when I made the decision to let my birds free range it would run the risk of predator assault. Now it's a reality. A few of my ducks had either died or dissappeared in their time with us and I just chalked it up "Well, that'll happen." But as of yesterday I saw my very first...
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    Duck aversion technique?

    Is there any kind of plant that I can plant around the edges of my garden to repel the ducks from going in there. Don't get me wrong, it's very helpful to have the kids in the garden eating weeds but they are also walking on top of, and knocking over our veggies. It's kind of irritating my...
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    Duck Growth Spurts?

    Okay, so I know that with my khaki campbells they hit their growth spurt around their fourth week and just explode in size. Is that the same for all ducks or are some breeds exempt? I know my cayuga just hit a spurt. So did some of my buff mixes. But my muscovies are just over four weeks and...
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    duck questions and general exhaustion

    Number one- When ducks stand upright and rapidly flap their wings, both solo and in a group, what does that mean? Number two- One of my magpie ducklings(3 weeks) got overrun by its siblings and injured its leg It seems to be doing fine aside from some limping but this afternoon the older...
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    Name that duck breed! - pics included!

    First and foremost I must say, I just figured out how to transfer images from my fiance's digital camera to the computer! WOO HOO! Booty dance- get your groove on! Ahem, anyway.... About a week and a half ago on my way back from a family reunion my friend's ex husband gave me 13 ducklings for...
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    Duck in teh box

    Okay, as some of you may know I was already having a tough week as I lost one of my favorite ducks to a leg injury that spread to the rest of her body. Last Friday I thought I had lost yet another. I was preparing to go out of town for the weekend and when I went to check on the kids I found...
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    useful farm animals

    Aside from chickens and ducks what do you think sre the most useful, multi-purpose animals to have and raise on a farm? I ask because I think i might expand. We have five acres so I might as well use them.
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    Some days are just too much

    I knew before moving here that going from the city to the country would be difficult and in fact it has been. But having these chickens and ducks and pheasants and the whole slew of poultry that we've acquired over this short period of time has really given me a sense of purpose lately. I look...
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    Ducks vs. Ducklings Round 1!

    On one hand I have my 9 adult ducks(well technically they're 7 weeks but almost full grown) that I rasied since they were itty bitty ducklings(Okay, I bought one of them as an adult, so I raised 8). On the other hand a group of ten ducklings all 2 weeks old. Well my older babies have been free...
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    Another one of those days in duck raising

    Okay, so this morning I had a weird dream that my future father in law came over to visit and yelled at me for raising ducklings and calling them a bad investment. I rebutted by telling him that we had lost so many chicks but only one duckling so far. After that I woke up and went out to check...
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