I have NO clue how to use this site anymore, everything has changed! It's been almost two years I think since I have been here :( Darn FB keeps me away! Whats all new here the past two years??? Anything interesting?
Ok so I have ducks that are all turning 20 weeks old on the 28 of this month, none are laying. They are in a large fenced yard with a large coop and we have been looking daily for our eggs :( They get plenty of food and water. They are doing this funny head movement while walking by the other...
I have a Cayuga boy with lots of different girls and wondering what my ducklings may look like if I hatch them. I have a buff orp, blue sweedish for starters. Wondering if there is a pic thread on ducks out there somewhere? I have been looking but haven't found anything yet. If you know of...
So, I was reading this duck website to learn more about my ducks...what I read surprised me. On it they mention how you should only allow your ducks 2 hrs in the pool a day, they should NOT be out in the rain, and they should NOT be without food/water over night. I wonder if these "duck experts"...
I recently got four ducklings and I have two Drakes and 2 Hens. Will this be a bad situation for the Hens to keep both Drakes and will they fight? I don't want to stress the Hens out so wondering if the ducks work the same way as chickens when it comes to Roos vs Hen Ratios. And for winter...
OK I really need some opinions (especially if you work in a hotel). I have this man who is staying until November (lord help me!) and he is SOOO RUDE. Tonight he comes down to the desk and asks for the grill utensils so I gave him them. Well then he comes back in (smells of alcohol big time)...
This is my Norwegian Jaerhon/barnevelder mix boy Here is his current picture
This was him early: He sure turned out to be a pretty boy. If anyone is interested in him please let me know. He has to find a new home Hes starting to try to mate my wheaten and I ahve no where to keep him...
FINALLY able to get some ducks. I am looking at getting 3-4 (one of those being a male) ducks. What I am looking for is small, adorable (cute), good layers, and calm-ish around kids. I have lots of questions because I never owned a duck before so need some how to's/what do do from anyone...
UPDATE: First of all, I want to give credit for those who started a thread like this back in 2009 okiron, who started this thread linked here ---------------------> https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=189553 and to desertgirl for thinking of the idea I didn't see that...
WOW I have SO many pages of subscribed topics and I mean to delete those older ones but just don't have that much time LOL I do hear they MAY be changing that soon though YAY. I would love to be able to just delete like you can your pm's
Here is my buff laced polish...we are thinking four girls and one boy...the boy is the ONLY one showing any sings of waddles or redness in his comb. They are 7 weeks old on Wed this week.
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Ok so how do all of you stop!? Since I got my nice new incubator the spring weather seem to be filled with chicks! Now that it's heading into summer full force I think I need to stop. LOL Or do I? Oh I'm SO confused!
Boy it's not like this to be so hot in WI but but man o man...it's only 71 but REALLY muggy and I'm dying here. It's suppose to get up to 95 with a heat index of 105 -110 I will be putting ice in all the chickens waterers today that's for sure. Everyone is already headed down into the cool...
I didn't bother looking at the price because, well, how much CAN grasshoppers be? When I got up to the counter the lady rang them up (I got two small containers of them) and then she says "$10.58 Please" I'm like WHAT?? Are you kidding me! LOL Since when did grass hoppers start costing so...
I have a 1502 cabinet style sportsman and what I need to know is how many eggs is too many to add to the bottom hatcher?? Can the chicks hatch out well enough if it's over crowded? Im talking maybe 75 to 100 eggs?? Please let me know how many YOU hatched out at one time and have things be...
Well, we had a 100% hatch from my eggs thanks to my 6 yr old son. There was one chick who was having trouble after three days of trying to get out of the shell. While I was putting the dried off chicks in the brooder he took the egg which was partially zipping and carefully peeled away at the...
At work yesterday I was talking to a guy about chickens (don't even remember how that topic got started) and he asked me what kind etc... He asked what I feed them (he is thinking about getting some) and I said 20 acres of good grass and bugs/grubs. He says "you don't give them any food"? I...
This chick was chocolate colored when hatched and now it's getting barred?? It had the white spot on the head at hatch and it's brother/sister did not but was also chocolate colored...will add her picture soon. Could the one with no spot on the head be female possibly. This little guy is NO...