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    How long will a hen stay fertile after mating?

    We have 3 pairs of ducks. 1 pair of Pekins ,1 pair Cyugas, 1 pair flying Mallards. All are in a common pen, when we are ready to start incubating eggs, how long will we have to isolate the pairs to get pure bred ducklings. I know chickens can stay furtile for up to 14 days after mating. are...
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    please help sexing our mallards

    We have a pair of mallards we purchased at TSC the first of March. We think we may have gotten lucky and got a drake and a hen. From what I have read mallard drakes start out colored like the hen but as they age they go thru "eclipse plumage" when they get the green head and their drake...
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    I need help taking digital pictures, please

    My EE's have just started laying, and I want to take a picture , but none of my shots show the eggs true colors. With flash they look washed out, and without flash they appear to dark. My camera is a Canon EOS, if someone has experience, or advice. Thanks in advance.
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    upload problem

    Just tried uploading multiple photos, and got kicked to page that reads IE cannot display this web page.None of the photos loaded. I am on dial-up, would that make a difference on multiple uploads? Also the tutorial video, does not work on my dial-up.
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    Green thumb is itching, anyone else?

    The gardening bug has been biting me the last few days, and my green thumb is itching. Yesterday I walked the garden looking for radishes the chickens may have missed, and started thinking about where to plant what. Today I ordered onion plants, and bought a new belt for one of my tillers...
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    December Broody

    Just wanted to share some cuteness with you. My hen started hatching Wednesday, but I didn't get to see all of the chickies until I moved them out of the nest this morning. She hatched 5 chicks even though it got below freezing while she was setting. I've had fun today watching them come out to...
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    Goodbye Jughead

    I went to close up the coops this evening and came up two banties short. Do another count, and Jughead and Peep are missing. So I ran to the house got a flash light , checked the other room of the coop, and still came up short. At this point I had that 'Oh no' feeling. My next spot to check was...
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    we made a little mistake on pop door placement

    We converted a two room shed into a chicken house for two separate flocks. It has two rooms, and two pop doors. One is on the back of the building, but the other is on the side, and can't be opened without squatting right under the edge of the roof. It was raining this morning. I opened the one...
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    Paying more per dozen?

    I just started selling eggs, and priced them slightly higher than store bought white eggs, but one to two dollars cheaper than free range/cage free/organic. My birds are cage free and mostly free range, but do get commercial laying pellets, so they aren't organic. Now I have two customers who...
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    Dying fabric in HE washers?

    Has anyone tried this? I've been dying cloth for years in a standard washer, but we recently bought a HE and.... it runs so differently I am afraid to try it. I also can't find a soak cycle on my machine, and I always let the cloth and dye soak in my old one. If I try soaking in the HE by...
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    Old crap = New Coop

    Here is the little coop we just started using salvaged material. The windows and siding were all free. The roof is roofing that blew off my house in a tornado. I love this old door. It is homemade tounge and grove solid wood. It was stacked in the cellar when I bought my house. We need to...
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    Sebright /Brown Leghorn

    Does anyone have Sebright/Brown Leghorn crosses? My Leghorns have taken a liking to my Sebright rooster, and I was considering hatching a few of the eggs to see what they would look like.
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    Best place to buy solar lights?

    We have one solar light on our hen house. I love it, but it cost 80.00$ . I would love to buy more, but not at that price. Any ideas about where to find them cheaper?
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    "BUSTED" found 24 eggs in two different clandestine nests today

    Yes it is lockdown for 2 weeks. DH came home from the store and noticed 8 eggs in a nest in the flower bed in front of where he parks his truck. So we decided to look around the yard and yep we found a second clutch of 16 in the garden. A third spot was found in tall grass that had been wallowed...
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    What kind of incubator is this?

    Anyone know who makes this incubator, and how old it is?
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    Trick or treat chickens

    Trick or Treat OK lady fess up the bread and rasins or it wont be rasins we will be leaving on your porch
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    Called the butcher

    I called the butcher of our local slaughter house, and ordered some beef fat to feed my birds over the winter. I plan on pounding bird seed or scratch into it and hanging it in the hen house to give them something to peck at on days they don't go out. I will also give them cabbage and lettus, I...
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    Peeping Tom at the hen house.

    My hen house is an old building, built sometime in the 1930's. It has a window, and a homemade wood door of planks. A few of these planks have knot holes , that have perfect views of the nest boxes. I find myself peaking through the holes a few times a day, looking for hens on the nest. I also...
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    Canning chicken?

    Do any of you can chicken meat and stock? If so how long does it keep, and does it tenderize the meat? We processed some non-meat birds, and since they were going to the stew pot, I decieded to can them instead of freezing. DH had never known of anyone canning chicken, and asked how safe it was...
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    The story of Buffy the almost house chicken

    It goes like this Buffy is a 5 month old buff orpington hen who just recently started laying. Last week she was walking with a limp so my dh picked her up and brought her into the house and placed her in a clothes basket with an old cloth diaper in the bottom, and set her in the living...
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