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    Please help re moving muscovy duck and her new ducklings

    Update - I ended up having to move the ducklings inside and put them under a light for the night. Is there any chance we could give them back to the mother to raise and if so how would we tackle this? Please will someone answer
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    Please help re moving muscovy duck and her new ducklings

    Hi there Our muscovy hatched out 3 baby ducklings this morning, but its now night time here in Australia and we haved moved them to a safer spot away from our drake and chickens. But she is now not sitting on her ducklings. It's only been about 20 mins but I'm getting worried. What should we...
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    Correct way to Turn eggs in an incubator

    Thank you all for your advice it has been very helpful. We will let you know how things go:D
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    Correct way to Turn eggs in an incubator

    Hi this is our first time trying to hatch some of our own fertile eggs in an incubator. We have had broodies previously do all the work but we thought it would be fun for our children to witness a hatch in an incubator. Also we don't have anyone clucky at the moment. We got ourselves a mini...
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    My hens eye is completely swollen shut! Whats wrong?

    Hi we had a chicken with a similar looking eye problem recently. It started off just slightly swollen with watery discharge. We treated by washing the eye with saline solution. Then it got to the point where the eye no longer opened so we took her to the vet and it turned out to be a bad sinus...
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    What sex do you think my pekin bantam babies are?

    I just wanted to update you all on our now 13 week old pekins. Well the buff started to crow last week - a very hilarious squeaky crow, although it has already improved :D so Myrtle is now a Marvin . I have spoken to someone at our local laws office and we are allowed to keep roosters as long...
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    Hawk Attack - Wobbly Neck

    Wow you have done a remarkable job looking after chick. From the photos she looks so much better. We had a fox attack about 6mths ago and lost 3 chooks and nearly lost another. One of our girls was badly injured around the neck. You could are the bruising, I thought she would most certainly...
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    One Pekin Bantam Rooster to 3 Pekin bantam hens

    Sorry I'm not much help with your question about 3 hens to one rooster, but I just had to say I just love pekins too :) you have a lovely little flock there. We have 3 pekins in our flock of 9 and they are by far the friendliest. We have just discovered one of our baby pekins, 12 wks now is a...
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    Battery Hen Thread!

    We got an ex battery hen from our local pet store about 4 months ago. We named her Mabel. She was extremely scrawny when we first got her, it was so sad she didn't know what to do with treats or grass. She wouldnt roost either. However, she has changed so much in the time she has been with us...
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    Why do you have chickens???

    We originally got our chickens as pets for our children, but they are addictive. The eggs are a bonus :)
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    Kids should have chickens

    Good on you for going ahead and raising these chooks by yourself it's a big responsibility, but also an extremely fun one :). I totally agree that every child should have the opportunity to keep chicks, they not only teach responsibility but are great fun and also teach children the full life...
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    What sex do you think my pekin bantam babies are?

    Just a photo update, our pekin babies are now approx 10wks old. I am thinking the buff one is looking like a boy, but what about the other? Thanks:D
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    a few questions about ducks/ducklings

    Hi we are only fairly new to ducks too but we have had chickens for about 6 years now (no roosters though) but thought I would let you know how things are going with the mix. We got 2 muscovy ducklings when they were only a day old (so very cute) and they are now about 9 weeks old and we know...
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    What sex do you think my pekin bantam babies are?

    Oh i hope your right Spikennipper i am really stressing over these babies. I am analysing them daily. I might just have to post more pics in a few weeks time just to check. Thank you also chooks4life for your response, I have heard of people usin a box to contain a rooster a night - will just...
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    Kaz gets to be a muma!

    Yay for Kaz, we had a pekin bantam years ago that was continuously broody so we got some fertile eggs of a mate and she successfully hatched them all. The chicks she hatched were Sussex who quickly got bigger than their surrogate mum it was very funny. I'm sure Kaz will be a great little...
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    What sex do you think my pekin bantam babies are?

    Thanks for your response chicken obsessed - very interesting. I do have the ladies number still who we got the chicks from and I did view the father (very handsome) so I might just ask her how loud he is :) I do love the sound of a rooster crowing, but not sure whether the neighbours will...
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    What sex do you think my pekin bantam babies are?

    Thanks cccccccchickens I understand that what you call cochins we call Pekins. Fingers crossed our babies turn out to be quiet so we can keep them :)
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    What sex do you think my pekin bantam babies are?

    Oh no I was hoping for at least one pullet :( We live in the suburbs and I know we are allowed one rooster but 2 might be pushing it with the neighbours. Does anyone know how noisy pekin bantam roosters are I have no experience of keeping one? Also we have 7 girls all standard size except for...
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    What sex do you think my pekin bantam babies are?

    Hi all my pekin bantam babies are approx 6 weeks old now could you please help me figure out what sex they are. Hope the picture is ok. Also are these what you would call cuckoo? Thanks in advance :D
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    ANyone in Australia?

    Yeah another Aussie. I live in Melbourne, we have 8 chickens at the moment 3 pekins, 1 silkie, 2 rir bantams and 2 wyandottes and another 4 eggs sitting under two of our girls.
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