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Hello, I need help. We have a rat problem this spring in our yard. We have both chickens and ducks, and now RATS. We pull the food up at night, but they are out during the day scaring the ducks (who are scared of EVERYTHING) and eating the food constantly! My husband won't use poison because he...

My Red Lace Blue Wyandotte had been broody for about a month and a few weeks before we finally broke her using a broody cage. We had her in there for about 28 hours and let her out, and she hasn't gone near the nest since. This was three days ago. I am wondering when (if?) she will go back to...

Hi everyone! I have a question about my eggs. They are very hard shelled, and are totally fine in all other aspects, but when I hard boil them, it seems that most of them gets these splitting cracks (like lightning looking) all over a few seconds or so after I put them into the water to hard...

So we recently started letting our chickens free range. They have been in a coop and roofed run their entire lives, and aside from one chicken they have always laid eggs in the nest boxes. Never in the run. The one that sometimes laid outside the nest sometimes laid in the coop on the floor, but...

Hi all! I have a great flock of 11 hens, all different breeds, that seem to not have any sort of pecking order. We have never had any problems with attacking each other, all are super docile and friendly with us and each other. I have literally never seen a single one of them peck at another...

Hi all! I have a mixed flock of eleven hens (no roosters) and am going in a few hours to pick up an Ameraucana and a French Copper Maran to replace my two that died a few months back. They are coming from a farm an hour south of me, so I plan on bringing the dog kennel to put them in for the...

I have seven ducklings (two of which are going to a new home tomorrow) between the ages of 5 weeks and two weeks. I also have chickens (a year old now). At this point in having my chickens, most of them would come up to me when I sat in their area, and would eat treats out of my hand. My...

We have a big coop and enclosed run that our chickens, who are about 9 months old) have lived in their entire lives. We finally got the backyard cleaned up and secure, and so today was the day to let them out for the first time. They LOVED it. Needless to say, I think we have free range chickens...

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I made a "showing off my babies' thread last week, but I can't find it for some reason, so I made a new one because I just HAVE to share these pictures. They melt my cold hard heart. :)

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Here are some of my babies. we have a Khaki Campbell (the big brown one) named Cinnamon, a Welsh Harlequin (the other big one) named Soleil, a Chocolate Ancona drake (we think!) named Fig, and three little Ancona ducks (a black, blue, and unknown(possibly light chocolate or pencilled) color that...

Hi all, I have a flock of ducklings, one of which is a welsh harlequin. I am wondering though, aren't their bills supposed to be dark? Mine has a yellow bill... She isn't feathered out at all yet (three weeks old) so I can't tell if she looks like a welsh harlequin or not. I'm wondering if she...

Hi all! I have a Welsh Harlequin and a Kakhi Campbell (both female) that were hatched on the 25th or 26th of last month, and yesterday we picked up four day old Ancona ducklings (straight run). We are chicken keepers and this is our first time with ducks, so we asked around, and everyone we...

Hi there, I picked up four Ancona ducklings this afternoon to add to my Khaki Campbell and Welsh Harlequin. I ordered Two chocolate and two tri-color, but I don't think that is what I got. I am pretty sure I have a chocolate and a black, but I have two that are much lighter. What do you think...

I have 11 chickens, and am getting 6 ducklings in April (we're probably only keeping 3-4 of them as we had to buy one of the breeds straight run so we ordered four to make sure we got at least one girl) and this is what I am thinking on a set up for them. We have a large chicken coop with a...

Hi there, newbie with a question. I put in an order for four straight run Anconas from a local Breeder here in the Portland area (Boondockers for those of you who are around here) which hatch around the 15th. I am also wanting one each of a Silver Welsh Harlequin, Kahki Campbell, and Silver...

So excited! Just placed our orders for four Anconas (two chocolate, two tri-color), a Kahki Campbell and a Welsh Harlequin that we'll be picking up between the 15th and 25th of April. We ended up ordering four Anconas because we could only find them straight run and wanted to make sure we got at...

So I made a thread about how we are thinking of getting a few ducks, you can see it down below. We were originally thinking of getting three different ducks(a Kahki Campbell, a Welsh Harlequin, and a Ancona) all females, but we are in contact with a local farm that breeds Anconas, and the guy...

Hello there! We have a coop 11 chickens of all different breeds(Blue Andalusian, Dorking, Buff Orp, Blue Laced Red and Silver Wyandottes, RIR, Sussex, Welsummer, Maran, Barred Rock and Australorpe.) Our coop is 8x8 with external next boxes, and an attached run with 3/4 of it covered that is...