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    HELP CHICKENS AND DUCKS ATTACKED BY DOG

    Sadly the Light Sussex Hen has succumbed to her wounds and died an hour ago :(. . So much for hatching out my own flock of Light Sussex chickens, now I have to start all the way back at square one and I only have a year and a half before I am out of the house. :P. Thank you all for your help and...
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    HELP CHICKENS AND DUCKS ATTACKED BY DOG

    I had to bring the L.S (Light Sussex) Hen inside this morning. She is not doing well at all. It appears she got nipped on the back of the head and on her rear; however, thank goodness that she is a big and fluffy bird because it appears that it may have actually saved her life. At the moment I...
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    HELP CHICKENS AND DUCKS ATTACKED BY DOG

    Yes luckily they were able to find the owners of the dog in a couple of hours. She has agreed to pay for the vet expenses (she payed to have the duck checked out by a local vet) and will be paying us the value of all the birds killed which totals $103. We originally had 13 birds in our coop...
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    HELP CHICKENS AND DUCKS ATTACKED BY DOG

    Well unfortunately I had to put the duck down a little less then an hour ago because she received a lot of internal injuries from the dog biting and shaking her. Thank you all for your kind advice and help!
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    HELP CHICKENS AND DUCKS ATTACKED BY DOG

    A dog just attacked our flock of chickens and ducks a little less then a half hour ago. We called the police and the dog has been apprehended. However most of the flock was killed but one of my baby ducklings survived but was bit and is bleeding. I was wondering what I should do to take care of...
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    Duck Shelter Advice

    Thank you all so much for the help and advice. After reading what you all had to say and talking with my parents, I think I am going to go for the coop and will be emailing the seller later today. My next question pertains to locking the ducks in at night. Currently I lock the ducks and chickens...
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    Duck Shelter Advice

    Hey Guys, A couple of months ago my mom bought me a pair of Pekin Ducks. So far we have been housing them with our chickens and are feeding them all a poultry feed; both of which have been going great so far. However as our ducks have grown my parents and I have realized that our 4x8 coop and...
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    Light Sussex Thread!!!

    Hey Everyone, This past spring I ordered some L.S from the Green Fire Farm Lines and hatched out what appears to be a rooster and a hen . Sadly, I am going to be moving in the next couple of months and my folks and I have decided that I need to sell the current hen and rooster. However, my...
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    Designing and Building a Duck Pen

    Hi Everyone, I will be getting some Pekin ducks next week from my uncle.I am trying to design build a pen for the ducks and am thinking of building a 4X5 pen with two nesting areas in the back (each ground level and 1X2 ft). I also have been reading that domesticated ducks for the most part...
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    Duck Houses

    I just found out I will be a duck caretaker in a few weeks from my parents. Apparently my grandfather will be bringing us some Peking ducklings home and he says that it can be any amount I want up to 28 ducks (not happening XD). I was wondering how large a "duck house" or shed as well as a pen...
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    Little Giant Incubator Tricks

    Oh and I am incubating in a closet because that is the only place in our house without windows or a heater. I haven't had any chicks suffocate atleast that I can tell but I found some some pieces old tile and was wondering if it would be a bad idea to put them under the incubator and raise it...
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    Little Giant Incubator Tricks

    Thanks for the tips. I am planning on incubating 30 eggs or so from our flock, so just some random Golden Comet mixes. I probably won't put the eggs in until Saturday or Sunday that way I can monitor the temperature and how much 1 syringe full of water boosts the humidity which at the moment...
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    Little Giant Incubator Tricks

    Okay, phew I finally finished reading this whole thread beginning to end. Firstly, thanks everyone for all of the tips and suggestions I greatly appreciate it. I finished modifying my L.G incubator last night and installed a fan, bottle cap on the temperature adjustor nob and added a syringe...
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    The Duck-ponics Experiment - Raising minnows

    Wow, I just spent over an hour reading every single page of this thread! I know this thread seems to be dead but I wanted to say thank to everyone especially wifezilla who posted such a wealth of information on here! I don't have ducks at the moment but we are moving this summer and have been...
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    Late Term Embryo Death

    For the most part all of the chicks that I have seen were developing quite nicely and then died during the last few days of incubation and were full term. I tried to keep the humidity in the incubator around 40% max and let it gradually lessen to 25% over 3-4 days then refill and again. I am...
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    Late Term Embryo Death

    I did calibrate my hydrometer last year but have not calibrated it this year because I never though about it. Yeah I figured the humidity dip during the first 18 days was fine but that humidity percentage if accurate was to low. I never though about the mister bottle thanks for the tip! The...
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    Late Term Embryo Death

    Hi Everyone, So I guess the title says it all. I have been incubating a dozen of shipped Light Sussex eggs and 10 barnyard cross eggs from home and they aren't hatching well. I have never had a great hatch, the best being 10/28 eggs but this hatch is down right disappointing with so far two out...
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    What Incubator To Get?

    Hi Everyone, It may be a bit premature but I am looking around to save up for a new incubator. Currently I have a little giant still air incubator with the egg turner and it works ok. However, I am planning to try and breed Light Sussex Chickens and am thinking of ramping up my hatching ( my...
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    Light Sussex Thread!!!

    Oh yay my Light Sussex chicks are hatching :)!
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    What to Add to Store Bought Chicken Feed

    Hi Everyone, We have owned our chickens for a little over 4 years now and have never thought to *play around* with their feed. For the most part we have sticked to using dumor chicken feeds and they have really started to go up in price lately, normal layer feed being $17 per 50 pd. bag. At the...
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