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thank you everyone for your quick responses. we got the ducks as an "impulse" buy with our last batch of baby chickens. They won't let me pet them or carry them like the hens do, so we will be getting rid of them. Debbi

We have 12 hens, 2 roosters, and 2 ducks (male and female). Our male duck keeps chasing and trying to make with our hens. Sometimes the rooster chases him, but not usually. How do I keep my male duck from doing that? He just seems unusually rough and causes our hens to scream. Thanks. Debbi

well, they are well past 8 weeks, so I'm trying to find someone local to butcher them. the local meat market won't butcher chickens, and I'm certainly not going to do it, so I guess we just keep feeding, and waiting. Thanks for all they info. I am very glad I found this site, and wish I had...

That is sad....

I have 7 hens and 1 rooster that I had gotten last spring. A few months ago we purchased 9 more hens and 2 ducks...or so we thought. It turns out that the 3 white chicks were 2 hens and 1 rooster, but that's not the problem. The problem is these 3 chicks are HUGH, and I mean HUGH. We think...

we're very new to this fresh eggs idea, and we got 6 chicks this past spring. 3 turned out to be roosters, so we got more older hens so we could tell they were hens. we now have 8 hens and 1 rooster and were getting about 3 eggs a day for a short time. then about 9 weeks ago they stopped...