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    Young Moscovies pulling each others pin feathers

    I’ve honestly never been a fan of white moscovies. I always find them to be dumber then their coloured siblings but for some reason last year I liked a white hen I made so I kept her to make more whites this year and now I’ve had this problem so honestly I’m blaming it on the whites as I never...
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    Young Moscovies pulling each others pin feathers

    Hey there! I’m still having some issues mostly with the pure white moscovies. My plan is to breed out white as I find they were the main source of how it got started. The majority of my flock has grown out their primaries now it’s just a handful who keep plucking each other. I find making sure...
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    Young Moscovies pulling each others pin feathers

    I use beer as a fermentation additive so I mix a 5 gallon bucket of wheat with 1 bottle of Budlight cause it’s cheap and water then let it sit in the sun for 3 to four days. Then I drain the diluted beer ferment water into the garden and mix the fermented grain into duck grower along with a tub...
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    Young Moscovies pulling each others pin feathers

    I have noticed it slowed down once I started adding yogurt and beer to their feed. I’ve been raising moscovies for over ten years and have never had this issue to this extent so I’m trying everything to get them to stop. I decided trying to up the protein as much as possible to see if it would...
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    Showing Moscovy ducks

    No I'm too old to show 4H. They are all young ducks I’m just wondering if Black Ripple is a show able colour
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    Showing Moscovy ducks

    Does anyone on here have experience showing moscovies? I’m wondering if black ripple can be shown or if they aren’t a recognized colour. I’m guessing the young Drake would be disqualified for having white on the head.
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    Young Moscovies pulling each others pin feathers

    I have a large group of young moscovies they are at the stage where they are growing in their primaries. Over the past couple weeks I’ve noticed that some have been pulling the pin feathers out of others and now it’s gotten to the point where a quarter of the flock is tormenting each other...
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    Standard Indian game leg issues

    Yeah if you’re in the US I won’t be able to help you there unfortunately. We can’t ship eggs across the boarder without permits. These birds I have originally came from the US a few generations prior.
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    Standard Indian game leg issues

    I’ll likely have some pairs available later in the summer If your in Ontario Canada. I’m trying to hatch as many whites as I can so I’ve been keeping all the eggs.
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    Standard Indian game leg issues

    This is a couple of them here
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    Anyone ever outcross Cornish X with heritage Birds?

    Do you find the f1 crosses of the standard Cornish over CX broilers can reproduce on their own or do they get too large? I’m thinking to do this and hold onto a couple f1 hens to cross back to the standards again.
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    Canadians check in here....

    Hey there! Have you looked on Kijiji for chickens. There’s also a sale in Woodstock on May 19th I believe
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    Standard Indian game leg issues

    I’ll definitely get him on the Vitamin B complex as well. I didn’t notice tremors yesterday but I’ll still give him some just to rule anything out.
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    Standard Indian game leg issues

    He definitely could be 10 pounds 20 would be more like a goose haha!
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    Standard Indian game leg issues

    He’s a big guy for sure with very thick legs. I will definitely get on with treating the scaly leg. I find in the morning when I let them out he doesn’t have any tremors but when I get home from work after he’s been out chasing hens and foraging all day he has some tremors. I’ve never had this...
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    Standard Indian game leg issues

    Hello there! I just acquired a group of standard Indian game. 3 whites and 7 darks. The White rooster is 2 years old and he’s quite the rooster he’s got to be close to 20lbs by feel. My question is has anyone had issues with standards having leg issues from being too large? I’ve noticed that his...
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    Spanish Thief Pouters!!!

    What did your Valencianos look like? This is one of my cock birds
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    How were flocks of poultry maintained hundreds of years ago?

    I also make my own mead/wine so I will be looking into what you guys were talking about there with adding whine to the water or feed I forget now.
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    How were flocks of poultry maintained hundreds of years ago?

    Really great thread guys. I plan to implement a lot of this into my flock as times are getting tough here in Canada and just a bag of layer costs $22 to $26 here. Scratch is the cheapest with corn at $15. Not sure what prices are like everywhere else but between fermenting my scratch, giving...
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    How were flocks of poultry maintained hundreds of years ago?

    I’m curious how people fed flocks of poultry throughout the year hundreds of years ago before the convenience of processed poultry feeds. I know free ranging flocks was way more common as well as food scraps but how did people maintain them when food was more scarce like in the winter months.
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