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We are getting a shipment today of 100 meat chicks. Temps at night are 55-75 here in FL. I have chicken tractors with heat lamps in them. could I put them out right away or do need to wait a couple weeks? I usually start them in barn, but wondered if anyone has put them out on grass right away...

We would like to sell our process chickens to friends. Shrink bags are expensive! what do you buy to package your chickens for other people/market in? thank you!

I have one 7th month old Muscovy that just successfully sat and hatched baby ducklings. She picked a nest box in the coop and sat from the time she laid her first egg til they hatched. I have 2 other girls the same age - haven't gotten eggs from either for a bit. The other day found a stash...

This is my first set of babies - wondering if there is any chance of chocolate if parents are not? Are they like rabbits that something can pop up from past generations?

Had a Muscovy sitting on 13 eggs - 8 hatched they other day and I had to move mom and babies outside because she had them in a bad place inside the coop. I moved the remaining 4 eggs with her but she didn't seem to want to sit on them and finish the job and has been taking good care of the 8...

I started out with 6 muscovy ducklings - turned out 3 girls, 3 boys,.... couple months ago the males started fighting a bit and we decided to process 2 of them. Whatever made me decide to keep the male with the most "personality" is now beyond me. A week or 2 after the other males were gone ...

I have a broody 6 month old Muscovy girl that just started laying 2 weeks ago. In that 2 weeks she has laid an egg in the chicken coop box everyday at 7am. They all have been chicken sized eggs except one that was a large egg like Im use to seeing for ducks. then she went back to chicken sized...

At the feed store a couple weeks ago I thought I was getting some broad breasted whites and he was throwing in a few of the more expensive Rio Grande poults - but are these just the broad breasted bronze? Things were very confusing at the store that day and they just had them all mixed...

OK purchased a mixed flock of 13 off Craigslist 4 weeks ago. No existing chicken on property (thank goodness!) All was going well,...everyone seemed healthy,....then 4 days ago my rooster starts making raspy frequent choking sounds,...got worse overnight,..within 36 hrs died. Today I noticed...

my rooster started making this "something stuck in throat" type wheezy noise yesterday. Now almost constant is this a problem? (my first batch of chickens noob) see video tia!

Ok,..Im new to chickens and the farm we moved to - shocker :-) . Wanted laying hens right away - so answered CL ad that said " Americauna Laying Hens - heritage breed, not hatchery junk. - born may 2013 and about to start laying" - I had to jump in the pool someplace - even after reading books...