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I have a twenty by twenty chicken/duck yard with a large cedar tree in the middle and after a time when we would lose a bird about once a week, we ran wires over the top of the fencing and hooked it to an electric fence charger. It is the smallest size charger but really packs a wallop of...

I have a fairly large coop and a smaller one. When I notice a broody hen, I wait until night and relocate the hen in the dark to the smaller coop if she is not there already. Then I carefully put the eggs into a flat basket and set them in the new coop just s the hen arranged them. Then I leave...

I have chickens and ducks living together - I put babies of both breeds together and the seem to get along as they grow up and go their separate ways to be with their own kind. Drakes are truly horndogs, but if they have ducks to hang with they tend to leave the hens alone. In fact the hens...

I had three baby ducks, hatched by a hen, in an enclosed coop. She took great care of her babies. They had daily fresh water and good feed. They grew to the point of beginning to feather. Then one died -healthy the day before. Two weeks later the same thing happened to another duckling. One week...

I've had a black snake in my henhouse or in a local tree in the summer for several years. My hens and ducks live together in a fenced in area. I also have electric wire on the fence. My snake is gentle and could not hurt the grown chickens. She does occasionally eat an egg - I break an egg...

I have to spray out the junk at the bottom. That's how it is.

Go to Lowe's to the sump pump department and buy a good (about $99.00) General Pump. I can empty a 300 gallon pond in less than 5 minutes. I also use a strainer to get anything bigger out. A 35 foot hose drains the water into a garden spot and smell is not a problem. Good luck.

I raised my chicks and ducks together and they still all get along - in fact one of my 4 roosters hangs with the ducks and protects both the hens and drakes. When they eat, the chickens go first and then the ducks. They don't seem to mind.

No we just looked the other way and sent them to the hospital camp down the road.

Or try a natural algae killer like they use in ponds.

Whatever you do do not try to feed the raccoons hoping they'll leave your duckies alone! I lost a few ducks when I first started keeping them 10 years ago. It is impossible unless they are corralled in a decently large area with electric wire at the top and barrier at the bottom. It isn't hard...

I just bought a new pump. At a Lowe's or a place like that go to the section where they have Sump Pumps. You will find along with them some General Purpose pumps which is what you want. Don't buy a cheap one. It'll cost more in the long run. It does all the work of emptying a kiddie pool in...

Oh, sorry - so sorry for your trouble. Whatever you do don't burn it , green or dry - do not inhale. If it makes you feel any better here is a story from my Army days. I am in a mental health unit, and at the time a Reserve one; they sent my 45 people to set up a camp in an area that was...

Is the whole yard brown mulch? That stuff is dyed and when the ducks dust bath they are rolling in dyed mulch, maybe.

This sounds cruel, but we kill snappers in our pond because they also kill other breeds of turtles, bite kids who venture out against advice, can decimate fingerlings .

Ducks lay their eggs allover the place and in odd places - unless the duck goes back periodically to set the eggs she isn't brooding. Unlike chickens who don't even try to get off the nest sometimes, you have to put the food and water in front of the hen.

I got an excess duck from a friend - a hen was murdered by a coon and my friend gave me a drake. Shortly after introducing they began to hang out together.

Ducks love broccoli florets. I buy a few full heads and sit out with them and cut the little ends? off and they devour them. Their favorite vegetable - they'll even pick at and eat the bulky stalks. They also love green cabbage - pull it right off the head, turnip greens and mustard greens...

Good choices for locks - but first, animal meat products should never be thrown into mulch piles: horse, cow, chicken poop, leaves, grass and tree cuttings, etc. are OK.. Also if your coon visitors have eaten chicken or horse feed, they will not just go away and find a new buffet. They need to...

Regarding the drug method, I'm confused by the commas: is it 500mg acetaminophen and 100 Valerian? Or 500mg acetaminophen and 200 Valerian?