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It happened at night. I let the ducks free range last night in the hopes they would find a place to hide. Of course that didn't work, and I found a head and a wing this morning. Down to 6 ducks, but the owl is well fed. I'll try to herd them into a large cage tonight, as I'm sure the owl...

I have a small pen which had 8 young ducks in it. This morning I found a duck head, but the body was gone. I've had coons kill chickens, but there was no "feather bomb" indicating a coon attack. Most of what I read on the net says an owl is the likely culprit. I have seen owls in my trees...

I've been feeding my chickens 3-4 crawfish each daily for the past 2 months. These are live, and they eat 100% minus the claws (I pull the claws first). No problems at all and they love them.

So I solved the problem without caging my hen. I finally got so mad watching my roo go after that hen that I started yelling, ran at him and gave him a little boot. I decided to do this every time he goes at her. It's been about three weeks since I let him know that she is under my personal...

She doesn't seem sick...eating, laying and acting normal when the roo isn't around her. As soon as the roo comes anywhere near her, she takes off and cowers. But maybe my rooster knows something that I don't, and I should cage her in case she is sick.

My poor hens have been dealing with feather loss for quite some time now. Most of my hens are missing feathers between their wings and on their necks. As long as they are healthy and laying I'm happy. But for some reason my rooster just doesn't like this hen any more. He isn't aggressively...

My little flock of chickens (1 roo / 7 hens) is about a year old now and a couple of weeks ago I noticed one of my hens skin on her neck and head ripped open. My rooster has always been a little tough on his hens, but just feather loss. This hen looked horrible, so I isolated her to a cage and...

I did so many google searches with no results, then I just scrolled down and found the existing thread...so much for due diligence.

So my EE's finally started laying a few weeks ago, and their eggs are all very pretty. I'm getting light blue, light green and tan eggs. I don't know which hen is laying which color egg and was wondering if there is any correlation to the feather color/pattern of the hen and the color of the...

Yes, lucky in shipping, well packaged, fertile eggs and an incredible Brinsea incubator. Trailchick, do you know if these chicks can be wing-sexed, or only vent-sexed?

Just updating my experience with Fly Fisher (Baxterhouse). I ordered 12 eggs, he sent me 15 and 13 have hatched! And this is only day 22, so I'm leaving the other 2 in for a couple more days just in case. The chicks are beautiful and I got a variety of colors. Excellent experience and very...

I guess I sort of hijacked my own thread by including the fact that I'm feeding fermented chick feed :( I should have kept that to myself and just tried digging up more information on weight. My digital scale came in, and for $10.53 delivered it is astonishingly accurate. The 500g...

Has anyone kept accurate records of the weekly weight of their jumbo coturnix? I am raising Turnbull Farms stock, and at 6 weeks they seem to be doing great. My curiosity mostly stems from my method of feeding. I called every feed store in my area and not a single one carries game bird...

Trailchick, thank you for the PM and reply! I will certainly use Baxterhouse and order a dozen eggs this week...nice to hear he is a member and that he is selling legitimate eggs. I will also start a new thread warning people against buying from the seller that I bought from previously on...

Just digging up an old thread to ask a quick question. Has anyone purchased hackle eggs from Baxterhouse2011 on Ebay? Or maybe he is a member? I bought a dozen from the other person on Ebay selling them (from Cali) and had a 0% hatch rate using a very closely monitored Brinsea. The eggs were...

I just processed my first cortunix quail...2 males. Each had two large white testicles which were each about the size of their hearts. I was really quite surprised how large they were. My chickens went crazy for them! So, are quail testicles normally this large? Just wondering if this is...

My roos are easter eggers bought from efowl.com so I'm not sure how much inbreeding has taken place. So would you advise to keep two just in case?

I have 2 laying hens, 5 three month old hens and 5 three month old roos. I only want to keep one roo and have already picked him out. How often is a roo infertile? It would really suck to send the other 4 roos to freezer camp and then find out that the one I picked out is infertile. Should...

My fermented feed bucket seems to attract lots of fruit flies. I use the single 5 gallon bucket method (no draining, just mixing in new feed/rainwater as needed) and have fruit fly larvae (not piles of them, but I can see them) on top of the feed and some on the sides of the bucket. BSF and...

Hypothetical scenario: If a clutch of chicken eggs is incubated for 21+ days and none hatch, can they be cracked open to have the blastoderm checked for fertility? I'm just wondering if the fertility can still be determined after incubating eggs through term to show that they were fertile and...