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Well, I have gotten 2 eggs since starting this thread, so maybe the TLC works?

I thought that you were, but never can be too careful. I'd hate to get reported to the BYC admins for threatening my livestock. LOL

It was a joke :) I didn't expect instant results, although I am considering getting a bucket of KFC and having a sit down w/ the chickens. :rofl: I let everyone out to graze today and was able to call them from across the yard to come back in their pen, so we are getting somewhere. Of...

One egg and one day at a time.

I have been chatting w/ the ducks. Feeding 2x per day. Feeding about 1/4 more than the amount that I was feeding. (yes, I weighed it out). I also gave them some oatmeal this morning w/ their laying pellets. And, got 1 egg yesterday... These girls had better get it together or they are going...

One last thing @Amiga and @Kleonaptra how much should I be feeding them? I haven't measured, but I have been giving the 20 ducks (11 juvenile/9 adults) roughly 6 quarts per day. Now that I am feeding them 2x per day, they are getting probably 8 quarts per day. Should I be feeding them more...

I felt quite silly doing it, but yesterday morning when I got home at 0600, in the pitch dark w/ lightning flashing the sky, I chatted w/ the ducks. They chatted back. A good time was had by all :) Still didn't get an egg yesterday, but I feel that the ducks and I are coming to an...

The original agreement was that she did all the daily chores and I did the manual labor. Well, since she is in a cast, I had to take over the daily chores, as well as doing the manual labor. None of us are happy about it, especially the animals. It is hot here in the GA summer and I get...

They don't seem to like me :( The girlfriend is certainly the Dr Doolittle around our mini farm. I am the get in there and get it done, no fuss no muss person. But, I am trying to be a softer, kindlier duck man. LOL

She certainly is the one that takes the time to talk to and play w/ them. I am more about getting it done and moving on to the next task. I did start 2 a day feedings today. I fed them in the dark when I got in from work and then again before I left to come back to work. Hopefully this will...

I have been giving them a bit of oyster shell every few days. But, I will certainly try the oatmeal trick.

This may sound strange, but could something as small as changing their feed routine throw them off? I have been doing some research and a thought has came to mind. They were accustomed to a morning/afternoon feeding. When we only had 6 the food was put into a dish, but w/ 20 I just kinda...

We have given them the peas as well. And, if you really want a show, throw a handful of floating fish food in their water dish/pond (). They go nuts for that stuff. I will try to offer them some peas as a treat and see if that will get them to acting right :) I haven't been letting them out...

The original 6 hens (actually we had 10, but flystrike got my Rouen drake and predators got the other 3) loved the pond. We clean it every few days. Add fish from time to time and aquatic plants for them to snack on. But, for some reason, about a month or so ago, they just stopped using it...

So just wait it out? As far as food/water go, I think we are good there. Nothing I can do about the temperatures. I think the predator thing isn't an issue either or we would have lost some chickens as they are free range (ducks are penned). Everyone is acting like they feel fine, but I...

As Murphy's Law would have it, 6 months ago we had more duck eggs than we could give away. Now that I have more customers, they have essentially stopped laying. A bit of a back story: we had 6 ducks laying eggs (no drake) and were getting 4-5 eggs per day. Struck up a deal w/ a local man to...

You are correct about it never being boring :) Just last night, we had a bull that got off his leash (yes, our cows are leashed trained), thankfully he wanted grains more than he wanted to run around the yard. Then we had a chicken missing, after a 30 minute search, the girlfriend had just...

I have been researching the site for awhile and decided to join up. We have many different breeds of chickens (laying and meat) and just had our first hatch a few weeks ago. We also have 6 ducks (currently looking for 5 or 6 laying ducks). . We bought 20 pullets back in the spring to...