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Update: I gave the ducks as long as I could until they were just too crowded in their segregated pen. Let everyone loose together in the 50x50 chicken yard with veggies scattered all around for treat time. Sat with my hose pipe on jet setting watching for any severe bullying. To my surprise the...

I’ve give them a few more weeks & will try again this weekend to let them range together. I have to do something Bc ducks have outgrown the pen currently in. Thank you for the tips!!

I’m hoping to add 3 ducklings to my flock of existing 6 hens. All 3 are feathered & have spent the last week in a small protected run inside the chicken run so they have been seeing each other. I attempted to let the ducks out to roam yesterday & my hens immediately jumped on & started pecking...

Just wanted to update & thank you both again! Little girl has done tremendous! Today was the first time I left her alone confined to the coop/run without the option of free range escape. I monitored for a bit & then came inside & checked back every 15 mins or so. By evening she was sharing...

Little Girl has started to lose some of her tenacity. She still comes out to the yard where the others are, she still waddles into their coop & run, but she easily shies away during treat time if a few of the others even look at her. I have 4 hens that scare her & will still make a grab for her...

Thanks so much again-I always get good advice & encouragement here!! I'll post an update on how it goes

This is her giving me love after her "play date" today...you can see why I'm attached??!!

This is rescue day at the hospital

Thank-you both! She does seem to have that "here I am deal with it" chickenality . I'm too much of a baby to walk off & leave her lol My concern is consistency-with my work I'm often gone before daylight & not home until well after dark. I'm also out of the country for 2 weeks end of June...

I know majority say it's impossible, but I'm clinging to the few success stories out there! I rescued a mature bantam Cochin from my hospital's parking lot about 6 weeks ago. No one on my local Backyard chicken sites claimed her & left to her own she wouldnt have lived with all the stray/wild...

I just cleared security with two dozen of my eggs (not fertile). There was extra bag screen but no issues-just a few smiling TSA agents.

Definitely a bantam tho-she's a tiny darling.

I was thinking Cochin also! I've never introduced a new bird but I've read ever article possible in the last hour on how to do so safely. She's so well nourished I'm sure she's someone's backyard pet so if I can't find her owner I really want to take good care of her.

I found this cutie outside the parking garage at my work this morning! I've posted her picture on my local Backyard Chicken FB page hoping someone claims her but in the meantime I have an extra coop & run I can keep her safe. She appears to be a bantam but I'm not sure. Can anyone help identify...

That's what my gut is telling me so thanks for the confirmation! I think I AM brooding so I'm just anxious to have little cute chicks all again :-) I appreciate the advice & will follow. It's taken a while & my girls have finally found a rhythm amongst themselves & all is well. I was outside...

I guess since I've never done any type of breeding or hatching that scares me :-) I have questions! Put the baby chick straight from buying it out there? Do you raise it any time in the brooder? I'd worry about no quarantine time. Do you put baby there just at night? Leave her during the day...

Due to HOA & city ordinances I can only increase my flock by one this year. Does anyone have any experience with raising a baby chick solo? I'd prefer this method so I can bond-I have my major layers (six 8 month olds: 2 leghorns, 1 barred rock, 1 RIR, 2 ameracaunas) so this chick addition will...

I've been attempting the lotion. She pecks it off & will wipe her beak off in the grass. Makes herself worse. I put an apron on last week & after watching her go crazy adjusting she finally did & im already seeing some feather regrowth!!

Thanks so much! I've actually tried all of the above except the apron. I even went too far in the extreme with hanging cabbages, apples, etc that they really slowed down eating their layer feed & possibly created a little protein deficiency. Correcting that now & continuing to work to get the...

New to the group & fairly new to the love of chickens! I started my first flock this past spring & Ive already learned soooo much partly thanks to the forums on this site! First lesson is chickens need space! I'm in the process of building a larger cooper & run as my flock has twindled from 8 to...