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Hi Have 2chicken hens in adjoining runs who hatched out Muscovy ducklings for me. 2 are 13 days old, 3 are 6 days old. Wanting to keep them as pets in this run, and return the hens to the general population. If I want to handle the ducklings a lot and keep them friendly, would it benefit to...

Hi I have Beltsvill Small Whites, which upon researching seems are pretty much the same as Midgets aside from a few small differences. I bought 6 unsexed poults last year. ( have never owned a turkey) All six thrived, love pasture...super curious, very sweet birds. I ended up with 3 toms & 3...

Hooooray! My Pekin Mama hatched 8 out of 10 eggs! I ended up fencing off a 6x8' enclosure and covered it with netting. (around her house too) she is totally PO'd that she cannot access the other ducks and pond, and doesnt seem to be an overly attentive mother, BUT does hiss and cover her babies...

So terrible! I set up raccon traps, after seeing 'coon prints, no raccoon yet, but now the freakin' ravens wont leave the duck eggs alone! They are going under the duck house where one is nesting (its 5" off the ground!!!) and have pulled most of her eggs out...only 2 left . I enclosed the...

Maybe they just needed to mature a year? Last year I put some of the Pekin eggs under a particularly persistant broody Black Australorp, and she hatched 4/5 happy health ducklings, although she did seem horrified and overwhelmed with their size:D Once they were 4-5 days old, I snuck them back in...

I forgot to say that they are all 2 years old in June, and last year the Pekins wanted nothing to do with nesting...dropped their eggs wherever they happened to be walking! Yeesh....

I have always heard this is not possible, but I have one Pekin hen who has been on eggs for just over 3 weeks, and one who has been on for 10 days! Should I assume they will not 'follow through' with being good mommies(and steal the eggs to incubate elsewhere?) or give them the benefit of the...

When I accidently brought home a bag of pellets (which my chickens 'nor ducks will touch) I just soak a few cups in boiling water in the a.m. or p.m. and let it soak into a warm mash...in this freezing B.C. weather, they are loving it! I just dump it in a big plop on the ground, still steaming...

I am trying (unsuccessfully) to find a breeder/seller for Midget Whites in Canada. 'Poults' preferably, but I live in BC, and would drive a little to collect anything older than that! Anyone have any suggestions/sources? Thanks! (I've only had Chickens and Ducks until now, but a Mother Earth...

Thats hilarious! A minivan! Now I have another excuse to NEVER buy a minivan! If it cant hold 1,243 chickens, then what good is it, anyhow?

11 hours 15 minutes of daylight. DANG!!! Should have known it was something simple...I can stop frying duckeggs and picking the flippin' prickly stinging nettle now..nothing buuuuurns like nettle dust!

Yes they have oystershell, and I was hoping it WASNT the breeds that was the problem ( my husband said..Oh just get some @#$!%$!! chickens that will lay eggs every day, but I didnt want clones that my kids -2&5 -couldnt tell apart...so I ordered 2 of everything neat looking!

I posted this somewhere else, but it looks like I need to find the right category to find answers!I have a similar problem I have 25 hens, of which 12 have been laying nicely for th epast year (they are 1 1/2) Ive covered the basics-no mites/lice, good feed, no moulters, no major changes, but...

Ive tried upping the protein, at another chicken persons suggestion, added scrambled duck eggs and some dried stinging nettle crumbles....increased after that, but I cant feed that every day! If they have free access to their food(16-17%) and are ranged to forage, shouldnt their protein intake...

My hens are laying erraticly! Ive researched the basics(feed is fine, noone stealing/eating eggs, noone moulting,no mites,no severe changes in weather/temp etc) Ill get 1 egg one day (from the 12 who should be laying) 9 eggs the next...then 4.. then 11..what gives?

I should be trying to find a related post, and asking egg questions there...right?