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These two sweet ducks are about two weeks old and we have no idea what type they are. They were adopted by a friend who got them from a school. She has built a full enclosure around her little pond and had her contractor build a duck house for them...but they don't even know whether these cute...

Found two small sized eggs in a hay bale today! Hooray my SLW and my GLW have started laying! My Silver Spangled Hamburg who supposedly will lay white eggs has yet to lay an egg. The eggs are smaller than a regular egg but bigger than a fart egg. Will Wyandotte eggs be as big my other eggs? I...

They died about 1 week apart. My sweet Harley died this afternoon. I am devastated.....I re-checked their feed making sure it was non-medicated, and I re-checked the vitamins, but I think it was just that the two were not strong enough. They walked funny from day one and I think it was "failure...

It has been a very long dry spell for lack of eggs....probably 2-3 eggs a week from 6 hens. I had a conversation about a month ago that I was rehoming the three that are over 2 or 3 yrs old. They just were not producing at all. Then miraculously, like they heard me talking, they started laying...

I have two sweet Welsh Harlequins and one of them walks kinda funny. I figured I would try the Niacin in the water. She is 4 days old. The capsules I bought were hard pills--not soft--and so I am trying to chop up and dissolve a 150mg pill in a water bottle. I figured I would dilute the...

These one day olds are just about the cutest thing ever! I got them from a friend of mine who ordered through Metzer. I have chickens but have never had ducks and am excited at raising these two sweet (hopefully) girls. One has a darker head with lighter beak and one has a lighter head with a...

Thinking that a large shallow 15L Tubtrug might work for a number of useful duck areas: water bowl, small pond, cooling off station. Anyone ever use these? I have two ducks coming and am thinking this might be a good buy...

http://inhabitat.com/the-nogg-is-a-modern-prefab-pod-pad-for-your-chicken/ If your chickens are not spoiled enough, look at this coop! This is obviously for a very certain type of chicken owner and I already have too many for something this small, but it sure shows that even designers are making...

My DH has been annoyed lately by the lack of eggs from our oldest hen. She is over two years old and barely produces. While our other hens are now back to laying in full force, she remains the only one who just isn't. The past few days she has been producing fart eggs. We ate two this...

I really really cannot have more than two ducks because I already have 9 chickens (2 may be re-homed as they are no longer laying much and are more than 3 yrs old), and I live in an urban area with only a 10,000 sq ft lot. We are allowed 25 chickens, but that seems crazy given my lot size IMO...

Finally, after almost 3 months, my hens are back to laying. I have 6 hens who are between 1.5-2.5 years old and was only getting about 3 eggs per week for a very long time. Just within the last 5 days or so, I am now up to about 3 eggs per day again. Should be up to fill capacity within another...

Tonight I put out my newest four chickens and they are 8 weeks old. I have had them in a brooder in the garage since early November but their "annex" is now finished and I wanted the space in my garage back. My DH built a separate square cube out of chicken wire for these guys for the next few...

I have never had a veggie garden and chickens at the same time. This coming Spring/Summer will be our first time merging the two in our backyard. I am very curious whether we will be battling eachother over what they are allowed to eat. Because of the way our veggie beds are configured, it will...

My husband saved all the oyster shells and the body shells from the crabs that we ate for Christmas dinner. I have three dozen oyster shells and 6 crab shells. If I put the oysters in a fabric bag and send my 9 year old little guy out with a hammer, do you think my hens will eat this crushed...

I just got a catalogue from a chiken hatchery and one of the things they state in there is to NOT feed your chickens fruit, that it will stop them from laying? Is this true??? I have never heard this. I feed my hens the cores from apples, the tops from strawberries, bananas (but they don't love...

I have two chicks who are 5.5 weeks, two who are 4.5 weeks. One of these younger chicks is a roo. I need to re-home him since I am not allowed to have roos in my city. I hope to have that happen fairly soon since the sooner I part with him, the less I will be tempted to hide him from my...

These are my Silver Spangled Hamburgs. One looks suspiciously like it might be a roo. We are not allowed to have roosters in our City, so I want to prepare myself for a re-homing..... They are exactly the same age and are about 4.5 weeks old. Close up of suspicious one: The two of them together:

I have never (I think) had a broody hen. My hens are 3-1.5 years old and to my knowledge, I can't remember any of my hens ever sitting in their nest boxes for an extended time. I can't tell if it's because they normally run around the yard and don't stay near the coop with boxes, or whether the...

There is chicken poop and shavings and I am thinking that the veggie beds will love having this in there this Winter to decompose and add nutrients. I use the pine shavings.....any opinions on this? Will the shavings decompose before I start planting this March? We are in California, so no snow...

I haven't had to buy eggs for almost two years but today I could not budge enough eggs out of my girls. I had a bunch of baking to do and my son really wanted a cheese omelette this morning. I used the meager supply of eggs I had and I still needed to bring two loaves of pumpkin bread to my...