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  1. wolf15

    Post pictures of your FIRST EGG!!!

    First egg yesterday from our Rhode Island Red! It's tiny
  2. wolf15

    When did your chickens begin laying eggs?

    I have 3 females, all 21 weeks. Barred Rock - No eggs yet Buff Orpington - No eggs yet Rhode Island Red - First egg yesterday!
  3. wolf15

    16 week old light brahma- gender?

    There is no more question about it. He crowed today for the first time!
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    Have you given up your flock because of neighborhood predators?

    I agree. I don't feel like I should have to invest extra money to fence in my yard. We have a pretty small yard as it is, but it would also make our yard a bit smaller. And, somehow, we manage to keep our pets on our own property.
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    White lines on shell (incubator, day 8)?

    I have six pekin eggs in an incubator. I candled last night and noticed what looked like small cracks on the shell of one of them. I moved it to the side so I can examine it closer in the daylight. This morning, I see that is visible in the sunlight. It doesn't look like it's cracked, but...
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    16 week old light brahma- gender?

    Thank you! It's gotten large/red in the past few weeks, so maybe around 10- 12 weeks? But we noticed differences in his compared to our 3 other chicks as early as 6 weeks. My husband was convinced at that point it was male. I wasn't sure as this is our first year having chickens and each...
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    16 week old light brahma- gender?

  8. wolf15

    Have you given up your flock because of neighborhood predators?

    Animal control won't get involved where we live. Today, we did call and report it to the police, though. On hindsight, we should have the last time as well, but my husband wanted to be 'neighborly'.
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    Have you given up your flock because of neighborhood predators?

    An electric fence isn't practical for us. We have a small yard and kids. We've reinforced our pens after a dog broke into the duck area. However, they (dogs) are still trying. Today was the first time since the chickens have been outside. They got so riled up, that one of them got injured...
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    Have you given up your flock because of neighborhood predators?

    We are on our second year of having backyard poultry. We started with a few ducks last year and got a few chickens this year. We had our third incident with neighborhood dogs today. The first time, we talked to the owner and haven't had a problem since. The last couple of times, it was...
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    Duck mating question

    Good point. I can't watch them all day, but it appears she's only leaving the nest a couple times a day to bath/eat/drink. That's when he goes after her. I'm wondering if I should add a wire partition to their pen so they are 'together', but he can't try to mount her? Sorry, I'm new to this...
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    Duck mating question

    What about supervised? Let them mate once a day or so? I think our plan is to separate completely at least until we find out if we're getting new ducklings. We're only on day 4 of both the incubator eggs and our female nesting.
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    Duck mating question

    Hello :) I've been reading these forums for about a year now and decided to finally join. We started out with 4 pekin ducks last year (3 females, 1 male). We lost one female several months ago to a neighborhood dog (we no longer let them free range unattended). A few weeks ago, we lost...
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