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My oldest hen has a long top beak that is now curving downward. I believe it needs a trimming. She came out of winter like this and it isn't filing down on its own so far now that she is outside again a lot. I don't have a pic at the moment because I'm on business travel, but does anybody have a...

I just completed our new chicken run. I'm feeling it's a bit boring though. I added a roost, swing, and dust bath. I might add something to hang vegetables for the chickens. What else can I put in here? If you're curious, the run is roughly 8x10ft and the coop is 8x10 too. Ignore the electric...

I came across these trays on Amazon (have not purchased yet) that look they would would fit right into my gardening starter trays and I already have a 4 tier rack with grow lights and some heat mats. These mat's have me thinking about growing fodder after the garden starts are out of there. Has...

We have a garden that had produced very well this year. In fact, it's our best garden in 6 years and two homes. I have a real passion for growing food we can eat. It's always great to have a salad fresh picked form the garden or cook a meal with fruit and vegetables, and even meat, harvested...

I have 9 Rouens ducklings. The older 5 I picked up as hatchlings from the feed store around April 1st (10 weeks old now). The younger 4 a friend hatched for me around April 23rd (7 weeks old now). I also have an adult pair of Rouens (drake and duck over a year old). When I let the ducklings in...

I have used the BYC mobile app for several years now. The past few months has been terrible though. The mobile app constantly crashes. I have always used it on Android devices and had no problems before, even with this device. I currently have a Samsung Galaxy S9 and have had it for some time...

My garden was a mess of weeds last year. I was determined to prevent that from happening this year. I pull weeds, but I decided mulch was going to be the key to my plan moving forward. I'm hoping I don't regret it. The idea is that mulch suppresses the weeds and prevents weed seeds from...

One of our hens has spots that have grown quite long. I want to trim them, but am trying to figure out the best way. Should I clip them with dog nail clippers? Should soak them or stick a warm potato on them and try to gently pull the outer part of the spur off? Other ideas all together? I'm...

I already have a pond and the start of a filtration unit I never finished building. My pond was not originally built for ducks, but for koi and goldfish. A few years after building I had the idea to add ducks to our backyard flock with the pond area as their run. I'm now considering letting the...

I am in Illinois and began raising ducks last year. We currently just have Rouens. Or raft is small, containing just 5 ducks currently. We also have chickens, but I thought I would start a thread to meet some local duck raisers. Our Rouens are housed in a section of our coop that is closed off...

Our Rouen ducks built a nest on the ground a few feet from their pond. All three of our females are laying eggs in the nest. Two days ago each laid an egg, all of which my wife collected. Yesterday they each laid an egg again, which we left seeing that they are adamant about laying eggs in their...

My ducks are laying eggs all over the lawn. My wife looked out there window this morning and said, "When I go out there I am going to have an egg hunt." There looked to be the eggs in the lawn, each in a different spot. We have the female Rouen ducks who lay anywhere they choose. I believe one...

Anybody an avid seed collector? A number of the seeds I purchased for the garden this year are heirloom varieties. I would like to attempt to collect some seeds from this years garden for next year. I get the idea of keeping seeds from the healthiest, best producing plants. However, I do not...

What do you use in your duck pen to cover the ground? I am open to just about anything? Right now there's small/medium boulders and river rock around the pond (much of which the ducks kicked into the pond). The rest of the duck pen has become dirt/mud. It used to br grass and wild plants...

We have 4 Rouen ducks (3 ducks and 1 drake). I purchased 3 (2 ducks and 1 drake) of them together from Farm and Fleet last Spring. The 4th on free came as a rescue from a family who could no longer keep their ducks. They were just as certain the duck was a Rouen, having purchased it as such from...

We currently have chickens (8), turkeys (2), ducks (4) and quail (lots!). Although it's the dead of winter here in Illinois this time of year, Spring is not very far off. We will be prepping the garden in late March and starting to plant in mid/late April. We like to grow all sorts of...

I have 5 ducks in total. Two of them are drakes now and they are happily breeding the ducks. One drake is a Pekin and the other is a Rouen. All three of the female ducks are Rouens. The replacement ofthe ducks is all OK. Nobody is super mean and everybody is a bit skittish around people. Now I...

We have chickens, turkeys, quail and ducks. I know the chickens and turkeys will hold up fine in the winter here in Illinois. The quail are going to be housed in cages in our heated garage. I have not yet figured out what to do for the ducks over winter. We currently have 5 ducks, 4 Rouens and 1...

I'm looking for a source for cages for coturnix quail. I need them to have pull out bottoms for cleaning so I can keep them indoors for the winter. I'm not trying to spend $40 for a small cage either. I keeping seeing crazy prices online. I need to house at least 50 quail, so I'm thinking...

Do you have any idea what the sex is fir each of our 3 rouens?