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    Breed RIR with ?

    Thank Thank you! Yes, I now remember her explaining that sex-link chicks would be the result of the breeding, which was why she lived the mix so much! Now I have to decide if I want to risk getting a notoriously aggressive RIR roo
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    Breed RIR with ?

    I met an older woman at the feed store and she spent an hour telling me all the things I should ever need to know about homesteading. She said to breed a RIR with another bird to create the best meat birds, but after an hour of talking with her I completely forgot what breed she suggested. 😕...
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    Move Broody Muscovy in Chicken Nesting Box?

    Update: The muscovy successfully hatched 4 ducklings!
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    2 hatches of silkies, one with missing 5th toe

    They are adorable!
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    2 hatches of silkies, one with missing 5th toe

    They are definitely all cuties! So I put eggs in the incubator and then a week or two later one hen went broody. A few days later a second silkie hen went broody. My incubator was full so I let the two broody hens sit on their eggs. So there were two seperate hatches about 2 weeks apart. The...
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    2 hatches of silkies, one with missing 5th toe

    Hi guys, I just started breeding my pet quality silkies. I have 3 hens and 1 roo. I recently hatched two batches of their eggs. 1 batch was hatched in my incubator and the other batch was hatched under two broody silkie hens. The incubator batch hatched first and was my first time hatching...
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    Move Broody Muscovy in Chicken Nesting Box?

    Yay! She's still in the box and sitting on her eggs!
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    Brooding plate for outdoor brooding box

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    Brooding plate for outdoor brooding box

    Hi y'all! So I just built an outdoor brooder box and will be getting chicks soon. I have a Titan brooder heat plate, but I'm worried that it won't keep the chicks warm enough at night when the temps still drop down into the 40s. What do y'all think? Pics of brooder box
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    Move Broody Muscovy in Chicken Nesting Box?

    All right, so I had to wait a couple days to actually move her because I decided to fix up an older pen and get locks for it to keep out raccoons. Then I went to move her last night, but it turns out I had screwed the tub to the platform it sits on. ‍(whoops) I was able to get her out of the...
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    Move Broody Muscovy in Chicken Nesting Box?

    Okay, thanks y'all. She's off the nest right now and I was able to check for chicken eggs. If she goes back on the nest tonight I will try and move her to the empty duck house tomorrow. If she abandons the nest tomorrow then that's fine. It's so early on in her broodiness that it won't make much...
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    Move Broody Muscovy in Chicken Nesting Box?

    Yeah I'm pretty nervous about moving her, but I'm more nervous about a chicken getting beat up because they're nesting box is directly across from hers. I could try and move her into the empty duck house (which is basically a dog house with a door and ventilation) and see if she stays or decides...
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    Move Broody Muscovy in Chicken Nesting Box?

    I have a muscovy duck who has just gone broody over the last couple of days. She has decided that the elevated (3 feet off the ground) storage tub nesting box is now her nest. She's not even a year old so I'm not sure how dedicated to this nest she's going to be. I also don't know how many eggs...
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    Should I keep a Muscovy drake?

    Hello all, So I have 6 muscovy ducklings, almost 6 weeks old, that I am "rehabilitating" for a few weeks until my mother in law returns them to their pond. I am planning on keeping 2 of them, but have never had muscovy ducks before. I know they get big, but I don't know how they behave. I have 2...
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    Mixed Breed Chick?

    It looks like just like my cream legbar mixes. You're probably right about the mix.
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    Rescue Flock, what breeds do I have?

    No kidding! I ordered some silkies from Ideal and though they are healthy, they are certainly not of the same breed quality as the ones I received from mypetchicken.
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    air cell on side of egg

    I'd keep it. Just mark the air cell with a pencil and make sure that the egg lays air cell side up when it goes into lock down. This way you can watch it and make sure that the chick pips in the right spot. I actually had this happen about a week ago and the chick was the second to hatch and had...
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    What to do about Rooster damage?

    I have a 9-month-old rooster and 5 hens. 4 of the 5 hens are losing feathers at the base of their tails. I do not suspect mites or lice because I do not see any creepy crawlies, the skin is not inflamed, all of them are missing feathers in the same spot and the 5th hen does not come into contact...
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    When do I take unhatched eggs from hen?

    So, my silkie is a dedicated broody mother and had 10 developing eggs under her. At one point she had 11, put on day 20 I discovered that an egg had been crushed and a chick was dead, buried under the bedding. The only reason I knew it was there was b/c of the smell. Anyway, that means that...
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    Move Broody Silkie?

    I have a broody Silkie, Peeta, who has 10 eggs under her. She's on Day 13-ish. She and her eggs are currently set up in a cat carrier in the hen house. It's cramped in there, but that was what I had on hand as she had gone broody on the favorite nest. Bubbles the duck was not pleased with the...
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