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  1. UrbanFarmerGirl

    Duck Killed- Need Help Identifying Predator. Factual description- not too graphic.

    Thanks for the input. I would assume it would have to be a great horned owl as the other owls aren't much bigger than the duck was. We were thinking of owl or raccoon but if it was a raccoon I thought it would probably have eaten him in the pen- and probably eating the nesting female as well...
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    Duck Killed- Need Help Identifying Predator. Factual description- not too graphic.

    Came home from vacation to find a dead and partially eaten duck. He was alive yesterday morning, found dead this afternoon. The rest of the flock was untouched. I am trying to figure out the culprit. Please help so I can protect the others. The Details The Duck A very large male Ancona. The...
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    Will it be possible to make our duck realize he is not a chicken? Ideas please!!!

    Your experience gives me hope! Thank you! I made a visual barrier between his pen and the chickens but I think I will make it go all of the way aroun his fence so that he will focus less on the idea of getting out to the other side, and maybe look around and notice the other duck. we did give...
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    Will it be possible to make our duck realize he is not a chicken? Ideas please!!!

    We had a broody hen hatch a friend's duck eggs last year. We have one mail duck who stayed with the chickens and has lived as part of the flick for the past year. Roosts with them at night, flicks with them during the day, shares food, etc. the chickens view him as part of the flock too. His...
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    Female Duck(s), Western Washingto

    Looking for 1-2 female ducks, around 1 year of age. I live in King County, WA but could travel to pick up if in state. Not picky about breed, but as they will be living with a full sized drake I have been advised to get full sized females rather than bantams. Flexible on price, within reason...
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    soft shell or egg eater?

    Sometimes (maybe once every month or so) I find that too. There might be a bit of shell, or yolk, and the other eggs are sticky. We have 7 chickens. They don't peck at eggs, but I think sometimes they either lay a very thin/brittle shelled egg, or one of them steps on an egg when they are in the...
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    Will full size drake pair with bantam females? Will females be harmed when mating?

    We have a lonely Ancona drake. The female duck we intended to for him to pair with was killed by a dog as a young pullet. He was raised by a broody chicken, and has always flocked with the chickens and slept in their coop at night. Now that spring has sprung, he is aggressively attempting to...
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    Questions about our Ancona duckling- M/F? Lives with chickens.... thoughts?

    Thanks! Maybe I can give it a try even if he is a "he" and just see what happens. I'll try to get another video with more quacking- that one was pretty quiet.
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    Questions about our Ancona duckling- M/F? Lives with chickens.... thoughts?

    Hi all! I have been keeping chickens for about 3 years. I have kept Pekin and Blue Swedish ducks in the past, but never ducks and chickens together. This Spring, a friend's Ancona duck abandoned a nest that was about a week from hatching, and we stuck the eggs under our broody French Copper...
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    Brown eggs from Barred Rocks turning white... why would this happen

    That link is very informative. Thank you. I would not be surprised if stress was a factor- we came to find that there was a nest of fledgling coopers hawks in a tree just outside of our fence, maybe 25 yards from the coop. We had also added new hens, so exposure to some kind of pathogen from...
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    Things That Chicken Eat That Surprised You

    Our Barred Rock will grab giant wasps out of the air as they fly by and swallow them whole. Amazes me that she can catch them, she likes them, and she doesn't seem to get stung.
  14. UrbanFarmerGirl

    Orpington Broodiness

    One of ours was nearly always broody- would sit on nothing at all. Sometimes the trigger was simply not collecting eggs for a few days while we were on vacation. She molted first, when she was about 7 months old, and was broody on and off after that. When she was set I could not break her of it...
  15. UrbanFarmerGirl

    wing hanging down.

    My Barred Rock had a serious wing injury a year ago, after being chased into a tree by what I can only assume was a cat. She hung there, caught by her wing, until my Husband came home from work. The wing was dragging on the ground, skin was a little torn, and she started pecking on it. Just...
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    How do you handle taking a family vacation??

    Usually my chickens are free to range the yard, and I lock the coop up once they've gone to bed at night, and let them out every morning. If I leave for a three day weekend or less, I leave them to range the yard, doors to run and coop open, with extra food and water. I have a hanging feeder and...
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    Help with Avocado!!

    Interesting idea. Similar things can happen when certain varieties or batches of a fruit/veggie have a mold or fungus and others do not. Some children who get hives when they eat peanuts may be reacting the a fungus or fungucide on the nut rather than the peanut protein itself- also the fungus...
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    Help with Avocado!!

    Am I the only one thinking "Avocados are expensive! Why would you waste them on chickens????" Haha. No, I totally agree. And I love avocados. There are just times when they are not expensive here in CA, and I buy a bunch and one or two go bad before I use them. Or, I get them in the free toss...
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    Help with Avocado!!

    Yikes- I agree. I guess I'm lucky! No more guac for the hens I guess. Thanks for the additional info. Amazing how different cats, dogs, birds, humans, and other animals can be with regards to what we can eat and what harms us.
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    Help with Avocado!!

    Cyanide- thank you. And thank you for the list too. Is that list of plants with toxic parts bird specific, or for most animals in general? I have just heard such mixed information about avocado. I had never heard of avocado being toxic to birds before, but I have heard of it being bad for dogs-...
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