dinydeek,
Back to the drawing board. They took over a neighborhood? These started several years ago when brought in by new neighbors 2 yards down, then some flew in to my vacant yard next door. Ducklings! So cute! Then more and more. Then they flew into my yard and started more ducklings.I...
dinydeek,
Would you be willing to come from New Caney to get ducks? I live just off the Eastex freeway, about 15 minutes south of Humble. We have tried to catch them with a big fishing net but once they all get excited, they can outrun us and they FLY. The easiest would be at night when they...
I saw the video here for removing the spur sheath. We've always cut the spur but sometimes got too close and it bled. This video looked too good to be true. Caught a rooster that day, got my pliers,held the leg firmly, clamped the spur with the pliers, rocked it a little, and I was amazed to see...
Buck Oakes, I imagine the swimming pool neighbors wern't very happy to have ducks in their pool. Decorative, but not so sanitary. I posted in the "Where Are You" section and it'd be Heaven if someone with a big trailer could take these ducks to a pond. Yesterday when I pulled into the yard, a...
I'm in Houston, midway between downtown and Humble. I need to de-duck my yard of about 30 grown ducks, Muscovy, from what I'm told. Black and white, white, with red on the males' faces. I need to rehome them to someone with a pond. I do not want them taken to be killed for meat. They're mostly...
I'm sure the "original" duck owners would say that only the originals belonged to them. They would not claim the ones that are grown from the several generations that have come from just those few. You're right, if my birds got into their yard, I'd have a wing-cutting party. These ducks are so...
We love animals. I have lots of chickens. But we have been invaded by unwanted ducks. New neighbors moved in several years ago with ducks. They flew over the fence to my property next door and started having ducklings. There's nothing cuter than a bunch of ducklings! But now there's about 40...
Yes guineas (females) are loud, sometimes all day. But they will alarm if a danger is near, also. We love our guineas; have about 11 or so, I'm not really sure because it's difficult to count them all at the same time! They roost with the chickens but are the last to go in at evening. They can...
And my females seem to yell all day. Whether they're separated, or sitting together, they go and go and go. The female two-syllable call is easy to distinguish.
Thanks for your reply. The bantam silkies looked to be maybe several days old; they were just starting to get wing feathers. I had one that gasped at irregular intervals, even sounding wheezy, but it did not seem to spread to others. Out of 18 bought at once, I now have 6 left in less than a...
I've had chickens for years, raised many. The hatchery that my feed store uses is good. I bought Naked Neck chicks and they seem to be holding their own after some died. But I went back and bought 18 bantam Silkie chicks just 3 days ago. They look fine when we select them out of the brooder. At...
Maybe it's the time of year, but why do a couple of guineas chase each other non-stop? I can't tell if it's 2 males or a male chasing a female. I don't mean the quick feather-ruffled rushes that they do often. A couple will chase all around the house, everywhere, at high speed, for a looong...
I have a question about Marans. How do you pronounce it?! Is it MUH-rens, or ma-RENS??
I've been looking for some for so long; nowhere to be found near Houston. Then I walk into my feed store 10 days ago and there were chicks! Manager said they came from a good Texas hatchery that I buy from, so...
I'm trying to grow hot peppers. My chickens range the yard and I have to keep a lot of my plants out of pecking distance by caging plants with chicken wire, setting them up high, etc. The pepper plants are supposed to produce the hottest peppers in the world, based on the Scovel Heat Unit...
I know a lot about chickens, almost nothing about ducks (I thought they were interchangable, but now I know otherwise), but the neighbors' ducks have started staying in my nextdoor yard. I found several nests, usually at the base of tree stumps. The eggs have a different feel, waxy or slick, not...
I have silkies and bantams....waaay too many roosters. We currently have 7 guineas; 3 mature hens & 4 "teenagers." Guineas are so, so, so much louder than roosters or any kind of noise chickens can make. They yell all day, they become separated and sit there and yell instead of joining back up...
My silkies and bantams will sit without any limit on how long they've been on the nest, whether they have eggs or not. I collect eggs every day, so I take the newly-laid eggs from underneath them. I suppose they get off the nest for a break and the new egg is laid while they're gone. Yes, I feel...
Thank you; the link provided me with almost all I needed to know. In 2 days I've collected more eggs than I probably need. I'd like to see how many Ameracauna blue eggs I get before I include all the Silkie eggs. I don't know how much room is available under a bantam setting hen! I can always...
If you have too much trouble finding guinea eggs, can you check at your local feed store for babies (keets for guineas?)? My feed store gets in all kinds of chicks, from a good hatchery. I have to aviod the brooders at the back of the store or I'm too tempted to buy more, more, more! With your...