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  1. Richard1234

    Approx. 18 week old chick lossing feathers?

    I would assume it's just getting bullied by the other ones. Happened to my Americana and a couple of my silkies. I would like to see a pic of the one that is losing feathers
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    Am I correct? Call Duckling Supplies

    So I have no knowledge of call ducks at all I own appleyard, muscovy, runner, and pekin but no call ducks. One thing I would very much advise for you too do is to spend time with them and make sure that they get use to there adult home. Call ducks are insanely good at flying so they can...
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    Do my 2 week old ducklings have to have a pool? It’s destroying my house and I have to change their pen 4 times a day!

    But with the messes inside there enclosure there isn't too much you can do. Even if you go to a different method besides the mini pools than they will still make a watery mess. Ducks are very well known for being messy
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    Do my 2 week old ducklings have to have a pool? It’s destroying my house and I have to change their pen 4 times a day!

    Ducks are extremely messy. Putting them in your living room will cause it to smell at some points and they will cause messes. I put my chickens, ducks, and guineas in the garage when they are babys inside there brooder. Is there anywhere else you could put them?
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    Switching Feed Types

    Same thing was happening to my birds when I switched them. Like these other replies are saying, dont give them a choice. They'll notice that its food quickly. Mind learned in like 3 days which was longer than I hoped.
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    Hen or rooster??

    Its probable a pullet. But I would keep an eye on it. Our friends who also have chickens have a bird who looked just like this at this age. There bird turned out to be a rooster.
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    When should I mix the ducks with the chickens

    We don't have a drake
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    When should I mix the ducks with the chickens

    The ducks and chickens won't be sharing a coop. The ducks have there own separate house. Also sorry for not being clear on this but the ducks are only staying in the fenced in area by the chickens run.
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    When should I mix the ducks with the chickens

    I understand that chickens like dry and ducks like wet but I don't really know why that would be a big problem. There will be a swimming area for the ducks but it's not going to cover the whole enclosure. Also we don't have a drake so the duck breeding with the hens is not going to happen...
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    When should I mix the ducks with the chickens

    I own 7 hens and 1 rooster, I recently decided to buy ducks 4 days ago. They are Pekin ducks and are 3 weeks old exept for one of the ducks which is 1 week. I was wondering when would be a good time to mix them with my chickens. I have 6 Barred Rock hens and 1 Easter Egger. My rooster is a...
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    Hen is singing the egg song. But no egg

    We have 7 hens and 1 rooster and they are 19 and a half weeks old and 2 of the hens have just recently started laying two weeks ago. The two hens have been laying just fine but there is this one hen who sings the egg song but never lays. This is her 3rd time singing the egg song without...
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    Predator proofing help needed.

    The person should definitely install an apron yes. But if you have some predators trying to snatch your chickens at night you don't wanna let the thing walk freely. For rodents if your traps keep on getting full you have to stop cause that means there are too many. And like I said before you...
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    Predator proofing help needed.

    That's a good way too deal with the rodents. We used rat poison but they weren't eating it. So then we put metal lath to try and slice up the rodents. That didn't work so we put out 4 rat traps and caught 2 rats. The two rats were the only rats that were digging under getting the food. We...
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    Predator proofing help needed.

    It was probably less of a hassle for us because there was only two rats raiding the coop.
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    Predator proofing help needed.

    That's NYC or Chicago. Your thinking too big. You have to go for the lesser known city's. Lesser known city's aren't really like that at all. You may see occasional racoon depending if you live close to the woods or not. But stray dogs I never see. You should be more concerned about the...
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    Predator proofing help needed.

    You act like the person lives in Antarctica and is living in a hut with natives.
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    Predator proofing help needed.

    Maintaining traps aren't hard. I do agree with setting up a apron or fencing under the coop. But rodents aren't exactly something you'd want to keep around your yard. You should still set up traps if you see digging under your coop and you should keep your grass short also. Also the person...
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    Predator proofing help needed.

    For us the rodent traps worked great, we have had no rodents digging under the coop and we have had no rodents in our backyard at all. A great way of getting rid of both rodent and rat is to keep the grass cut short. I would suggest putting rodent traps out and keeping the grass short instead...
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