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~~3 nine month old ducks that I rescued as ducklings at the end of June last summer need to be rehomed. I have a male and female Mallard and a male Pekin. I had found the 3 of them in a sewer drain last summer, they were no more than 2 days old at the time. I was planning on keeping them , all...

We are building a duck house this weekend. Some do's and don'ts of building a duck would house be appreciated. Is a duck's house similar to a chicken coop but on a smaller scale? We have 3 ducks, 2 Mallards and 1 Pekin. In our coop we used FRP for the floors and walls...would that also be good...

Need some duck info........ I have been taking care of 3 baby ducks that were found in a sewer when they were about 2 or 3 days old. From what I've been told they are domestic ducks, as 1 is a Peking and the other 2 domestic mallards, I have had them for almost 3 weeks now. They are starting to...

Can anyone tell me what breed of rooster he is? He is the color of a dove.

Does anyone know what kind of rooster he is...he is a dove grey color.

I have always bought Braggs ACV. I was at Whole Foods and seen that their 365 brand organic unfiltered ACV was on sale so I bought it. At home I was comparing the labels- Braggs vs 365 Brand. The Braggs is unpateurized and the 365 is pasteurized. Both are organic and both are unfiltered. Will...

I do believe that my girls have gone on strike!!! I have not gotten 1 egg from them for about 2 weeks now. My five chickens are 18 months old.They have been going through their first major molt too. That started in Novemeber. And with the shorter days I figured egg production would be down...

Last October I rehomed Charles, my Rooster, to a farm up in North Jersey. I have not seen him for the past year, last week my daughter and I took a ride to visit him. He is currently being housed with a few other roosters. We picked him right up and we both held him for a little while. Charles...

Yesterday was so hot here that my daughter decided to take the chickens in the pool-I have 5, so she took them in one at a time-they loved it-after they got out they all seemed to be happier since they had cooled off. The chickens swim just like ducks. At first they flapped their wings, but then...

Wondering what the best thing for fly control is. I only have 5 chickens and I pick up their poop more than once a day but I still have a ton of flys. I can only imagine what the fly problem is like for people with many chickens. I hung up a Rescue fly trap--that is working really well, but it...

there's nothing like sharing some cold watermelon with friends on a hot day!!!

I have been wondering if it is alright to feed the chickens eggs that they have layed. Before the girls started laying eggs, I would give them hard boiled eggs(bought from the store). Then when they started laying in Dec. I stopped feeding them hard boiled eggs, thinking that maybe it would not...

I posted last week about my chickens being treated for cocci with Albon, they finished up treament yesterday for the cocci, but I am thinking the medication is actually making them sick. Yesterday they seemed to be a little lethargic, just lying down in the warmth of the sun, which would be...

Yesterday I brought a stool sample from my chickens to the vet for a routine testing. I got the results back today and it was positive for Coccidia. I have to pick up the meds tomorrow and start them on it-he wants them on Albon for about a week. Then retested in about 3 months. I was a little...

I have been thinking about switching my 5 girls overs to organic feed. They are currently eating the layena layer crumbles. I am just about done with the bag so it's either I get the same that they have been eating and use it for the next few months or I buy a new brand kind this weekend. But I...

I have 3 nest boxes for 5 chickens. I use pine shavings in them. I was wondering how often does everybody change the shavings or straw that they use in the nest boxes. The girls don't poop in them, so the shavings rarely get dirty. I have been cleaning them out about every 2 weeks, just to...

My 5 girls have been very busy digging and scratching in the dirt lately. The other day I noticed on one that her nostrils were full of dirt, I checked the remaing 4 and sure enough all of them had dirt in their nose. Yesterday I tried cleaning them, unsucessfully. What I had done was got a cup...

I am sooooooooooo happy. My 3 chickens who turned 31 weeks on Wednesday all layed their first egg today within an hour of each other.I thought it was never going to happen. I have 5 chickens and the first one to lay started on Dec.24th. She has been laying consistently. So I kept wondering why...

...for my one hen. I have five chickens, 4 Dominiques and 1 Black Australorp. They are all 29 weeks today.( They were all hatched on June 29th). On December 24, 1 of my Dominiques layed her first egg. She was the last one I thought to lay first as her wattles and combs were not as big or red...

I am sooooo happy today. One of my 5 girls layed her first egg. She is a 25 week old Dominique, named Samantha. She has been following me around chatting up a storm for the past few days. Today I seen the other 4 girls were out of the coop, went to check inside and she was in her nest box...