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    New chicken & duck owners here!

    Yep, the chickens have already depleted their grass. I usually mow with the riding lawnmower but I also have a pushmower with a bagger. Gonna start doing a couple passes with it so I can put some fresh clippings in their pens. Lol
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    New chicken & duck owners here!

    Yep, I found the duck forum. All good there. Thanks all!
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    New chicken & duck owners here!

    Thank you! There is my question in my last post.
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    New chicken & duck owners here!

    I know this forum is for chickens, but I have a duck question. So my ducklings are almost a month old. I just let them play in their new pen today. I plan on letting them out daily to get use to their pen until old enough to permanently let out. I want to put a little pool in the pen with maybe...
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    New chicken & duck owners here!

    I know one thing, these guys grow fast. They have quadrupled their size in the past 19 days we've had them. :D
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    New chicken & duck owners here!

    Ya, the wife is gonna get one of the real small kiddie pools tomorrow to give them something to play in. They're still too young to leave out overnite, so just gonna let them have some daytime exercise for while to get use to the pen.
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    New chicken & duck owners here!

    Well I just finished the duck pen today. Finally gonna put them out maybe tomorrow. Give them some good exercise. Lol
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    New chicken & duck owners here!

    I actually thought these were Rouens when we first got them, but someone told us they were Mallards. Thank you for the clarification!
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    New chicken & duck owners here!

    Thanks for the welcomes y'all! I'm out trying to finish up the fencing on my duck pen. Gotta get these guys out some so they can give me a break on cleaning. Lol
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    New chicken & duck owners here!

    Here's our Mallards. Lol
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    New chicken & duck owners here!

    I forgot to add a pic of our duck brooder. We had them in one of those metal troughs but they were getting too big for that. The tent seems to work much better. It has a waterproof floor and we put puppy pads down under their waterer. Still a little messy but I can roll the pads up and toss...
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    New chicken & duck owners here!

    So we live N.E., Tx. Wife wanted some chickens, lol, and we now have 4 three month old rhodes. They are doing fine. We bought a tractor supply coop that has 3 nesting boxes. Before we got the chickens, I thompson water sealed all the wood, sprayed sealer on the composite roof sheet and then...
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