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Quote: I think the duckling would be too big. Our 10 day old muscovies are still very small. :/

Is there anyone in Florida that sells muscovy ducklings from a clean flock? The post office here made another disaster with our duckling order and so far we only have 6 of 20 alive still and I have no idea if those will even be strong enough. 5 were DOA and the hatchery is sending those as...

Chicken math: When you decide to get guinea keets to cut down on fire ants, but realize that they just HAVE to be brooded with some more chicks so that they don't learn to bully the chickens later in life...

@NorthFLChick : Thanks! Now just to build their coop so we don't have to pen them in that tiny box every night. This will be a looooong project...

New run complete!

We went through a gallon of water between the two of us this afternoon. Its not really that for us, it is the area we grew up in. I grew up in the California desert, and my other half is from Michigan. Humidity is what kills us, because neither of us are used to not being able to cool off by...

Today was fun. Finally almost done with construction on the chicken run. Then we will start on their giant coop! Their run is a 20x20ft. We will be putting the coop, 8x16ft, to the right of the run and attaching another 20x20ft run on the opposite side. The hardest part about this...

The other half just saw what we believe is a coyote tonight while walking the dogs. We've recently thought we had one hanging around, the dogs have been acting strange outside and there have been scratching noises on our windows and garage at night. Used to hear howling at night, but haven't...

Phew! Got all of the wood for our new run painted white today. Also got the girls temporary nest box built so that they will be out of the garage! So much less mess. Hopefully we will have it fully assembled Monday, tomorrow I have a final to take for one of my Master's classes.

Amethyst is a good girl, but she is mischievous. We have four doelings and 1 buckling. Out of the picture are Ruby, Emerald, Sapphire, and Topaz. Nonetheless, I love my goats.

We got the turkeys this morning and they are doing great so far! They are the small white and mottled red babies. They got picked on by the Wyandotte at first, but quickly learned to pick back. And they started eating and drinking right away. Little buggers! While trying to get a good...

We don't yet have our muscovies, they are supposed to hatch today I believe, so they should be here by Saturday at the latest. I'd love some Welshes, but I think for this first set we are going to raise all of them. We should have some for sell or trade in a few months though. :)

See, we had a poor experience with our first shipment from McMurray. The ones we just got are actually replacements. We ordered 45 the first time, and 11 DOA and 32 of them died within 48 hours, and another 3 died within a week. We found DD and decided to get most of our birds from him, so we...

That sounds about right. I, ahem, forgot to mention this is our second brooding for the year. We have an additional 12 Black Austrolorps, 9 SLW, 9 Buff Orpingtons, 4 Dominiques, 1 BLRW, 1 GLW, and 1 Salmon in our grow out pen in the garage for a total of 37 older birds. They're all between 7...

It wasn't a hatchery in Jax, we were picking up shipped chicks from McMurray. I don't know where Orange Park is at but we found a fantastic local hatchery in Newberry. His birds are big and beautiful, they lay well, and he has about 20 breeds available. Along with the chicks we got shipped from...

Thanks guys! After looking through the chickens pictures on McMurray, I'm thinking this little chick is a Phoenix. Any other guesses?

Got the chicks this morning! They are all alive and peeping. Here are the ones we ordered, 15 SR Columbian Wyandottes. This is the free chick. Any ideas on what it is? The legs are yellow-orange colored and featherless. @RedBird Special all of these pictures were uploaded from my...

Our replacement chicks just shipped today. Crossing my fingers that when we call USPS tomorrow they can finally tell me which location in Jacksonville they will be at. They arrived at USPS at 4:55am yesterday, so I'm guessing they are already closing in on 48 hours old this evening. No wonder...

That's good to know Bean! I figured it as much, but with the whole controversy over domestic vs wild muscovies I'd rather be in the clear as our ducklings should be here by this weekend. Not to mention the 40-some odd 8 week old chicks we have in the garage. @Flybybirds, I will send a PM...

Quick question for all of you! I don't know how many of you guys are on Facebook, but recently on a Florida livestock/farming group someone brought up that they spoke to FWC and apparently anyone who raises any poultry or rabbits, regardless of whether they are domestic, heritage, game, etc...