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  1. J

    Is my duck broody? What if they aren’t fertilized?!

    Hi everyone!! I am new to this site and have googled so many duck questions and always end up reading a super helpful forum here, so decided to just create my own account!! I am a first time duck owner - me and my husband inherited them from friends when they were around 9 months old. We were...
    • JayZee1054
    • Thread
    • advice needed broody ducks first time duck owner hatching a duckling
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Ducks
  2. B

    Legal Help (?)

    I need some advice on what we can do. I'll give you the entire story from the beginning. -My family moves into a nice fixer-upper. We build a 14 x 14 chicken coop and get six bantams and 6 guineafowl. 4 of them are roosters! - We get a few more because we don't want the rooster problem to build...
  3. BokBokBadger

    Failed hatch and so much guilt, please help

    Hi everyone, first time poster here (or any forum for that matter) but I've been a long time lurker! I'm absolutely devastated today and wanted to maybe get some feedback from you knowledgeable people. Even if it's to tell me I was wrong in what I did, hopefully I'll get some closure to allow me...
  4. 0ddaudd

    Duck With Watery Eye ?

    Hey! So as I was checking on my birds this morning, I noticed Ellie’s (my female duck) eye is watery. Only one of her eyes is like this. It appears that some of the feathers around her eye are falling out as well (pictured). What could be the cause of this? Flies or bugs? Dirty pool water? She...
  5. richardbim

    Still Air Incubator Questions

    I started incubation last Sunday and I started out with the recommended temperature (99.5) l’m using the 9200 Little Giant incubator, I had it at that temperature for around 2 days. Then I started searching up the ideal temperature for a still air incubator, I read that some ideal temperatures...
    • richardbim
    • Thread
    • advice needed chicks eggs haching eggs help ! incubating incubation incubation advice still air incubator temperature
    • Replies: 8
    • Forum: Incubating & Hatching Eggs
  6. D

    HURT HEN

    OK ME AND THE WIFE STARTED RAISING A FEW HENS FROM CHICKS TWO YEARS AGO ON EASTER. WE HAD LEARED ALOT ,BUT ONE OF OUR GIRLS HAS STARTED A REAL BAD LIMP ABOUT A WEEK AGO. I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE TO PUT HER DOWN WE DO NOT HAVE MANY WE ARE ATTACHED TO THEM BC OF OUR TWO GRANDKIDS SO IM ASKING IS...
  7. qualitymerch

    In Over My Head? HALP

    I think I'm just looking for validation and insight here. For someone that comes from a construction background, I have no idea what I'm doing. Somehow I think I've been given Too Much Freedom and the possibilities are too much for me handle. Ha! So here's ~the plan~ as it stands in my head. The...
  8. house.of.ducks

    Advice on selling duck eggs ??

    Hey everyone !! It’s been quite awhile since I’ve posted here, it’s a long story but A LOT, both good and bad has happened with the flock since last spring, maybe I’ll get into that some other time. Anyway, money has been tight lately and I’ve been getting AT LEAST 5 eggs from the ducks every...
    • house.of.ducks
    • Thread
    • advice needed duck duck advice duck eggs ducks eggs selling duck eggs selling eggs advice
    • Replies: 18
    • Forum: Ducks
  9. EastTeaxsChickenMimi

    Broken Wing at Joint! Need An Article or Link to reference

    Five month old cockerel found outside of coop injured. Unsure if attacked at this point. Feathers matted but no puncture wounds found. Wing not functioning. There is blood trauma under the skin at the elbow (?) joint but the bones are not attached . He can move wing and the lower half looks...
  10. S

    Silkies showing no signs of life

    Help! We purchased some fertilised silkie eggs, we let them rest for 24 hours like you are meant to but we didn’t candle them (we are quite new to this). None have exploded or look like they have rotten so I think all is well there. But today is day 21 and silkies are meant to come early but...
  11. H

    How Humane Are No-Crow Rooster Collars?

    Hi all! So I recently got a 5 month old Rhode Island Red mix rooster named Harvey from a local rescue. He’s an absolute sweetheart, very nice and not aggressive. But he crows, without fail, at the crack of dawn every morning. He’s fairly quiet the rest of the day though. We’ve been looking in...
    • HannahL
    • Thread
    • advice needed crowing no crow collar rescue chicken rhode island red rooster rooster
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  12. Kimmyh51

    Respiratory symptoms video attached anyone had ducklings/chicks like this?

    Video (please ensure sound is up) Sorry you can’t see much,it would have disturbed them to shine a torch on them to light up the ducklings more (my lights are on inside but their container is in shadows) but to be isnt there isn’t much to see, it’s what you can hear. The duckling is in the...
  13. AlexisP

    Help/ Advise on raising Broilers/meat chickens?

    Hello! I am raising chickens (Specifically the breed White Hen X bred at A&M university) for my FFA animal showing, and this will be my first time. I have done a lot of research already, but I am very interested in learning more on how I am to take care of my tasty friends! (BTW, I've named them...
    • AlexisP
    • Thread
    • advice needed broilers ffa help meat meat bird
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Meat Birds ETC
  14. PeaPod117

    Aftermath of Racoon Attack

    I woke up this morning, and usually I have a “ritual” of waving to my flock from the bathroom window upstairs, and usually they’d honk and start getting restless. Today, I noticed little movement in the coop. There were my two Pekins, but they weren’t giving me their usual side eye. I saw brown...
  15. Tilly6

    Lost a duck the other night

    2 days ago one of my ducks was found dead with the head gone. We thought a raccoon. I found where something had dug trying to get into the run that night too. We haven’t caught anything in the traps or on camera until last night. Located in MI, Upper Peninsula. (The time and date on the camera...
    • Tilly6
    • Thread
    • advice needed ducks fox predator predator attack trap fox
    • Replies: 29
    • Forum: Predators and Pests
  16. T

    Chicks Dying- Need advice

    Hello, My husband and I are first time chicken owners. We were told it should be super easy to raise chicks and we’d have minimal problems. We first bought 6 from a local farm store that the girl working picked out and within the first night one died. Then from then on we had a chick die every...
    • TayandDan
    • Thread
    • advice needed baby chicks chick chick 1 month chicken chicken 1 month chicks dying dying chick lethargic chick
    • Replies: 23
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  17. DianaJay

    Breeding a Duck to Her Parent?

    Our pair of Khaki Campbell/Welsh Harlequins have successfully raised their first clutch. I'd like to keep one of the ducks for her extraordinary colouring but I'm afraid of allowing her to breed to her father, my only drake. Would that in fact be problematic? We're very new to this.
    • DianaJay
    • Thread
    • advice needed consanguinity duck breeding
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Ducks
  18. Potsmama

    Polish bantam chick, advice!?

    So I’ve adopted this crowned polish bantam chick, a friend found her in a parking lot abandoned. She couldn’t keep her so I offered. I have two birds already, (a red and a naked neck)and they get along great. I’m just concerned about whether or not they’ll eat along or they’ll hurt my lil girl...
  19. chicksandchores

    New to Ducks!

    Hi all! I have a fairly large chicken flock, and I’ve recently decided to add some ducklings under a broody hen that’s been sitting for four weeks on infertile eggs. I pick up four five day old Indian runner ducklings on Wednesday! I ferment feed for my chickens, is that okay for ducklings...
    • chicksandchores
    • Thread
    • advice needed chickens ducklings ducks first ducks food indian runner duck new new additions to flock
    • Replies: 20
    • Forum: Ducks
  20. L

    Cockerel chick with Male Quail?

    Hi, not sure if this is the right place to post this still haven’t figured this website out and this is my first time keeping bids so please be kind. I got a little chick last month and he has grown into a lovely little cockerel about 5-6 weeks old, I named him Ron. He was raised alongside his...
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