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[Lengerich Farms]

Please feel free to rant! Its been very frustrating for several thread members. All this rezoning crap had a hard impact on many folks the last 2 years. IMHO a barking dog is 10 times more annoying than a crowing rooster! And the reason you are having issues finding the ordinance, its buried very well. One of our thread members went to all those meetings, and had a huge fight trying to get her hands on the real documents! @flyladyrocks
would be a good one to ask questions about that whole nightmare.. She hasn't been on the thread a while tho.

Government. Ruins. Everything.

It's a universal fact.

Busy body local bureaucrats are the worst.

I couldn't live in an incorporated area. I'd go to jail.

This is about how I feel at this pint in time.

 

[Lengerich Farms]

I got my muscovys from @racinchickins and I am in love with them, but I don't want to over beat him with questions. I've been using bedding hay (orchard grass) foor their brooder box..... Is their another materiel that we could use that would be A) cost effective, and B) work better. Since they all huddle, they all "go" in the same area. I was thinking sand or kitty litter, but don't want to jump the gun. Especially since we have a Buff Braham and a Lavender Orpington chick coming in Saturday as well!!!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

I got my muscovys from @racinchickins and I am in love with them, but I don't want to over beat him with questions. I've been using bedding hay (orchard grass) foor their brooder box..... Is their another materiel that we could use that would be A) cost effective, and B) work better. Since they all huddle, they all "go" in the same area. I was thinking sand or kitty litter, but don't want to jump the gun. Especially since we have a Buff Braham and a Lavender Orpington chick coming in Saturday as well!!!

I have kept Muscovy over 4 years now. LOVE them! Scovy grow at such a fast rate it seems they poop nonstop! I have heard many people use the wood pellets like for a furnace, not tried it myself yet. I would try to not brood chicks with them, the dampness ducklings create could cause a Coccidia outbreak. I use pine shavings myself, and just change them out daily for ducklings and goslings. It depends on your brooder too. Is it a tote, an actual box, or other style?

It is a very good idea to comingle species in most cases. Just keep an eye on drakes when they reach maturity. A drake may try to catch a chicken, male or female and mate with it. That will kill the chicken/rooster, guaranteed. Not a common thing, but happens with comingling as youngsters. Plainly stated, its due to the length of his "male parts" will puncture a chickens internal organs, and kill it. I make sure folks understand the risk anytime someone adds ducks into a home farm situation. This is why aside from the Cocci risk I no longer brood my ducklings with chicks.

 

[Mother2Hens]

 

[racinchickins]

Quote: I brood mine separately too. And you want to make sure each drake has several (as in 3 or 4 or more) duck hens.

 

[wheezy50]

If anyone is interested in a silkie roo, I have some extras. They are pet quality, some may be missing the extra toe or spacing may be off. Some dobhave perfect toes, feathering etc. They are very nice partridge color, comb color is decent. Just starting to crow and show interest in the hens, they are around 6-7 months old. With good hens they'd make some nice babies!

I haven't taken any pictures yet but I will if anyone wants.

 

[Lengerich Farms]

I have kept Muscovy over 4 years now. LOVE them! Scovy grow at such a fast rate it seems they poop nonstop! I have heard many people use the wood pellets like for a furnace, not tried it myself yet. I would try to not brood chicks with them, the dampness ducklings create could cause a Coccidia outbreak. I use pine shavings myself, and just change them out daily for ducklings and goslings. It depends on your brooder too. Is it a tote, an actual box, or other style?

It is a very good idea to comingle species in most cases. Just keep an eye on drakes when they reach maturity. A drake may try to catch a chicken, male or female and mate with it. That will kill the chicken/rooster, guaranteed. Not a common thing, but happens with comingling as youngsters. Plainly stated, its due to the length of his "male parts" will puncture a chickens internal organs, and kill it. I make sure folks understand the risk anytime someone adds ducks into a home farm situation. This is why aside from the Cocci risk I no longer brood my ducklings with chicks.

I brood mine separately too.  And you want to make sure each drake has several (as in 3 or 4 or more) duck hens.

The several friends that I've had that have had varied flocks
Always brooded together.my brooder is a Rubbermaid tub big enough for an adult
Males body (if you cut him up right

). I'm using bedding hay (orchard grass) because my aunt and uncle who own Hunt Creek Farms out by Danville, Indiana (just in case someone might know them, the Johnstons) did two feuds so I bought some
For rabbit feed and some
For coop bedding. @racinchickins said at least one was a male and one was a female, the other two, time would have to tell. They're o lay about 2 1/2 weeks old now, that's why I thought it would be okay to add in the to chicks. The app won't let me add pictures for some reason. After my phone charges up all take pictures of the brooder, and what we intend to corral them with once they our grow the brooder.

 

[Lengerich Farms]

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The Bruder I inherited when I went and picked up my four girls that I got for free that needed rehomed. It came with the feeder I already had an extra water were and it came with the heat lamp and bulbs. Also came with starter grower and feed that was still good they bought it because they ran out of feed in the two days between when they ran out and me coming to get the hens lol. I use the IV stand to help keep the lamp up off of the cage in the middle of the day when it does get hot. Because even though we live in a very shaded area it does get pretty humid (Butler Tarkington area). What I was thinking of using for bedding was sent because then I can scoop it out and add new is I needed but I didn't know if that would be an issue. I would be able to dump it right into my garden that I just tilled that needs all the help it can get for next year or if it wouldn't hurt them we happen to have an overabundance of kitty litter, and that clumps in soaks. The only issue I could think of would be it clumping and soaking to their little behind. If I had to do a second router box I could the only problem is money is tight as we just moved in so we've been trying to take care of the birds an update everything I don't have a second light or feed her or water. I'm also (Hate to saw it, long story,) on house arrest, so I can't just run off to the store as needed. These two chicks that we're picking up our gift to me from a friend of mine because she knows that I've been kind of down in the dumps with all of the work that I've had to do around the house so she thought she would reserve a couple breeds that she had heard me talking about.

I have another tote that I could use as a Bruder for the checks if I had to the only problem is is I do not have a water were or a feeder or a lamp to use for the second router if anyone on the west side of Indy happens to have one that they are using at this point in time and would be willing to bring it to me I would be greatly appreciate it. I didn't think that would be such a problem to breed them together because of size differences my main concern was just waste. I would also still like some input on using kitty litter if that's at all possible if not I wouldn't be surprised or using sand because both of those can be thrown out into the garden where I need to retail. Thanks everyone and if you are willing to loan me anything p.m. me your number and I will be able to shoot you a call Or text. I'm a stay at home dad disabled vet so along with the ankle bracelet I really don't go anywhere LOL

 

[Lengerich Farms]

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The Bruder I inherited when I went and picked up my four girls that I got for free that needed rehomed. It came with the feeder I already had an extra water were and it came with the heat lamp and bulbs. Also came with starter grower and feed that was still good they bought it because they ran out of feed in the two days between when they ran out and me coming to get the hens lol. I use the IV stand to help keep the lamp up off of the cage in the middle of the day when it does get hot. Because even though we live in a very shaded area it does get pretty humid (Butler Tarkington area). What I was thinking of using for bedding was sent because then I can scoop it out and add new is I needed but I didn't know if that would be an issue. I would be able to dump it right into my garden that I just tilled that needs all the help it can get for next year or if it wouldn't hurt them we happen to have an overabundance of kitty litter, and that clumps in soaks. The only issue I could think of would be it clumping and soaking to their little behind. If I had to do a second router box I could the only problem is money is tight as we just moved in so we've been trying to take care of the birds an update everything I don't have a second light or feed her or water. I'm also (Hate to saw it, long story,) on house arrest, so I can't just run off to the store as needed. These two chicks that we're picking up our gift to me from a friend of mine because she knows that I've been kind of down in the dumps with all of the work that I've had to do around the house so she thought she would reserve a couple breeds that she had heard me talking about.

I have another tote that I could use as a Bruder for the checks if I had to the only problem is is I do not have a water were or a feeder or a lamp to use for the second router if anyone on the west side of Indy happens to have one that they are using at this point in time and would be willing to bring it to me I would be greatly appreciate it. I didn't think that would be such a problem to breed them together because of size differences my main concern was just waste. I would also still like some input on using kitty litter if that's at all possible if not I wouldn't be surprised or using sand because both of those can be thrown out into the garden where I need to retail. Thanks everyone and if you are willing to loan me anything p.m. me your number and I will be able to shoot you a call Or text. I'm a stay at home dad disabled vet so along with the ankle bracelet I really don't go anywhere LOL

this is their brooder know!

The playpen out in the yard is what we're going to use to put them in when they outgrow that brooder box in the garage. I don't know why that's the only one that showed up in the original post

 

[Lengerich Farms]

Sorry for all the grammar and spelling errors in my earlier posts, for being a "smart" phone it's not very intuitive for talk to text haha.

So o just got off the phone with my aunt and we were going over ideas on how to improve the brooder. One of her ideas was to create a false floor with utility wire which made me think why not just use my breeding hutch for my rabbits? It's all utility wire I can still set up the heat lamp on one side, I can get their water and food in and out, and I can use trays underneath to catch the droppings. I think I've solved my problem!
Well, one of them , because if I still have to brood the chicks and ducks separately, then I still need. Feeder, waterer and lamp

I will move this up to the porch so it's still protected, but I think this will work perfectly!