Minnesota!

[Cluckies]

Off to work outside, I'll probably come back to 253 posts in a couple hours,

 

[holm25]

Off to work outside, I'll probably come back to 253 posts in a couple hours, 

I check BYC every hour or so.

 

[duluthralphie]

I have a baby egg!

I assume it is a "oops" It could be a pullet egg but my oldest is only 15 weeks old. Kind of young.


I did not think I had any olive layers in that pen so who knows.. I am betting no yolk when I break it.

 

[Rhetts]

Cyrus-I feel your pain on the rooster with too high of a pitched crow. It is super annoying! I have a few awaiting check in at freezer camp that have a high pitched crow. I was in the coop with 2 of them going back and forth and it seemed amplified in the coop. I thought of you while I was suffering from bleeding ear drums.

I am super excited!! The pullets started laying eggs last week. We got 5 today and 2 are from 18 week production reds and one was from the lovely wyandotte in my avatar! She is 19 weeks. So excited to be getting eggs.

 

[duluthralphie]

Found a couple: puppy playpen, the dog crate is just what I used to carry them outside.

Nice, You put up a tent for your birds? I use those crates too, they work great.

 

[gofeedthegirls]

What does it take to raise a few ducks? My chicken math has made me want a couple of them ha. Can I house them in my chicken coop? I know I need some sort of water for the ducks but what exactly? What works for you that have ducks? I am thinking I only want 3-4 of them...for the eggs I have no desire to cull them for meat. Feed? Any "special" care they need that chickens dont need?

 

[scandiafowl]

My Jersey babies taking advantage of a feed spill. They are now fully integrated into the flock.
Just have to make sure they have separate feed.

 

[gofeedthegirls]

I realize I could have posted this in the duck threads but I like you guys more

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[Rhetts]

@gofeedthegirls I have ducks. I do not recommend housing ducks and chickens together.
I free range my ducks during the day and lock them up at night. Right now the adults are in a duck house I made that looks a lot like what holm posted. Mine I move around though instead of cleaning it out (no floor). It is the size of a sheet of plywood wide and long and is about 4 feet high with vents all along the top. The younger ones I have are housed at night in a large tractor type coop until I can get them a house built of their own. I will do things different for housing this winter than I did last winter. Still working on those ideas though.
I feed them all flock raiser. When they are little you need to make sure they have enough niacin and other vitamins for the legs and wing development. Easy to do. I use the waterers that holm was talking about. The rubber kind you can flip over and stomp on the bottom and it won't break. Love those. I also have a kiddie pool for playing in.
I can take pictures tomorrow of the housing I have to show you what I am talking about. Getting too dark right now.
Ducks are super funny and I love watching them. They are also good mousers.

edited to add that In my opinion, ducks are easier than chickens.

 

[KlopKlop]

Thought you guys might like to have a chuckle over my kludged Arbittior that i set up for processing my CX on thursday night. We might get some rain tomorrow so I havent set up the plucker or the scalder yet.



Check out the sweet red neck plumbing! the drain pipe will go into a pail with holes drilled in the bottom and some straw in it to catch any meaty bits that go down the drain.


I have to dig around the scrap on my place and see if i can come up with something to function as a killing cone. worst case I can pick up some aluminum flashing and bang a few out

Klop