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[RachaelS]

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You changed your avatar back, LOL! I loved the pictures of your set up, thank you for sharing, those ducks look super happy. I hear they are hard, then I hear they are easy. I guess it is kind of like with any animal, every person is different in what they want to deal with. If I ever do get some I am going to get Appleyards (am I saying that right).

 

[hensfortherapy]

Good day folks...We've been really busy this week putting up new 6 ft chicken fence and getting the garden fenced.  Finished yesterday.  No more escaping chickens.  I guess mine are too heavy to fly over.  Still going to cover it though...eventually.

Little ones are too big for their little coop so pen for them is next project. 

My sebright is now happily nesting in her dog crate.  She has six assorted eggs.  Don't know yet if any are good eggs, gonna check them in a few days...been 6 days so far.

Sorry to hear about MsJellybean...I'll miss her and her recipes. 
I haven't been here long enough to know the issues, just thought she was a sweet lady.
It's sad that people hurt others for any reason.

As for me, knowing almost nothing about chicken keeping, if I post anything in error I would hope that someone will let me know.  I would not be angry and I would hope that nothing bad would come from my mistake.

On a sad note...my double yellow head Amazon parrot I've had for 35 years passed away last night, she was hatched in 1974, she was 5 yrs old when I got her.  Don't know what happened, just know she hadn't been her self the last few days...she'd been entirely too quiet... LOL...not eating her favorite food...pecans.  Anyway, it's ok.  We only took her because she would have died if we had left her with my Ex.  She was truly an obnoxious bird...she was loud , she squawked when the TV was on or when we tried to talk.  She would bite almost anyone.  But she was spoiled rotten and had a good life in a big cage.  Which I won't miss cleaning.  So she will be missed...sorta.

Well, on to the next project on the list.

Good day all...Magpie

Oh, sorry about your parrot. How old can they live? 40 seems like a long life and it sounds like she had a good one.

 

[LightningTFarm]

Yes, RachaelS, I changed my avatar back JUST FOR YOU!! LOL!!

I find ducks to be super easy. The only tough part is when they are really small and in the brooder, because a duck can take a teaspoon of water and make a huge mess! The bedding is always needing changing because it's wet. Once they are big enough to go outside, they are so easy. They tend to be healthier than chickens, and they grow so fast I swear you can watch them do it!

I thought about getting Silver Appleyards as a meat-sized duck, but after much research and deliberation I went with the Saxonies. I just love those big ducks! I never thought I could love a breed as much as my Welsh Harlequins, but I do. A big part of the reason I chose Saxonies was because Dave Holderread said they were his favorite meat breed. He's the guy who wrote "Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks", and I have ordered all of my ducklings from his farm in Oregon. In my book, if Dave likes it it's got to be good!

One thing I like about ducks is they don't peck each other like chickens do. The only problem I have is my girls wind up with no feathers on the back of their necks because that's where the drakes hold on while they are mating. Those boys just pull their feathers out. The Welshies seem to have the highest libidos but I do notice the Saxony drakes trying to hold her down and help his buddy out.

 

[Heidisgran]

You miss a day or 2 on here and you're done for! lol

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I believe most of you have missed where it started....like I said I usually stay out of it but some of the newer members got sandwiched in the middle of something they didn't understand and haven't been privy too and blew up toward the wrong person or persons so I finally stepped up!

I don't like people to feel unwelcome but quite frankly the shoes has been on the other foot for way too long...

and Harley it wasn't just one person that was fed up with her and Jajean it was a bunch of us....many of us didn't put it out on the thread a lot went on thru pm's but let me just say you don't know what you talking about and you previous rant was probably highly inappropriate for someone coming in not knowing every point of view or even what the issue is...only that someone was on her pity pot and rallied her troops!!

 

[hensfortherapy]

You are putting your mother-in-law in the workshop??? 

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Guess what???  32 YEARS ago my husband and I were married!!!!  e

Lisa

Happy anniversary! Wishes for many more happy years together.

 

[harley1975]

I believe most of you have missed where it started....like I said I usually stay out of it but some of the newer members got sandwiched in the middle of something they didn't understand and haven't been privy too and blew up toward the wrong person or persons so I finally stepped up!

I don't like people to feel unwelcome but quite frankly the shoes has been on the other foot for way too long...

and Harley it wasn't just one person that was fed up with her and Jajean it was a bunch of us....many of us didn't put it out on the thread a lot went on thru pm's but let me just say you don't know what you talking about and you previous rant was probably highly for someone coming in not knowing every point of view or even what the issue is...only that someone was on her pity pot and rallied her troops!!

My rant was what I seen on here and I think it was Jajean post that I seen!! So I know what I was talking about. And for my so called rant being inappropriate well I don't tell you what to post and what not to post!! So don't tell me!! All I did was ask if Msjellybean a person who that was always nice to me if she not posting cause I have not seen her post. Now I will lave it at that cause I do not let people run me off or upset me that do not mean anything to me!!!

 

[RustedOak]

oh your right down the road from me...I'm in Burleson

you have chickens now? do you breed at all? what breeds

Definitely no on the breeding. I've got a couple of Rhode Island Reds waiting on me to finish their new home... an A-frame chicken tractor that will hold 4-6. I live in the city so I'll just have a TINY flock, just for egg production and fertilizing my garden. I'm BRAND NEW to this but my mom raised them most of my childhood

 

[RachaelS]

Yes, RachaelS, I changed my avatar back JUST FOR YOU!! LOL!!

I find ducks to be super easy. The only tough part is when they are really small and in the brooder, because a duck can take a teaspoon of water and make a huge mess! The bedding is always needing changing because it's wet. Once they are big enough to go outside, they are so easy. They tend to be healthier than chickens, and they grow so fast I swear you can watch them do it!

I thought about getting Silver Appleyards as a meat-sized duck, but after much research and deliberation I went with the Saxonies. I just love those big ducks! I never thought I could love a breed as much as my Welsh Harlequins, but I do. A big part of the reason I chose Saxonies was because Dave Holderread said they were his favorite meat breed. He's the guy who wrote "Storey's Guide to Raising Ducks", and I have ordered all of my ducklings from his farm in Oregon. In my book, if Dave likes it it's got to be good!

One thing I like about ducks is they don't peck each other like chickens do. The only problem I have is my girls wind up with no feathers on the back of their necks because that's where the drakes hold on while they are mating. Those boys just pull their feathers out. The Welshies seem to have the highest libidos but I do notice the Saxony drakes trying to hold her down and help his buddy out.

Hmmmm, I will read up on Saxonies and Welsh Harlequins!

 

[orumpoultry]

can I chime in??
if they free range they don't need medicated...the medicated feed is for brooder babies...
Coccidiostats and/or antibiotics are the two most common medications added to medicated chicken feed.
Coccidiosis is hard to control by sanitation practices alone.
they come by it naturally in the dirt and become immune...otherwise a brooder baby will be very susceptible to coccidiosis when it finally gets in the dirt and coop

as far as duck and chickens living together mine do!

I'm just going to bypass all the arguing and pipe in here.

I've grown up on a pultry farm. Emus actually. But we did have chickens. In my experience birds started outside younger are healthier and overall more hagrid, so to speak. We never babied our chickens and emus but I do now to a certain extent with treats.

Most injured birds are culled. Sick birds as well if they make a bad turn with no looking back.

Cocci is not fun. I've dealth with it when I was younger and we lost many birds. I'm dealing with it as an adult for the first time and I lost one chick before I knew what I was dealing with. Thankfully I knew the signs and knew what to get. Vet tested fecal matter confirmed I was using the right meds.

The babies are perky and happy now, but I've got one thats a failure to thrive I'm debating culling. She's as weak and pathetic as a day old chick and they're almost two weeks old now. She hasn't grown. The others tower over her. If, by Monday, ( one week on antibiotics ) she hasn't improved I will cull her.

Cocci isnt fun. At all. Its certainly not an easy cure either. All of my pens are clean and I bleach regularly. I also feed wild birds. Good chance one of them brought it in or it was on my feet from a trip to town.

Still. I dont feed medicated feeds to young birds. I'd rather they build their own immunities. Makes for a stronger flock.

But... that's just my opinion.

 

[Heidisgran]

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