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[valleychicks]

Anyone near thomson? Im still new to chickening started with 6 in febuary now have 30 plus some ducks and some to hatch in 5 days! Love me some chickies and how do you put people in your paragraph?

Hello! I'm in Wilkes County. Are you asking how to Quote someone or how to well tag someone I guess you would call it? Like @ChickAdee317

 

[Chiquey]

I only keep a few in a kiddie pool. They sleep in the pin with the chicken at night but its great!

I thought that ducks and chickens shouldn't be kept together. I can't let our chickens free range because of predators. Our neighbor has a large pond, and I'm afraid our ducks would choose to relocate there if we raised them and let them run loose. My only other option is requesting yet another coop from poor DH. His plate is already overflowing with projects. :/

 

[ChickAdee317]

Mine free range....they just sleep in the same house they dont bother each other. I dont know why they shouldn't I'm new. No like the litle smiley people hiding under chairs or eating pop corn

 

[pr0wlunwoof]

This lady says to worm your chickens when you have poo on your eggs. Can anybody attest to that?

 

[Book]

Anyone near thomson? Im still new to chickening started with 6 in febuary now have 30 plus some ducks and some to hatch in 5 days! Love me some chickies and how do you put people in your paragraph?

I am in Thomson as well. We Started with 6 chicks the start of March I think it was and somehow have 19 chickens/ducks now and putting some eggs in an incubator this weekend. It is crazy chicken math!

 

[Flowerbh]

I thought that ducks and chickens shouldn't be kept together. I can't let our chickens free range because of predators. Our neighbor has a large pond, and I'm afraid our ducks would choose to relocate there if we raised them and let them run loose. My only other option is requesting yet another coop from poor DH. His plate is already overflowing with projects. :/

My ducks and chickens were hatched together. They house together and eat together, but in the morning, the ducks come to the gate and I let them out. They spend the afternoon at our lake. At night, they come back to the gate and go back into the coop where they are safe.

 

[Chiquey]

My ducks and chickens were hatched together. They house together and eat together, but in the morning, the ducks come to the gate and I let them out. They spend the afternoon at our lake. At night, they come back to the gate and go back into the coop where they are safe.

I don't have a lake, and I'd really prefer they stay out of our pool. LOL

 

[Rocky Rhodes]

Mine free range....they just sleep in the same house they dont bother each other. I dont know why they shouldn't I'm new. No like the litle smiley people hiding under chairs or eating pop corn

Welcome from The North Georgia Mountains!!! To insert an emoticon Like the one I began this post with, you just click on the smiley face on the toolbar in the reply box, then click on the one you want. Hope this helps!!

 

[LingaB]

Hey all! My girls are 17 1/2 weeks old. They will be 18 weeks on Sunday. I assume they should start laying soon. Do I need to do anything special other than give them some nesting boxes with some straw or shavings? Do chickens lay anytime of the day or is it mostly first thing in the morning?

We also recently built a chicken tunnel giving them access to the backyard, so they have TONS of space now and seem much happier. We still haven't finished our big coop though. There have been so many other little projects that we have had to deal with. Comes with the territory of buying a new house. haha Hopefully soon. For now they are in a smaller coop.

 

[Rocky Rhodes]

Hey all! My girls are 17 1/2 weeks old. They will be 18 weeks on Sunday. I assume they should start laying soon. Do I need to do anything special other than give them some nesting boxes with some straw or shavings? Do chickens lay anytime of the day or is it mostly first thing in the morning?

We also recently built a chicken tunnel giving them access to the backyard, so they have TONS of space now and seem much happier. We still haven't finished our big coop though. There have been so many other little projects that we have had to deal with. Comes with the territory of buying a new house. haha Hopefully soon. For now they are in a smaller coop.

You just need to provide them with a good quality layer feed and offer them crushed oyster shells. Hope you start getting eggs soon!!