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RoboDuck said:
So much for farm day. It is alternating between raining like hell and pouring. This "quick popup shower" the weatherman called for has been popped up for over an hour with no sign of letting up. I should have just gone to work.
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I'm loving it for my "farm".

I built a little 12'x12' square border for a garden out of 2x10's split lengthwise. I filled it with sphagnum peat moss, because it holds water well, and it has good air flow for roots. But the problem with sphagnum peat moss, is that it doesn't like to start absorbing water INITIALLY. It's hard to get it to soak the first time around. But once it gets wet, it stays that way for ages, which is good for plants.

All this rain is just going to keep me from buying a sprinkler and paying a higher water bill to get it to start soaking up water!
 
pr0wlunwoof said:
That's what I was thinking also. We call the black one knuckles case it's feet are so jackes. What's weird is they all were raised in the same environment.
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It's not the chick's environment that causes it. It's usually a vitamin deficiency in the hen who laid the chick's egg.

So basically, that australorp's mom has a vitamin B deficiency. But vitamin B gets processed by the body pretty fast and doesn't stick around. So it could be something as simple as the hen refusing to eat the actual feed for a couple of days that caused it. Either way, it has to be fixed when the chick first hatches, or it could take weeks to fix it later on. Simply providing vitamin B supplement doesn't work for the chick once it has the issue.
 
*sigh* I went outside for a while to let the ducks free range for a bit and I'm pretty sure all my khakis quacked. I was so happy that I had two girls and one male and now it seems like I'm screwed on that front. :( I was so excited for them to have babies because they all had such great personalities.:(
 
ChickDancer said:
Way too blurry to tell.
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oh crap I didn't realize I chose the blurry one... here ya go...
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They are about 7-8 weeks btw
 
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Prinette said:
*sigh* I went outside for a while to let the ducks free range for a bit and I'm pretty sure all my khakis quacked. I was so happy that I had two girls and one male and now it seems like I'm screwed on that front. :( I was so excited for them to have babies because they all had such great personalities.:(
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I admit, I don't know ducks as well as chickens or even geese, but I thought all ducks quacked? Both male and female?
 
JennaLynn122 said:
oh crap I didn't realize I chose the blurry one... here ya go...


They are about 7-8 weeks btw
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Still looks like a hen to me, so far. I don't see saddle or hackle feathers of a roo yet. But then it is still young, so it may take a few more weeks to be able to tell.
 

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