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    newly arrived runner ducks won't eat!

    Thank you for all your inputs! I let the ducks out after a few days and it went really smooth with cickens: they really get along! It has been much easier than it usually is with other chickens! For the first few days they ignored each other, but now I often find them all sitting together...
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    newly arrived runner ducks won't eat!

    Thank you both! I thought I was posting this in the duck section, oops! Ducks are still not eating much (they ate something at least), previous owner was feeding them layers pellets, but I won't use that since I have a drake and I would prefer feed them all the same. How long should I wait to...
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    What gender are they?(3months)

    Not sure about the Brahma, but the red one seems to be a cockerel (both my roosters started crowing when they were 7 months old, so that's not really a sign).
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    newly arrived runner ducks won't eat!

    Hi, I have been keeping chickens for 5 years, but these are my first ducks. Allow me to introduce you Atalanta, Wilma and Achille. They are supposed to be 5 months old, they grew up in a big yard with no contact with humans and they are terrified by people. They arrived yesterday and when I...
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    Peeps in Europe!

    Sorry for my English, yes I meant that (as I read) the disease is not transmitted from mother to eggs, so if I buy eggs from a place affected by the disease and my hens hatch them, chicks will be fine. This according to info that I read online this morning, I clearly know less than anyone here...
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    Peeps in Europe!

    I didn't know that some breeds are more susceptible than others, I'm reading some old threads about it now, that's interesting. As I said, I don't know anyone who deals with the disease in their coop where I live, so I haven't read much about it before and none of my birds is vaccinated, but I...
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    Peeps in Europe!

    Sorry I just read this, I have no experience with Marek's disease and even if I know that some people vaccinate their birds I never heard of any household breeding affected by it where I live. Of course this doesn't mean it didn't happen: Marek is widespread in battery farming in Italy, so there...
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    7 weeks old gender guess (Legbar, Araucana and Olive Egger)

    Thank you, I'll wait for some eggs then! :)
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    7 weeks old gender guess (Legbar, Araucana and Olive Egger)

    Around 12 weeks now, they don't seem to have changed much in the past 2 weeks. As far as I understand, aside from the obvious Legbar cockerel, the only one that could be a male is the Olive Egger number 6, but I can't see any pointy feathers so far. What do you think?
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    Wildlife Photography

    A gentle sloworm, saved from the hens! Actually, I only saved 80% of it! :rolleyes:
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    7 weeks old gender guess (Legbar, Araucana and Olive Egger)

    Thank you, I really hope so!
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    7 weeks old gender guess (Legbar, Araucana and Olive Egger)

    Thank you. Actually number 5 has zero pink: her comb is reassuringly yellow, this is why I'm having some concerns, but I would expect more red in 10 weeks cockerels... time will tell!
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    7 weeks old gender guess (Legbar, Araucana and Olive Egger)

    Hi, we're about 10 weeks old today. Cream Legbars need no further study, but I'm curious about the Araucanas and the only OE I kept. Number 4 and 5 are the Araucanas and number 6 is the OE. I'm pretty sure that 5 is a pullet, but I don't know if pink in 4 and 6 combs is too much. What do you...
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    "Male specific" coloring in EE/OE?

    Thank you! I was asking the same question about a reddish OE that look like your second EE, happy to know she was a pullet! :)
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    Hiking!!!

    Has anyone else been on a nice hike at Easter? We've been on Monte Bano, a small but steep mountain with many abandoned villages almost completely buried by vegetation that I love to explore. We also had some interesting meeting: an alpine newt, a green lizard and a young roe deer!
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