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I have tried a few brooder set-ups for ducklings, in my time, but this go-around I had to get it as close to perfect as I could, because I had 12 ducklings to house and could only clean up after them twice a day, most days. When they were a few days old they stayed in my older tuperware...

This is my first year raising chicks. I ordered sexed chicks, and while I am expecting that some of them will be sexed incorrectly, I'm just wondering if they somehow (leg band?) mark the males so you know which chicks are which gender? Maybe my expectations are too high!

How reliably is egg color passed on? I heard in EE's green is dominant? I'm wondering about ducks though. Is it worth it to incubate colored duck eggs, if I want to get ducks that will lay colored eggs? Thanks in advance to anyone with any info!

I don't know if anyone has asked this before, but if you had to choose one of these breeds, which would you go with for a dual purpose, part time free-ranging flock? Let's try to have a civil discussion!

For those who may be interested, it is really easy to make your own vinegar. 1. Buy unfiltered, unpasteurized Apple Cider Vinegar (w/ "mother") 2. Get some fresh or frozen apple juice (you could also use other fruit juices, but then it wouldn't be ACV!) -- make sure it has no added chemicals...

It seems like there are a lot people in the Pacific Northwest that raise pheasants and pretty much just release them into the wilds of their neighborhoods. Right now there is a pheasant that is enjoying the back half of our property that we do not use for anything yet. I was wondering if it...

Is someone censoring BYC? I know some threads get locked, but by what mechanism do threads just disappear?

As in -- Stay at Home Mother Hen? Go ahead and reply even if you are just a part-time SAHMH or SAHMDuck, like me. Let's make the question of whether or not you are a SAHM (Stay at Home Mom) irrelevant.

I'm considering getting one for personal protection. While I hope to never have to use a gun, beyond learning HOW to use it, I'd like to know what the bottom line is . . . at what point is it legal to shoot someone in self-defense? Or maybe it isn't ever legal, but at what point is it seen...

You know who you are! Clean out those inboxes or you will miss getting pm-ed!

Everytime you buy something with a credit card, the business you buy from owes a % of the sale to the credit card company. Since gas prices have risen so high, now at least one gas station has decided to refuse purchases with credit cards. I wonder if this will become a trend?

I'm posting this for someone who has 9 ducks that need a new home. They live on a shared natural pond and the neighbors have complained and want the ducks gone. The owner would prefer all 9 to go together, if possible. It is my understanding that there is: 1 muscovy 1 pekin 2 crested 2 blue...

I received the following forwarded e-mail from some friends who used to live in Spokane, WA. Unfortunately, I don't know how to transfer photos from an e-mail onto the forum, so I can't add the photos. Enjoy! Dear Nature Lovers: Something really amazing happened in Downtown Spokane this...

"Based on Supreme Court cases, if you grow farm produce or raise livestock you consume yourself, you are part of interstate commerce. In Wickard v. Filburn, 317 U.S. 111 (1942), for example, the Supreme Court stated that Congress could regulate a person who was growing wheat on his own property...

Imagine my delight to post my first post since I complained that I was most definitely not "overrun with chickens" to find that I'm now "overrun with drakes." Someone out there totally kicks butt!

So my husband is always telling me that I always do things before they become trendy. Of course, only the really cool trendy things. Guess what? You are all part of what seems to be the next cool trendy thing . . . raising poultry! But, hey, you knew that already. Someone recently...

Hey all, We recently moved to a neighborhood serviced by dirt roads. We were happy to have dirt roads, even if there are yearly maintenance costs associated with them. However, our neighbors all want to pave. Who here has been through the process of transitioning from living on a dirt road...

So do you ever wonder where all the money you are spending to fuel up your vehicle is going? Well in Dubai it is being used to develop a metropolis in the desert . The most bizaree and already completed project? Ski Dubai . I had no idea. I mean it's their money and they can do with it what...

I wasn't sure where to put this, so I'm just going to put it in other poultry for now, merely because I don't raise chickens. What sort of rules are there when you decide who gets to mate with who, so as to avoid in-breeding? I have heard that you can breed daughter to father, but are there...

What do you do about those problem people who 1. you don't know very well, 2. you aren't interested in knowing better and 3. who invite themselves over? My husband tends to let people walk all over him. I like to set and keep boundaries. We are currently fighting over the fact that his...