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  1. NatJ

    do i still need predator-proofing ? (for a rooftop)

    Are people allowed to go on the rooftop and do things there? Some buildings have flat roofs, and the roof is usable space (helicopter pad of a hospital, swimming pool of a hotel, place with benches and potted plants where apartment dwellers can spend time, something like that.) It might be fine...
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    Thoughts on breeds?

    You might try this: https://kippenjungle.nl/sellers/page0.html That has links to several pages. Page 1 is basic genetics (if you're good on guinea pig genetics, you can probably skip that one.) Page 2 talks about chicken genetics, including discussions of specific genes and what they do. Page 3...
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    Crest Gene in ducks not Homozygous Lethal?

    Are you saying that the American Poultry Association does not say what I claim they said? Or are you saying that the APA does say it, but you think they are wrong to label things the way they do?
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    • Post #18
    • Forum: Ducks
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    Crest Gene in ducks not Homozygous Lethal?

    For anyone unfamilar with the abbreviation: that APA is the American Poultry Association. If you are going by what the American Poultry Association says, you are just flat wrong. Look on their website: amerpoultryassn.com/accepted-breeds-varieties/ Search "duck" You will find a column labeled...
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    • Post #15
    • Forum: Ducks
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    Heat packs good emergency warmer when heat lamp bulb bursts?

    I would buy two heat lamp bulbs right now, so you have one and a spare. Have you looked for any other bulbs in your house that produce heat and could be put in the heat lamp? Check by holding your hand near a bulb to see how much heat it makes. In general, incandescent light bulbs will produce...
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    Is this diet balanced?

    The usual solution to that problem is to feed it wet. Either a wet mash (get it wet and give it to the chickens), or actually fermenting it. When it's all wet, the powder stays stuck to the feed, and the chickens eat it too. I would not pay extra for a feed of that type (as compared with...
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    14 dead chicks found in coop!

    That is the main thing I can think of, too. 300 chicks can be pretty heavy if they pile up, and that can be pretty hard on the ones at the bottom. Just a guess, but maybe the biggest chicks ran fastest or pushed through the rest, so they got there first, so they ended up on the bottom of the...
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    Is this diet balanced?

    If they have a major nutritional lack, they might leave the fermented scratch grain and eat more of the grower crumble. But the chickens might eat until they have enough calories (mostly from scratch), and then realize they need more of something (example: protein) so they go eat grower crumble...
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    Training Chickens For Extensive Handling - Resources?

    In that case, I would not bother trying to take a chicken away from the flock for training, if you just want it to accept handling, and don't actually care what the chicken is focusing on.
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    Training Chickens For Extensive Handling - Resources?

    In my experience, chickens get used to anything that happens regularly. So I would just pick each one up, gently go through as much as you can of the things you want to do, then put the chicken down. Pick up the next chicken... If you have enough time to do each one every day, or even twice a...
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    Duck incubation questions: lockdown, humidity and what happens if they hatch and I’m not there?

    If they are going to hatch at all, I think they will probably do it by Monday. So I would probably leave them until then. If they are already dead, you could peel the shell off and it would not change anything. That would satisfy your curiosity about their condition, and you would not spend the...
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    Sex links?

    Recessive white would turn all colors to white, so the chick would not show that much color. Putting that with how many chicks are dark vs. light, I'm pretty sure recessive white is not causing the light chicks. So the white comes from Dominant White turning the black into white. And then both...
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    Rooster cant shoot directly inside hens cloaca

    Probably yes. And they might be fertile into the next week as well.
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    About Making My Own Chicken Feed

    I have mostly stuck with commercial feed. But I also give whatever I have of table scraps, weeds from the garden, and similar things. Depending on how many chickens I have, that can range from quite a bit per chicken down to just an occasional mouthful. And it can be quite variable, depending...
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    About Making My Own Chicken Feed

    That is definitely interesting. How were you making the mash? When I do it with purchased chicken feed, I just put the feed in the dish and add water. By the time I carry it to the chickens, the water has soaked into the feed and it's ready for them to eat. I do that with chicken feed that is...
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    pet heating pad vs heat lamp

    Exactly. The "best" heat source depends on the specific situation (including things like how many chicks, and whether the chicks are inside a human home with central heating, or in a barn that drops below freezing at night, or something in between.) For a small number of chicks, inside a human...
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    Mixed Flock. Rehomed Chickens.

    If the new birds do not have any diseases or parasites, it does not matter how soon you put them with your current birds. They cannot spread problems that they do not have. But it is common for chickens to have diseases or parasites that are not making obvious symptoms yet, and will transfer to...
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    pet heating pad vs heat lamp

    I have used heat lamps, and I know they can be set up to provide a warm area and a cool area. It's a matter of having the brooder big enough, and using the right size bulb to provide the heat. If the brooder is too small for the amount of heat provided, I agree the chicks cannot get away from...
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    pet heating pad vs heat lamp

    Sometimes yes, in certain ways. Search the forum for threads about "mama heating pad" for a way that appears to work pretty well. Chicks do seem to need heat over top of them, not underneath their feet. So it will probably not work to put the heating pad on the floor and expect chicks to sit...
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    Mixed Flock. Rehomed Chickens.

    When you have them separated, they can each keep eating the feed they have been eating. When you have to buy new feed, I would buy chick starter to feed to all of them. I would probably get unmedicated starter at that point. If chick starter is not available, any chicken feed with a similar...
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