Has anyone housed ducks and chickens in close proximity? I will finish the house for the silkies this weekend and the north side will adjoin the duck pen. In the yard they avoid each other but there's lots of space. I put up a wire wall between the two coops and due to the silkie coop being...
Going to start a coop for silkies only and hope to get a few more for breeding and possibly selling eggs later on. We have a white silkie rooster, a white hen and a buff hen. Have a 10x10x6 area for the coop. I think this is big enough to have an elevated brooder in addition to nesting, roofing...
It's been a good birthday, probably my calmest. I miss my mom n dad and my brother Gerald (Christian). At my age I realize that Birthdays are not measured by who is by your side but by who isn't.
We have 2 Pekin drakes and a runner hen. The hen is hatching some eggs and a couple of the ducklings have dark colors. Is it possible a wild drake mates with our hen?
Our big gray rooster suffered an injury or a bite from something and his left eye is swollen shut. Cleaned his injury with salt water and put some antibiotics in his water. He still eats, crows and mates the hens so fingers crossed it's not life threatening.
We are Greg and Lety. We have about 30 chickens. Cinnamon Queens, Aracaunas, bantams, mixes of the above and some big gray chickens that I've never seen before. I have been around chickens most of my life. We also have 4 Pekin ducks and 11 dogs. Yes the dogs are a mixed variety from our smallest...