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    Good eye my friend good eye thanks

    Good eye my friend good eye thanks
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    What breeds are these?

    So long story short I put two duck eggs in with my chicken eggs and one hatched and one didn't. Then I felt terrible for the lone duckling so I I had a friend stop at tractor supply & bring me two ducks. I wasn't there to choose so I don't know what breeds they are. So the gold duck in the back...
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    Duck problems

    Never mind she's gone
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    Duck problems

    Hello, bad thing happening here. First I have hatched hundreds of eggs. A couple times during all those eggs I had to step in & assist. I've never lost a chick even the couple times I had to step in. Also, I have never hatched a duck. I had a duck start to pip a hole in the egg a couple days...
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    Chicken vs Guinea eggs

    They are all the same size, the pearls are a year older & just never accepted the new birds when they were hatched. They keep their distance & the older birds are in charge. Hoping someday they combine into 1 big flock
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    Advice needed please reply

    When I said air tight... I mean at night in the rarity it gets in the 30's I batten down the hatches. Where I live it stays HOT in the 90's from spring till fall. So I built the coop with open sides & plenty of ventilation. I also sealed the roof so no drafts then built something like hurricane...
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    Chicken vs Guinea eggs

    Ironically as I type my peals are under the bird feeder, every day when I pull in from work they run to my truck wanting me to shake the bird feeder lol. I think they like the millet. While the white & lavender birds stay separate from the pearls. They sleep in the coop with the Bantys while the...
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    Advice needed please reply

    I put them in a large "chicken condo" that was inside the pen. So the main flock of older mature birds would get used to seeing them & not beat them up when I released them. It would not offer protection from illness
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    Advice needed please reply

    Ok having to make a post I hoped to never make in this dreaded health forum. Im a 2nd year chicken owner. 2 years ago I bought 30 chickens from murry mcmurry & paid for every available vaccination for the peeps. Over the last 2 years I have incubated & hatched a couple dozen chicks all...
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    Chicken vs Guinea eggs

    I know you didnt ask me but I found a "guinea farm" up in Iowa that takes orders all winter for fertile eggs. You can select 1 option that are "mixed" & random colors. They wont ship the eggs till spring & I think 10 of my 12 hatched. Select the "assorted" option & you will get 4 eggs of 3...
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    No more eggs!

    I was referring to this which came up in google as the #1 result when I typed in something like "does winter solstice affect egg laying" At least it gave me hope lol Merry Christmas aart https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/solstice-affecting-egg-laying.1285789/
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    No more eggs!

    3 weeks ago 30 eggs per day (south tennessee) 2 weeks ago down to 6 or 7 eggs per day. This week 2 or 3 eggs per day. Yesterday 1 egg. Even the ducks taking a break. I read an article about winter solstice (which we are in) affects egg laying even in winter layers. According to the article just...
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    hen hasn't laid in a while...

    Im in South Tennessee. 2 weeks ago I was getting 30 eggs per day. White brown blue green. Last week started finding 6 or 7. Last 3 days found 3 then 2 then 1. Winter solstice? Anyhow your bird is probably ok. Merry Christmas
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    Refusing to sleep on roosts

    The only time my buff orphingtons wont roost is if they are broody. I throw them out of the main coop & put them in with the Bantys & they snap out of it within 3 or 4 days. Once I find a big brown egg in the banty coop I put her back with the big girls. The silkies never roosted. They sleep on...
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    Chicken vs Guinea eggs

    My nearest neighbor is in his 80's, I give him free eggs. He asks for guinea eggs which get hard to find as the guineas don't really like you taking them & move their nest. My neighbor walks the property looking for guinea eggs
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