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  1. Yardmom

    Integrating new ducks (more new than old)

    Not everyone handles duck ratios the same. Ducks form bonds and form territories. These bonds change throughout the mating season. Your number of drakes and hens may or it may not work fine. Adding more hens could make it better or it may not. Personally I try to keep my duck hens to drakes...
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    Feeding frozen eggs back to your birds?

    I don't have quail, but we give cracked frozen eggs right back to the chickens.
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    2nd hen deteriorating after 1st suddenly dropped dead?

    Do the birds have access to stone grit?
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    2nd hen deteriorating after 1st suddenly dropped dead?

    Is there anyway they ate something they should not have? Any possibility of egg bindings?
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    Missing feathers at base of back and now open wound?

    Are any of the hens mounting (to show dominance)?
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    Fighting Hens

    What is your set up like? Are there places to hide? Are there sight line breakers between food sources? How much space do the hens have?
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    Roost Solution for Rooster with Foot Issues?

    Some people use 2×4 with the "4" side up for roosting. The birds don't necessarily curl their toes around the edge.
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    Need advice- leaving chickens alone

    I put feeder ports in a large garbage can. I can put 150 pounds of food in it. I use multiple 5 gallon buckets with nipple waters. With the waters I would not want to rely on just one. This set up is designed for an occasional vacation. I still have someone look in on the birds each day.
  9. Yardmom

    Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

    I'm from NW PA. (Waterford) We have not tried selling or swapping, but do plenty of our own hatching.
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    We adopted 2 pullets. One is crowing like a rooster!

    Although hens occasionally crow, by far the majority of birds that crow are male. If a young bird is crowing it is safe to assume it is male. Looking at the pictures of your birds there is a possibility you have two male birds. How old are they? Up close individual pictures especially of...
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    Only one chicken left in my flock. What do I do?

    I did the mirror with a duckling. It did fine and spent time looking in the mirror. Chickens are flock birds, so getting more birds would be ideal, but chicken can live on their own. A few members have had chickens that choose not to hang with the flock. Others have had situations where one...
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    Confused on gender

    My eyes are not great, but the saddle feathers look like a pullet to me.
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    HELP

    Were there signs of illness before they died? Could they have eaten something toxic?
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    What gender are these duck?

    In a few weeks your female ducklings will start making some quacking type noises. The males voices will take longer to change, but when they do the males will have raspier quacks than the females.
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    Blue and green egg genetics

    You may have realized this from the chart, but blue is dominant over not blue (white). Since it is dominant it only takes one blue gene for a pullet to lay blue eggs. If your roo is homogeneous to blue all his offspring are highly likely to lay blue based eggs. The brown still goes over that...
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    Barred rock

    With a RIR roo and a BR hen, pullets will not have barring (head dot), but Cockerels will. The chicks can be referred to as sex links, but they will not be true BR.
  17. Yardmom

    Geese, vacations, and neighbors terrible guineas....

    Im not familiar with keeping geese, but if the geese would be reasonably comfortable locked in that might be best while gone. I have multiple chicken coops and a duck pen. Every vacation I have to decide easiest for sitters, safest for animals, and finally comfort for animals. One of my coops...
  18. Yardmom

    Mold?

    Is it pitch with dirt stuck to it?
  19. Yardmom

    What colour ducklings would these two have?

    Your white could be carrying color that is hidden by the white. You won't know until you hatch ducklings.
  20. Yardmom

    Young hen with limp for 3 days now has yellow poo

    Posting a pic of the poop might help more experienced keeps tell if the poo is just the result of the diet change or something more serious.
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