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My friend has a rooster she's trying to identify, if anyone can help....

Ducky, my Pekin, laid her first egg today! Doing the happy dance!

I started to create a video to post on here and ask everyone what behavior this was because I've noticed it every time the ducks get into the pond.... Well, two minutes later my question was answered. Funny thing is that I see the two girls (Ducky the Pekin and Goose the Mallard) standing on...

I've read several posts with by new chicken owners asking how long eggs will last in storage (on the counter or refrigerated) and wanted to repost this link about a study done by Mother Earth News: http://www.motherearthnews.com/Sustainable-Farming/1977-11-01/Fresh-Eggs.aspx

I picked up 3 two-day old silkies today!! I'm so excited! They are absolutely beautiful. The come from Blue parents, but one is lighter than the other two. One of the has straddle leg, but I have used the band-aid method to help her and within two hours she is walking along right with the other...

Can anyone direct me to a website that might show pictures (or post your own!) of cross breed ducks? We have come to the conclusion that my Cayuga is a Drake and my Mallard and Pekin are hens. I'm curious as to what they might look like if they breed. I realize that some of the ducklings would...

We are expecting to have some very severe thunderstorms with tornadoes here tonight and being a new chicken and duck mama, I started to worry about my girls. Got me wondering if anyone else does any special preparations to a coop if you know a huge storm is coming? We decided to add a big tarp...

Quackers, one of my two 7 week old Pekins, has all of a sudden decided this morning to start picking on Goose, my 5 week old Mallard. She won't leave her along. Goose will be napping and Quackers runs full blast - head down - at her and grabs a wing and won't let go. Goose now has a bloody...

My DH and I took off three days of work and just finished up the coops and run for our 4 chickens and 4 ducks. Thought everyone might like to see for ideas: This is the coop built out of two rabbit hutches - modified of course. The end has another ramp, but we've made that into the nesting...

We created our run today and added the chickens and ducks. The chicks can be locked up in the coop at night, but the ducks have a dog house that doesn't have a door to close (just plastic covering to keep out wind/rain). We put them in, but they run right back out as soon as we leave. It's now...

So, everyone that owns ducks KNOWS how much they splash and waste water. It's especially bad when you have to brood the ducks in the house and are subject to cleaning the brooder daily just to keep the smell down! I did some hunting at walmart and found the perfect solution to keeping water...

So, I thought I'd gotten a Rouen, but after looking at cute duckie pictures, I just realized that Rouens and Mallards look almost exactly the same as ducklings! Who knew?? (apparently no me!) I got Goose from the mixed duck bin at Orschlens, so I have no clue what s/he is now. Anyone able to...

I have two sets of ducks - One set is 3 weeks old and the other is 2 weeks old. According to Storey's Guide I should be switching over the three week olds to grower feed, but since all 4 are housed together - is it safer to keep the 3 week olds on starter feed for another week or switch the...

In effort to try to get our 2 week old Pekings to at least tolerate us getting them out of their brooder, we put them into our basement floor and bribed them with peas. I think it worked! LOL You can hear the excitement in their squeaks when they realize what I had!

Can it not right itself? We had Ducky (2 week old Peking) flip herself over onto her back and just screamed and scream, kicking her feet, until I flipped her over correctly. If this happens while we are at work, she'd eventually figure it out, right? I'd like to think so since I don't see wild...

Because I'm new to ducks and have a husband that insisted on getting a couple more new ducks tonight, we now have four ducklings. Two of them are Pekings and are about 2 weeks old. The newest two (one a black runner and one a Rouen) are just about 4 days old. The Pekings are twice the size of...

okay, so I've read countless forums about people asking how to sex a chick and I know that unless you are a professional and can vent sex that it's almost impossible, but because this is the first time I've ever owned chicks, I have a question that might just be more Barred Rock related than sex...

Onyx (BR), Ruby (BO), Pearl & Opal (Delaware) - All arrived from chickensforbackyards.com. Were shipped yesterday and the packing job was amazing! :) This is Opal This is Ruby This is Pearl This is Onyx You can see video of them here! Pearl never shuts up :) She loves...

I got two Peking ducks from TSC today!! My chicks are due to arrive tomorrow or the next, so my flock will be complete. I set up a completely seperate brooder for them and they are doing wonderful! Kinda skittish and scared, but that's to be expected for the first 3 hours that they've been...

I bought a jug of DE (food grade) from the TSC yesterday to keep on hand for my new chicks. They arrive in just a couple days and I was wondering about all the actual uses for them. I've read that some people spread it in the brooder and in the nests to keep pests out, but how do you go about...