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I know they say never to bring your work home with you, but when I found a hen in a “catatonic” state of trauma from surviving a suspected hawk attack out on the farm I work at, and the head farmer’s answer was to cull her, well, I just couldn’t let that happen so I brought her home to recover...

I just started a new job at a local pasture raised chicken farm. Our mission at Alcove Farms is to sow, grow, and restore. We pasture raise cattle and about 3,000 organically fed laying hens on 160 acres. We sell our eggs at the local grocery stores and farmer’s markets. We have been having...

Has anyone ever tried crossing a black Swedish with fawn and white Indian runners? My one male drake is a black and white Swedish, and I also have a black Swedish female, two blue Swedish females and two fawn and white Indian runner females. I’m curious what might result in crossing my black...

Can anyone tell me where to get Organic Duck Pellets? Local feed store carries only chicken feed, not ducks and the only pellets they carry is chicken layer pellets. Is there an organic maintainer pellet somewhere I can order? Is it bad to give them chicken layer pellets even when they aren’t...

My ducks are still very young and not going to be laying for another ten weeks or so, but I am wondering if I will need to provide them some kind of laying box or prepare a special nesting or laying area? Please tell me about and/or post a picture of your ducks' laying area.

I have two five-week-old, two four-week-old, and two three-week-old ducklings and this is my first time raising ducks. I have been brooding them in a 3ftx8ft covered brooder box. During the day they have free range of the backyard and if I have to go someplace I pen them in a 4ftx4ft covered...

I have five, four, and three week old ducklings and I finally got the duck house built in the section of the yard that I designated for the duckpen, but I need some landscap--I mean DUCKscaping advice! The duck-pen area was a part of the yard that hasn't been used for anything for a while and...

Hello, um, er, Quack! As you might have guessed from the thread title, from my screen name and from the greeting, I raise ducks! I used to raise chickens several years ago, and was recently thinking about bringing up a new flock, but it was my love of gardening that made me consider ducks this...

I am raising backyard ducklings and there’s an owl(s) in the neighborhood. One swooped down over my flock twice one morning and I had to scare it off. This morning it picked up and took the head clean off of a young dove in my yard! I can’t help but think that could’ve been one of my...

I obtained two ducklings from tractor supply to augment my mixed flock of black Swedish and Indian runners. The two from tractor supply are two weeks old now and are grey and yellow. I’m pretty sure the blue-billed one with mostly grey body and a touch of yellow on the collar is a blue Swedish...