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I've got Black Mottled Japanese and Blue Japanese (some are black, blue and splash). I've got some adults and some started young ones. Shipping would be around $25 from Northeast TN to GA.

I've got several pair of White Call ducks for sale, all this year's hatch. Prefer local pickup in NE Tennessee, but I can ship, weather permitting. They are pure White Calls, penned with some young Australian Spotted for now.

We've been working on Red Pyle Rosecombs by crossing BB Reds with Whites, some of them look like this young rooster? Is he supposed to be purebred?

I agree with using a big magnet to clear the nails, etc. They can not only be harmful to the chickens, but to anyone walking around in the back yard.

Congrats. How exciting to get the first eggs!

I have White Call ducks, Australian Spotted, Black East Indies and Mandarins. I've had to build flight pens with small spring fed ponds in them to keep preditors from getting them, keep the ducks from flying away and to keep them from mixing. Alot of time, work and money involved with those...

I've heard of people that show birds turning down hundreds of dollars per bird, because they didn't want those sold birds competing against the ones they kept. At $200 a bird, you'd think these were some kind of extremely rare or endangered breed. Good quality Orpingtons shouldn't be to hard to...

Can they roost or sit on top of the feeders and poop from there or are they doing this mid-flight?

If you can remove the roost that's outside, they'll go inside and roost where it's safer. I've even had hawks pull chickens through chain link fencing during the day, so you should still think about attaching chicken wire or hardware cloth to the chain link.

Looks like you did a good job on the brooder! Chicks seem to like it too!!! Not only will the plywood sides keep a draft off them, it'll keep them from scratching shavings and food out onto the floor.

I get those small eggs occassionally, the hens usually lay normally afterwards though so don't worry.

I'm sure someone will take them if you post them on craigslist. Lots of people just like to have chickens as pets. I've known people who would just sit in a lawn chair and watch them for hours.

I had a guinea hen come out of the woods with 20 keets. I was able to net her, put her in a flight pen where I've got my White Call Ducks and somemore guineas. I caught what keets I could, the other newly hatched keets could go through the wire to their mom. She took care of them, if any got...

I used to have Rhode Island Reds out free ranging, a hawk came down, grabbed a hen, but luckily it was to heavy for the hawk to lift off the ground. The hawk flew off and I never saw it again.

Rats can tunnel, if the coop's on the ground.

I welcome crows in, they eat any feed scraps and keep the hawks ran off from their food source. I've seen the crows attack hawks in the air. Putting pieces of old garden hoses on top of the chicken pens to look like snakes helps, too.

So if the ducks have enough water to bathe in, they won't get lice? They keep them washed off?

Mandarins are super quite, but they have to be penned up. I have mine in a flight pen with other bantam ducks. You'd have to build them nest boxes as they don't lay on the ground. I have guineas in with the ducks and so far they have kept the varmits ran off, but they're as noisy as the Calls...

If Cookie is quite a bit smaller than the rest, give it another week or two, maybe it'll get louder or get a curl. If it's a runt, the others may pick on it and it may be a quite female at the bottom of the pecking order. If you take it out away from the others, it should get nervous and quack...

I was able to go dig some on a water line. Going to install an outdoor spigot closer to the ducks' pens. I have fibromyalgia, so anyday I can enjoy working outside is a good day!