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Get pieces of rebar (mine were 3’) drive them halfway into the ground in the pattern of the coop that you want. I used 5 pairs for the 16’ long coop/greenhouse I built out of 10’ pvc pipes and covered with greenhouse plastic. Mine was 8’ wide so I needed two pieces of pipe for each rib and...

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Matejka Thank you for your assistance. The anconafarm is definitely a possibility if I can not find the one I am after. That is 260 miles one way but a two day car trip is better than shipping them via mail. I was lucky with mail order in 2019, I would not try it now. I had checked ideal before...

Hello East Texas, I am moving to Harrison County, I am looking for a duck breeder in East Texas that advertised that he raises several breeds, including what I am looking for, the Ancona. I copied and saved it, but now cannot find it. He is North of I-10 and East of Huntsville. How he ended the...

WannaBeHillBilly Guess what: I have a little private cemetery on my land! We didn't knew it before we bought the property and my wife is scared about this. We were surprised when our son picked this particular property of the two when he was looking for a place to build a home. But the...

WannaBeHillBilly Dead End! - That sounds like paradise to me, you won't have no through traffic. Our neighbors are not very friendly & outgoing, they are cemetery residents. We can not see it but we know they are just down the road from us.

WannaBeHillBilly, Harrison County in Texas? - I remember the area as very lush and green, but a bit swampy. We drove through there on our road trip to Memphis, TN. I did not explore much of the county the month that we lived there assisting our daughter-in-law while her husband was overseas...

It looks like it will be a spring arrival for us to Harrison county. There is a long delay in getting the wood floors replaced. They will not be installed until Dec 18th. I took three drakes to auction to trim the flock down to 8 hens and two drakes. I will keep this size until we arrive in our...

It is a Small World. Sandi was assisting at a open house today as she was suppose to with her Realtor company under COVID-19 rules in our state. An Asian lady came in to look at the house for her son. The listing agent handed her Sandi's card and explained that she was there to help her and her...

@Magnolia Ducks I love them. Hurry up and move so I can have some eggs :ya I would like to spend Christmas in our new house but I would be surprised if the wife agreed to travel earlier than spring.

@Magnolia Ducks Here is a comparison of two of my inhouse chocolate anconas and the one mixed breed that I purchased to raise with the black & white drake so he would not be alone. These are my youngest, they were born in June & July. In December the senior drake will be reunited with his flock.

@ Magnolia Ducks :gigIt looks like they are eating pizza.@SailorNoMore are these chocolate Anconas? I would say that these are a Ancona mix. This looks similar to the one I purchased to keep my birthed drake company. The seller apologized that it was a mix. The three that I had by birth or...

When I opened the hens coop this morning I was confused as where the treat ball was. I serviced their water and feed and removed my single egg. Later as I opened the drake coop there was the missing treat ball. When the ladies were mostly done with it they passed it through a tunnel dug in the...

@Magnolia Ducks: yes yes yes On the eggs. I have the bug for sure. Our kids are currently renting in the Woodlands, I do not know if they will buy there. Regardless, it will not be that far from you. When we know that we are going to visit them, we will coordinate with you to meet and give...

Texag87 The that poor baby. As far as incubating some eggs, I will have to see what Spring brings us. Harrison County is beautiful. Except for the deal falling through at the last minute, I was going to move there about 30 years ago. Of course, if you are interested in more variety , you are...

@WannaBeHillBilly OMG! That poor baby almost looks like a frizzled duck! :th The drakes here are fighting a lot, but usually if one of them turns around and let's go, the fight is over. How are you guys doing? What happened to the moving out of state plans? Right now we are having problems...

WannaBeHillBilly Thank you for another very entertaining thread! My Chocolate drake went to auction Friday after I opened their pen and found out that he had really worked over his son during their 15 hour nightly lockdown. They had been sharing their coop for three weeks or so. I was not happy...

Ratchnick If you want to center the yolk use hot tap water, add eggs and stir the eggs as they come to a boil. Thank You! I will try that the next time.

@Lovem all The ones I have, Blacks & Chocolates, lay white eggs. I enjoy the eggs. At first I made the mistake of frying them to long and getting a rubbery texture, when I cut down on the frying time their texture and taste improved. The eggs make a good and noticeable difference in cakes and...

In 2019 I ordered four black & white hens from a hatchery. After they were five months old I found a chocolate drake on craigslist. I incubated four of their fertile eggs this year. And to my surprise two of the four hens went broody and shared a nest and hatched four more ducklings. My original...