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I am so sorry for your loss! It is tough telling kids about predator death, OK any death in general. My advice give yourself some time. I had my flock decimated by a predator. I finally trapped a raccoon but saw on game camera I was dealing with 6. I have plugged many of the holes in our...

I still get emotional when it is butcher time. I bring mine to a butcher... But I have learned how to do the deed with my dad.... Worst lesson ever! Even harder when hubby was doing it as he had never done it before and I was imagining they were suffering with his inexperience. My poor...

When I go away I make everything super easy for my hubby, check for eggs, water and feed. I have even got those huge waterers so if he does not check on the, they should be fine for two days! Seems like there are a few weekends where the kids and I go and he is in charge :) good thing he...

I would say they are a bit young, and to keep sending them outside and they will get used to it. I also need to disclaim that until this year I never brooded less than 4 ducklings. The two this spring are very attached to themselves and used to follow me like dogs but are now doing fine...

Our new birds are coming in two weeks! Very excited, told my Dad that I ordered them and I can hear him working out how to build the tractor coop from miles away. He has a truck topper for me to use. If it doesn't come to pass I have extra space in the barn to raise these birds but I think...

Neighbor wanted to get a few laying hens so I went with cackle hatchery? Hubby talked me out of 100 so I ordered 50 :). Hopefully this will be a painless process for all involved!

I have raised very healthy ducklings using CHICK starter! Shock, gasp and the horror! But I also did a bit of research to make sure I was giving the best option. Duck feed is not around here readily and the places I have found it it is quite a bit higher priced than it should. Do I add...

Also unsure of what you are needing help with, I would respond to the person who directed you in the first place and ask them! Welcome to the forum!

I did not hatch out enough chicks this year and as such I have 4 roosters that need to go but that won't feed the family for the year :D. So I am ready to jump into meat chickens! Where do you buy your chicks? I am now pricing them out and am finding such a difference in price and...

No such thing as a dumb question! All of my ducks do not get a pool everyday, but love the kitty pool when they do have access to it. There are a ton of people who don't know what they have, I answered and ad for two female mallards a few years ago.... As soon as I saw them I knew they were...

I have explained that all meat was once an animal. Explaining pork comes from a pig, beef from a cow and chicken comes from chicken. It is ok to be sad when butcher time comes but I explain that we have loved and cared for this animal. They have had a great life on our farm and we can't...

I look like a regular soccer Mom. So no I am guessing I don't "look the part". But I defanatly talk the talk I have this annoying habit of talking about my found joy in poultry as there are so much information that I didn't know previously and I enjoy sharing the odd things I have found...

Turkeys take 28 days, or 4 weeks. I keep putting them in with the chicken eggs which is why I have such a hectic staggering in the hatches. This is the first time I am attempting it! Hopefully I can just put the turkey eggs into the second incubator while the silkies are hatching!

One of my silkie hens has gone broody yesterday, today someone gave her another egg (makes two). Since it is so cold out I am unsure of how many will fit under her and how many I really want to chance with her. I have silkies due next tues, turkeys due next week and then in two weeks I have...

I do this when my egg numbers are up (so far not doing this in winter). Now that I am hatching a lot I also mark the pen they come out of and have also been putting the # in my chicken notebook along with my hatch rates.

What breeds do you have? I don't put heat in the barn but if I know it is going to be -15 or more I will shut the door between the rooms in the barn overnight so they can conserve the body heat. I also give them another layer of straw on the floor so the ducks on the floor have more to snuggle...

What breeds do you have? I don't put heat in the barn but if I know it is going to be -15 or more I will shut the door between the rooms in the barn overnight so they can conserve the body heat. I also give them another layer of straw on the floor so the ducks on the floor have more to snuggle...

I think if the answer is to reboot or reload the page than that is the wrong answer. All other websites seem to load fine for me but the "new improved" byc. Something is wrong with the new system and I am hoping it gets fixed soon....

Fingers crossed. I keep taunting myself with the auction page, the good news is with the change the page seems more daunting and so I am less tempted to buy.

When say deformed, what are you saying? Third leg?