Wood Chips for Chicken Run Ground Cover
Is it a good idea or a bad idea to use wood chips for chicken run ground cover when raising backyard chickens? Overall, wood chips can be a good material to use for an outdoor chicken run, but there are some caveats. We will break down our approach to using...
Nighttime Routine for the Welsh Harlequin Ducks
We have a standard nighttime routine for our backyard poultry flock. Ducks are easy to train with a nighttime routine. Our toddler is able to herd them into their duck run each night with ease. This is one of the really nice benefits of ducks they are able to learn...
Will Ducks and Chickens Snack on Cantaloupe?
Duck snacks and chickens snack time with fresh cantaloupe from the garden. We are growing several cantaloupes in the garden this year as an experiment. They turned out to be kind of bland and not our favorite so we decided to feed half to the ducks and the chickens...
Ducks Eating Cucumber Snack
Our backyard ducks get a cucumber snack this morning. We have a ton of cucumbers growing in our gardens today and while everyone knows ducks love peas for snacktime they will eat lots of other delicious garden treats. This cucumber was sliced up into spears and then...
Ducks Eat Every Watermelon Good or Bad
Sometimes those personal watermelons just aren't very good. This one was not ripe at all even though it looked good, it was very light pink and kind of hard in the middle. While the duck girls didn't annihilate it as fast as a very ripe melon they still enjoyed their...
Chicken Run: The First Adventure
Chicken run adventure time for the chickens The chickens have finally been moved out to their coop and today they are getting to spend some time running around the chicken run for a first adventure. They have been contained to their brooder or chicken coop until...
Chickens or Ducks: The Egg Difference
Chickens or Ducks what is the difference in the eggs. The duck egg is much larger and richer in taste while coming in at around 130 calories. The classic chicken egg is about 70 calories so much smaller in comparison to the duck egg. We love to use our duck eggs for...
Duckling Leg Problems: Possible Niacin Deficiency
Does your ducklings have leg problems? It could be a lack of niacin in their diet. A niacin deficiency is a common problem with ducklings and individuals learning how to raise ducks. This unfortunately can leave ducklings with lifelong problems and even early death...
Ducks choosing between eating peas or going to forage
Do the Welsh Harlequins choose to eat peas or go forage on their own? These ducks love running around the food forest hunting for bugs in the mulch and as seen on this video, while they are interested in having a snack these duck girls would much rather go on the hunt...
Chicken Snacks | Hood Strawberry Tops
It's snack time for the chickens. We are processing a flat of hood strawberries that we picked up from a local farm. The strawberries will be eaten fresh, turned into home-baked strawberry danish's, and the rest frozen for use later, but the tops go to the chickens....
Duck Snacks | Welsh Harlequins Eating Butter Lettuce
The duck snack for today was an old head of butter lettuce that has started to bolt. As the spring turns to summer we like to feed our welsh harlequin ducks snacks from the garden that we are not going to eat ourselves. Instead of just composting this bolting plant,...
Backyard Poultry – Chicken, Ducks
Backyard Poultry - Chicken, Ducks Many municipalities have relaxed rules regarding having backyard poultry in the city. Given that it is legal to own chickens and ducks in many places they make an excellent addition to any urban homestead. Adding a flock to your...
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