Posts by Niss

It died a few hours later.

A pekin hatched by one of my hens earlier this week got left behind today.  When I found it, the duckling let me pick it up.  No peeps!  On closer inspection it was blowing saliva bubbles and had a clogged nose.  I...

lotsacluckin--one of two posible dads is a silver duckwing oegb...but that is almost exactly what the chick looks like!  She is still a little week as a scuffle between hens crushed her egg on hatch morning--I thought she was a...

I can get one tonight

Not albino...it's got normal eyes.  Some one said "silver expression"...I'll need to look that up....

I have been busy and I'm probably hundreds of pages behind again, but had to give this update-- My duck, Miss Lydia, sat on 7 eggs, most of which mysteriously disappeared, but this weekend she hatched one perfect little pekin! ...

My hen hatched 3 mixed chicks yesterday.  One is black, one is typical chick yellow, but one is white.  What's up with that?  I've never seen a white chick.

My first duckling hatched last night about 8pm.  Just now I moved the chicken mother, ducklings, and unhatched eggs to a nest on the floor and I noticed the first little duck's one foot is tightly curled under, and using light...

I'm thinking of putting rocks/bricks in the kiddie pool so the chicks could climb back out if they jumped in.  The ducks will be able to clean up it that while they are confined.   I might not have explaned the set...

That sounds about right, thank you! They use to free range and had a little streem with 4 or 5 pools deep enough to dive in, but the eye problems started shortly after I began locking them in the run until I get home at 4.  In...