Posts by folgerrd

Thank you all, sorry I didn't reply untill now! We fared just fine, we got some wind but the storm(well, the majority of it) went around us! If anything our duckies loved it, the wind help them to get a little higher off the ground...

@brookliner we have rescue remedy instead

Thank you so much for responding! One hen loves being handled, the other despises it. Unfortunately I dont know if the hurrican will hit afyer theyre in bed or just before, I might even stay up to see if it hits early no one is certain...

Hurricane Sandy is going to hit us tomorrow night and stay for 72 hours. How do I prepare my birds? Their coop wont with stand 100kmph wind and hurrican rain! We are planning on caging them an keeping them in the unused part of the house...

By three months "he" should look different and be crowing. I don't think you have rooster, unless "he" is developing slowly.

We don`t free range, I`d love to but we live way out in the bush surrounded by woods and hunters and predators. Our property isn`t large and easy to wander off of, as did happen when bringing our three chickens home. We have a small...

I currently have two but we have room for six, and we at the least would like to expand to four. I have heard Cayuga's are quiet, Calls are the bantams of ducks(but noisy), and Muscovys forage the best(but they look a lot bigger)) 

I was told(by breeder) that if you turn duck on back and search through the downy feathers near the butt area for their genitalia. Females will have a hole and males will have a stump-volcano looking part.(I explained them because they...

I don't know for sure, but I'd say probably. The antibiotics should be preventing or damaging the disease, so maybe some signs aren't showing because of them. 

He is doing great! We caught him! It all happened when the dog broke loose and attacked him, we were worried he had been hurt! Luckily it's just his pride(his big beautiful tail feathers are gone ) We searched 'till we found him...