Recent content by Donna75964

I have a duck that has been sitting for several weeks....not sure exactly when she started because she was already sitting when I found her. I think it has been about a month since I found her. She definitely has some rotten eggs under her because the smell is AWFUL. My question is this, if I...

I thought I'd post an update. My hen sitting on the rotten eggs hatched 5 of them. When I found them, one was dead and the next day she only had 3. My husband later found the 4th chick in the yard dead....not sure what happened to either of the 2 that died. We put her and the chicks in a...

Thanks for replies but, my question now is, how can you tell if the eggs are developing or just bad eggs. I've never really had this problem before. Other hens have sat and hatched the eggs without problems. I didn't mention.....and it really doesn't have anything to do with her...

I know this will probably be a stupid question but, I'm going to ask anyway. I have a Cochin hen sitting on about 30 eggs (some chicken, some duck). I first found her sitting 3 weeks ago (Jan. 21) so, if any that were under her then were going to hatch, they should have done so by now. She...

One other thing, we have a pond about 50 yards behind our house and we CANNOT get them to stay on it. What's up with that?

I have 5 adult Toulouse geese (2 geese/3 ganders) and one, around 2 years old, seems to be going blind. My husband and I caught him and looked at his eyes and it almost looked like he may have cataracts in both eyes but, we aren't exactly sure. Is this common for this breed? I feel so sorry...

I'm wondering if Polish roosters are typically mean. I had one that "scratched"...that's an understatement but I don't know how else to describe it.....me on the leg one day a couple of months ago and from then on, I had to have a stick in my hand when entering the pen and I didn't dare take my...

I've been around chickens my entire life but I still don't have down how to integrate new chicks or chickens into a flock. I hatched some chicks and they are now about 2 months old and a nice size so I decided to put them in with the older chickens. I did so after the older ones had gone to...

I will try to read as much information as I can about this. Thanks so much for all of your help!!

I'm thinking I may put it in a pen to separate it from the others so it doesn't get run over by them but it can still see the others and not feel alone. These chicks are only about a month old...hatched the end of Feb or beginning of March....and I heard one trying to crow this morning.

Yes, its neck is fine. It just can't seem to stand on its legs or stay upright. I go out every morning and every evening when I get home to help it get water. It drinks so much water sometimes that it throws it up. Last night I put it next to the waterer and put some hay around it to sort of...

What kind of vitamins? Do I just go to a feed store and ask for vitamins for chicks?

I looked up Marek's disease and the picture it showed looked sort of like our chick but I'm not really sure what to do if that is the problem. None of the others seem to have a problem. I feel sorry for it and would love to see it get better....if that is possible.

Chick Starter. That's what I've always fed chicks.

I hatched some chicks about a month ago. Last week I went to feed them and I found one lying on its back. I thought, at first, that it was dead but when I approached it, it started to flop around and try to get up. I picked it up and turned it over and then it flopped around trying to walk. I...