Recent content by IrelandEyes

awww...so sorry to learn of this! I know you did everything you could. :)

I would definitely clean up her bottom. I have read that if the bottom gets crusted up, it can kill a bird. My friend once had a bird she didn't know had a messy bottom and her poor chicken got hit with fly strike. Not a good situation when its summer and the flies are out. If wiping it...

I have owned ducks for a year and a half. I have found (and also read to confirm) ducks love routine. So, they know in the morning, I open and let them out of their duck house, and I open their pen doors so they can free range during the day (bad weather, I let them just pursue around their duck...

I would say odds are a girl. After nine months, if your silkie was a Roo, I think you would at some point hear a crow by now :) I've had silkies for only a year and a half but, if you have other silkies, compare the size, as I have noticed my girls definitely smaller than my boys. Also...

I'm soooooo sorry to hear she has died. I once a chicken friend who had a chicken go broody and she was a little too dedicated and sat all the time, not eating or drinking. She died. I have read on this loop that people sometimes separate the gal and her eggs and put food and water right next to...

Goodness! I feel so bad this is happening to you. First off, since his eating is not up to par, it can't hurt to try and give him a poultry vitamin drench. You can buy it in a bottle with black dropper at any Tractor Supply Store. You can put it in their water container or even if you can...

Sounds like she may have a vitamin deficiency. First, make sure you make available to her free choice, oyster shell. It ups the calcium that a is used when she makes the egg shell. It also couldn't hurt to give her a vitamin drench. You can buy a bottle of Poultry Drench at you local Tractor...

I have had Silkies a lil over a year. It sounds like your Silkie is perhaps trying to go broody. Silkies are known for going broody frequently. Normally, I have found that all of a sudden one of my girl silkies will find a spot and lay there all day. That spot can be anywhere--even by a water...

I had one duck with leg problems and I was so sad when they didn't get better fast. I really thought what am I going to do but Nician and Vitamin drench after a little over a week really did work . Don't give up yet!!!! You got this!!!