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Also, this is on its backside and I'm not sure what it is. An ingrown feather? It's pimple like, but hard when I gently scrape my nail over it, like a bone or feather end.

I want to give a bit more information that might be needed. We mostly have waterfowl. We have 3 chickens, two are hens and a rooster. They were all home-hatched here on the property, not brought in (our next door neighbors had chickens and moved to Hawaii and we adopted them, they were always...

I have a duck that stole some chicken eggs and hatched them. They are a week old, and there are 3 total. The first two are doing great but the 3rd, that hatched a day or two behind the others, had some mild troubles so I brought it inside to watch. The first issue was some incessant scratching...

I have a duck that hatched 3 chickens (she took the chickens eggs). The first two hatched a day ahead of the 3rd and they are doing great, but today the youngest (who is 2 days old) started peeping in distress and attempting to itch it's face near it's eyes pretty consistently. After it does...

He's a big one like leghorns, so I think that is why he can still get over. I guess we'll try both wings. I thought we got the one wing as short as we can, but i'll take a look again. The idiot wont stay out of the fields, so he's going to be coyote food if he can't keep to the barnyard.

We are trying to corral the chickens in the barnyard for the summer so they leave our garden (and the neighbors) alone. Last night we clipped one of the roosters wings and this morning he hopped flew over the 5' fence like it was no big deal. The hens all followed (but we haven't clipped their...

I will try - i'm terrible with anything social media related. :) Thanks again

Well, I think this is going to be the last update on this topic! I let Coconut and Gertrude back out with the flock today. They were doing great yesterday but I wanted to keep them corralled for one more day just to be sure. They were eager to be back with everyone else and seem to be having...

Another daily update - what is this, day 4 now? Coconut is up and walking again, but not as steady as I felt he was yesterday morning before I had to move him back in. But he's not dropping to his belly either. His back end still droops a tiny bit, but he's doing really well. Gertrude is the...

Other than it was more solid than usual, the color wasn't off from what I've seen from them in the past. They are in the mud digging around all day and eat a lot of green from around the yard - grass, weeds, plants, veggie and herb garden stuff...bugs. Lots of bugs. I'm going to see if I can...

It's a pretty wide circumference, i'll have to locate it and pull it out to measure, but I would really hesitate to use it on the ducks. They are good about drinking their water, so I know the flushes got in to do their work. What should I be watching for with their poops? That seems silly to...

Well, I spoke too soon. I checked on the male Pekin and he was back on his belly having trouble, so in he came again. Hopefully it as just too much too soon and a few more days of rest will help. Yes, I did read the flush article. Having never done a flush on an animal before, and doing...

Time for the daily update. My male Pekin, Coconut, is now back outside. He was standing every time I went to check on them yesterday and even sleeping standing up, so I knew he was doing better. When I took them out of the "hospital" bin to clean it out this morning I noticed he was walking...

Just checking in this morning. My male pekin is standing, but isn't able to walk well yet. He can take a few steps and then comes down to his belly with wings out. But standing is an improvement from yesterday and his back end is up again, instead of drooping down. The female runner is still...

Oh, also this just started yesterday. We noticed it last night when locking everyone up for the night. No trouble before that. And again, we did just move them to a part of the yard we cycle to in the winter/spring, so my concern was there was a weed or something that they ate and shouldn't...