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my bantam started about a week ago stumbling. I removed her from the flock but se ms to be getting worse. She's eating and drinking but can't stand or falls over. Today I found her almost buried under her chips but she was alive. When I picked her up her face is swollen almost bald with yellow...

I am not sure about #2 as I was getting full on attacked by Mom and Dad after inspection of #1 duckling. I finally saw them yesterday when mom brought them out of the coop to March them around for inspection that we had two that looked like they had splay leg. I grabbed one this morning and was...

I am at a loss. I thought that my first girl had been attacked by the neighbors dog or maybe my overzealous male goose. I separated her fed her, watered and gave her everything I could, but she eventually just completely faded away she stopped eating and drinking. It took over a three weeks...

I know I know why does anyone like the uglies I do! I would like to get them before August!

I have three geese that I was talked into last year that I was assured they would chase off the foxes . I think they must see them coming and push the ducks and chickens in front of them. Anyway, they have always been very sweet to us but with the chickens and ducks they are bossy and with the...

I came home last week to a frantic flock with most of my ducks gone and one runner laying on her breast. My runners are not overly people friendly so as I approached and she didn't head for the hills I knew something was really off. I picked her up and she was hissing away. When I put her back...

So something got to my ducks yesterday my beautiful muscovy drake and hen gone. One runner gone and another runner was crying when I pulled up. She had a bit if blood coming from her beak. She couldn't stand without falling forward and her legs splaying. I put her in her own kennel with heat...

We are a small farm with mixed chickens. Ducks and geese. We have naturally hatched a few from our hens but would LOVE to hatch a few of each including the geese. However we don't know anything about incubators except they can be fairly inexpensive to ungodly expensive. We would like to stay on...

Ok we got really lazy and it started with a broody muscovy then spread to a hen we named terminator. She was attacked by a fox a few months we lost about half of the flock and as I was setting traps that night found her crawling back in the dark with at least 8 bad bites. Well she survived and...

Hello to all! I am new to the chicken world and have become chicken obsessed ( with ducks following) I have a bit if everything from full size heritage to bantam frizzles) I have 8 ducks but I really love my muscovys. I moved to the country 3 years ago and bought a small coop. That was three...

I had a beautiful pair of muscovey and a beautiful pair if khaki Campbell's. A fox killed my muscovey hen and my khaki drake thus spring . Although I vowed no more ducks and I love these ducks and us there anything cuter then ducklings? So I got duck crazed and bought 4 runners, 2 Peking, and...