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This is my first year with ducks but I've had chickens for a couple years. I'm surprised at how skittish they are even though they've been handled since they were babies. Will they ever get more tame or are all ducks like this? Also they have been housed in their coop and the large enclosed...

This is our first year with ducks and I'm still learning about them. I have a group of 4mixed breeds that are only 1 week apart in age and I have 9 that are the same age but they're about 4 weeks younger. The size difference is very noticeable. Do I have to wait before I put them together in the...

I have a rooster who has been quarantined for a couple weeks while I tried to give him time and medical care to improve an infection in his foot. He is not getting better though and the infection is now moving higher up from his foot into his leg. I can no longer continue to give him the...

I know the normal advice is to skip heat lamps, but we just lost our 3rd hen in 2 days due to the cold. Last winter I lost 1 hen during the coldest snap we had. Losing 3 this fast really stinks and I want to avoid losing any more. I remember seeing a heat lamp of some kind of that was actually...

Sometime today from approximately 5ish to just about when it got dark around 8:30, we had our first attack and it was a pretty big one. I have to look again in the morning but Im pretty sure we lost 4, maybe 5 birds, but only 1 was found. The one we found was right next to the chicken yard that...

I have a young (12-14 week) French Black Copper Marans who was injured somehow on Monday. That morning when I let the chickens out of their pen she initially just stayed in the corner. After watching her for a few minutes she did leave the pen and then I noticed how bad her tail area was. It was...

I have a large fenced run area that had a lot of grass and weeds last year, but one year of chickens did it in and now it's all just dirt. What could I plant that will be hardy and tolerate them walking and pooping all over it? And still be safe if they eat some of it? I was thinking I could...

What can I do to improve the quality of the egg shells from my hens? They eat layer feed, which they have access to all day, plus they get many days of free ranging on my land (about 3-5 days a week they are let out to roam for hours). I also feed them food scraps now and then and we bring them...

What can I do to improve the quality of the egg shells from my hens? They eat layer feed, which they have access to all day, plus they get many days of free ranging on my land (about 3-5 days a week they are let out to roam for hours). I also feed them food scraps now and then and we bring them...

It is day 23+ for some of my incubating eggs. I started candling the ones that haven't pipped and found 3 dead, so I opened them to see what happened. On my 4th egg I noticed after breaking through the air pocket on top that there was no movement so I gently started to *barely* touch the...

I have chicks about 5 weeks old that are being moved to a larger space today. Sometime yesterday they started getting antsy or something and started pecking at their backs. I can only guess that this was a space or boredom issue and am remedying that today. I need to know if I should use that...

My first coop was an 8x10? shed that we converted. We added windows and vents, roosts, electrical, etc and called it good. Then we had this little claustrophobic 4x8 coop that was here when we bought the house. It was just too small to be functional. My big coop was housing up to 25 chickens...

At what age can I start giving chicks some treats like dried mealworms? Is there anything they can eat without needing grit, besides the starter feed of course? Or do I need to start offering grit for all other edibles?

Have any of you heard of a chicken that could be referred to as Americauna/Blue Amerilusions? That was what was listed in the ad but when I've searched I can't find anything like that. Anyone have an idea what the "Amerilusions" might be?

I have chicks and hens of all stages going on and I need help figuring out how to integrate them all. Right now I have 21 adult hens and 1 roo in my coop/run area. 1 hen just had 3 chicks yesterday and there is a possibility of more hatching today. I also have 21 chicks that are in my brooder...

I'm going to need to do my own vaccinations of my chicks because no one in my area does them. Where can I order a small amount of vaccine from? I also need the needle to do the shots and ANY advice on how to do it would be great.

Had a chick hatch over the weekend who is displaying leg paralysis and curled toes, as described here http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/6/diseases-of-poultry/217/vitamin-b2-deficiency It says to use vitamins in the water but I'm wondering what else I could do to help this poor chick...

I posted here https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/770672/chicks-hatching-with-problems#post_10996670 and haven't received a response with any advice and I am hoping someone can please help me out. The first chick in the picture is doing ok-- moving around normally and appears to be healthy but...

I've had 12 chicks hatch with no problem but some are not doing well. This is my first experience with incubating so I'm not sure what's going on. Some of the eggs pipped yesterday pretty early and were showing signs of the membrane getting dried out, turning dark and getting kind of brittle...

Second hatched chick seems to be doing ok and moving around, very alert for just hatching about 10 minutes ago. But she has something hanging off her rear end. It kind of looks like a small bit of poop attached to a strand, but that can't be it. It's sort of greenish and the whole bit also has a...