I have two female 1-year-old white Chinese geese. One of them went broody over a month ago, to the point that she found rocks to sit on since I took her eggs. After finding and removing rocks for several days I decided to try giving her 4 fertile chicken eggs. Well, she has two left after 27...
We got 9 BBB, 9 BBW and 3 chicks from Cackle mid-March. Within 48 hours of them arriving we were down to 6 BBB and 1 BBW. We did everything we could--electrolytes, ACV, correct temps...I was so disappointed with the mortality rates, especially since these were 4H poults for my kids. We just got...
One of my three White Embden goslings started standing in the water basin yesterday, not moving for over an hour. I gave all of them some lettuce and he/she half-heartedly stumbled over to it but didn't eat any. I wrapped her in a towel and brought her inside where she promptly fell asleep in my...