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Just returned from holiday & noticed one of my silkies is having trouble walking, as if her feet are sore. Picked her up & her legs & feet are covered in a hard white scabs. She's also spent most of the day sat in the nesting box, don't think she's roosting on the bars at night!! Could this b...

One of my Aylesbury ducks has developed a swollen belly and she's stumbling a lot. Looked like she was trying to do a poo this morning and fell backwards so I thought it was maybe constipation. Picked her up tonight and its not that!! She didn't struggle much, felt her belly - didn't feel any...

2 of my Aylesbury ducks have developed limps, local vet confirmed bumblefoot in Peaches. We live in the UK, not very common here to have pet ducks hence the vet wasn't comfortable about performing the surgery and prescribed a course of anti-biotics for them both. They've been on the tablets...

I have a silky cockeral who was hatched in a incubator (only one of 20 eggs to hatch) As he was our only one & hatched in the winter he was spoilt rotten and kept indoors until he was 5 months old & started cock-a -doodling!! He was handled daily and always enjoyed a cuddle. We put him outside...

We have 4 Aylesbury ducks (2 girls & 2 boys), they keep laying eggs but neither of the girls will sit on them, so we've hatched some in the incubator. 5 baby ducks are now 2 weeks old, all seem fit, healthy and growing very quickly. At what age can they go outside and will I be able to put them...

Hey, can anybody offer any advice. We had baby aylesbury ducks hatch last week in the incubator, all seem fit and healthy and growing fast apart from one. This little one is now 6 days old, and seemed fine to start with and then every time it had a drink it seemed to throw it's head so far back...

Can anybody help with my limping duck? She had a cut under her toe a couple of weeks ago, we it with antiseptic morning & night for a few days but being a duck she still went waddling in the mud!! After a few days she seemed to get better & then suddenly last week started limping again, it's...

We have a batch of eggs in the incubator from our aylesbury ducks as neither of the girls were broody and would sit on them. We candled them last week and 8 out of 9 of the eggs had movement in them. Only 4 days left to hatch date - when we've checked them this morning we heard a small 'chirp'...

We had 6 Aylesbury ducks (4 females & 2 males) Unfortunately about a month ago something (not sure yet if its a fox) decided to have one of the females for supper. The next day we built a pen and have been fencing all of them in on a night. They seemed to be safe until Sunday night something...

Hi I have a silky chick who is now 10 weeks old and was hatched in a incubator. Since it's soo cold here in the UK at the mo, she has been raised in our home and not been outside yet. Just before Christmas she was sneezing a bit and kept doing a gaping action, we visited the local vet who...

I have a silky chick who is now 7 weeks old. She was hatched in a incubator, and sadly she was the only one. But she's doing well, eats well, is chirpy and dancing around happily - she regularly jumps up and tries to fly across the room. When she settles down for a snooze she does a lot of...

I have a silky baby chick who is now 4 weeks old. We live in the UK and its really cold outside (just had snow) so I think she'll be indoors with us for a while. She's in her own brooder box which we've had a heat lamp in- started at 90 degrees, it's now down to 70. As it's so cold outside we...

I have 2 baby silky chicks, they were hatched in a incubator on the same day and are now 1 week old. One is yellow and one is grey. When they first hatched the yellow seemed a lot stronger and was soon running & jumping around where as the grey one took a few days to find its balance properly...

We've had some silky eggs in a incubator for just over 3 weeks now, we had 2 eggs hatch at 21 days (they are verrrrry cuuuuute) We've left the remaining eggs in the incubator, we've done the light test with them and a few are very dark, where as others the light glows all the way through...