I have taken on a gosling (unknown type) as he had a broken leg the original owner could not afford vet bills for. I took him on and had his leg strapped. The break was above the knee joint and poor Scuzzles had to hop / flop around for 3 weeks. He did not like this idea and the badages...
Hi, My friend has hatched out her second lot of Welsh Harlequins and one of the babies is crested. The adult ducks came from me and I have not had anything crested in the 4 years I have had them. I get the Karki Campbell throwbacks but never anything like this. It is too cute. Fow whatever...
Yesterday I went in to check my 2 month old quackers as they were making quite a racket. Fortunately I found nothing amiss they were just having a bit of a party! While there I decided to check on my broody ducks eggs as they are near hatch time and a chook was sitting on them at the time...
Hi All,
After reading past threads I realise my hen has been a victim of fly strike.
She is one of my very first hens now about 6 years old. She had seemed to be struggling in the recent heat over the past week and I thought for sure she was on her way out due to age. I more than half...
Hi My friend has an easter egger hen that has been struggling with a respiratory disease for 12 months now. It comes and goes with much time and effort put in with creams, antibiotics, tea baths to the eye, herbal remedies and hand feeding etc. This last bout was so bad that we removed a...
Has anyone ever seen such a size difference in same age ducklings? I have just bought myself and the kids 3 welsh harlequins for Christmas. When I got them they were roughly the same size but you could definitely see a slight difference in the size of each. Now at nearly 4 weeks of age the...