Thanks both of you for your replies. I let them all out together again today after reading your messages and the same happened again but my male is so much smaller than the females so he cant force the new females to submit. The females just run around shouting with my male chasing them and...
I have a pair of mallards, one male, one female. they have been together since birth and are now around 8 years old and are realy sweet with each other. I recently rescued two cherry valley females who are 2 years old and my male isn't acting the same with them. He spends all day whilst being...
Hey everyone thanks for all the helpful reply's! It isn't a prolapse but is bloody vent on the top lip, I saw a chicken pecking at her butt today. It is very swollen and the scab is now missing. Ive segregated her and washed her butt as it was poopy and applied some gentian violet spray to the...
One of my silkies has a scab on her butt. It seams to lead inside her cloaca so when she dose an egg it bleeds a tiny bit. She seams fine in her self otherwise and is still laying and has been for 9 months. Ive considered using a poultry wound spray but as the injury is in a sensitive area im...
Hey.
I have 2 ducks, one drake and one duck, they are around 7-8years old now. I recently got 4 4month old female silkie chickens as companions for them for them.
ive added the hens to the the aviairy with a divider in the middle to have a slow introduction.
I was wondering if anyone has...
Thank you for replying.
Good Idea il hive her some meal worms and add vitamins to her feed :) hopefully that will chear her up aswell and giving her a boost.
Ive given her a warm salt bath as I was worried they were infected and I also have tweezers off the very ends off of the stumps (the...
Hello Fellow Bird lovers,
My pair of ducks are 2 years old and they are having there autumn molt at the mo.
Ive heard about having to pluck blood feathers which I hope Il never have to do because that sounds horrific however my lady duck has had problems with her tail feathers during this molt...
Thanks for the quick reply's :)
nope there has been no blood on the eggs ever, however i have noticed she is heavier than the drake when i pick them up but i just assumed that it was one of them gender things that the lady ducks just are naturally heavier.
Ive just looked it up and found two...
Heya everyone,
I have two lovely mallards one female and one drake. The female started laying just after Christmas and she is having so much trouble with it. The eggs are perfectly fine, no soft shell or anything and normal shaped, however the eggs are a bit larger than i would have expected...