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This little Tolbunt Polish Frizzle hatched yesterday mid-morning. She is very, very tiny and has a strange looking nostril area on her beak that I do not know if it's normal. We've left her in the incubator and she's been sort of a lump, which I know is pretty normal for a couple of days. I...

Hello backyard chicken friends, I have a gosling with an eye issue and I hope you can help me! Deets: -- 4 month old male Roman Tufted gosling. Normal weight and seemed normal until yesterday morning. -- Yesterday morning when we let the animals out of the barn he was holding the left eye...

This morning I found a 2 kilo plastic bag of dry black beans in my pantry filled with bugs. I gave it to my husband and asked him to throw it out. He decided on it would make good treats for the chickens and proceeded to throw it around in the chicken coop where the chickens started eating it...

Hi Everyone, I had 4 goose eggs under a broody hen because my goose did not go broody. This hen did a reasonably good job except she pooped on the eggs in week 2. I very carefully cleaned the eggs but it was a big mess and I knew that this had compromised the eggs by blocking oxygen to the...

I have a 1 year old hen, Uhura, who seemed to me completely normal until yesterday afternoon when I noticed one of her feet was a bit swollen. She had not been limping at all and was laying every day as normal. She is not a friendly chicken and is the very lowest on the pecking order so I don't...

I'm hoping for some help with one of my Rouens. My 3 month old Rouen drake has started acting "drunk". He stumbles around, not sure on his feet and his head is somewhat cocked to the side. He shakes (but not like he is cold, it's like he's dizzy) My husband described it that he looks like he has...

I live in a remote and heavily forested area of Mexico and I'm having a terrible time with snakes. I have domestic birds of all types, geese, turkeys, ducks and chickens. The primary snake type is boa constrictor and we've had them here from 1 foot up to 12 feet long. Once we found 5 snakes in 5...

Hi There, Over a year ago I posted requesting help sexing my goose, Gansy. Gansy came by way of a friend without a companion. My neighbors and the original owner swore Gansy was a goose. Everyone on this forum decided Gansy was a gander. I had been on a search since then for a suitable goose for...

Hi Everyone, I have 5 black-bellied whistling ducks approximately 18 months old. One of them has started sneezing repeatedly in succession. 10 times in a row. I also noticed that it's (I have no idea if it is male or female) whistle has suddenly changed from exactly like the other 4 to a higher...

Hi Everyone, I have 5 black-bellied whistling ducks approximately 18 months old. One of them has started sneezing repeatedly in succession. 10 times in a row. I also noticed that it's (I have no idea if it is male or female) whistle has suddenly changed from exactly like the other 4 to a higher...

My poor monster rooster George has had a persistent eye infection for almost a month. It started one morning when I saw that it looked like his eye had been poked (kind of red and puffy) but it did not look bad - not enough to be concerned. But the next morning it was literally bulging out and...

OK, I am convinced my goose is a male (https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/910153/my-goose-has-never-laid-an-egg) but my neighbor will not budge on it being a female. Has anyone seen their gander make a nest? Nearly every morning after he's eaten and gone for a swim, Gansy spends the next few...

A couple of weeks ago my 10 month old turkey (Data) went broody. I was participating in the NYE hatch-a-long and had a hen sitting on a clutch already. Since I wanted turkey eggs and not a broody turkey I started moving her into a separate pen each morning without a nest to try to break the...

Found this weird egg next to the other normal eggs in the ladies favorite nest box today. Thought I'd share it and see if there are any thoughts on what happened. My flock is 6 regular layers, 4 pullets about 22 weeks old, and 5 birds much too young to lay yet. Is it possible that this is a...

Meet George. He and his friend Gracie both hatched on the same day, 6/28 (8 weeks ago) as you can see, George is a mutant. These two hatched on the same day and George must be 3 times bigger than Gracie who still looks like a little downy peep with no feathers. George is nearly fully feathered...

Hello BYC, Last evening I found tapeworms (rice-ish looking segments) in one of my 4 month old hen's poo. It was the first time I had seen that. Interesting enough her poo today is clean. I have not seen worm activity in any of the other chickens poo. Anyway, The situation: I live in a very...

This is my goose Guinan (Gansy for short). Long story short she ended up with us because we lost a chicken to a stray dog and my friend thought she'd be a good "watchdog" for the flock. He didn't really ask, just brought her over one day. But he was right, she keeps good track of the flock when...