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I can't explain how heavy my heart felt this morning when I received the test results back. My birds have been diagnosed with Mycoplasma. I've been raising and breeding heritage breed poultry for a few years now. I even have my own 'line' of Olive egger chickens that I've been working very...

Anyone known what these strange brown lumps are? I found them in the chickens (or turkey/duck/goose) poop from last year (thawing out from under the snow now) but it's only in some of the pools and not all of the ones I saw. Just want to make sure it's not something bad like an internal pest or so.

I don't know how but one of my pullets managed to dislocate her leg between yesterdays and now. She's still walking around on it (kinda freaks me out a bit ). I'd like to put it back but I'm afraid I'd break a bone, is there a specific way to do it? Sorry for the bad picture. Thanks!

Hello, So my turkeys have laid a nest of 14 eggs and this morning they accidentally broke one. A few got very covered in yolk and egg white and in wondering if there's anything I can do to clean them or if it's better to just let them be. I have removed them from the nest now because I don't...

So I've bought myself some 'new' (to me) incubators. One is homemade and the other is a Leahy cabinet incubator, model number 416 (I think they were called Favorite Incubator?). Anyway I've been looking for restoration projects but haven't found any where it was easy to follow and or went...

Hey ya'll Last night something attacked our Muscovies and Pomeranian geese. One duck was severely injured on the back of her head/neck and one of the geese's head and leg. I'm not sure what is capable of doing that, or what would attack an animal that big. Either it's a good climber or has to...

Hi ya'll, I have a few questions regarding my turkeys... My first question is - do Bourbon red turkeys darken with age? I have a young turkey that hatched June 14th of this year (so... 13 weeks old-ish) and it's got some questionable colour! I've never raised turkeys so I don't know when they...

I came in this afternoon to check on one chicks and I saw what I can only describe as a chick that was corkscrewing its head back in a contorting way. Its barely a week old, 6 days, a gold laced Wyandotte. I've been feeding them a non-medicated starter and they have vitamins added to the...

I had a batch of Turkey eggs in , 5, and all but one died. They were all fertile and developing well but come hatch day only one hatched out. When I looked at what stage they died it was just as the yolk was starting to be absorbed. One was a bit before that, and one was almost completely...

Hello, I'm looking to add some Ameraucana's and or some Wyandottes to my little flock - (Black Silver Laced and/or Blue laced Red). The last time I got Ameraucana chicks, only 1 out of the 6 was actually a hen. She's a very good hen and even the roosters we kept have awesome personalities...

Hey everyone! We are going through a lot of renovations on our farm. One of the things I've always wanted to add again was ducks, we used to have muscovy ducks - I had a Duck named Duckie (original eh?) that followed me everywhere and came when I called her.. good times.. Anyhow, that was...

My mom texted me on Wednesday (October 1st) while I was away at collage and she told me that one of my chickens was limping/lame. I couldn't tell much because I was away, I told her to keep an eye on him until I got home. She figured he might have pulled a muscle. When I got home and went to...

I'm wondering a bit about the genetics of beaks. I got some chicks a while back and I only have one hen of that type (ameraucana) and I would like to breed her to one of my Maran roosters to try and get some olive eggers/ee. However this hen has a crooked beak. When she was little she didn't...

Hello all, I'm a fell bird lover from eastern Ontario! A little about myself: I'm a student going to McGill university studying in Farm Management and Technology - we have a cash crop farm at home, and some beef animals (also some horses, dogs, a cat..ect..). When I was young-er, up until I...