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Hey all, i need a little help with my duckie doodles alphonse. He is officially 10 months as of yesterday and he reassembles a mallard but i'm not sure if that is what he is for sure, i got him from orchlens and when i contacted the hatchery they gave me march 15th as his hatch date but he was a...

My duck al got a cough yesterday. i went out, he was quacking, happy to see me , no rasps or coughing and then a couple hours later he was coughing and today he has some wheezing, i was going to get some meds for him but i'm unsure of what to get him. i'm not chancing it getting worse so i...

ok so my drake alphonse moved outside when he was 13 weeks old, he came in daily for a good long while but as the weather got nicer and he gained his stature with the hens, i started leaving him out to enjoy his pool and frozen peas in the morning. We got him a female, her name is nibbles, and...

So my baby is 5 weeks, kept his(?)female looking feathers and is lookinf like a girl... idk if i vent checked wrong or what. So i thought id ask. What breed does my baby look like and gender guesses? He makes a weep weep weep sound which is so cute and if he looses me he makes loud weeps in...

So I have been worried for my boy, he's an only duckie child, and though i've begged to get him a friend i've been told no.. so i spoil him to no end. I was mainly wondering what happy cues your ducks give? Al is a very very cuddly boy. He is on my shoulder nuzzling my neck as i type. He has...

I have searched and searched but cant seem to figure out if i have the right sex for my little rouen. It looked to me via vent check like a girl but im not 100%now. I was hoping you all might help. I got pics for you all. She has just started to get new feathers, we got her at orslens on the...

Hey everyone, Before i begin, let me say that i have read all the aviary sites advising against trying to help wild baby birds and to go to the local wildlife office or call... and where i am, that isn't an option, they don't take or care for birds here and i can't drive all the way to the city...

Hey all, i had a question for ya! I have two quail, dot and pep, which i named before realizing their gender, they came from two separate hatches way back last year in the early spring. Dot recently started laying eggs so i decided to wait and see if they were fertile, and so far i have 6...

I just went to clean out the pen for my older quail, they are about weeks and i have them in a tote just the required size for all 11 of them. I have to clean the pen frequently, they spill the water and food so much so i'm afraid of mold growng so i've been very strict about checking under the...

I have been through the forums and read a ton of posts. the problem is i don't feel like my direct and or spacific questions get answered given how general alot of the stickies are so i hope you all won't be irritated if this is a repetitive info grab. first let me say my little peepers...

Hey all i just wanna make sure i did the right thing here. I had a bakers 2 dozen of coturnix quail eggs that i started incubating the 18th late in the afternoon. I canlded the eggs this past sunda and found only ten had babies in them so i waited till today to toss the others, i figure by...

So my first batch of quail eggs didn't make it, they were rotton as rotton could be on day 21 so we pitched them. This new set i've moved to a new location thats not going to have the vibrations that the first batch had and i invested in an indoor/outdoor thermometer with humidity gage to keep...

Hey all, i'm sure by the time i get this post completed and some answers in things will turn out to be fine, but for the time being i just wanted to ask... i put 26 eggs in the incubator at 9pm on the 21st. today marks day 18, its almost 3 here and they have still not come. i don't notice...

Hey everyone! so i've been a member for a while and i had chickens last year only to find out just how cruel a racoon or opossum can be by loosing all six of my gals with nothing but a bite on the neck. my husband found them, i never saw but i was devastated. we have come up with a plan for...

Ok, last monday we got a surprise visit from my mother in law and she brought me a pair of doves that had blown from a tree in a storm the previous saturday, gave it till monday morning and they were near death and she figured i'd be able to save them. I would say roughly they are about 11...

We recently obtained two roosters by a friend, one is very docile the other is fiesty but still lets you handle him. well the roosters got our coop to themselves two weeks and then we've added our fully feathered baby girls in. now we expected some dominance acts and sure enough those have...

We got our first batch of babies today! well.. three out of the six, we have to wait to get the other three. They are bardrock/road island red mix babies we got from orschelns today. i would say they are about two weeks old with the exception of one, i think she may be a week, the other two...