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One of my hens is very lethargic, she doesn't seem to want to eat anything and is drinking a bit. She also has green and white diarrhoea that sticks around her bum feathers. Her tail is quite floppy, not perky like it usually is. She also wanted to be on her own instead of hanging out with the...

I have 2 pekin ducks that I have hand raised and incubated. They are now around 7 months old. I have one boy and one girl. I went away on holiday a couple weeks ago and since then they haven't been around very much. They are free range and haven't been laying in the coop, coming into the coop at...

I live by a stream, and I have two pekin ducks. They are around 3 months old and haven't figured out how to get to the stream at the bottom of our garden. It isn't very far... When I take them down there they LOVE it and do not want to come out, and I want them to find the stream so they can go...

We have 3 chickens and 2 pekin ducks and are wondering whether the ducks will be able to use an automatic chicken feeder if we buy one? We are keen to get one of these because we have lots of wild ducks around our house and area, who like to steal the food. Our pet ducks are not particularly...

I have 3 chickens and 2 ducks. They are free range. We did have a feeder, but we live by a stream so there are a LOT of other ducks that like to steal or food, so we would go through the food so fast and our flock would not get to eat the food(We are thinking of getting an automatic chicken...

I have two 5-6 week old ducklings (Daisy and Jemima), and I think I have a male and a female. We only intended for two ducks (hatching from a incubator), so we do not want any more (offspring from the two) because they make a very large mess and we don't have the space. I was wondering if I can...

I have 3 chicks and 2 ducklings. The chicks are 3 weeks old and the ducklings are 2 weeks. Just wondering when to put them outside? Chicks have nearly all their feathers but ducklings (pekins) do not have very many. Thank you!

I have 3 ducklings and 3 chicks all in the same area. Today I moved them into a bigger brooder. I then noticed that one of the ducklings wasn't quite right. It just sat on the hay and did not move much while all the others were running around. Sometimes it peeps lots. When it does move itself...

I know that chickens can (supposedly) stay in the incubator for 3 days because they absorb all their nutrients from the yolk. Is this the same with ducklings? Also, can ducklings and chickens live together? They are both really little.... Thank you!

With brown shavers female chicks are brown and male chicks are white. Is this the same with the cross breed of white and brown shaver? Also, we were wondering what to do with roosters? I am a vegetarian and I can not bear the thought of them being eaten. We are in a semi rural/suburban area and...

Yesterday one of my chicks pipped. It was the last one to pip, but yesterday was when they were due. It pipped early morning. (around 7am my time) It is now 1:10 pm a day later and it still is not out. It is cracked and it looks like it would not take much for it to push itself out. I am...

I really need some help. When the chickens hatch is there suppose to be something on their bum? There is like a long thread, and it connected to the edge of the egg shell. What do I do? Is this suppose to be here? Is it the umbilical cord? Also, the chick is not running around much. Is this...

This is my first time incubating eggs. I have 5 duck eggs and 6 chicken eggs in the same incubator. Chicks are due to hatch today and ducks in 1 week. There is a pip in one of the chicken eggs and one of them is shaking. I have not heard any chirping though... Is this normal? Also, I need to...