It's getting towards winter, and I live in western NY, (it can get below -20* here during late winter months) and my mallard hen went missing, or so we thought. Our ducks are on a separate property with our other large animals including 6 other ducks, 2 goats, 2 pigs, and 4 horses. Finally we...
Ok, so my bantam/silkie mix chicken was out with the rest of my chickens while I was cleaning their coop, when I was finished I decided to use my Aussie mix, who is not brand new, but fairly new to herding, to get my chickens in.
She had done this successfully many times before. One chicken...
last weekend our ducklings hatched from our chicken hen. 3 of them died. Now we have one strong duckling and one that will be almost 2 days old and still hasn't gotten up. We are getting very concerned for our baby. She is responsive and moves her legs and body around the most that she can but...