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I bought 3 several day old guineas about 2 1/2 weeks ago, so they're about 3 weeks now. This one sounds slightly different with the vocals than the other 2. There's almost a 2 part vocal when it chirps. You decide, my gut says female.

I have a 9 month old CC Broiler with some nasty whiteish smelly junk coming out her vent. Up to a few weeks ago she was laying nice huge eggs 3-4 times a week, then stopped. At the time everything looked ok. Today I noticed a foul smell in the coop and when I picked her up, it was her. I have...

So my boyfriend's grandson talked us into caring for a pair of ducklings he wanted at Rural King a few days ago. He actually lives in another state and isn't zoned for poultry. He's planning on moving about 3/4 miles up the road so he's getting a jump on acquiring some ducks for the pond that'll...

Some of you may have read my previous post about a friend's problems involving her broilers. Well, after my friends mishap with getting her broilers processed, she had a few that weren't and she decided not to since they were doing much better than the others. She ended up giving them to me a...

A good friend (and me) decided to get a bunch of broiler chicks, hers are around 13-14 weeks now. She got the flu and had someone else that was supposed to care for them while she got better. Problem is, they never cleaned the coop out and now her birds sound croupy. She asked me if they were...

Ok, I'm not the greatest with converting milligrams to tsp so I could really use some help. I had to go back to chicken feed for my ducks since it over $10 a 50# bag cheaper so I bought an 8.8oz (250g) bag of 500mg powdered niacin for them. For the life of me, my brain isn't figuring out how...

My 21 (12 females, 9 drakes) ducks are semi free ranged in a 27ft x 50ft fenced area which is our garden and often lay eggs wherever (a few will use their coop). We totally free range when home during the day. Often we have crows in the yard but never bothered anything or went into the fenced...

I'm currently raising broiler chicks, they outgrew the 4x4 brooder and a cold spell was coming. My only coop big enough to accommodate all of them was occupied by an older pair of disabled chickens, a buff Brahma rooster named Bram with a brain trauma injury (a rooster attacked him) and a golden...

I've acquired recently a golden comet hen who's about 4 years old. Problem is she has a 3" spur on one leg (photo) and a 2" one on the other plus her nails are seriously long. I've had multiple hens with spurs but not this long so usually I leave them alone. She doesn't like being held at all so...

This baby is 3 months old, was sold as a starlight olive egger pullet, just making sure it is. I'm going with all Brahma roosters and don't need another Easter Egger rooster, my last one had to be culled due to aggressive behavior. We suspected he killed my Cuckoo Marans rooster a week ago...

Well, here I go again having selected pullets from one of our local supply stores and am questioning on one of them. I was told the chicks were about 7-9 days old so they were hatched between 6/1-3/22, making them about 3 months old now. I bought 6 buff Brahmas and 2 Starlight Eggers to go with...

My Runner ducklings are one month old as of yesterday (5/11/22). The fawn/gray one is already doing periodic quacks. Quite loud and definitive. None of my other ducklings ever quacked this early. I'm just glad she's a she. Well it sounds as if both are girls, chocolate one gave a quick quack as...

Over the summer after having a broody Runner duck abandon eggs once 4 hatched (sold 3 of 4). I had removed ducklings to encourage her to sit on remaining 5 eggs. However, several days later, she abandoned them and my chickens destroyed all but 1 egg which was partially crushed. Duckling didn't...

Tiny is a little over 4 month old Easter Egger with stunted growth who weighs about 1 pound, about the size of a small bantam. I need help in determining the sex. Due to size I keep her/him separated from the flock. Typically if I'm out doing something around the yard, Tiny is never far away...

Just need some more expert or layman opinions. I've got 3 5 1/2 month old light Brahmas, 2 are fairly larger than the other one. None are attempting to crow. I'm not the greatest at figuring out their sexes. They were straight run, got them because all had severe pasty butt and employees were...

I acquired this little girl with another who unfortunately died from injuries the next day from a farm supply chain store. She has angel wing as a result of her injury. They were very tiny compared to the khaki Campbell and Runner ducklings in the tank, both were soaked and shivering. The one...

After a crazy time hatching ducklings via surrogates 4 weeks ago and ending up with 5 abandoned eggs, I got a new incubator to try and hatch them, now 4 as 1 wasn't fertile. My little emergency incubator was too small for 5 duck eggs.. I believe the settings for ducklings in the instructions...

My hen was sitting on duck and chicken eggs. A chick hatched but ducks have til 6/9, 6/10. She kicked the other unhatched eggs out crushing one. I thought it were dead but the duckling moved. Fortunately I have a broody duck now and placed the other eggs under her but this one had a broken shell...

My hen, a red sexlink, is 3-4 years old and about a month ago her toes on both feet curled under. I thought she had been pecked in the head or had a spinal injury. She can move about using her wings and beak. She can sit upright and I've even seen her attempt to stand a little. I can get her...

I have a 17 month old (7/24/19) Runner duck hen who started laying about 5 months. She suddenly stopped laying back on Aug 6th, just over a year old. A week later I lost my only khaki Campbell duck hen to unknown causes. She was 2 1/2 and a great layer. Strangely both stopped laying a few days...