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My 4 month old turkey poult Jon Snow has suddenly developed a swollen neck and is very lethargic. He has been fine until now. What might be the problem and is there anything I can do to help him? The neck swelling feels like air.

My turkey poult Jon Snow who's around 4 months old has suddenly become very listless today and I've noticed his neck is very swollen with air. What could be causing this? I want to do everything I can to help.

One of my 2 week old chicks somehow got itself caught up in the mama hens feathers under her (she's a Buff so very fluffy), I only realised when I went down to do their corn so it could've been stuck for ages today. There were two feathers tightly around the top of the baby's wing. I managed to...

We've lost duck eggs from under a broody duck before, and this evening when I checked on my broody Buff Orpington hen, there were 2 of her 8 eggs missing (day 14, so pretty far along), and in their place was a pretty big stone - like, the size of an egg - and a telltale black feather. That pen...

I hatched two turkeys yesterday from some eggs my mum was given to eat (!). I'm not sure what breed they are. Our incubation temps were a little low due to faulty calibration but they hatched without assistance on day 28/29. One is big and strong and charging around, beginning to eat and drink a...

After my poor Muscovy had her nest raided last weekend and all but one egg taken by crows, yesterday her remaining egg was "helpfully" collected by my mother in law who didn't realise she was broody. We were out and only found out around 3-4 hours later. I stuck the egg straight in the incubator...

Earlier, 8 chicken eggs I had laced on top of our duck house simply disappeared. They were definitely there and approx 2h later when I returned to carry them into the house, they'd gone. There was zero sign of them having rolled off, no broken shells or yolks and no signs of any yolk on a...

Apologies if this is duplicated elsewhere - I've tried to find a thread and couldn't pin down the answer I wanted. I want to get hatching eggs for some copper black Marans (I'm in the UK). Almost everywhere I've looked lists their eggs as being "copper black/blue". I want only copper...

I bought two white star hybrids from a hatchery back in August, supposedly at POL. They were well grown with a bit of wattle growth but the wattles hadn't pinked up yet but I guess they were at least 3-4 months old. 6-7 months later (birds therefore at the very least 9 months old, probably...

My trusty cream legbars who always lay beautifully in their nestboxes have this week laid two miniature eggs on the floor of their run. I can't work out why! The eggs are identical in colour and texture to their usual eggs so I don't think it's another bird (and there are no nests nearby). Any...

I'm building up my egg rainbow! I need to add white (I've tried, but the hatchery white stars I bought in the summer acrually lay cream eggs!), darker browns (Marans coming into lay in the coming weeks I hope...) and some darker greens. Planning a araucana/maran cross to do this - anyone had...

I think two girls and a boy but after my inaccurate guessing with my Marans I thought I'd ask here. I've not had Orpingtons before but I know they mature late. Needless to say we've had no eggs or crows yet!! I'm hoping for two girls and a boy. My last three hatches have been 50% female (6...

I bought some hybrids in the summer at point of lay, hoping to add some white eggs to our colourful egg basket. The white stars (if that's what they are) are laying pale pinkish coloured eggs. Is that normal? It doesn't matter too much as they're still lovely big eggs but I'm a little...

Hello, I just joined up today looking for some advice on some eggs we hatched! We live on a 6 acre smallholding with 28 chickens (at the moment - some are destined for the pot, we hope to hatch some more this year and no doubt the fox will get one or two as he always does), 4 ducks as well as...

I've hatched some French Copper Black Marans eggs I bought online. 3 hatched - one mostly black chick and two which were yellow. The breeder told me this was a "wheatens throwback". The birds are now 20 weeks old and I can't work out a) what sex they are yet or b) what colour way the two brown...