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Any ideas what this is? Another duck owner sent this to me. She has three Welsh Harlequin females in a urban setting. They have a fenced in back yard, the ducks forage in the back yard daily and are fed a diet based on the recommendations of Tyrant Farms. I found they were getting a lot of...

We are trying to maximize the use of of flock start to finish. I was really hopeful that our older hens would make it to our table but there is only so much stock and soup I can make/eat. I was thinking about processing the spent hens, grinding the meat and making it into fresh dog food - think...

We have an almost one-year-old hen who, several weeks ago, started limping. She also had a slightly swollen leg. I checked her out and didn't see any physical injuries (no signs of scaly leg mites or bumble foot). This happened after several weeks of bad winter weather in our area, so I thought...

On my 3rd attempt at hatching duck eggs, I FINALLY got two to develop. Because I had two of nine take, and those two happened to be smaller than the rest of the eggs AND were slightly lighter in color, I convinced myself that I must have accidentally grabbed two chicken eggs. I started...

Ever since week 3 or 4, we have gone back and forth on whether or not three out of five of our straight run chicks were cockerels. The two black ones are clearly hens, the other three.... I still don’t know! They are 9 weeks old. These chicks are half red sex link, half “random black rooster”...

We have a four week old chick who we recently discovered is very aggressive toward another chick of the same breed. (I'm not sure of the breed at the moment - we're new to baby chicks and they weren't sent to us with breed info so it's a guessing game until they're older.) The "victim" pullet...

Hello from Virginia! While I am new to owning chickens, I have been around them before as my mom raised and hatched her own chickens for several years. We got our first five chicks (unsexed) around 8 weeks ago. We felt like dipping our toes into the sand before our larger (15 chick - all...