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Thanks. Someone else said that earlier on today. There is a community of wild mallards on a farm pond not far away. There are no bird flu restrictions at the moment as far as I'm aware (I'll check). Maybe she would be safer with them? I know the farmer whose pond it is, but not sure how...

When I was given 5 ducklings, I was told they'd come from a particular local hatchery that specialised in raising ducks for meat. After a bit of Googling I decided they were Rouens. Now they've reached maturity, I've discovered I have 4 drakes and only one female. So i decided to try and get...

Nothing apart from poking and prodding beyond what would be comfortable for a live animal. Despite having that freedom post mortem, still could not see or feel anything that seemed wrong. Goes down as a mystery I'm afraid.

Sadly, found her dead today. She'd gotten as far as being outside permanently with the flock, wing still a little droopy but seemed otherwise fine. I think at least she had a few good days out in the sun at the end. No marks on the carcass, she'd seemed ok shortly before I found her, it's like...

Yes I didn't like the idea of plucking them out either. Thought maybe there's some magic paint-on potion or something that would cause painless shedding. Google didn't find anything though & I have abandoned that idea. I'm pretty sure she's going to be OK in the main, it'd obviously be nice to...

Seems like slow progress but at least, in the right direction. I'm not rightly sure what to do from here. I've let her out for the full day round the garden today (it's 3 quarters of an acre with many different areas, grass, wooded, various post and rail fenced animal pens) and she's stuck with...

2 weeks now, but I'm going to keep her strapped up for a little longer. She's quite happy & stable although she's stopped laying. When I take the bandage off, she can keep the wing up off the floor a lot better but she still can't make it move. Goes out with the flock for a couple of hours...

Still seems OK this morning, happy enough, eating, drinking, laid another egg & calling for the rest of the flock. Hasn't taken her vet wrap off, for once.. I bought a supermarket chicken last night to try and visualise things a bit better. It was a useful experience carefully dismantling and...

Thanks. I managed to feel the wishbone today & I think it's fine. Coracoid disarticulated from the sternum or some other cartilagenous issue maybe, are my current guesses, but I'm no vet I've been able to really get a good feel of all the bones now & they do all seem as they should be (just...

I have a Female chicken one year old, average size. Cross between brown leghorn roo and either a red sex link or a brown lohman mum. It's displaying normal behaviour except, dragging it's left hand primaries on the ground to the extent of tripping on them sometimes. It's refusing to use or move...

I've 2 roosters, a white sussex and a rhode island red, and for hens, 3 brown lohmans and 2 red sex link. Robert the rhode island rooster has the red sex link hens, Bigfoot the white sussex has the lohmans. Bigfoot & the lohmans roost in a fair sized chicken shed which used to be a garden...

So just leave them be & keep up checking the crumb and water's accessible, clean out the poop & give them a supervised half hour out every other day for now, all together, then back in.. that'll be ok for now yeah?

I put a sitting hen in a rabbit hutch with some eggs & she hatched 4. I gave them a water drinker and a feeder with chick crumb. Been checking & changing it 2-daily Last year, 1st time, I messed up & the chicks didnt survive, I took them off their mum too early This year all's good so far...

I thought it might fare better inside, where it can be kept a more stable temperature (no electricity in the coop) & it's easier to confine it to just chick crumb, check it's not being smothered etc. Thought it would also be helpful to the broody to get back to unlimited adult feed because she...

Found a large cage in the local small ads for very little money. I think it was once a parrot cage, it's about a metre wide by half a metre deep by a metre and a half tall. Set it up inside in the house, with an electric blanket designed for pets covering half the bottom, and a 250W infra red...

Thinking about it now having read everyone's comments so far, I'm tempted to blame the layer mix they had access to. A while back I had 2 sheep die from anaemia, and I eventually traced it to the fact they had broken into the chickens bulk layer pellet bin and eaten a load. Apparently it's...

Thanks. I've swept them out & luckily my Mrs' niece had a load of chick crumb spare so I've been able to rapidly get the remaining chick the right feed. Obviously removed the grit as well. The broody still likes to stay in the hutch with the chick.. maybe I should arrange some sort of raised...

Had 3 very healthy chicks all around 3 weeks old in an old rabbit hutch with the broody.. been feeding and watering them daily but ceased giving them exclusively chick crumb about a week ago, they've been foraging about in there over the last week on a mixed diet of full corn, remainder of the...

My 3rd chick ever, just hatched. Still as enthralled as the first time. This one hadn't fully absorbed the yolk, but the cord ended up dry as a bone, brittle, really really thin so I took a chance on cutting it. No blood thankfully. All seems to have worked out - cheeping like a good'un. Don't...

No no, thank *you guys* for having me, I essentially don't know what I'm doing so it's real good to have a resource like this at hand.