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We butcher our own animals and when we get the packages of meat we also get the organs. We cook and feed these to the dogs. I was just wondering if anyone has done this with their chickens for extra protein. If anyone out there does, how much and how often do you feed? My chickens seem to love...

I have a female Pekin duck who has a bloody hole in her bill. I thought it might heal up but it has not. I brought her in today to get a better look and the hole is big enough to see her tongue below. It is at the tip of her bill. The perimeter of the wound seems to have peeled the layer of...

Well the story starts last spring when I ordered 8 ducks and two geese from mcmurray hatchery. Well this past fall my ducks started getting eaten by something. We thought it was a coyote or an owl or the neighbors dog. All of my ducks were eaten, one of my geese was eaten and two of my chickens...

Just wondering how everyone does it. Do you wait a while, do you water it down, directly on plants, how much, flowers and vegis... Any info would help . Thanks

I was wondering if anyone here uses plastic dog toys for their geese. So far my 2 geese that are in with my 7 ducks like to chew on the corners of this cool hollowed out log I found and are polishing the edges of it. The gate to their pen is a pallet so they love to stick their heads through...

my new duckling is only a few days old. So far it wobbles around, its legs look like they were up by the head in the egg, is this normal? They seem really far up to the head and it seems like the duckling doesnt use them much. is this normal, will the legs straighten out in a bit?

So right now is the time of year for cutting hay. My husband is cutting the pivot of alfalfa we have. Usually he runs over a lot of ducks and duck nests , but now that he has me(who just got my first ducks this year) we can try to save some of the undamaged eggs. He has already run over about 10...

I got my ducks a month ago as babies. There is one duck that has always seemed a little weaker than the others and her butt fuzz it pecked off, also she is smaller. Today when I put them out for a bath one of my ducks had its neck stuck and couldn't get up. She cant use her feet and looked like...

So my babies got here, from Mcmurray hatchery, all healthy and running around like crazy. Picked them up this morning at 8, the post office guys had taken a peek and called me, I had left them a card with my information. No one told me they don't smell like chickens, they really do smell wild...

Does anyone sweeten their chickens with any special foods right before processing? I have heard of feeding carrots the night before but I don't know... Also when is too old to butcher roos? I still have one extra rooster from last springs chicks. I have eaten about 5 roos since last summer. I...

Here is my situation. I have a broody hen that only hatched one chick. She is on day 25 and I have no hope for the other eggs. I have the chick inside a brooder. my question is, can I put some turkeys in with the chick and have the broody raise them all together? i have heard the turkeys can get...

Hatching. It had its first pip early this morning. Nothing until I came back from afternoon mass and it was breaking out, I touched it and it started trying to get out more and it only took a few minuites. I was worried what the broody would do. She saw that it had hatched and wouldn't get back...

After the first pip how long should it take for the chick to get out? Also, how can you tell if an chick has died inside. If it is a white egg will there be blood on the outside visible? I had my first pip this morning and so far no more. I can hear the chick inside but I don't see it trying to...

So today I went into the coop this evening when I got home. The broody hen was on the wrong eggs. Her eggs had gotten a little cool to the touch. I had to get her off the other eggs and put her on her nest. My guess is another chicken wanted to sit on her nest when she got out to stretch and she...

First, I have been reading that ducks need niacin. What do you guys give to your ducks so that they have it? Do you give food that has it in it or some sort of supplement? Also how often and how much is enough? Also, I am planning on making my duck/goose pen in a certain area. The problem is...

I have had a hen that in the past week or so has seemed really broody. She has been in the same box sitting on a golf ball for about a week. Yesterday I decided to place a real egg underneath her. I added another today and took out the golf ball. It seems like she has stayed there for awhile...

Here is my coop. The outside was done with recycled tin from a falling down building this winter. The windows I found laying around in some old buildings as well as the door. Before the coop was wood and not wind proof. There were just wire windows and it gets really cold here, -20's, so at...

I have a "pump house" right outside my house that houses a pump to the corrals and is insulated and has no windows and regular drywall. There is about an 8 x 8 x 8ft area inside. Where the light is there is a heat lamp. I have ordered 4 ducks and 2 geese for April. My question is. If I just have...

Hello everyone. I live on a farm with my husband, son and my in-laws next door. We have 3 dogs, 4 cats, 3 horses, a couple hundred cattle and my birds. I am semi-new to birds. When I moved in with my husband a few years ago there were about 7 chickens and 1 rooster. Since then they have died...