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I've got a 3 month old cross beak Salmon Faverolle chick who is not doing too good. It's rained heavily for days, off and on for a week prior and almost our whole yard is standing water. She almost never roosts, she can't really preen due to the cross beak so she was WET today and had mud caked...

Ok. So today are my 6 week old ducklings (ducks now? lol) first night out of their brooder. They have housing, food water, safe fenced area. My question is it's 10pm and they are all swimming in their pool. Is this normal? I kind of expected them to go in their house at night since it's windy...

Is there a time frame I should see improvement in, or is she going to battle this for life? :( When my duckling was 11 days old I first noticed her spinning with her neck stuck. I asked on here and was told it was wry neck. So, I began to immediately treat it with Sav-a-chick until I got...

I know everyone has a different opinion about when they are OK without them and of course temperatures outside play into that. I can't even remember when we took the heat lamp away from our hens, it's been two years. I feel like such a first time chick mom sometimes. :p But I also got them...

PICTURE ADDED***** GRAPHIC!!!******* I am not really sure what to do here. I am afraid of putting something on it that's intended for humans and will harm her. My cat somehow made her way into our storage building where the chicks are being broodered in a very large rabbit cage. She was able...

We've always gotten roosters as adults, Never raised one from a chick so I have no idea what is normal behavior for a known male chick. Our 3 week old Welsummer boy has been picking a LOT of fights the last three days. He seems to be always fighting with our Buff Brahma chick (who is...

What do your ducks like to eat for treats? My ducklings have one more week on starter then I am moving them to grower (was thinking Flock Raiser?) But I had a few questions about treats. What do they like? What age can I start giving them things other than their feed? Last question...

I have never raised a known male chick so I have no idea what to look for. I know all of my chicks as far as who is who except these two in question. One is supposed to be a Russian Orloff pullet the other is supposed to be a Welsummer rooster. So, which is the Welsummer and which is the...

One of my black east Indie ducklings, Jemma was acting fine as usual tonight. Then all of a sudden she let out a loud yelp like someone had stepped on her or something but the other ducklings were not near her. I turned around to see her neck in a strange position, almost like a spasm and she...

Yesterday morning I got up bright and early (for me! lol) at 7am and went to pick up my chicks and ducks from the post office. I did not get any of the packing peanuts for warmth and it was COLD here so I was nervous, not gonna lie! Much to my surprise as soon as I opened the post office door I...

When should water for swimming be introduced? Do they need that at any point while they are in a brooder or can that wait until they are outside?

Any special precautions I need to take? Can the ducklings eat ok out of traditional chick feeders?

OK, switching off meat birds for a moment, let's talk about eating layers. I mentioned the other day that my hens do not lay from Sep-late February. They just completely quit last year and started up again in the spring. They quit almost a week ago. No eggs from any of our 15. I assume this is...

Can you order a batch of meat birds this late in the year? Is there any down side to raising them with fall approaching? Will they be ok outside? If I do, what kind should I get? What does everyone prefer to raise for meat? Ideal has Red Broiler, Black Broiler and Cornish. I already looked...

How do they do? My hens are in a run/coop where they have lived their entire lives (except for when they were in the house in the brooder) We've always kept them contained so they did not roam freely onto our neighbors horse field. He would not have liked that. He recently passed away and his...

Someone told me recently that it was typical to get three seasons of eggs out of a hen before they quit laying. How long is a season? Like spring/summer/fall seasons? The time in between each molt? They all seemed to molt in March and are molting again right now. They were all hatched February...

Or is this asking for trouble? Last year, we tried to mix him into the flock but they picked on his horribly, I guess because he looked different. All my hens are red or black and he stuck out like a sore thumb being a white Silkie. Later a pair of Porcelain came into our possession, so we just...

But WHY are my hens not laying? I read the article at the top, and none of the three reasons it lists seem to fit. It costs me $30 a month to feed them and we average 3 eggs a day. So I'm paying $26 more dollars to feed my hens than it would just cost me to buy eggs at the store. I have 2...

We carved pumpkins 4 days ago. My husband was going to throw them out but then he asked if he could shave off the dry layer inside the pumpkin so the chickens could eat the meat that's still pretty moist. I have no idea. Is it too late for them to eat any?

I was just wondering if anyone knew why this happened. She never did molt (or not that I saw) she was never sick, never had weird poop or anything like that. She began to lay in August and laid daily for about two weeks, then she just stopped I felt around on her several times and she did not...