calls

Hi, so I’m currently sat out with my chickens on the garden. And I was on my phone when I noticed it was very quiet, I looked and all my chickens were stood completely still, most of them on one leg, staring up at the sky. I thought it was probs just a bird of prey that we usually get but no one...

I am new here, I have had ducks sense I was about 11 years old. Before I got ducks my mom always had chickens. Then she got 4 Pekin ducklings, I was hooked. From then I have had lots of breeds of ducks, Pekin, khaki Campbell, fawn and white runners, buff, cayuga, calls,welsh harlequin, silver...

My nearly three year old Mallard bantam still won't allow the blue fawn drake I introduce to them two weeks ago to breed any of the female ducks. He breeds the mallard hen he came with, and attempts to force the rouen hen to copulate (this rouen is the absolute best friend of my dominant mallard...

My coturnix quail has been sick with coccidiosis, so she’s been quarantined and I’ve been treating everyone with Corid. She’s finally better but today she’s been making this weird noise at the other birds that she’s never made before. What could it mean?

Hi all, we had a young-seeming peacock arrive on our doorstep in October. Have no idea where the lonely guy came from but he's taken up residence here now. (We are semi-rural but have no outdoor animals ourselves.) He makes no noise when eating except when I feed him dried worms - then he peeps...

I have 3 silkies, two of which were introduced a few days ago. The two new ones keep making noises that sound distressed, but I can't figure out what they're distressed about other than moving to a new home :/ Can anyone identify these noises?

I have 4 call ducks right now, but I'm fairly new to this breed. Two of them are a little over 12 weeks and the other two are close to 5 weeks old. I just have some questions about calls typical social behaviors, for example do they have to have a mate? They're in a flock with 21 other adult...

I haven't had a lot of following on my other thread: Call Duck Hen failure to commit so I thought I'd just do a follow up post to share the results of the incubation attempt. After a few early deaths, a couple of infertiles, and one accidental egg cracking (incubator lid fell in), we've ran the...

I have 4 baby chicks and they are about 5 weeks old and I have always wondered one thing. How do you call them towards you? Is there any certain sound that makes them come towards you? I know that when you make a clicking sound with your tongue they freeze and don't move a muscle but I don't...