There’s 4 Muscovy ducks and 8 chickens, the ducks have their own separate area for sleeping until I can build something else for them that attaches to the run. They are in this run when I took the pictures because we had the lawn treated.
The ventilation is in the soffits and the back has a...
It’s by no means perfect, but I am pretty proud of myself for this since I’ve never built a coop before. Mistakes made, lessons learned, and some sweat and blood went into it.
It is a 10’ X 20’ run and the coop is a 4’X 8’ with the front wall about 4’ and the back is roughly 2’. I don’t have...
We have multiple areas set up for food and water for her but she wants to around the flock. When the drake is off doing his own thing the other hens are fine with her around.
Thank you for the information
Our drake Muscovy has been running off one of the female Muscovy any time she gets within 2 feet of him and the other 2 females. This has been going on for about a month there is no attacking to causes blood, but he also goes out of his way to run across the yard to chase this 1 female away from...
Are they showing any other signs of ND?
respiratory signs – gasping, coughing, sneezing and rales
nervous signs – tremors, paralyzed wings and legs, twisted necks, circling, spasms, and paralysis
digestive signs
diarrhea
a partial or complete drop in egg production may occur. Eggs may be...
Greetings everyone,
My name is Chris I'm 41 and new to the community but not new to backyard farm life. About half my life has been spent either farming or fishing. I grew up on my grandparent's farm here in RI and also down at the fishing docks, but enough of that. My wife and I started our...