Recent content by astabley

Thanks for your help. She died about 2 hours after I posted my request for help. Still no idea why.

We rescued a duck about 5 weeks ago. Her leg is crooked but she can hobble around.We put her in a kiddie pool for exercise and only the past couple days have we been putting her in the backyard with the other duck and chickens. She lays alot in the yard but can get to food and water. Yesterday...

Hi Congrats on your new babies. We have a chicken just like yours. We bought her and 2 others when they were just colored peeps from someone beside the road. I got a pink,blue, and a green. I think our "Spot" was the pink one. The other 2 were Buff Orpingtons. I just did some research and it is...

Hi I have a zillion flies this year too. Not a problem before. My chickens won't eat them. I just tried the zip lock bag with the water and pennies. Don't bother the flies just lit on the bag. My next step is spraying vanilla water in the coop. I would buy the vanilla car air freshener but the...

I have a broody mommy too. This is her 2nd time in 6 months. The first time we let her hatch out 4 ducks for us. Now shes just sitting on unfertlized eggs. We have 9 chickens my husband doesn't want any more so no more babies for us. I guess you could say we were 'empty nesting' ROFL.

We had a duck that ate our cats food from the time we got her as a little duckling. We did give her regular duck food but she wouldn't eat it. Thing was, she was getting too much protein from the cat food and ended up with deformed wings and couldn't fly. She ate other things like all my...

Hi I bought a bag of DE at Home Depot. Lowes probably carries it too. Careful which one you buy the one for the pool is posionous.

I live in S. florida and this year I have a zillion flies and they swarm on the chickens food. I feed them both outside the coop and inside the coop. I tried the sticky traps all I got was a few mosquitos and a poor lizard. I just read the post about the vanilla air freshners I'm gonna try...

Hi I have a chicken thats hatching out 6 duck eggs. Once the first 4 hatched she neglected the other 2 so i made my own incubator with a shoe box, small light, a pie pan, and a thermometer. Its been a couple days and still no babies but i'm patient.

I'm not able to post a pic. Today my little Americauna's eyes are better. The lesions have gone and she has both eyes open. They are still red around the eyes and watery. She is more active to the point she flew off my patio through a torn screen in the door to join her mommy and sister I'll...

I have a 15 week old Americauna. Within the past 3 days lesions have appeared around her eyes. One eye won't open. She can see from the other but it is red and runny. I wiped her eyes with a wet paper towel but no change. She eats, drinks and poops ok, but she has become more docile. I've...