She died late this morning. She started wheezing after I gave her her medicine, sounded like she was snoring really loudly (like my husband) well cute I knew it was only a matter of time don't know if I aspirated her or if the issue had gotten into her lungs. I did notice after inspecting her...
We have had a run of bad luck lately. A fox has been killing off my flock. He killed my rooster and three hens two weeks ago but didn't make off with them. He came back yesterday, when I thought he'd moved on, to kill one of my geese and take off with a hen and a duck. Now I have one chicken...
I just picked up my new boy a few days ago. I'm new to chickens, mostly I've done ducks in the past, so trying to place this guy to a breed has been a challenge; didn't know there were so many chicken breeds. I thought he might have been a rock since he's black and white speckled but when I...
I have a mallard duckling that is about fifteen days old who has lost all his claws and has big scaly peeling scabs all over his feet and legs. He acts unaffected by this as he gets around as well as ever though he his smaller then my runners of the same age. Seems to be the only one affected by...