Recent content by CHICKENLADY123

I had 5 duck eggs under our chickens. One hatched, One kinda hatched and I found it the next morning (looks like mom kicked it out of nest) and now...a week later, surogate Mom is not sitting on them and they have large purple coloring on the bottem of them.The eggs are Rouen"s and are normally...

what is a havaheart ?

No bleeding and we looked pretty thoroughly. We have seen some pretty big raccoons in our neighborhood, but in six years they have never bothered our livestock

We have a bronze breasted tom & hen and a bourbon red hen. All about 7 months old. This morning my daughter told me that there were feathers all over the turkey barn. When I went out, I notice that my bourbon hen was missing most of her tail feathers and my tom was laying on his side and missing...

Grabbing her under her breast with two fingers between her legs to give support, other hand supporting her back. These chicks were raised from eggs in a segregated area. None of our chickens have any type of parasite or worms. I had a rooster that we took to a show a couple months ago. When I...

Our ducks and turkeys are laying. I do not know what to do with these eggs. We are all a little leary to eating them as they are green (ducks) and spotted (turkeys). Do they taste the same ?? We eat our chicken eggs all the time and my kids swear they are the best, but need some incouragement...

Thought this was kinda funny...... We had a little d'uccle hen that had hatched her first batch, litter, ???? She was a great little mommy. When the chicks were old enough, we passed them out to the 4-H kids to show at the fair. Once the last chick was adopted, our little hen went frantic and...

I have a hen that pretty much barfs clear liquid all over me whenever we pick her up. Actually she is only about two months old. Raised her from a egg. What is she doing ? Is it harmful to her ? Will it stop ? Gross !!!

We are in Hollister, just south of San Jose. My girls got into chickens because it is the only thing they could show in 4-H due to their age. We started out with Brahmas, Orpington and d'uccles. This year I started my own little collection of Black Cochins and Frizzles. Great layers, great...

good to know because she stopped laying eggs as well

Does anyone know why my male (10 month) call duck loss his green coloring ? He looks like his female counter part. Help. It's fair time and we cannot show our little boy when he looks like a little girl.

Why on earth do some of my chickens and ducks drool when I pick them up ? Is it a stress thing ? Only happens when I move them from one area to another. It starts right when I pick them up. Gross !!!

Thanks everyone for the links and comments. We just got two ducklings about 5 weeks ago (Rouen) and I love them. They are sooo cool. I looked on the website of duck "coops" and fell in love with the idea of having ducks. Move over chickens, the ducks are moving in. I agree with the whole egg...

I agree. I keep all my chicks cages wrapped with screen and 8" bordered with cardboard to keep our ranch cats away. Plus...I keep them up on a table with little or no access for anything to jump on the table in my garage. Unfortunately, they were keeping their cage on the floor in the garage. I...

She told me over the phone that it was a sore, but when I got there it was obvious that it was a cut. It is about one inch long with meat...yes, meat bulging out of it. Remember, this little guy is only 4 weeks old. It is healing, but I think the danger is the infection, like we mentioned. I...