I owned a trio of adult ducks for two years with no issues until earlier this year my male attempted to mate with one of my hens. Thankfully i found her in time, she had prolapse and was bleeding but we managed to help her out and now shes back to her happy healthy self with her sisters and I...
I have chickens and three ducks but i had to sell one of my ducks because he was male and was upsetting my chickens (ive had him for two years and he was fine until recently :( ) but then one of my girl ducks died before i had the chance to sell my boy. I think it was just age as she seemed...
So I ha tched nine birds in may, the ones which i was sure were silkies never fluffed up, I sold all but one (most were obviously crosses but i kept my ginger chick in hopes that because she was ginger like my female silkie that shed fluff up. She still hasnt but thats okay, i still love her...
Unfortunately she died over night :( i have no idea what it was, the rest of the flock is fine (though the big brother was upset for a while) noone else has shown signs of illness and she only showed symptoms that morning and died within 24 hours.. Maybe because she was a bit smaller? She hadn't...
I just fed her water with apple cider vinegar through a syringe and put chick crumb in her beak which she thankfully ate. She seems really skinny, she's always been a small bird but shes a lot lighter and bonier than she was yesterday :( hoping if i feed her every few hours she'll make it, she...
* UPDATE * I just checked her over and she has lice. None of my birds have had this before but we just got a new hen house. I always mite the houses but forgot to do this one and now she seems to have them :( what mites would cause this? I treated her with mite powder and treated the hen house...
She doesnt seem to be paralysed, she just isn't moving around but she will move a little if I pick her up and put her down but im trying to avoid upsetting her. I checked her eyes and they're the usual brown with no hints of blue anywhere. I'm really worried about her :( her poo is white and...
So I had some silkies hatch in May and the smallest one has since grown suddenly ill. This morning I let them all out and all but her came out, at first I thought she'd been hurt so I checked her legs and body and wings and all seemed fine. I then put her on the ground and instead of hopping off...
Yeah, they are, could I have just over fed them? I fed them a bit with the mum this morning but after discovering two dead chicks I moved them and put new chick crumb in their new hutch