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Our beautiful welsh harlequin female (metzer stock) lost her two sisters recently to daytime predator attacks. For multiple reasons we are not able to get more at this time and do not feel our home is safe for the survivor. We do not want her to just live alone, waiting for her time to come at...

Thanks Owen and Amiga! I knew the stress would affect them immediately afterwards, but I guess I totally underestimated how much of a shock it was to lose almost half of the group. I've been noticing a lot of feathers on the ground outside, so maybe there is quite a bit of chasing and other...

Our flock has had a rough summer. First we had to euthanized one of our hens because of a serious recurring bumblefoot infection that didn’t respond to treatment. Then within the span of a week, we lost our drake and another hen to a predator (got into their nighttime pen and killed them). In...

Sad, final update: After showing some initial improvement after her 3rd round of treatment, our duck started to deteriorate again a couple of days ago. Her limp started to worsen, and the abscess had refilled with pus. We made the tough decision to put her down today rather than subject her to...

Update for anyone interested: We went to the vet on Saturday and she thought the duck might have one more chance. So far the treatment has been showing some promise, and now I am hopeful she may recover if we keep up with it for a few more days. The vet felt her foot, but instead of doing...

Thanks! We are going to bring her to the vet in the next couple of days. They are going to evaluate her and how she has responded to her treatments. If needed, they'll put her down there.

My one year old welsh harlequin hen developed a case of bumble foot almost 2 months ago. At first, we just did a very conservative treatment – we isolated her for 4 days on clean bedding, cleaned her foot daily with iodine, and bandaged it every day with neomycin cream. After 4 days, she seemed...

thank you ducksandgardens for the quick reply! They were quiet, no shivering, but feet were a bit cool. I used some cardboard to block off the offending corner so it is no longer available for a pile up and used my hand to shoo a few of them under the ecoglow. 4 of them are now resting...

Hi Everyone, I am new here and a brand new ducky guardian! I have 7 three day old welsh harlequins. Since they arrived two days ago, they have been eating/drinking with gusto, pooping, and sleeping under their ecoglow 20, so I have been feeling pretty good about how they are faring. However...