Recent content by Fallenone05

How's it been going on the farm?

This is an ooooold thread my guy. Last response from July 2023 and some from 2022.

I've had ducks for only a year or so. Started with Cayuga (a drake and two hens), then added silver appleyard hens and a mallard hen. My Cayuga are all related, so I ended up switching drakes with a blue Swedish to keep the inbreeding down. None of my ducks have been people aggressive. My...

What did these guys grow up to look like? I had a pure white chick that ended up like a washed out Splash - she has just a couple of black spots on her, more like leakage than plash.

Whats the big blue and orange guy? A Wyandotte or Wyandotte mix?

I have one that also looks like a Welsummer. She's a Starlight Green Egger or some new fangled Easter Egger mix.

It wasn't a complaint necessarily - they're just wondering why a breed advertised as something that lays brown was laying green eggs. That'd be weird to see when you're expecting something entirely different, like something is potentially wrong with the bird.

Sorry to necro an older thread but did she ever give you an egg? Prairie Bluebells seem like they'd be nice to have.

If you'd like to find who is laying what the easiest, put food dye on their booties and put colored zip ties to identify which hen had what color(s). Like if you make purple dye, put red + blue zip ties on one leg. Some people use lipstick (gross) or water-soluble, non-toxic paint on their...

I plan on getting some to keep around but I also don't want to medicate if it's not needed. We have mRSA due to over use of medication and antibiotics, and I don't want to give my chickens something similar.

This morning, before treatment. Today after getting feed out I noticed the older hens that are the leaders have been extra spicy with the younger hens. Three different areas to eat from but over protective of the food source.

Original Neosporin (no pain reliever), but yes. I don't goop it on there thick but I apply it on her eyelids and around the orbital socket. She blinks it into her eye from her eyelids.

The crusties I was finally able to wipe away this morning! After putting her back out with her flockmates, she had her eye open fully. It looks a little swollen and off still, but she was extra squinty while I held her. I might ask my neighbor to help me either hold her or to cut her beard...

Before and after treatment this morning. She can open her eye fully, but me trying to get pictures of her with a purpose and she won't. 🙄🙄🙄 It's not wet like it was, or dripping wet. It looks like it with the saline and antibiotic ointment but it's dry until treating.

Here's her eye this evening, before treating. She went out and ate grass with everyone this evening and had a good appetite when I put feed out in their feeder. I flushed it with saline again and put more antibiotic ointment on it.