Recent content by Gyoza

Okay I'll get the needed material and try the surgery method. How about the swollen joint?

My poor duck both of his foot has dark red near black patch under his feet and a swollen joint on his left foot. Is the dark coloured patch bumblefoot? How do I cure his swollen joint? Thank you

Thank you for the reply. I think I'll go with roostorf's suggestion. If I'm to cut it's bone all the way to it's joint I'll need to slice open part of it's muscle. I don't feel qualified to do so.

Couple days ago one of my 1 1/2 weeks old cuckoo maran got attacked by a rat. She managed to get away but not without injury. She lost her left wing. There is about 1/2" of her humerus left and of that 1/4" is sticking from been covered by any flesh. I have applied Polysporin on her injured...

Thank you everyone. That's very helpful. That answered why my chicken was soo tough. We ate it about 1 hour after we dressed it.

Hi, Does chicken need to be aged like beef? If yes how should it be done? Thank you

They were. When I saw them dead in the morning they were still wet (except head part is starting to dry). I think may be I left them in the incubator too long with too high of humidity? Then after I moved them to brooder may be it was too dry for their lung?

That's what had me puzzled. They didn't drank any water. It was still full.

Yes they were. That's why we were so shocked to find them dead in the morning.

Actually humidity went up to 95% even with both vent open Sigh entire family is still very sad over loosing the ducklings.

They are so cute Baylor. Congrats!! Sigh, okay back to square one. I've sanitized everything and set another 4 eggs. Hopefully in 28 days I'll have better luck this time. Oh what should the humidity be after hatching?

The brooder is a recycling bin with 75watt IR lamp on top. No the ducklings weren't fluff out yet. After over 24hrs in incubator they were still 'wet'.

All ducklings are dead!! I moved them to brooder last night temp at 96F and this morning woke up to see all three ducklings are dead!!! What happened?!?