Recent content by Ibchduckin

I have a cayuga drake that is very aggressive with the now 8 week old new comers, I know one of the newbies is a female for sure, she is quacking and he chases her to mate, but the other two do not Quack, they are not peeping either, more like whistling. they do not have curly tail feathers...

I have Black Cayuga ducks, and I believe that when they get to be about 4-6 weeks you can tell the girls by the Peep/Quack sound, I have never gotten any sort of Quack sound from the boys. Also, I had just paid an extra fee from the feed mill where I got my ducks from, for (sexed ducks) to...

YES!

I have noticed that my chickens are shaking their heads a lot and have a white sort of powdery look on their combs . Does anyone have any ideas?

sadly she passed oo. Yes I have males. and she had last layed an egg about 3 days before she began to act sick.

I went to the website that you included in your reply. This seemed to indicate the cause as being lack of water to swim, my ducks have a small pool inside of their pen with which to swim, also the leaking is white, not yellow and I soaked her in a tub of warm water and did not notice an order...

Update: I have moved her to a pen in the garage, giving her rooster booster in her water. She is sipping, not eating, and not pooping. I have never seen a cleaner duck pen. I am still seeing white milky substance coming from the back end... Any ideas? ANYBODY?

I have a female cyuga ? duck, she has been hanging out by herself which is not her norm. and this morning I found her by the pool sipping water, and she had white stringy stuff coming from her back side. She has not laid in a couple of days, could there be a broken egg inside possibly? and if...

It s my belief that they are going to figure that out on their own due to their own instinct. If you let them out in their pen during the day, they will go into the coop on their own as they can not see well at night and prefer to roost off of the ground. I moved my pullets into their coop for...

Well Rita has managed to hatch one egg. Now what do I do? Should I remove her and the baby from the coop? and for how long? My thoughts were to remove them until the baby was old enough to go in and then start removing the bully chickens and introduce them all back into the coop together? Any...

Great idea, Thanks I will try that!

I was thinking the same thing, I am going to watch tomorrow and see which one starts it and take her out over night, they are much bigger chickens then my poor Rita B. So If they pick on the bully it will not be as bad. I may need to rotate girls until they can establish a new pecking order...

Well I knew it was a risk,but I had to protect the rest of the flock until I knew what was wrong with her, also this was way back in July, Early July when she was separated and this bulling is a recent development. She started going broody so I had been fighting her with that, then I noticed...

I have a bannie chicken that is being bullied by everyone, she stays in the coop to stay away from everyone and only comes out to eat and drink but they will barely allow her to do that. How can I break this behavior or can I. She is my favorite one of the 12 and is just a sweet heart, although...