Recent content by shannabanana

Well this is day two after the surgery. It's really bad. Very swollen and hot, new pockets of swelling. I soaked again, pricked the two new pockets and drained beat as I could. She has lost the feathers on her belly and had a red ring-like mark on her chest. It looks better now but I'm worried...

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Okay so please go easy on me, this is my first BF experience and it was really ugly. So Lady Gaga (LG) has been limping but had no sore so I thought she twisted her foot. Yesterday I noticed almost overnight her foot had swelled up very large, textbook size and look of any googled image of...

Thanks for your replies! I let the teenage and baby rouens meet and cuddle in my "hospital kennel" for a night, but after reading your posts I split them again. The teen seemed mostly indifferent and the babe snuggled into him and they were okay but didn't seem to care much. I put the teen back...

Well she didn't say how old because she wasn't expecting me to get a small one but he's about the size of my two hands cupped. So older than a hatchling but say maybe a couple of weeks old?

I'm thrilled we got as many back as we did. Just another lesson learned. I learn something new every day with my lil hobby farm!

Hey guys, I had two 8-10 week old rouens who were little soulmates. Today one of them was brutally killed by something, maybe a bird? Its head was gone and body hollowed out and empty except for intestines. Horrible. So the remaining duck was of course heartbroken. I cried along with him for a...

I found them!! The next day I found them on the road at our driveway and chased them through the bush all day and the next. Ended up catching two. This morning I found two of the remaining three beside the duck run chatting with their brothers! Unfortunately my beautiful mallard coloured boy was...

Help! My 5 new gentlemen Indian runner ducks were let out unintentionally a few hours after they were introduced to their new home and did not come home for the night! Pleeeeaaaase someone tell me they're smart enough to come home in the morning??? I just adore them and am sick to my stomach :)

Okay so Goldie is a buff orp. He came with his own two hens as a breeding trio I am allowing to free range for a while. I have 20 "of age" hens and another 16 who are slowly being introduced as they are younger. It's not relentless, it seems to happen more so when I'm not around. I noticed a...

Thanks guys :) he has just begun to crow! Apparently having a seasoned cockerel who is a veteran breeding bird has given him enough competition to really find his voice!! Question though, he is really beating up my other roo now! Goldie is super docile and leaves him alone, but he keeps pecking...

Hey chicken lovers, I have a cuckoo hen (coincidentally named gurgle because of her strange cluck) and a buff orp roo who both began gurgling when breathing. The hen was patient zero. I quarantined them both and administered .5 and .7 cc's of penicillin (respective to their weight) for two days...