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At the very least folks who see this will get the memo that they need to keep an eye out for incidents like this and hopefully make ramps of their own. Speaking of irony I guess there may also be some in losing a duck to drowning. I just saw these wire mesh design ramps and they seem like they...

With your stock tank keeping something that floats like a ramp made of wood in the stock tank can be the difference between life and death for unfortunate birds that accidentally fall in. Good luck with your hen I've got my fingers crossed for her.

When I picked out these two babies I assumed they were probably lavender muscovies. Now that they're fledging out they definitely seem to have too much of a brown hue to be lavenders. I have three ducks numbered 1-3 in the first picture. 1 and 2 (the two I thought were lavender) are were nearly...

I've noticed that some people will keep their eggs upright (broad side up ofc) in cartons all the way up to, and through hatch. I had always thought this would make it difficult for the chick to get out of the eggs. Would anyone happen to understand the motivation for this?

@KsKingBee are you willing to do local pickup on chicks (or do you ship)? [EDIT] it looks like i've already messaged you on fb

I was wondering if anyone has or knows anyone who raises Peach Black Shoulder Peafowl. I'm hoping to pick up eggs locally. Distance isn't an issue. 5

UPDATE So turns out I think the dark one is actually a silver and not a tibetan. I doubt his colour will change that drastically after he molts his baby feathers.

Does anyone have any Black Copper Marans X Cornish hybrids? If so do they retain the somewhat dark egg colour of the Marans or does it look like a standard grocery store brown egg? Does breeding a Cornish rooster to Marans hens yield sex linked birds? I'm looking to have meet birds who have eggs...

they're all tuxedo just different colours

Sry in advance if this is the wrong forum section for this. So Ive spent the past few days hatching out tuxedo (pied) coturnix quail and I was wondering if anyone knows more about identifying colour than I am. To my knowledge this one here next to the white one is a wild type tuxedo colour...

Thanks for the reassurance, I just didn't want to jump to killing it right away but looking at it now it's definitely the right move. I'm pretty versed on the starter fluid ether method is that the one you're talking about?

The past two days I've had quail eggs hatching without complication but today we had one hatch with multiple complications. I don't think it fully absorbed it's yolk(?) and it has some tissue sticking out of its belly and I assumed it would either dry off or the chick would die. I noticed...

Definitely depends on what you want out of your birds, your location, you're personal needs, etc. If you make a list (even a short list) it might help folks give you some recommendations.

If you have a wooden board you're not too fond of you could probably just place that on a table and put the lid on top. I'm not sure the auto turner would still fit in it if you used this method but it would work fine. You could use cups/bowls for humidity if the bator doesn't do that automatically.

We recently hatched out some button quail chicks and all is going fairly well. One of the chicks has some interesting wing growth and I was wondering if it's some kind of deformity? If so is it genetic or a result of imperfect incubation/brooding conditions? Will self correct as the chick ages...