Recent content by Tria821

Just an update. I did a vent check and there is no egg however a fair amount of runny, foul smelling, yellowish fecal matter came out. We put her back into a warm bath to clean her up and gave her a dropper-full of crushed calcium, vitamin B complex and aspirin mixed in water every 5 minutes...

She had been laying as of Fall of last year, I don't know if she's laid this year as the chickens like to share one nesting box and ignore the other two. I did not notice any swelling. I believe she can see as she focused in on the cats when they came up to sniff her water and food. Right now...

Crested ducks are much less hardy than other ducks and it does sound like that one had a temperature regulation issue. One thing you might want to try when they are young is to avoid wood chips and use old towels or bed pads for the first 10 days. Just like human babies they will put...

I don't normally give my ducklings anything but gruel for the first 3 weeks. (mix feed with water to get soupy consistency for younger ducklings and slowly thicken it up to thick oatmeal consistency as they age, at 2+ weeks I'll leave a bowl of crumbles available for them to try out) and I...

I have a 1yo barred rock hen who has been perfectly normal, in fact even a little shy, up until yesterday mid-morning. She stopped hanging out with our old girl (6yo mixed breed hen) and simply stood stock still in the yard, staring at nothing for hours on end. She wouldn't come over when the...

The small brown in the front looks like a Campbell, the taller white and fawn looks like one of my Indian Runner. Eggs will depend on sex, hours duck is exposed to daylight, breed and stress. I can expect an egg a day from my Campbells from March well into December. My Golden Hybrid are...