Recent content by Vegan Mountain Mama

Hi, my broody bantam Nellie is usually such a gentle, patient and competent mother...she successfully raised a chick that wasn’t hers last spring. She showed broody signs again this spring so last weekend I got her a bantam chick and slipped it under her and she took right to it. Sadly a couple...

I ended up taking her to the vet and I’m glad I did. Apparently her bumble foot scab wasn’t even bad enough for them to treat, it was so small and there was nothing in it....the problem was a sprained leg so they treated her and gave her pain/anti-swelling meds. Thanks

Hi, One of my ducks seems to have bumblefoot (the tell tale bulge and black scab ...like a big swollen black head yuck). And I researched extensively how to remove it and watched demonstrations. But the only exacto knife I had turned out to be extremely dull! So it wouldn’t cut through the skin...

Awe what good mommies! I think my girls just aren’t ready to be moms, they seemed confused and agitated (I’d act the same if someone dumped a human baby on me right now and said it was mine LOL). But thanks for the info it really helped.

:/ yea I guess I was wrong. Sucks. I don’t know why they care about their eggs at all if they’re not interested in being mothers, just doesn’t make sense. But nevertheless I have everything necessary to raise healthy happy chicks; a safe warm place with a heat lamp and chick starter food. I...

I’m trying to get my 2 hens to adopt my two new baby chicks. The hens both like to sit on their eggs and sometimes I see them tucking an egg under their tummies. I thought this meant they are broody (they’re both 1 year old americuanas) so I got them babies. I made a nest for them in a bin in my...

Hahah!! Yah! Omg they do lay super flat...sometimes that’s followed by the other mounting, and other times they lay flat and then suddenly flap and quack and splash, swimming in circles and running around they’re pool like they’re really excited.

i have 2 female ducks, same age, and when I fill up their kiddy pool, they both get so excited and really hyper...one of the things they do in there is stand on eachothers backs and one will latch onto the neck feathers of the other one. The weirdest part is, the one being stood on and nipped...

I usually collect all my birds’ eggs everyday but today I was busy and forgot. When I went to put them to bed I was watching them and saw my duck Jemima (a 6 month old golden 300) nuzzle her clutch of eggs and nestle down onto them to keep them warm (so cute!!). I’ve never seen her or my other...

sometimes when I've been getting my duck eggs in the morning, they've succeeded in submerging the eggs in poopy mud...I never thought this was a problem since I thoroughly wash them before I give them away or sell them. But I recently learned that bacteria CAN penetrate the shell??? wtf *mind...

Yea, I'm a first time duck mom, I wasn't warned hahahaha

Yea, ok..we can just expand our yard perimeter so they won’t be in that space all the time trampling that one area...maybe that’ll help. If not we will have to resort to mulch

It doesn’t get a lot of direct sun no, we are surrounded by redwoods, but there is a point at midday when it gets quite a bit of hot sun but that’s only for like an hour or two. t

Like redwood mulch you mean? Or another kind?