Hello everyone!
I’m new to raising chicks myself, but I’ve grown up around chicks so when one of my babies started getting pasty butt, I treated it with warm water like I was taught. A few of my chicks had pasty butt as well, and after being cleaned once or twice, it resolved itself. This one...
Hi everyone! I recently bought three bantams from a frizzle bantam mix at our local Co-op. Two of the three are starting to get their big feathers in, do they look frizzled to you? I attacked a picture of the third one just in case, but I think it’s too early for s/he. I know they have about a...
Hi guys! This is my first time hatching duck eggs and I'm currently on day 27. All five of my eggs are still alive, with two having broken the internal air sack yesterday, and two beginning to pip. The one with the shell missing a bit began pipping yesterday afternoon, but I'm a little nervous...
Hey everyone! I am currently experimenting with incubating eggs. I currently have two in the incubator and they are about day 8. One of them looks good to me, but on this other egg here there's a dark circle in the middle. Is it just the embryo? I've looked at day by day egg candling and I...
Hi everyone! I'll give my background here so you know the story:
This year, I bought a couple of Cayuga mix ducklings because I've always loved ducks! For about ten months I had all four of my ducks out at my grandparent's ranch where I was working there this summer. I noticed though, when my...
Hello! So I’m a pretty new duck mom, right now, raising my second handful of ducklings. The first couple (3) I had, I bought three from a local store here, bonded with me really quickly, and always followed me around. Unfortunately, I lost two of them when they were around 5 weeks old to a...