So of course two days before my Cayuga ducklings arrive from Metzer's both my Cayuga and Khaki Campbell ducks go broody...
The ducklings arrived today, what are the chances that I could give them to my broody mamas and they would take care of them?
If they've only been broody a couple of...
So some A$$hat did a drive by dumping of this rooster and he sustained some type of head injury in the process. We're trying to nurse him back to health but we're not getting our hopes up. Quarantined with lots of quiet, dark rest, eating scrambled eggs a little and taking water from a...
...on it that are about nine inches high so I don't think something like a rat could get the eggs out of it and I think their shelter is secure enough that a raccoon isn't getting in... and I would swear that I've had their eggs go missing during the day, too.
Would they really do that?
*sigh*
Thank you all for your responses. It may be moot as something got in there and trashed 4 of the 6 eggs. Found one in each corner with the developed poult broken out...
I have two bourbon red hens sitting on some eggs that are supposed to hatch tomorrow. My question is whether or not I can leave the tom in the same enclosure with the newly hatched poults? He's very gentle and been around other small birds but not in enclosed spaces. I've read that some folks...