Thank y’all so much, that makes me feel better. We have chickens, goats and my Dad has cows but this is our first time with Ducks. My husband and I were thinking 4 or 5 ducks so having an instant flock of 12 is a little overwhelming 😂
That’s mom and babies right after we got them. The male is next to them in a bigger pen with a shallow dish for food and water. I also have a kiddie pool in his pen. I am feeding our chicken layer with scratch mixed in right now.
We were told that he is a non flying mallard. The mom is a Muscovy duck. Our neighbors have several different kinds living together and told me they should be okay together. I’m really hoping he likes her and his instant family 🤦♀️
This might be long, so Thank you if you read it. We live in a pasture on my parents property. My parents and a neighbor share a pond in the pasture. The neighbors sold their house several months ago and asked us to take the remaining five chickens they had and one male duck that was living on...
We just returned home from vacation this evening to find one of our girls was sick. My Dad has been caring for them for the past week and separated her out this past week when he noticed she was not coming out of the coop and sitting in a corner. He couldn't see anything obvious until about 3...
Thank you for the responses. I started her on Penn G and today is day 3. She seems to be a little better today but now I have 2 other hens with very loose stools. I cleaned out the coop yesterday and I'm putting lime down today. I am keeping them all up for a while just in case it's...
Thank you. He was a great rooster for 5 years. We lost him right before Christmas to a dog attack. We just recently were able to get another rooster to take over his job.
She is an Easter Egg hen ( I think that's what she was called) I think it's more than just age, though. I'm thinking she has something going on infection wise maybe
Hey! I just went outside and found one of my 7 year old hens not walking around well. She has one eye that is crusty and shut, the other eye is fine. She is making a wheezing, gurgling sound. Last week we found an egg that was broken with Black runny stuff inside. It smelled horrible and I'm...
One of my original hens (6 years old) is sick. She has not been walking well for 2 days and puffed up. I removed her and put her in a stall in the barn. She has just been laying in the same spot all morning with her eyes closed. I've brought her inside since I think her end is very near...
I have a hen that was sitting on 5 eggs. Today is day 21 but 1 hatched yesterday morning. She has been getting off the next today with that one. One egg started hatching this morning and when I went back to check on it, she had been pecking at it and it was covered in blood and died. There are 3...