I have one out of five drakes that has been coughing quite often and quite heavily for several weeks. We are in NH and the cough started prior to the very cold "vortex" we have had.
It is hard to tell if it is suffering from any discomfort and I have zero clue as to what I can or should do...
Skully is the duckling that was injured while hatching. H tore MOST of his skull off. I am happy to say: "Happy Two Weeks Old, Skully!!"
He is very strong, the wound is nearly healed, though he may or may not have a bald spot...
Here is Skully with his farm-mate Bear,my Silver Lab.......a...
We hatched! Six of the seven original eggs successfully hatched!! We are so excited!
Five of those six are healthy and thriving.
One, we named Skully. Somehow it had its scalp torn nearly completely off during the hatching process , and was being rejected by Mumma and siblings.
We pulled it...
I love Anconas!!!
Hi everyone! I currently have 3 Anconas:
Smith - is my 1.5yo Brown broody-mamma,currently sitting on 7 fertile eggs!! So far she is doing a great job!! There were 15 eggs I candled this morning and I left only the live ones for her.
John - is my blue bully, age unknown...
Hello everyone!
I just candled eggs this morning and we have 7 live ones!! Hoping to get some advice on here about how to go about doing this the all-natural way.
I have a real good, mature mumma sitting on them, but I'm not sure how to go about letting them hatch. My current plan is to let...