Tyson didn't make it. He did ok with the surgery and seemed to be doing ok, but yesterday morning he was dead when they got up. It was exactly one year and one day since he showed up at their house, but it was a year of being loved and cared for
Thanks ero all the comments and ideas. After a ton of phone calls they were able to find a vet willing to see him. Turns out the poor guys leg was broken. Surgery was scheduled and some so stoP. Once the vet was in there he realized it was to damaged:/ for repair so he q Aquarium. The vet said...
Meet Tyson. Tyson is a lone poultry type resident in his home. He adopted his family when hi showed up out of nowhere. He seemed perfectly fine for many months. Out of the blue he developed what looks like a slipped tendon. My Google super powers are broken, I can find nothing on slipped tendon...
Well, until today they have been sleeping in the run on the ground. They each dug a little nest in the straw and sleep in those.
Today though...we will see. I have all the chickens confined to the duck pen and garden. The ducks are free ranging. Im debating on sticking them in the pen or just...
My birds free range. As a result my yard is very well fertilized, and mallow has taken over. Like whoa bad. Mow and a week later its almost waist high. My chickens and ducks get lost in it, they have discovered its great to hide nests in, i discovered stepping on eggs isnt so great.
I also...
Ok, i gave them to a young man across the street. Told him when he uses them to crack them in a seperate bowl and smell them and they might not be good. He came oveer when hubby and i were on the porch discussing them and offered to try them lol. I frequently give him extras, even with only two...
They are no older than 8 days. Today husband and i fixed the garden fence to make it chicken resistant, they are moving in there tomorrow so it will be easier to keep track.
We did 2 months locked in the coop with no eggs in the nest box from her(the other laid in there and the duck did at...
My BO lays daily. Never missed a day since she started. A week ago i checked her nest, which she has moved 3 times, all to places easily found. So i assumed she stopped for some reason, maybe a molt starting, or she was planning on going broody, but a week of no eggs and nothing. Well, today...
or how they suck in water realllll fast and spit it out through the sides of their bills.
yeah yeah yeah..I love my dirty little ducks...AND added bonus...the male ducks chases things, the 2 original hens he ignores, the 2 babies, well, he sees them as strangers....so he chases them...he's...
Nope she's not. Once I put them up there they stay for the night, is just convincing them to get up there on their own.
Yup they are eating just fine now.
Oh how sweet. We are prepared to take it in the house if she rejects it, though I hope she doesn't.
Unfortunately we likely won't be able to keep it, we are already over our animal limit(statutes say 3 small animals, and they include poultry cats and dogs, we have 11 total).
Thank you for the...
try posting in theEmergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures thread also.
I'm not sure what else you can do. Is he eating and drinking ok? I would possibly add some electrolytes, like pedialyte, but I don't know much about treating things in ducks.
So I went back through memory and posts on facebook and figured that may 11th Bella the chicken was sitting on 3 duck eggs. It may have been a couple days already at that point, but I really don't remember how much longer. Assuming they were just placed that day, that means the egg has been...