So after a lot of google searches and reading I think that this is mycotoxicosis. Not sure if you can see it in the video but there is a small oral lesion on the end of its tongue. I’m not sure how extensive but considering we had 3 other dead birds I am guessing its pretty bad. The other...
She’s been gasping since we found her. Sunday I believe. She is eating her crumble on her own but I can’t seem to get her crop to grow, I will try a wet mash. My husband got her to drink on her own this morning too. Inside her mouth was completely white when we found her but she is...
Okay, yes I will try and get a video of her. She is in the house so I can care for her. I gave her homemade electrolytes all day today along with the polyvisol and she is still eating banana and eggs.
So we have had an incident here. Its been cold, down to almost zero. We were busy and hadn’t been up to our coop in a couple days. Our power source had blown and our heat lamp on our brooder as well as our water heaters went out. We lost 2 sebrights and one of our new 18 week old chicks...
My little silkie Tina is a bit of a force. She double foot jump kicked to the chest any of the full size hens that got too close and also ripped out a large chunk of feathers off the head of another bird. But she can’t go up against these ducks. I like the idea of a panic room. I wonder if I...
...head off. I rescued her and separated everyone but the brooder is not suitable for long term use and quite small and they need out. Do I need to be worried about actual aggression from this duck? She goes after my chihuahua too but luckily he can not be f*cked with and that was settled...
Hi everyone, we are just at the beginning of winter here in interior british columbia, lst year we got down to -13f for a couple of weeks. I’m looking for some inexpensive ideas for keeping my flock watered. Last year we made a cookie tin heater which is basically a lightbulb inside a cookie...
In younger birds, illness usually presents as neurological. Stumbling, balance and mobility. A lot of people will immediately tell you it is Mareks because of the age and symptoms. If none of your other birds are sick or get sick, it is not Mareks. Separate the chicken, give it vitamins...
So this little thing is a 15 week old silkie we hatched from our two silkie male and female. Dad is a mess of a breed with the straight comb and the leakage and mom looks a bit better. I think its a boy but curious to know what other say as well. It has the dads straight comb but there has...
I feel like everyone needs this, so below are some videos of little Baby Blue. Mama knocked over the water feeder in the brooder last night and I woke up to a very cold and wet mom and baby so they spent a day in the tub with a big warm blanket to dry off and warm up. My favourite is the...
It is the most adorable thing. She talked to it before it hatched. She has all sorts of different calls she uses with it. One for soothing, one for telling it to get under her and another one to tell it to come out and eat. Its sooooo cute! She is such a good mama!