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    Muscovy Ducks Sick -Please Help!!!!

    Avian flu is going around, sadly. I must check your other thread you may be already aware.
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    Two hens snuggling in same nest box?

    ...anxious to help and don't necessarily get those details right off. It doesn't mean they don't know that roosters fertilize eggs before they are shelled or leave the hen. Please stick around and read posts for a little while and then *you* may find you won't have to ask or inform, 'professor' 😉
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    3 month old Bantam Rooster shaking butt on ground

    A little self-stimulation, it sounds like.
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    North Carolina

    We havd HPN1 in western Nova Scotia, they just culled 12000 turkeys at a farm. Restrictions are in place for commercial operations within 10 kilometres of the affected barn to prevent the virus from spreading https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6339576 It's so weird, last month we had...
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    Dyed chicks

    But don't they dye them by injecting food colouring into the shell before they hatch so they come out coloured? I think that would be highly objectionable. But with a mature bird, provided it did not stress the bird then maaaaaybeee.
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    My chicken is snapping her beak, have you seen this before?

    Anxiety would be my guess too.
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    Eating eggs problem

    Well their not really 'just being hens' - that would be being broody and hatching them after there were a certain number in a nest. Eating their potential offspring before they hatch is a terrible habit, that once they learn can be detrimental and catchy, because as we know hens aren't stupid -...
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    Eating eggs problem

    Pictures please!
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    Hen being aggressive towards me..

    ...that you coddle while she bites you, or loveable citizen you'd be happy to socialize with.. Be aware that birds that are molting are targets for *other* birds moving up the pecking order for precisely that reason - they are molting and at a disadvantage for fleeing, flying away, and exposed...
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    Sleeping in a tree

    As was mentioned by another, clip some of their primary flight feathers. Leave enough that they can get up and down from perches in the coop safely and have some cushion, but not get the lift to get up on the roof. You may need to add an extra lower perch in the coop if there isn't already one...
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    Hen being aggressive towards me..

    That may work for the majority of birds, and I agree that a good jolt should work. In this case, HeatherKellyP said that, 'Whenever I peck back at my hen, it makes her even more aggressive and I think she'll go on forever,' and, 'Maybe repetitively pecking back as long as she'll go will work...
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    Swollen Foot in Khaki Campbell Drake

    I have seen people use clear totes for soaking, with a hole cut for the bird's head through the lid (the lid is taped around the hole to dull the edges), or you can put on sponge pipe insulation around the hole edge using the slit, and tape that in place.
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    Hen being aggressive towards me..

    If you know she doesn't like it, that is the perfect discouragement for bad behavior! :)
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    Hen being aggressive towards me..

    If you don't want to peck and risk injury, then hold her down with her head down on the ground and jerk on a neck feather or two, and keep her there despite the struggle until she lays still and gives in. Worst that can happen is a couple feathers may come out.
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    Hen being aggressive towards me..

    Done that with a rooster in front of the hens, he did not try to earn a second go-tound.
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    Hen being aggressive towards me..

    You're not pecking hard enough - to do less is just entertainment. Peck HARDER, pull neck feathers, 'jump' on her with your hands as another bird would - hold her down with one hand while jerking on her neck feathers or poking and pinching hard with the other. Hold her down until she stops...
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    Charlie's Thread

    ...you are experiencing. A very important way of thinking to consider: if an animal is not behaving in a desired way and you offer treats, you have *rewarded* the behaviour. When a prey animal (such as a horse) behaves in a desireable way, the reward for them is immediate cessation of work or...
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    My rooster is a chicken

    Och, 'ee's still just a wee babbie!
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    Rooster does NOT SHUT UP

    Our d'uccle bantam was like this, non-stop every 30-45 seconds, all day long, outside our patio door (before we had a fenced run). He was sweet and as cute as a bug's ear, but I gave him away because the sound was almost as grating to me as a hungry baby's cry - I was losing my little mind.
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    Silkie Hen high on Pecking Order

    Gotya, understood.
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