Another one of our chicks (a jersey giant chick) dropped down on the ground and started scratching its head both sides while screaming. We immediately separated it from the other chicks and have it in a "sick tank." I've given it vitamins and cleaned the brooder and put very little dust in there...
We just got a shipment of chicks today and noticed that one of them seems to be shaking and moves sideways and backwards when it moves. I did the Homemade Electrolyte Recipe that I found on the site but can't find what could possibly be wrong with the chick. Its head isn't pointed up and legs...
About a week ago our rooster survived skunks attack with only a loss of a spur (last Thursday). I took him inside and cleaned and wrapped his wound and by Tuesday he seemed well enough to go back outside. He and the other rooster had some fights that day and it was established he was no longer...
We have two muscovies out there laying on eggs and they hatched two ducklings (one on Thursday, one on Friday). When I went to check on the ducklings just now I found one of them dead having been squished. Should I move the remaining one indoors with a heating lamp/etc or let the mama's continue...
Our female mallard got really headstrong in the past week and went into hiding at dark instead of going to the enclosure (like she had been doing for three months) at night. Two nights ago I wasn't able to find her after searching so had to call it a night hoping she had hunkered down somewhere...
Early summer bred our "mudblood" (1/2 araucana, 1/2 rhode island red) with an Ameraucana rooster to continue a line of chickens important to my boyfriends Mom (the "mudbloods" hens we have are the products of a hen and rooster she used to have and loved that were killed by predators). These...
Hello! My boyfriend and I have had chickens for about two years. He grew up on a farm and his parents have lots of chickens. I used to have a real fear of chickens until I visited their farm and tasted farm fresh eggs. From that moment on I was sold and really wanted chickens! His Mom was kind...
Hello! Had a few questions about ducklings. My boyfriend and I got two runner ducks, a swedish and a mallard who are now two weeks (and a day!) old. This coupled with week old chicks (4!) which unexpectedly hatched (we apparently are really, really bad at the candle test!) and it's kind of...