Well I bought 5 pekin ducklings last Friday they are all eating and drinking great but one has very thin feathers compared to the other four and now has a bald spot on its wing and the skin looks pretty red. Sorry I'm new to ducks so any ideas or help is much appreciated.
So I have been out of town for a few days and my wife has been taking care of my birds and today I came home and checked them all out and my buff orp felt funny on her breast. I flipped her over and I don't know if she stuck to the snow or what but there is a spot where her skin cam loose and ou...
Last week I got 4 Ancona ducks who did not have the best life before they met me. Now they have good feed lots of water and someone who cares about them. They did not have water to swim before so they are in the pool most of the day. My question is how often should I clean their pool. I just...
I got 4 Ancona girls today from Craigslist they are my first experience with ducks. The guy I bought them from said they were laying earlier in the year but then he was just getting too many eggs so he took all his birds off of layer feed and just put them on corn. Is it possible to get them...
So today I went and picked up 4 chocolate Ancona ducks they were hatched this spring. They were on a farm and not really great no pool just corn for food treated like livestock instead of pets. They are very scared right now in my backyard understandably but is there anyway to speed up the...
Do you think letting eggs sit in the nesting boxes for a little while helps encourage other chickens to lay or should I just grab them right away while the eggs are still warm? All my birds are old enough to lay but some of them seem to not lay consistently yet. I am just trying to figure these...
So yesterday all 4 hens layer great healthy eggs. When I got up @ 7 this morning it was laying in the coop kinda looked like a tomatoes skin at first. Should I worry I have only had these chickens a week but they have been great so far im just new to chickens and not sure if I should worry about...