Sorry for the gruesome pictures but I got to find out what's eating my chickens. I originally thought that raccoons might be doing it but I thought they only ate the head, I've caught and dispatched 5 btw. But whatever is eating them usually takes it about 50ft in l behind the coop in the...
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I'm new to keeping ducks and have run into a problem. I have 3 white ducklings and had 3 but now 2 black ducklings. I built them a nice floating duck hut but they won't go inside at night, thought they'd do like my chickens do. Well I woke up this morning with one of the black...
I've been wanting to add a rooster to my flock for a year now. Problem is I live in suburbs and our neighbors are very close. Although I do live in the only area of the city that is legal to keep farm animals, I don't want to draw attention to myself and make my neighbors mad. I've heard of the...
Yesterday my RIR was perfectly fine nothing unusual. I get home from work today and she is just laying in the cope. I pick her and she is very weak. I set her in the isolation box and she is just lying there with her eyes closed breathing heavly. Is it the heat? What do I do?
I made a really bad mistake 2 days ago and decided that I could put my 2.5 month old chicks in with the adults. Everything seemed fine until I got home from work. Two of the chicks squeezed through a hole. My wife caught one and on of them were still in the coop. Both were fine. However I...
Hey I'm brand new to keeping chickens and just got me 4 last night. 2 morning stars I believe they are called 1 barred rock and 1 RIR, all are hens. The morning stars and barred rock are as calm as can be but the RIR is so loud. When the lady I bought them from caught her she was squawking and...