I have a one year old Pekin Drake who has been limping forever it seems, no known cause. Today he wouldn't even try to walk, so for the millionth time I picked him up and looked at his feet... Then noticed his hock was really swollen. Tender. And hot. Ugh. Help!! I separated him and bought tylan...
I took a Pekin duck from the humane society... I had just hatched three ancondas and he's a month older so what the heck, but he now is limping and has this thick callous looking stuff on his middle toe , side of the outer toe and his heel. The other foot it soft all over.
He limps on it. What...
I'm new to ducks... But having fun with these I hatched. They are a month old now and are huge!!! They are out to play, and seems like their feet hurt... I'm worried!
My first try at ducks!!! They were shipped and some were relatively old.... But I have nine who are almost done!!!
I did decide that my bator was running cool as the NYD hatch chicks all came 1-3 days late. So I upped the temp by .4 degrees. Halfway thru for these eggs.
I have a Dickie cabinet...
we have a whole ranch full of sneezing chickens! all with runny noses, some with gurgling when breathing... and that one in particular has a putrid smell... from the breath I think.
the first to be runny nosed were new here, and they cleared up with Sulfa after the two day treatment, but then...
Hi. My one year old roo has been drinking like crazy today and tonight we found him eating but dropping food. So I brought him in and his crop is big and pretty soft. He likes it rubbed. What do I do??
I bought some mixed birds for pretty colors of eggs last year, and they are laying. Some lay pink eggs, fairly dark pink... and some lay light to medium green... and one lays ivory... but here is the rub... there are three hens... and three roo's in there... and I get FOUR egg colors...
the...
anyone else out there setting eggs this weekend?
I bought a grab bag, trying to get mostly marans and welsummers and Barnies...
did get some of each of those, but also got some Ancona, Americanaaa, Faverolle, Dorking, Cochin and Seramas!
I should be quite overrun with chicks if they hatch...
has anyone had this???
I have three two month old chicks in a dog crate for a brooder, it's raining and cold here right now, and their coop is not 'quite' done yet... grr... so, they are in the living room...
and, every night about 8-30, they go on the perches, and take turns jumping down...
I set them so that they would hatch on the waxing to full moon, as my friend instructed me to do...
so, we shall See!!!
I have 11 Blue Marans that were from a BYC'r, shipped, one was broken, I put wax on but will assume that one is a gonner...
and 11 of my own eggs, half Black Copper Marans...
I am probably just really slow here, but I see a lot of posts on people feeding sprouted grains to their flock. Mine can't free range due to dogs and also breeding but have big pens with runs and a coop each bunch. What can I sprout? And how do you do this??
Thanks!!
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I have a chick who has a bit of developmental delaly...
he (oh yeah, It's prollly a roo... of course... ) has a bump of something, hernia? on his belly, but his vent is fine...
the sac that was on the bump dried up , but the bump is there still.. .
he also has curled toes, but they are...
I have a chick who did not absorb the yolk totally, it is brown, and hanging like a pedicle from his/her bum...
I left him./her in the incubator...
how long should this take?
it's humid in there... but it's been a day now and it's still there...
Ugh! My dogs got into the den with the month old chicks in a dog crate brooder. In a flurry before my kids could stop him he got them flying around and killed two but tore the wing off one! It is still Live! What do I do!!???
It seems to be ok the bleeding stopped, it's eating and drinking now...
Ok here are 2 1/2 week old chicks. The first are BCMs 4 then a mix BCM 1. Then some mixed ones that should lay green and pink eggs!
Guesses girls vs boys?
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Can some one give me the quick and dirty on spur clipping...
My frizzle roo has some pin sharp daggers going on, they curve up and back, and are about 3 in. long (he's a banty!)
he doesn't use them, but they are gonna hurt a hen if I don't cut them...
thanks in advance... I don't want a blood...
So someone needs to regime three hens and two Roos. One roo survived mareks and is now 2. Then she tells me ahe hAd mareks again last year. Is it safe to adopt these birds??
edited to correct the misspelling caused by my iPhone's autocorrect... ugh...
I'm pretty new, so can anyone help me with why a chick would fail to turn over in the egg for hatching? I had a breech today, little thing pipped and zipped pretty well but upside down it couldn't push the last bits of membrane thru to come out! I got him out and picked a teeny bit and out he...
Hi guys,
I'm pretty new at this, and terrible at candling... so I do try so I can learn...
yesterday was lockdown, and most of the eggs looked viable (yeah!)
but I did notice that the air sacs now look different, is it normal for them to go from straight across sacs to kind of scooped down on...