Hi everyone. So I bought 10 meat chicks two weeks ago and they have all been doing great until yesterday. I've noticed that one of them refuses to stand. I realize that meat birds grow faster than they can handle, but i haven't read anything about it happening this early. They are 16 days old as...
I just got my 10 meaties yesterday and some of them are continuously scratching around trying to find food in the bedding. I've put dipped their beaks in the feed, but they won't eat it! There are about half of them that are doing this. What should I do? Will they find it on their own...
I recently started raising quail. I bought four breeder birds (one male and three females) and I'm going to hatch out their eggs in my brinsea incubator. However, I can't tell for sure if their eggs are fertile. I've been looking for the "bullseye" in the yolk, and I'm not sure it that's what...
Hi all, I am part of the FFA organization at my highschool. For my SAE (supervised agricultural experience) project, I would like to raise 10 Cornish X meat birds. I want to sell two of them at the county fair and process the rest at home. My problem is, I don't want to raise them how they are...
I have a mother duck who has been hatching eggs out. One of the babies hatched and she just left the nest! There are still five eggs left. One of them is hatching right now too! Should I do anything for the eggs she left or should I just leave them alone?
It is really hard for me to write this right now. :( My one and only duckling was a rescue from the park. It was a little Rouen duckling that had a broken leg. I brought it home several weeks ago and fixed up its leg and it had been doing fine until today. It had been living with my new batch of...
Hey everyone! Is anyone on here in the FFA or used to be in it? Just wanted to talk to fellow past/present FFA members. My chapter is going to fair next week to show and sell our animals. Anyone else getting ready for fair this summer?
Hi everyone. So my chickens just started to peck holes in the walls of their coop! I have been boarding the holes up, but it seems like there are two more holes for every hole I board up! Has anyone ever had this problem? Is there some kind of spray that tastes bad that I can spray the walls...
Hi everyone! So my aunt has a mother duck who made her nest on the edge of their pool. The ducklings hatched about 2 or 3 weeks ago, and one of the ducklings has a broken leg as of a couple days ago. My aunt doesn't keep poultry or waterfowl, so they are bringing the duckling up here for me to...
Sorry if I posted this in the wrong area, feel free to move it if it is. I know it's a really specific question, but I am looking for a climbing plant to put on the side of my chicken coop that they will be able to eat. I saw jasmine and it smells good and looks pretty cool so I wanted to plant...
I had three drakes that are around 6 months old. I originally had two, but last week my cousin needed to rehome her drake so I took him. They kinda picked on him at first, which I expected to happen. But now, all three of the are attacking each other, including the two that have grown up...
Okay, so it isn't exactly angel wing, but her wing feathers do not lay flat against her body as in the other chick. I do to know if this is something normal, something that will fix itself, or something that I need to step in to fix. Please help me and let me know if I'm worrying for nothing...
Hi everyone! Okay so I have a bit of a problem. One of our friends had a single chicken and one of heir neighbors saw the hen. So the neighbor decided to call the city and complain. Anyway, the city made her get rid of the chicken and we now have her. She loves people way more than any of my...
Hi everyone!!! :frow I'm looking to add a couple more birds to my flock due to the deaths of two of my five hens. One of my hens, however, used to rip out feathers from my other hens. She is no longer top chicken, and after putting some things for them to do in the coop, she has stopped. So, my...
Hi everyone! So I've been wanting to get into raising pigeons purely for enjoyment. I've been looking online to gather as much information as I can about them as farm *** feeding, housing, etc. but there are certain things that I can't find. If you know of any websites that I could go to to find...
I'm not sure if this is the right forum to post this, so I'm sorry if this is out of place. I have a chicken who is getting repeatedly bullied by her two sisters. They have problems with pecking at her and I have tried everything to get them to stop. I have repeatedly removed her and have built...
I let out my two ducks, Mordecai and Rigby, this morning into their yard before I went to school today. The gardeners had come, so my mom put them back and didn't let them back out. When I got home, I let them out of the coop and noticed that Rigby, my black swedish, was completely off balance...
I have a hen who has recently been pecked on her lower back and the other girls overnight picked out all of her feathers in that area. Not all of the girls contributed, because I watched in the morning and there are only a few who did it. I culled the ringleader and isolated the injured hen. She...
Ok so I had five hens when I started raising chickens about a year ago. My moms dog ate my favorite chicken, a barred rock. Then we had a chicken who had a pecking problem and she picked our other chickens until they were bleeding so much that I was worried they would die. Luckily they were...