Hello everyone. It's been a while since I have posted anything but I've mostly been reading. I have 9, 5 month old (they look full grown) call ducks. I also have 8 that are all over a year old-One of my older hens hatched the newer 9 this past July. All are healthy and rambunctious, except...
I discovered my most elusive and favorite spangled banty rooster with a nasty infection in his eye. He had lost the sight in the eye about a year ago after having been pecked by one of our full sized hens.
Once I picked him up, of course I felt awful because it was clear he was pretty...
My hubby found our 14 month old banty hen under the ramp going into the main chicken coop 2 nights ago. She couldn't/wouldn't get up and when he picked her up, she had a large scrape across the top and side of one foot. It was a little bloody, but her leg and foot looked otherwise ok once I...
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I have a small chick that we think was a day or two overdue, had to be helped from his egg and has curled toes on one foot.
I've read tons and tons of info over the last few days and decided to try a pair of "shoes" on him to uncurl the toes and straighten one on the other foot...
Well...
Two of the hens we found dead in the coop and neither had shown any signs of illness.
The third bird, a Light Brahma, started looking poorly about 2 weeks ago. She was hiding out on the roost, puffed up and lethargic while the rest of the birds were out free ranging. She was isolated...
It appears that my latest hatch is over. I'm at day 25. On day 21, had 2 nice little bantam chicks hatch. Then on day 22, one chick with bug eyes (is blind) and a chick who got out of his shell, but couldn't stand and his toes were all curled up. That little guy didn't make it and...
Just a few birds was all we originally wanted have...
Earlier this evening I had 14, 2 week olds, 10, 4 month olds, 9, 5 month olds, 10 6 month olds and 13, 10 month olds... I also have 36 Banty eggs and 12 call duck eggs in the incubators.
Due to an unexpected trip to a local, weekly...
Well... After much discussion, we had already decided to spawn a few Bantys into the world, today is day 17, I've been turning 3 times a day and we are ready for this new batch of kids. I somehow had my wires crossed and thought Bantys only incubated for 18 days, so I had already moved them I...
After doing quite a bit of research and lack of availability on Call Ducks locally, I turned to eBay and found there were quite a few to choose from. I ended up getting a dozen, assorted eggs for $12.50. The shipping charge was about the same, give or take, on most of them, so I spent a day...
My chicks are 2 days old and I noticed this evening one of them has very swollen, bugged out looking eyes. He will open them and his yes look fine underneath, but since I lost one yesterday, I want to make sure it's nothing the others can catch. I am going to try to get a couple pics of the...
We are looking for a couple pairs of call ducks. They seem to be a little hard to find and I am wondering if anyone knows where I can either get some eggs or babies.
Thanks.
Nuggets.
I'm so excited... 20 days ago, I put my second batch of 41 eggs in the incubator.... Mt boyfriend bought me two incubators, because I lost an entire batch last month when the brand new incubator we bought stopped working 14 days in. So I have one that has a turner and fan in it, and the other...
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I'm glad to have found this forum, because I'm a city girl, recently transformed to a country girl and loving it! We live on 40 acres, have 14 chickens, 2 wild hogs, 2 dogs, a donkey, a draft horse, 1 registered quarter horse (shown in my avatar with Red Chicken on her back), and...