Search results for query: *

  • Users: novastar
  • Content: Threads
  • Order by date
  1. novastar

    Duck Injury Help *graphic*

    Hi. a coon got into my coop last night. Killed my drake and half ate one of my duck girls. She’s alive but in bad shape. She’s acting normal. Drinking and cleaning herself in the tub. There is no skin and it looks like muscles to her leg are gone. can she survive this? Will the wound heal with...
  2. novastar

    How many do YOU have?

    I’ve been a chicken advocate since 2013. However, last year I got my first set of ducks; 2 fawn and white runners and 2 blue Swedish. I have come to favor duck eggs more than chicken and I have 3 people that buy their eggs from me as well. I am thinking about expanding my duck flock by getting 6...
  3. novastar

    Prolapsed Drake Penis, I think (pics)

    I know there are a couple big threads about this topic. But I’m not sure what is really going on with my drake. I noticed a sack hanging from his vent, so I turned him over and . Please advice. Much thanks.
  4. novastar

    Same Space

    I know this has been posted a couple times but I put my 7 week old ducks (4) and chicks (10) together in the same space. It is the official coop outside that they are in. The ducks have been out there for 4 days now and we just moved the chicks out there. The chicks are curious and my two blue...
  5. novastar

    Did I luck out?

    The four ducklings I ordered were not sexed. I was hoping for four hens but I think I got a drake/hen pair for each breed. Any experts want to tell me their opinions? They are 5 weeks old and I am solely going off a difference in color darkness that I see. Also, one of the Runners one of the...
  6. novastar

    Duckling Nature

    Hello! First time duck owner here...I currently have 2 Fawn Runners and 2 Blue Swedish ducklings in my brooder (along with 10 chicks). They will all be 5 weeks old on Sunday. Anyways, the chicks are very curious of me and my hand and come running to me when I have treats. The ducklings, on the...
  7. novastar

    Duck Starter Feed

    I will be getting some ducklings next week and I am a first time duck owner. I have been reading a lot, especially raising the ducklings. My biggest concern is what to feed them. I have read all around that chicken grower feed is fine for two weeks and then switch to turkey etc. My question...
  8. novastar

    Would You?

    I have an order of 12 chicks and 4 ducklings shipping from Cackle on 2/12. This hatchery is about 13 hours from me. I was thinking about driving 5 hours to intercept them a day early (worried about the colder temps). Would you do this? I’d have to make some kind of brooder in the back of my car...
  9. novastar

    Lone Rooster

    Hey all. I posted a month or so ago asking about culling my 3 year old hens (2 of them) because they were relentlessly mean to a Silkie roo I introduced around thanksgiving. Their attitudes towards him have gotten worse. All out fights, ending with his comb badly bloodied. Granted he is young...
  10. novastar

    To Cook...?

    would any of you kill/cook a chicken that was is a mega bully? I only have two hens and have recently added a Silkie rooster who will be a year old next spring. The other hen eats in defense and will not relax, and she gets her toes/feet pecked all the time The bully hen is majorly pecking the...
  11. novastar

    What's going on with chicken's feathers?

    Ive noticed 2 of my chickens having thin neck feathers. I thought it was peckong but the girl that does the majority of the pecking has it the worst! Is it molting? Molting in the dead cold of winter does not seem practical. Could it be the cold? We have gotten down to 0 and negatives at night...
  12. novastar

    Puncture Wound

    One of my hens got attacked by a dog. She has a tooth puncture on the side of her tail feather meat, around the top of her thigh. Its the size of a tip of a pen, maybe a little bigger but it looks deep. Im not quite sure what to do about the puncture hole. I've been spraying a medicated spray to...
  13. novastar

    Chickens Attacked by Dogs

    My chickens got out and the dogs got them. One is dead, one I found safe in the coup, one is lost and one is alive but chewed up on her back. I'm wondering what is the best to try to save the one that is alive but injured. I brought her into the house in a tote with some clean shavings. Should I...
  14. novastar

    2 Weeks 2 Soon?

    Was thinking about putting my 4, 2 week old RIR chicks out into their coop. Their brooder is just getting too small. I live in the Black Hills of SD and it is pretty warm during the day. I usually do not have their heat lamp on during the day as it gets into the 90's. I would have supplemental...
  15. novastar

    Shipping Chicks?

    When are chicks usually shipped? I placed a special order in at Runnings and picked up my four RIRs yesterday. I'm just trying to figure out when they were hatched so I can mark their bday and age correctly. Thanks!
  16. novastar

    I Lost my girls today :*(

    Our two dogs busted through a fence and the wired run and murdered my three 5 week old Plymoth Rock girls. I found their little bodies strewn across the backyard, all chewed up. I am so heartbroken. And so sad that they suffered. They must have been so scared, trying to escape. I am so so so...
  17. novastar

    Water & Food Placement

    Will be moving chicks to the coop in a couple weeks. Question: do you keep food and water in both the coop and the run?
  18. novastar

    I just have to say...

    ...That 3 week old, fuzzy headed chicks dust bathing is about the funniest thing I've seen in awhile. I sifted some dirt out of my flower bed and out it in a Tupperware...:lol: One has pretty much claimed it. She baths and then falls asleep and repeats. There were two in at once. I threw a grass...
  19. novastar

    First Timer from the Black Hills, SD!!

    Hi everyone! Total newbie in the chicken raising world! Although I did grow up, spending a lot of time on my great grandparent's ranch and I have many fond memories of their chicken coop, collecting eggs and getting chased by some mean ol roosters! Haha Since then, I have had an aching to raise...
  20. novastar

    Temperature Question

    Hi all, I'm brand new to raising chickens and I have 3 Barred Rock hens. They are a week and a half old. Anyways, I had them in a plastic tote for a week and felt that they were getting cramped. I'm using a red heat lamp bulb, I believe it's 250 watt. I decided to make a wire, circular cage out...
Back
Top Bottom