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I've somehow missed this (though I know he's been looking better more recently than not), but my oldest drake (he's 9) is looking rough, losing feathers, don't seem to be more coming in, somewhat flaky skin, maybe itchy?, and he's lost weight. The loss is across his back, under wings, some on...

I've somehow missed this (though I know he's been looking better more recently than not), but my oldest drake (he's 9) is looking rough, losing feathers, don't seem to be more coming in, somewhat flaky skin, maybe itchy?, and he's lost weight. The loss is across his back, under wings, some on...

I'm certain this has been answered, but I can't find it searching past posts. I have incubated ducks lots of times with great success. Was thinking about incubating some chickens this year as well, and I know about the differences in humidity needs and incubation length...but can they be...

One of our ducks got tangled in some baling twine for at least a few days in the woods. I cut her loose this morning; the twine was looped and not super tight around her ankle, but clearly tight enough to do some damage. I brought her in, soaked in epsom salts and gave her some vitamins with...

Question - this a new one for me after several years 😅. One of my rogue broodies had a nest hatch, then abandoned it after the first hatched. My kiddo brought me an externally pipped egg with this baby in it, but not sure how long it had been pipped and left, but long enough that a fly got into...

This...chicken?...was brought to a friend's vet office today after a cat brought it up to the house. They own neither cats nor chickens. Any ideas on what it is??

We had a successful incubation with 100% hatch rate...5 years ago! We used a hovabator at that time, which has been sitting in our shed since then. I'm sure things have changed a lot! Any recommendations as to an easy good incubator for small hatches with kids?

Neighbor just came down and dog got off leash, grab the chicken, dropped it when she yelled. I found the chicken, she has a hole in her skin I can see her organs, I guess. Best to cull and put her out of her misery right now?

We had 2 Royal Palm poults that were almost 6 weeks. They were fine last night, went up this morning for their grand introduction to moving outside, one was dead. These are our first turkeys and I have read a lot and know turkeys are more sensitive. No clear reason why it died. My question is...

I'm getting ready to try an (expensive!) experiment and put some shipped cotton patch eggs under my goose. One cracked during shipment, so I opened it up but haven't checked for fertility with goose eggs. Is this one fertile?

I would like to preface this by saying I'm a duck person not a chicken person. we have a couple of chickens, and went to our local feed store which is usually pretty good about knowing their stuff, and get some interesting breeds. I went in for speckled Sussex and Heritage Rhode Island Reds. I'm...

We have had ducks for several years, but this year got a few chickens. I'm not as well versed in chickens, but have one little Easter Egger who is ill. She is 2.5 months old but but seems small and thin. She didn't seem to want to keep up with the others, so we've had her in the house since the...

We got 4 keets the week before last and apparently guineas are not my forte because 1 died and 2 have gotten out (did not know they can fly so soon) and are gone. We have ducks and chickens galore, but I feel like an idiot. Anyway, I have 1 lone little bit left. The feed store doesn't have any...

Well, unfortunately, after 3 years of keeping ducks, we lost one to a predator. I have read threads about who leaves/doesn't leave what, and have tried to search forums but am not finding it. What I found this morning was a large circle of feathers with a small area that looks like could have...

Continuing the theme of weird at our house, our Toulouse has started laying again this week. She laid about 40 eggs this spring and actually sat and hatched out 3 ducklings (no gander ). I wasn't expecting her to lay again now. Is this normal? She is a little over 1 year old.

I have a duck who did not molt last year and everyone is currently molting and she doesn't seem to be again. She is a 2.5yo Cayuga and her sisters are molting fine. Is this a thing? Is there something I should/can do?

I posted in hatching and haven't gotten much response, and figured all the brilliant duck people may have some words of wisdom. We have a goose sitting on a nest of duck eggs. 3 have gotten to their "due date", one hatched over night 2 nights ago. Yesterday mama stepped on one and crushed it...

We have a Toulouse who has been sitting on duck eggs and one successful hatched a baby overnight. Yay! However, today she has stepped on and crushed one of the other eggs and it had a small amount of blood on the shell. I have read and reread Sally Sunshine' s brilliant assisting the hatch page...

Not sure whether to post this here or in geese, but I have a Toulouse sitting on a nest of 1 goose egg (pretty sure it's not fertile) and 3 duck eggs which are developing nicely and by my calculations due to hatch this weekend or early next week. What do I need to do? Can I let her take charge...

One of my ladies seems to be having a hard time. We have been keeping an eye on her the past week. I found one egg without a shell or membrane at all in the coop, and thought it weird. Today I went out to put them up and found her alone sitting, tail down and a shell-less membrane-less egg...