My chcken has a growth on her lower eyelid that came up suddenly, but it looks like it's getting bigger. I'm in California, so we can no longer get antibiotics for our birds unless we take them to an avian vet. That's not an option for me. I have been putting warm compresses gently on her eye...
Hello old friends. It's been a very long time since I've posted on BYC, but if I need answers I still read the forums.
We incubated 9 duck eggs fir the first time, and so far we have 6 beautiful WH babies 6 days old. This morning I found one duckling who can't stand or walk on her own. I took...
This is Oops. Can anyone tell me first what breed, and can you tell in the photo, bc Oops is young there, if he is in fact, a rooster or not? I sexed him at the store. Thought he was a hen. Got him home and he spent all his time once he was integrated into the flock, in sitting in a nest box...
I just found my favorite Delaware hen, Henrietta, lying dead on the coop floor. I checked her over and saw no obvious signs like egg bound or damage. However I noticed yesterday she kept sitting down which seems to be a usual sign something isn't quite right, but then she got up and foraged...
OMW,quail breeders, you have to see this. We've been successfully raising Cortinix quail since last winter. We keep our original quail that we purchased for breeding in 1 cage-1 male, now 4 females but only 3 of them are the original girls (aka the seniors); a pen of males we will process for...
This is a pic of an egg one of my pullets gave us today. You can practically see through it,and the shell is super soft. You might be able to see the indentation in it & I made more with a very light pressure of my thumb. We have 7 hens & a rooster who all get along great. We normally get 6 eggs...
We found a female goose yesterday. Have no idea what kind-no doubt mixed, but she is huge-about 18-20 lb-not overly fat, just a big goose. Anyway, we need to know what to feed her. We raise chickens,ducks & quail so figured the game bird feed would work for her. She didn't touch it. Tried giving...
Well, we did it. Day 19 we had 7 out of 12 quail chicks hatched from our incubator. We were thrilled at this hatch rate bc we felt we were so inexperienced and running by the seat of our pants on this. Ok so now we realized one thing we did wrong. Instead of gathering the eggs to incubate all at...
We bought 4 females & 1 male Coturnix quail. One female died after only a couple of weeks. Unknown as to why,so haven't replaced her yet. They were laying from Day 1. Getting at least 2 eggs daily. Then temps changed here from 80's to cold & rainy about a month ago. Since then no eggs. We just...