I rescued a baby duckling couple days ago and we have gotten it to eat and drink but I noticed today that it's vent seems inflamed and a bit protruding. Can you advise what to do, I first noticed that it would back up like it wanted to poop but then nothing really happened and then when it does...
After suffering the loss of one of our ducks a little less than a month ago, my husband let me get some new babies to help alleviate some of the sadness. Our new little ones are super cute!
Pekin-Jyn Erso, Magpie-Jaina Solo, Cayuga-Mara Jade
I love when they give you these looks.....
Recently my husband came across post for our area poultry keepers. A lady was posting to let everyone know that recently she had had some of her ducks taken from her property. There was no evidence of predators or killing, just as if they were grabbed and taken away. I wanted to post and see if...
This morning my husband went to check on our chickens and came across one acting out of the ordinary. One of our Cuckoos (not sure what a mix of Cuckoo) was sitting in run and seemed off. She is usually skittish and if you go her way will skit off in another direction, but today my husband...
Leia my hybrid (most likely Rouen/Khaki mix) has just started laying eggs a week ago and I would love to see examples of eggs others get from their duck ladies!
Something odd happened night before last and we were not really sure what to think. She seemed fine so we brushed it off as random. She was in her run and somehow got out and was laying on ground funny. I freaked thinking she was dead but then she got up and seemed to shake it off. Yesterday, my...
Left to right: Wicket, Han, Luke, Chewy, Leia
Leia, Luke, Wicket, Chewy, Han
Front to back: Luke, Leia, Wicket, Han, Chewy
Leia, Han, Luke and Wicket
Han, Luke, Wicket
Han, Chewy, Leia, Luke and Wicket
Han, Chewy, Leia, Luke and Wicket
Rey
Rey
This was the original five from top...
Our girls have had ongoing resurgences of poultry lice and it just recently had come back with a vengence especially with our alpha hen Julian. We tried to bath her to get as many of the bugs off her as we could but shes so listless and not herself. This morning my fiance went to check on them...
She darkest one in this pic.
Standing by Pekin here.
Back by crate wall...
So one of my almost 5 week old ducklings shown in all three pictures, who has adult feathers showing, we were told rouen when we got it, we are thinking it is a girl because we heard what we think is quacking from...
We have a hen who is going broody and we are not trying to hatch any of our eggs. The first time this happened, we put her in what we call "chicken timeout" and isolated her and made her stay in a smaller coop/run alone for three days and it seemed to work temporarily. Now not more than a month...
I was told white pekin for yellow one, rouen for bigger black and yellow, khaki for small brown one but other two no idea. What do they look like? Are they right?
We just bought two ducklings this past weekend and I know a lot seems to depend on how old they are.....we were not told the age where we got them and I would love if someone could give me an idea what age they might be. Thanks!
One of our Cuckoo EEs recently acted like she was egg bound and so we attempted to take action and help her, but unlike we thought, there was no egg inside her that we could feel. Her vent looks wrong. One of the "lips" on her vent is purplish and looks slightly bruised or swollen, we suspect...
Below I have included some pictures to help show the situation. I got these two pullets from a breeder locally and she had told me they were Cuckoo Marans. I looked up the breed and they looked to match the coloring so I just went with that. It was not until recently when we started to doubt...
We found an odd looking egg today in the chicken run. We have 3 GCs that lay regularly everyday and always lay in the box. We recently had a EE start laying and who has laid a small pinky cream egg. She followed the cues of the other GCs and always laid in the box so far. Today when i went to...
Recently one of our EEs started laying and is laying very small cream colored eggs. They have been consistently the same size since she started. They are just slightly smaller than the normal egg size you find in stores. When will she most likely start laying larger eggs or will she possibly...
Our GCs layed the other three, but we are sure this small cream colored one came from one of our EEs who was really close to start laying. Going by this egg, does that mean she will not be a blue-green layer like we thought or can they start funny and it become blue green later?