My muscovy duck is acting weird. She still isnt laying and about a month ago she lost her sister and boyfriend to a tragic accident.she has been alone ever since. We are trying to get her more friends but neighbors who have them are having problems catching them. Meanwhile she got use to the...
I got 3 muscovy ducks. One Drake and two girls. Ever since our neighbor had caught them to give them to us the Drake is limping. Our neighbor has held him by his feet like a chicken. I thought he hurt him, but we kept them in their coop for a week to get them aquaint them with their new home and...
I have a little bit of a predicament. My neighbor who lives about 5 minutes away by a car over the hill has lovely muscovy ducks and wants to get rid of them because they have taken over his pool. I am interested in getting them. We have 3very large chicken coops and only one is inhabited by my...
I have two young hens not sure of breed. But they are quite big. And I have a flock of 6 orpington hens all fully grown over a year old. I intro them to the flock and they saw each other before. They all free range. I into them in a brood box in the coop. And because they knew each other I...
Hi guys as a new chicken owner I am not sure what's up with my sweet chicks. I got 5 hens for free from a friend some time ago. It's been really hot all summer but they seemed to be doing well until I started seeing the change in weight. They all lost a lot of weight and from nice fluffy big...
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As the thread title sais there is absolutely everything wrong with my new baby chick but ( Blondie is her name) she is the sweetest little thing you ever saw. Very small and very smart. Her and her sister blacky are inseparable. I have helped her with the sprag leg by having her wear a...
As the thread title sais there is absolutely everything wrong with my new baby chick but ( Blondie is her name) she is the sweetest little thing you ever saw. Very small and very smart. Her and her sister blacky are inseparable. I have helped her with the sprag leg by having her wear a brace...
Hi guys so glad to be here. I have a new chick dilemma we had about a dozen nice camo color eggs from a neighbor. So we thought why not try and hatch em. After day 19 we had one silkie hatch and one not sure of the breed but they have a very small light brown eggs. The rest of silkie eggs...
We have a big coop with 6 young nearly 3 months old hens. A friend is giving us (she can't keep chickens anymore) new 4 month old roo. Any tips and tricks on the introduction? Should we keep him separated? His name is Leonardo and Aparently he isn't very agresive he is barred rock breed our...
We are new to the chicken keep but have done some research and got some advice as well. We build a new spacious coop with Nipple system and PVC feeding system. Got new chicks that were 2 weeks old and we started. Everything was fine we had 7 chickens. One night a racoon got in the coop and...