Tonight we came home to find our 4 ducks (2 male, 2 female) in the corner of our chicken coop with our 8 hens who were all up on their roosts. They all free range together but have had their own separate housing for the last year. The duck house is about 20 feet from the chicken coop. The duck...
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For the last two weeks two of my oldest (at 14 months) female chickens have been loosing a lot of their feathers. I thought they were just molting as it is fall. However, my one chicken who is a rainbow breed, seems to be excessively thirsty, her comb is so pale that it’s...
We have ended up with a few too many cockerels this year and are looking to Rehome them. We are in western N.Y. between Rochester and Buffalo. We have barred rock and Brahma cockerels that are about 16 weeks old and one rainbow rooster that is 9 months old if anybody is interested.
I bought some new chicks at my local feed store this morning and in my excitement did not look them over first. Two of my Brahma chicks have pasty butt pretty bad. I cleaned them off in warm water and set them on a heating pad together until they dried. They are now in their own little...
I have an Asian Blue (assuming male) 7-10 week old chicken that for the last week has been acting oddly. It started with noticing that he sat on his roost funny with his rear end higher the rest of his companions. I then noticed that he also walks this way with his rear end high in the air...
Good Morning! It is about 40 degrees here in the North East this morning and I am starting to question my sanity in bringing home baby chicks. I am completley New to this whole process. We bought an old dairy farm a few years back and have been slowly adding new animals to our family. My...