I owned a trio of adult ducks for two years with no issues until earlier this year my male attempted to mate with one of my hens. Thankfully i found her in time, she had prolapse and was bleeding but we managed to help her out and now shes back to her happy healthy self with her sisters and I...
I have chickens and three ducks but i had to sell one of my ducks because he was male and was upsetting my chickens (ive had him for two years and he was fine until recently :( ) but then one of my girl ducks died before i had the chance to sell my boy. I think it was just age as she seemed...
So I ha tched nine birds in may, the ones which i was sure were silkies never fluffed up, I sold all but one (most were obviously crosses but i kept my ginger chick in hopes that because she was ginger like my female silkie that shed fluff up. She still hasnt but thats okay, i still love her...
So I had some silkies hatch in May and the smallest one has since grown suddenly ill. This morning I let them all out and all but her came out, at first I thought she'd been hurt so I checked her legs and body and wings and all seemed fine. I then put her on the ground and instead of hopping off...
So I'm on my second lot of chicks hatching, the mother kicked three to death by mistake (or so I hope) and so i seperated them, now I just noticed that all of the chicks have a large growth on their chests! What is this?? Are they okay?? They all seem fine, no distress and they're all eating and...
So it's my second time hatching chick, first time was fine, my silkie was brooding and I had nine out of ten of my chicks hatch but this time two of my other birds were brooding, one would keep the eggs warm but she kept pecking them open and killed three, I gave the survivors to my other broody...