Hello everybody! I have a strange question for all of you. I currently have 7 ducks, two of which I have known as drakes for the last year. This is not only because of their rasp but I have literally seen their penises. For the last 2 days when I collect eggs I am finding 6 eggs. Yesterday I...
I am planning on hatching out some more chicks this spring because I want some olive egger hens. I have no problems with culling cockerals, it just seems like such a waste. I already have 2 roosters, so keeping them isn't an option. Freezer camp is, but since they are Easter Egger x Golden...
My french golden cuckoo maran rooster has such bad foot luck. I was doing coop inspections and noticed his feet loojed off. His outside toe is feathered but the feathers have yet to come in right. Now the skin around his feathers is growing thicker and his feathers are having a hard time coming...
I own a very cute Lions head bunny named Nala. Nala was born in Jan of this year. She is crazy agressive. Lunging, boxing, biting, growling, thumping. She hates me. I cannot groom her or give her nail care. She comes at me every time I try to feed/water her. Due to it being end of days when I...
So I got my bunny in Janurary. Originally we had the tiny cage (due to bad information) but she is now in a 4x4 excersise pen. I modified her bad cage as a safety den with some layers. She fully hates me (I am the one who does cares and cleanes her litter box so yeah) but I want to make sure...
Hello. While I am not new to ducklings, I recently found out I would be new to duck hens. We ordered female ducks and got one packing peanut male. They are now 3 weeks old today. That being said, all but one is making a weird sound I never experienced with my drake flock. The only one not makibg...
I have a lovely australorp who was recently tagged as a fan favorite of our spring roosters. This lead to them pulling all the feathers off the back of her head yesterday. This is easy enough to fix, I covered her head in blue hen healer and the boys are leaving her alone for now. My concern is...
I live in SW Iowa, and it is unreal how wet it is. We have been lucky to avoid major flooding issues with out home, but my poor birds are not fairing as well. Usually the enclosed run I have drains like a champ. It is at an incline with drainage towards the local creek. In the past I have done...
I noticed the other day that the white dot had changed in my eggs. I have 3 year old hens that currently lay. They are in a run with my new spring chickens, three of whom are roosters. Now, only 1 of these roosters is crowing/acting like a rooster. He is only 12 weeks old, but he has been...
I got this little girls at Orschlens from a hatchery assortment. Anyone know if she is magpie, ancona, or muscovy? Her body is slightly longer than a rouen of the same age, and her beak looks suspiciously muscovy. I also know that it is rare to get a muscovy from a hatchery mix. Her name is Maggie.
I bought 2 ducklings from Orschlen's 2 weeks ago and hatched 4 from eggs Sunday. When I vent checked my older ducklings i didn't find a penis so I am assuming girls, but of my 4 hatchlings 3 of the 4 are definatly males. The thing is, i worked so hard to bring these guys into tbe world and I...
I have a cornish cross named Cream that my daughter had to have. Because she is such a gentle giant I though we could let her live with my egg layers and see if she lays. We are just past the 6 month mark mow, and my RIR is trearing her up. Cream is not laying and has not shown any signs, but...