Hey guys, I discovered a few days ago that my duck had limp and a bit of swelling in her leg joint, it has traveled to her toes and has gotten worse. Its hot to the touch and she has a black toenail. She do have a small scab which I know is bumblefoot but I'm wondering what exactly it could be...
I just had a pullet die, she was 17 weeks. I noticed this past Saturday that her leg was out in front of her and she was walking on the back part of her leg, where her leg bends. *I can’t remember the name of it*, I took her inside and she was still able to hobble around, eating and drinking a...
Okay I need some advice,
We have had chickens for over a year now, we’ve learned ALOT in a short period of time, including playing vet since we’re 400km away from one.
We incubated eggs and ended up with 2 hens and a “special” rooster (the special rooster is living in the house with us) They are...
Hey guys, We just discovered one of our pecan ducks has blood around her vent, there was a bit of blood, but we ruled out a broken egg since we have 6 ducks and 6 eggs were laid today. I also had my finger poking around in there, and couldn’t feel any broken shell or a egg. I discovered a...
Hey everyone, I was on here a couple months ago about my young drakes penis being prolapsed, it retracted on it's own and never had a problem since! Until now! We noticed today that it's out even further, and must've been for a couple days, it looks as if ththe girls were picking at it, its sore...
This is "Clementine", I say shes a hen, my boyfriend says rooster. Can anyone help? I'm going off the hackle feathers being rounded and he's going off the long tail feathers and comb development (my favorite hen goldy had a early comb development and a attitude problem, we thought for sure she...
So I live in a small town of probably 400 people or a bit more. The food suppliers no longer offer layers mesh or any chicken feed for that matter. We are almost out of layers mesh and we need some help on improvising, we have to travel 500km to get more feed and we can't until the second week...
The past few days when I checked on my chickens and fed them I noticed almost every one of them including the rooster had this white powder like substance around their nares and edge of beak, I can rub it off and it seems to be there again the next day but not as plentiful and a couple didn't...
This is our first year with chickens and where I live in the winter it can get to -40°C with the windchill. We installed an extra light in their coop in the past couple of weeks because it was 2° on the floor in their coop, so up in the roost next to the bigger light it was probably 10°. Now...
I didn’t really know how to introduce myself so I’ll use this template. I have many questions and I hope you all can help me! 😊
(1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens?
yes, I’m new to chickens. we haven’t had them for a year yet.
(2) How many chickens do you have right...