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I have a great dilemma. I have just had to put down a 2 year old hen due to very poor health (paralysed wing, dropped tail, refusal to eat, preferring to just sit complaining silently of pain). I am new to chicken keeping (I have had them just for 2-3 years), but I have seen so many of my...

Hello, I would like to increase my flock of heritage chickens. So far I have had Speckled Sussex and Orpingtons, but recently I have been able to get hold of Light Sussex that have proved to be really good in egg laying. I am however quite puzzled when reading about them as in some sources they...

Hello, does anyone know what could be going on? Our 3 days old baby chick is looking greasy and refuses to feed or drink looking a bit sad and lost. I think he came out of the incubator looking a bit greasy, but I was wondering if he is actually getting greasier by day. We have suspected that...

Hello, could anyone please help. We have had a chick prematurely hatched overnight. His yolk sack has been out so I have let him in the incubator to absorb it, which it has, but also it did stuck to the bottom of the chick and his intestines. It is quite possible that he might have pulled some...

Hello, I would very much appreciate an advice on selecting the right chicken breed for us. We really would like them to be friendly and docile (as we hope for them to become our pets too and children would like to actively participate in looking after them). They should be able to get along with...

Hello, I was wondering if anyone could help. We are new to duck keeping and although we have tried to read and learn a lot prior to having ducks, it seems it wasn’t enough. I would have never dreamed the duck imprinting could become such a problem! We have hatched 5 runner ducklings in early May...

We have got 8 weeks old Runner Ducks and this is something I have always planned for them to have... a free access to water and pond whenever they wished. However, now I am somehow very nervous about doing so. Up until now the ducklings have been kept in a wooden coop within a fenced run. During...

I am loosing my mind to this fencing business. We are new in keeping poultry. Currently we have 5 baby ducks that live at night in the box in the utility room and during nice warm days outside in a cage / tractor that we have constructed. We can cope with the status quo for another two weeks...

Can anyone help, please? My ducklings are 4 days old. Their first food was duckling grub (which was the next morning after hatching) and they ate it well, drank well too. A day later I have offered them also a boiled egg, which they liked and just a few crushed grains of some seeds (from my seed...

Hello, we have been incubating Indian RUnner ducks. 3 of them hatched beautifully yesterday, but because of them being so tall and hitting their heads violently against the ceiling of the incubator, I had to remove them as soon as they fluffed up. OPening the incubator for a few times to remove...

Hello, I wonder if anyone has got an experience in using essential oils such as dill, anise, eucalyptus, peppermint in the coop to repel or manage the mites problem. I was hoping to rub in neem oil into perch and some essential oil into the wooden walls of the coop. Although some of the herbs...

Hello, I wonder if anyone can help here with some advice on badgers and chicken keeping. We have decided to have a little farm. To start with, we hoped to get just some chickens and ducks and a few bee hives with a view of taking on a couple of goats next spring. Our garden is of a quite...