Hi everyone I have 1 drake and 3 females. Yesterday when they went to bed everyone was fine. This morning when I went to let them out I found my drake limp in the pen gasping for air. I checked over his body and found no bites or anything that would have injured him. A few house later he died...
Hello the other day I came home and noticed my male call duck wasn't able to walk at all. His always around my girls and they are fine. I have popped him inside with nutriwater but he won't eat. He can't preen himself and use his wings. I have been popping him in water for some therapy but...
I have a Cayuga 4months old the last Friday she layed a little white egg no problem at all. Then Saturday she layed just membrane with a little bubble of an egg. She did struggle a tad with this one. She hasn't layed in 2 days and I feel an egg in her. She is acting completly normal and pooing...
Hello, I have a female kahki campbell who when I let out this morning at 4.30am was fine and herself. A few hours later I went out to check them and she had a very low abdomin and was in the corner not moving just standing. Then later on she had moved to the night time quarters and has just sat...
Merry Xmas everyone, today I got my first duck egg. I found it just in there bedtime quarters. Today when I let them free range I found my call duck making a nest under the tree with our only drake. I don't want baby ducks so I know to collect there eggs. But if she is making a nest in the yard...
Hello I have 5 ducks. Its been pouring rain here in qld for the last 3 days or so. Like pouring and windy. When I woke this morning I found 3 of my ducks had somehow escaped from their sleeping quarters and were out in the rain. I don't know for how long. It didn't seem to bother them but I'm...
Hello I have 7 chickens in a about a 20 square metre space with a huge house and all there food water and shelter, and they get treats daily, however they keep wanting to jump the fence and do about anything to get over it. They have had there wings clipped but they are so determined. I have put...
Hello, I need some help please. I have found eggs in the nesting boxes with pecks in them. This morning I found one of my chickens in the nesting box sitting on eggs, when our white chicken tried to get in with her. She wouldn't allow it and was making a quite a racket, and so the white chicken...
I was so lucky this morning, thought I had a double yolker but turns out to be a triple yolker. My hen has been laying on and off for about 2 weeks, maybe from the heat here. Has this happened before to anyone?
Hello everyone I have 5 ducks, 2 call ducks (1 is a drake), 2 Cayuga, and 1 khaki campbell, all female except for that one. My calls are roughly 15 weeks old and I've noticed my drake is pinching the top of my female call duck on the neck but not getting on top. I've also noticed my khaki laying...