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  1. The Ranch Girl

    Call duckling colors and genetics??

    So I have a flock of 3 call ducks. My two females (one snowy) and (one pastel) with my male; a blue fawn. My females started laying eggs so I incubated them to hatch. Now I assumed the babies would be one of the parents colors. But, I was wrong…😂 So one 3 babies look like white calls, one a...
  2. The Ranch Girl

    Foot infection?? What’s wrong?

    My beloved hen Clea has something wrong with her foot! We treated her for bumble foot a couple weeks ago and it seemed to clear up but now she’s got a swollen foot with a puss filled pocket? She also only poops water. Which is very strange to me. I have her in with my 4 week old bantams with...
  3. The Ranch Girl

    Why aren’t my chicks eating!?

    I have 1 week old and younger bantam silkies and frizzles in the brooder. A lot of them have gotten pasty butt, one has died and one is currently about to pass away. I cleared up the pasty butt in the others for now. But NONE of my chicks have full crops and they don’t seem to eat. What is going...
  4. The Ranch Girl

    Call duckling with bent legs

    My newly hatched call duckling has its legs bent backwards. What can I do to fix this? Does anyone know what is wrong with him?
  5. The Ranch Girl

    Call ducks beak not formed

    I’ve hatched call ducks before. But I’ve got a very interesting problem right now. I order my call duck hatching eggs off eBay. And today is day 28. I usually check around day 26 and I saw nothing. One had died so I opened it up and its whole top beak hadn’t formed. The second dead one I found a...
  6. The Ranch Girl

    Help! Is this curled toe?

    Please tell me how to help this chick! What can I do? Its toes are curled and it isn’t able to walk. It just hatched about an hr ago. I’ve seen this happen online before. This is the only chick out of all the eBay eggs we ordered (blue laced red wyandottes) that actually hatched. I really want...
  7. The Ranch Girl

    Are Splash silkies harder to raise?

    I have a question, I’ve thought a lot about this. My tiny little family of silkies have always been what I had. Just 3, two roos and a hen. Yes yes I know, a bad mixture. But between them and my frizzle flock (4 hens and one roo) everything works out fine. Recently I’ve dove into genetics...
  8. The Ranch Girl

    Pasty Butt emergency!‼️

    So I hatched a frizzle bantam, and it’s a few days old now. I noticed yesterday that it wasn’t moving around a bunch and acted sick like. So I checked and sure enough he had pasty butt. I cleaned it up and putt it back in the brooder. Its abdomen or whole back end itself seemed abnormally large...
  9. The Ranch Girl

    Newly hatched Silkie chick with bubble on Neck

    So I thought this bubble was it’s crop but upon further examination it looks like an air bubble. It’s so odd, what do I do? I really want this chick to live! My finger is pointing at it in this one:
  10. The Ranch Girl

    What Gender is my Silkie?

    Sooo, this is quite the pickle for me lol. My Silkies are all around a yr old now. And up until a week ago I thought my silkie Apricot was a female. Until, I heard her/him crowing and saw it. Now here is the puzzling part, I have had only one blue silkie male who is noticeably larger than my...
  11. The Ranch Girl

    Call duck Backwards in egg!!

    I was assisting my baby calls to hatch today, one has made it out already and the other I have progressed with. But upon further inspection on the third egg I see after opening up the air pocket, what looks to be the egg sac! I am so confused at what to do! If this baby is backwards how am I...
  12. The Ranch Girl

    Call Duckling Keeps Itching

    I’ve noticed my baby call duckling is Constantly itching at its face. It will take it’s foot and itch at its face a lot. Usually it will itch right under his beak, near his ear, or on his head. At first I thought it was just preening, but he does it so much like it’s bothering him. What kind...
  13. The Ranch Girl

    Call Duck Hatching

    This is my first time doing Call duck eggs, I’ve assisted and hatched countless amounts of Chicken and Muscovy duck eggs. So I had no problem taking on call ducks. This breed has had my attention for a long time and I’ve always wanted pet ducks. I ordered 14 hatching eggs from the state next to...
  14. The Ranch Girl

    Update on Daisy Duck

    Click here for full story 👇👇👇 https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/my-muscovy-got-worse-worms-coccidia.1641036/post-28031471 So I’ve been keeping Daisy in our little coop for our bantams, I only opened it last night to let the bantams go in. I may have left for only an hour and by the...
  15. The Ranch Girl

    My Muscovy got worse! Worms? Coccidia?

    https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/something-is-wrong-with-my-muscovy-girl.1640015/post-28013601 So I made this post👆 About my duck looking pale, someone had said molting can cause that. I figured it was that too and was really relieved. But the worst has come to happen… She is now even...
  16. The Ranch Girl

    Something is wrong with my Muscovy girl

    My sweetest Muscovy female (daisy) is not well, she seems very pale and slow acting. She is free ranged and gets fed grain 2 times a day. I tried feeding her some peas today and she ate them but now as vigorously as my other girls. Here are pictures of her vs my other females. Notice how her...
  17. The Ranch Girl

    Ok what is THIS??

    Ok this just popped up out of no where! It’s so small!! All of our chickens are close to 3 yrs old and have been laying their whole lives. But 9 weeks ago we got Silver laced Wyandottes, mystic onyx’s, Californian whites, olive eggers, and speckled Sussex chicks! And today they are 9 weeks old...
  18. The Ranch Girl

    How to naturally treat Mareks disease for silkies

    Hi everyone! Instead of vaccination is there a natural way I can prevent my silkies from getting mareks disease? Something I can put in their water or a type of food? I just wanted some information since I can’t find any online.
  19. The Ranch Girl

    Goose with wry neck??

    We are leaving on a trip today and won’t be back till late and I just noticed this little guy acting weird. He can put his neck forward but hold it back like this all the time.
  20. The Ranch Girl

    HELP flab of skin hanging from chicken

    So a neighbor of ours was getting rid of her chickens so we took them. She has no clue what breed but I think they are sapphire gems! This one has this weird skin hanging what can we do?!? The other two have feathers missing from a part of their necks. Is it a disease? It’s bothering her.
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