I bought two Welsh ducklings and was told they were female. But now that they’re getting new feathers I’m beginning to wonder. I drove quite a distance for them. The sellers said I could exchange for females but we wanted to raise them from when they were ducklings.
I have zero experience so...
This happened over just a few days. Her wings didn’t look like this at all and I don’t know if she’s just growing in feathers or if this is Angel wing?
No to very little improvement. She’s walking over her feet so we expected it was niacin Deficiency despite giving her generous BY over her food a few times a day. We ordered the nutricost niacin my husband found recommended on a website and have been giving her like… 1/10th of the scoop because...
We have a KC duck with inward turned legs and a funny walk and she’s about 1.5 months old. I’d been adding brewers yeast to her food and water and seems to have some improvement but nothing significant. She’s currently eating unmedicated chick starter.
🙈 I know.
I am afraid of chickens. We have nine who are around a month old (maybe older?) and two ducklings. I’m not at all afraid of the ducks!
The chicks flap their wings and try to peck me and it freaks me out. We have goats for milk and the idea was chickens for eggs… and as the main...
If I kept the 9 chicks (3? 4? weeks old) in this pen in our garage (modern, no weak points for large predators to come in but mice may) with a brooding plate on heat setting outside of it facing their pen, would this be sufficient?
They’re currently in our basement in the largest plastic tub...
Hello! We are new to the chicken and fowl world as of this month. Our little micro hobby homestead has two milk goats, nine chicks and two ducklings.
Here’s a photo of the chicks. It was such chaos at TSC and I had my kids with me, I wasn’t able to take a moment to memorize or write down what...