My female call duck, peach, has been getting really wet when she swims, if I touch her oil gland she get very mad she quacks really loud and trys to get away or bite me, also her oil gland is not producing much, if not any oil
I am having to not have much water in their pen as she gets water...
So my call duck Peach has been acting really weird for maybe a week or more, she sits in her house usually with either her brother or sister (they take turns to sit with her) she will come out and eat and drink and Quack :rolleyes: Alot, but just not her usual self.
She has never laid an egg...
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So we are moving house, i am so excited and terrified, we are moving from England to ireland it is a huge move
We are moving with 10 ducks, 8 call ducks, a silver appleyard and a runner, 3 horses, 7 rabbits, 2 guinea-pigs, 2 dogs and 4 cats (quite a few!)
I wanted a place to document my move...
Last year (2024) my baby girl Johnny started laying for the first time she had 2 small eggs and then layed a normal sized egg, I was so excited, at the time I was hatching some more call ducks so I put her egg in the incubator too, the next day she was acting really weird so I took her inside...
2 Days ago when I was putting my birds to bed I noticed one of my hens was not jumping on to the perch and her tail was down I picked her up and put her on the perch with her friends, the next morning I let them out and she did not come out so I picked her up and put her on the ground with her...
I have a khaki camble that has a bold patch on the back of her head, the bold patch on her head the skin is flaky and the feathers around it are white, originally I thought she was just old as she is around 7 years old now but with the flaky skin I am not sure, we have treated her for mites...
I am moving to ireland from england with my family and almost all my pets,
I am trying to take my ducks with me as I love them so much but information on moving them is very minimal
We would be taking a ferry
We have contacted multiple couriers but only a few have messed back, the most...
I have 8 call ducks in 2 groups, I know I have way to many boys but I love them so we are keeping them and I am moving house at the momentand after that I will be getting more girls.
(I hatched them all)
in group one i have 2 boys, Buttercup and Puddle, these are my oldest calls at 17 months...
I made a post about this already but i wanted to get all the information in one place
original post https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/hen-has-mites.1641718/
Dandelion is a brahma hen and she turned 1 this year
On the 20th I noticed that one of my hens, dandelion, was just sitting by...
i noticed that one of my hens was just sitting by herself sleeping a lot, so last friday i picked her up and realised she was really skinny i took her back to my house and let her eat as much food as she wanted whist she was eating i checked her over and found that her vent was tiney like half...
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i want to get some rare duck breeds but i am not sure which breeds are rare searched it on google but found nothing helpful
we are moving house so it would be after this
any help is apreciated
thank you
This morning I noticed that honey my brahma hen was limping so I picked her up and she had a black scab on each foot, both feet are affected
Checked everyone else but they were fine
My question
Should I separate her?
How should I treat it? I have seen lots of different things like operate on...
I hatched some of my friends call duck eggs and 2 of them were malpositioned in their eggs they both need help to hatch (as calls do but these were really malpositioned or the worst I have seen) and when they hatched their feet where pointing towards the other foot, hiccups left foot is wonky...
I have 5 gold partridge brahma cockerels
They need a new home as they are fighting and my parents say if we can't find them a new home then we will have to cull them and I really don't want that
They are being sold as pets or breeding males
Their brother is an isabela brahma so their might be...
My call drake buttercup has trouble breathing his nose holes get clogged up, one time it was so bad that one nose hole was completely covered over and the other nose hole had gunk it seems to be snot and mud, I take a toothpick (I am really careful) and get the gunk off so he can breathe better...
My Mum saw 2 ducklings for sale yesterday and she asked about them and we'll today we went to get them eeee
There is an Indian runner which we have called roady like road runner and a silver appleyard which we have called Blossom (I don't know their gender but I am calling them both girls)
And...
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So I hatched 12 brahma chickens last year and got 4 girls and 8 boys when they were babys they were all together but this January they started fighting so I seperated all but 2 of the boys
I read that if they can't see the hens then they won't fight only to find a pecking order at first...
Okay so this morning I let my ducks and chickens out and Johnny my call duck (Johnny is a girl) did not come out I looked in the house and she was sat in her favorite nest box I thought she was felling like laying and egg or she was feeling broody so I left her be and came back after doing the...
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i just had to share this are friend has call ducks and he has found a nest full of eggs and asked if we wanted them i said yes and my mum said yes too :yesss:!! we are going to pick the eggs up from him today! i am so excited :celebrate
one of his ducks is on and off sitting on them so i...
This morning when I let my chickens out of their coop I noticed that one of them had a dirty bottom I tried to catch her but she was to quick and I didn't want are boys to get defensive of her and attack me so I finished doing the animals and went to get my mum to help me I didn't think much of...