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    Rhea Chick General Care

    Rhea chick general care On feeding, here are the two diets I personally recomend and can vouch for from using them myself -Mazure ratite starter, salt with selenium for half the diet and the other half grazing/looking for insects in the forage (costlier and tougher to do as not everyone also...
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    Tracking Rhea Incubation and chick rearing

    5 eggs. One was cracked beforehand. Two infertile. One was weak and didn't make it, I stopped turning day 33 that may have been a contributor. One egg hatched but only made it to week 2.5, heat issue as summer temps spiked and cause the area to heat up too much while at work
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    Basic Rhea info from two Alternative livestock farms and their websites

    With not as many rhea folks here and information being more sparse than full, I'm posting to try and contribute to the rhea info here. I am in the process of getting into rheas myself and have been directly working with Hopkins' Alternative Livestock the past 9 months as I started getting into...
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    Rhea with sack of liquid on neck

    I have a female Rhea with a fluid filled sack on her neck. I thought it might be compaction am not feeling anything hard, just feeling the liquid. There barely trace amounts of pine shavings, their bedding is fescue hay. Their diet is dog food, calf crumble, alfalfa pellets, and a few handfuls...
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    Hello, I am shamorunner

    I raised chickens for a decade before going to college and am getting back into poultry I started with chickens when I was in elementary school. I burned through a flock with a fox issue and the 2nd flock was well protected. I then added birds into my flock from McMurray and also some show...
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