So my 1 year old hen goes up to our back porch glass door while their free ranging and just lays like she's dead on the cement. As soon as I come up to the sliding glass door she looks up at me and continues till I open the door to see if she's okay only for her to stand up, look at me, then...
I found my ducks back and wings plucked out again and bleeding. This time though our drake wasnt the cause of it because we separated him from the flock recently to avoid this from happening again but after 4 days without the drake one of our chickens decided to pick on our newest duck...
Our pekin noot noot is currently recovering from bumblefoot and she does have a hard time getting around and such. But after we gave her a epsom salt bath and covered the bumble foot and placed her back with her partner quakity ( our drake ) he was protecting her at first keeping watch of her...
So I go out today to check on my chickens and ducks refill there water, feed, etc and I find noot noot ( our female pekin duck) limping and collapsing on the ground. So when I was looking at her legs and feet i see the black scab in the middle of her webbing and instantly thought of bumblefoot...
So I woke up to my dogs howling and wailing at about 4:30am. They NEVER have done this without solid reasons which have last time been when our ducks were under attack by raccoons so when I go to check on them I hear our ducks and chickens outside so I check on them and they are freaking out...
I got back from being out of town to one of our ducklings completely abused by our male duck. Unfortunately our other duckling died because of his attacks and this leaves our hurt one alone. I put her in a Luke warm bath and she seems to be okay for the most part she swims around cleaning...
About 5 days ago one of our chickens got out of the coop and she didnt have water for what we think atleast 2 hours. I check on the chickens every few hours and I see her laying in the shade under a bush panting like crazy so I take her inside to cool off and give her some icy honey water. Of...
Two of our chickens broke out their coop and decided to have fun outside the coop ( right where our dogs are ) we sadly lost one chicken and the other is suffering from heatstroke and trauma from witnessing our other chicken getting attacked by one of our dogs. We currently have her staying...
I check my chicks today and one of them stretch their head forward for food and I see exposed skin and veins underneath Their is fluff and feathers over it but moves away from skin exposed area when stretched or spread out though they dont seem bothered by it at all. They are 2 weeks and 5 days old.
I was checking on my chicks and found 2 out of 4 of them dead in their little area. when I was trying to figure out what caused their deaths thinking it might have been to hot I find clear slimy bubbly liquid in their mouths and its flowing out of one but the other had it in the back of their...