When my boyfriend went to lock the birds up last night, he saw blood all over the run and found our rooster sitting (not roosting) in the coop with a missing spur. We also have free range roosters so our guess is they were fighting through the run fencing and his spur got stuck and pulled off...
I’ve been hatching both chicken and duck eggs for a couple years and this has been my first duck batch that is a 100% failure. This is one of the eggs that was growing fine…I saw veins in the beginning and watched it’s little heart beating. I haven’t checked in a little bit but I know it should...