Good evening from California. It's been years since I've used this account, and it's unfortunate it's for something as serious as this.
Before I go into detail, I want to start out stating that my chickens are my pets and I'm not culling my flock regardless of prognosis. Now that that's been...
Thought I'd post something cute and interesting. This is my Phoenix cockerel doing what he loves to do
Nurture baby chicks like he was a mama himself
Whoops even a rescue duckling. There's about 7 chicks in there and most of them are under him.
Has anyone ever seen something like this...
Okay, so as usual the bleeding heart within my soul has struck and I have found a goose, which appears to me to be a White Chinese female goose, in desperate need of aid.
Things to know first and what exactly I am looking for by posting here.
1.) Yes I know I need a vet, can't do that...
My precious Aiko woke me up this morning CROWING.
Kisses aren't the only unique thing about this girl….
but dem kisses, wowowow
….WHAT.
I know some hens crow, but I didn't really expect it, and I hadn't ever actually seen it, but I did today.
Her crow was different from the rooster's...
So in the midst of my ducklings and gosling hatching my dear sweet Aiko - the love of my fowl life's- egg hatched.
A beautiful little brown/grey/yellow chick. I didn't notice it at first, when (s)he hatched last night, but today after coming home I discovered she had a bent leg and a swollen...
Alright, here again this time with a goose. I acquired a domestic goose egg from a nasty filthy local lake. This is usually where I get my waterfowl and the city could care less because they send people around to take the eggs and euthanize excess ducks and geese because of disease. Putting that...
Have you guys ever had a rooster who literally hated some people and loves others?
I have been hearing my rooster has been going after my mom and today I saw him try to attack my grandmother though the fence (he can't get through so she's totally safe) but I was in the run with them and he was...
Today, my mom called me to tell me she found a Chicken wandering around alone across the street. No one around me has chickens, from what I can tell so it was a bit of a shock. So she caught him for me.
Well I drove home later and discovered my mom had found the sickest little boy I've seen in...
So I had a horrible hatch and ended up with one duckling. (looks like 2 pet ducks now)
So i found eggs in the open at a local and dirty park and took them. Wasn't expecting much but i thought of my 4 eggs i would have had at least 2. (one didn't hatch because half its beak wasn't formed at...
My darling Muscovy Scooter "hatched" extremely weak around July 13th. (The days blended because I was fairly certain I was going to lose it.)
Anyways it pulled through fully about 3 days later and is now a food shoveling poop machine. I heard around that females get their primaries way before...
I've seen it with plenty of other animals but I just realized I've never seen an albino chicken. Like a legitimate albino, sure there are plenty of white chickens but albino albino…
Please tell me if you have~ now i'm curious! And I'm going to google it...
I need to learn about tube to crop feeding. I have a very lame but very alive duckling who I would like to save if I can. It's weak and mostly I think it might have a chance IF I can feed it. Problem is, although it nibbles and nibbles (and likes to bite my lip if i let it) i don't think it's...
Today I had a duck (yes I know this is under chickens...) "sort've" hatch. It pushed out but it began to dry up and it had been in same position for over 12 hours. It had pushed out but it was still connected by its navel in the bottom of the egg. It's navel was big and it was still absorbing...
Hey duck peeps! I am fairly "new" to ducks, at least the more domesticated variety. I've had geese and mallard ducks (all of wild variety) so I know the basics and raising and all that but I was curious to know how good of a pet muscovy ducks make.
On a random note I found a mystery duck egg...
So this little guy/girl is the product of some odd mutt hen (she's orange/buff and white with a little puff on the top of her head; single comb. Mutt right?) And a GOOOOORGEOUS white EE rooster with a big beard. I really want him. But looking at this chick… who appears to be a white bird (or...
Yup. Chickens.
My newest Fuzzy, should be female. (Hatchery sexed from McMurray) "Buffy" The Buff Orpington
This is her now. She's about a week older that the previous picture. I "rescued" her when I found her gasping for air in a box of just in chicks at a feed store. ^^ Glad to say she's...
I have 2 eggs due today and not a sign of hatching from either. I broke the chicken law this morning by candling because when I put em in lockdown I wasn't all sure they were alive. I saw one move and the other I could still see thick veining so it must be alive (absorbing blood I guess). But I...
Hey everybody ^ ¬ ^ ~!
Today I as thinking about chicken breeds and got the idea to ask all of you what your favorite breeds are and what you would recommend.
I guess my birds are like a hobby/pets/family thing for me (I love my birds!) and my main focus is collecting pretty and odd birds...
Or I will be when I break the news of one more little chick.
So I was out driving and I see this feed store and I stop by looking for stuff for my chickens…. but these sexed chicks came in on the 18th so naturally I have to go look at them. And as usual I can't keep my paws away… but anyway...