I have a 2 week old runner duckling who has been struggling to make it since hatching. She was smaller and weaker when she arrived from the hatchery and it seemed like her one eye was going to stay fused shut. At the recommendation of others here, I started all of them on brewer's yeast added...
2 days ago I received a shipment of straight run Runner Ducklings. 1 was DOA and I saw immediately that 1 was not doing all that well. It was a bit smaller and less able to get up on its legs and move forward. So I made an ICU box and have kept it there to help it get stronger. It is obvious...
I have 3 hens that I raised up last summer, along with 1 rooster. Then this spring I raised up 4 more girls. It was such a warm spring that I started putting the new hens outside at about 8 weeks. It seemed that integrating the 2 sets of 4 went extremely well. The 2 flocks stay in the coop...
2 of my 3 Red Wyandotte's went broody and I was unable to break them so they pretty much sat on their nests for almost a month. Once a day I would remove them from the next and close up the coop so that they would go out and do what they needed to do. Then all of a sudden they were done and...
I have 2 roosters and 3 hens. Red Wyandotte's that were born last spring. They have a nice large safe coop at night, a run they really don't use much and the great outdoors to roam in most of the day. The hens are laying well and everything seemed fine. Up until today. For some reason, the...
My flock consists of 3 girls and 2 boys. Breed is Blue Laced Red Wyandottes. They are right around 3 months old. They are healthy, live in a nice coop 22 hrs a day and free range for 2 every evening.
My issue is, they will not eat any bugs I have yet to try and give them.......except...