I have a flock of hens just reaching laying age and a rooster. This morning 2 of my hens have one eye swelled closed are lethargic and rattling breathing. Does anyone know what is going on and if it is treatable?
I have a Royal Palm turkey hen that has started a nest and has 2 eggs in it. I also have either a young Rouen or mallard that has started laying eggs helter skelter here n there all over the pen. I don't want to deal with an incubator and brooder this late in the year and am wondering how it...
I went out to close the pen door for the night and there were 3 fresh laid eggs lying by the feeder. One was still wet. Obviously my flock is about to get larger.
My Rouens are not 5 months old and are already breeding and I am not talking trying to breed...they are breeding. My mallards have been hopping up and down testing their wings so I figure they will be flying any day now.
I placed an order with Privett Hatchery for 1 dz st run mallards, 5 sexed hen mallards, 2 sexed drake mallards and 3 hen rouens. They were to ship last Wednesday and arrive for pickup at the local PO on Friday. Friday..no ducks. I checked my credit card and it had been charge so I called...
The Eastern/Royal Palm cross hen that was sitting the nest of 12 eggs hatched her babies yesterday. There was one dead and 1 unhatched and 2 eggs not accounted for that I am assuming were bad and she had at sometime carried them away from her nest. After relocating them to a secure pen a...
I just placed an order for 1 dz str run mallards, 2 drake mallards, 5 hen mallards and 3 hen Rouens. They ship Wednesday and arrive Friday morning. A buddy of mine gets the str runs but I did not want to take a chance on getting overloaded with males so I ordered mine sexed. The 3 Rouen...
I have been finding turkey eggs every morning for 2 weeks with the shells broken on one side. I caught this sucka leaving the pens the other day but he ducked into the storage room of my polebarn and hid before I could get a bead on him. I caught him in a fish dip net yesterday. He was...