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Hey y'all, I have an 18 month old muscovy with a prolapsed vent. The prolapse is about the size of a black walnut or a golf ball. We are not sure how long it has been like this as this particular duck likes to hide. As soon as we noticed it, we caught her and brought her inside. I...

I picked up a lovely pair of young Muscovy sisters at the county fair. They are almost adults--they have a "grown up" look but the carunkles have not quite started to form. They have finished their required quarantine and have "met" the chickens by going outside in a dog-crate, so everyone can...

Something got into our shed Sunday morning and killed most of our birds. Many of the victims were broody hens and ducks. We have a pretty loose day-range system. Four ducks were sitting on a huge pile of duck and chicken eggs, and a muscovy was also setting on a clutch of duck and chicken...

I have had a long and frustrating time with my first hatch. I have a borrowed hova-bator with forced air and an automatic turner. I also broke down and bought an Incuview with the humidifier after the first week. These eggs have a history, so please bear with me: These eggs are half of a...

My husband wants to feed the wild birds. Telling him no isn't an option; this is an ambition he had had since we bought this house. I know wild birds can carry diseases, but how worried should I really be? What can I do to protect my flock while still allwing hubs to have his own fun?

I need backup, y'all. My mom died in Septhember, leaving behind a small terrier. She is the sweetest dog ever, and of course I took her in. I love her to bits. However, she kills chickens. At first, I thought we could handle the problem. Keep her on a leash outside, never let her be...

Case History: Molly is a 4 1/2 year old production Leghorn (leghorn/rhode island red hybrid) who has lived with us since she was a week old. Sunday morning (the morning following the first really cold night) my husband went to the shed to gather eggs and found Molly sitting in a nest box. He...

My son's 4-H club is doing Embryology again, and I want to slip a few other eggs into the mix for variety and comparison. Can I put duck or quail eggs in the same incubator? As far as I recall, it is a still-air incubator and the eggs have to be hand-turned.

One of my pullets holds her head up and swallows as if she's drinking, only she doesn't take any water first. It's cold outside, so I had my son bring her in, put her in a crate, and give her a little bit of rom-temperature water. Could this be a partial airway obstruction? My son thinks she...

Hi everyone! I just read the first 8 pages of the feed recipe thread and wound up horribly confused. I need a simple recipe for a mixed-flock feed that I can have mixed up at a local grain elevator. I am feeding about a dozen adult layer hens, a couple of spent/non-laying hens, 3 muscovies...

My kid just bought a pair of Black East India ducks from his friend. I am told they will eat "All Flock" feed and can live peacefully with my chickens and muscovies. They have been kept in small cages all their lives, but now will free range with my flock on 3/4 of an acre. What else should I...

I noticed this today. SOmebody was singing the egg song REALLY LOUD and when I looked, it was rooster #2. A few hens were singing along. Then EVERYBODY got in on it, including rooster #1. After they got as loud as they could get, they all shut up. Has anyone else seen this? what does it mean?

I have a problem. The hens have started a rotating nest. One is broody right now, and in sitting on a nest. Occasionally chicks come out of this nest (2 so far) but Miss Broody-Bottom doesn't want anything to do with them. Every time she gets up, some other hen goes and plops down an egg...

Seriously. This is the second time in about 4 days my son has gone out to the shed and found a brand new chick, with no mother. There is one nest of eggs that everybody seems to lay in and sit on, but doesn't really belong to anybody. Apparently they are coming out of there? How is this...

I have 3 orphans in a brooder. #1 is about 3 weeks old. I think it's a girl, but too soon to tell for sure. #2 is about 4 days old. #3 is a day old. #1 gets along great with #2. #2 gets along fine with #3. But #1 picks on #3 mercilessly. Its sad because both of the little ones try to...

it seems like the same thing keeps happening--of each of my 3 hens who had chicks, there always seems to be one that lags behind the others in hatching. It emerges after the hen gets off the nest, then winds up motherless because the hen doesn't realize it's hers. My son went out to the shed...

Either that or she got hold of some EE eggs somewhere. Either way, my one lone guinea hen is the proud mama of 4 adorable yellow chicks. She deserves it. She sat on her nest all last summer and half this summer with her poor little dud eggs. Good for her!

We got 5 straight-run chicks and it looks like 2 are going to be boys. They are really pretty black & White patterened. I'll try to post a picture in a couple days. They are about 5 weeks old now.

The first chick I wrote about is now 3 weeks old. That was from the first broody hen. The second broody hen hatched out one chick, without incident. the third broody hen, who was actually the first one to go broody, FINALLY hatched out her nest. She sat on the nest for at least 5 or 6 weeks...

Our first broody hen hatched out her chicks over the weekend, but she rejected one. It had a stuck-up poopy butt. We took it to the vet and he got it cleaned up. Sent it home with us, and told us to keep an eye on it to see if it poops. We put it in a box with the proper heat, food, and...