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I have 20 muscovy ducklings, I plan to keep a few but would like to wait to decide which ones until I can tell the sex of them. At what age can you tell just by looking at them what they are? Right now they all look the same to me...CUTE

I have chicks that are about 9 weeks old. I am finding droppings that look like blood. It looks like the whole dropping is blood, not like a dropping tinted with it. So it looks as though someone is literally pooping blood. I have 20 or so chicks together so I dont know which one is doing it. I...

I gave my goose 4 muscovy eggs that were due to hatch on this past Friday, (the duck skipped out on the nest and the goose eggs were no good). My goose has been setting faithfully to the point that I have been concerned because she has not touched her food for days. She is now off the nest...

My banty hen is setting on eggs that are due to hatch Wednesday. Tonight when she was off the nest I candled her eggs just to see if there was anything in them. All 6 of the eggs looked nothing like what the eggs in my bator did when I candled them. The air cells are all very large, and funny...

I got this beautiful guy last week. He is large with a crow to match The lady I got him from had received him in her order from the hatchery as an extra, but was unsure of his breed.

This is my 1st time adding pics so I hope I did it right and that they will show. This one is almost 14 weeks old, acts sort of roosterish and has a more "manly" looking face. This one is 10 weeks old, much more shy, and has a very delicate looking face, but the feathers on their heads...

I read that a barred hen with a non barred rooster would produce barred males and non barred females. My question is does this apply to any breed of a barred hen, and does it make a difference what the rooster is as long as it is not barred? My personal scenerio: My barred rock hen mated with...

I had 22 eggs left in the bator at lockdown, I now have 22 new little fuzzy butts!!! But I don't know how to post pics!!?

I am on my 1st hatch, my hatch date is tomorrow. If I put my ear close to the bator I can hear a chick peeping!!!! No pips yet, but that peeping got me all excited!!! I am using the Brinsea eco 20, which has a clear top to it, so I am hoping when things start to happen I will get to see...

I currently have 12 hens that I took from a friend in February. They are turning a year old this spring. These hens were laying like crazy for my friend, they started laying in October, continued right through winter. They were laying when I took them. They are eating layena layer crumbles...

Okay, I have my 1st batch of eggs in the bator, and of course have been following the discussions about temp & humidity on here very closely with the hopes I will have a good hatch Now I just have to ask this.... If a hen sets on her eggs, at the point that we go into lockdown and up our...

I went with the brinsea as my 1st bator, so far I am very happy with it, my 1st batch of eggs are in and it has been very steady. But as I look at my eggs in there, I can't help but wonder how my chicks will hatch in there? There is no room. I have seen chicks hatch before, and just can't...

This is my first hatch, so I would like to check on this. My eggs were put in the bator Tuesday, temp has been holding steady at 99.5 Last night my temp was holding at 99 and still at 99 this a.m Is this okay? At what temp ranges should I not worry? Like the lowest to highest range. I am...

Okay, after asking advice on here I decided to go with the brinsea bator. Currently the only thermometer I have in it is the one that came in it. On that thermometer it is currently holding steady at 99.5 My question is: Is the incubator supposed to stop running and come back on as needed to...

My one year old hens are not laying well. When I brought them home this winter from a friend they were laying like crazy, but after I brought them home they stopped. They were eating purina layena which is what they are still eating. I am wondering if they might kick back in if I feed them the...

I have been reading on hear about using cayenne pepper for chickens and egg laying, and I recently had an old farmer friend tell me the same thing. For those of you that have had success with this, is it used only for chickens? Wondering if anyone knows if it has the same effect on ducks and...

Last night when I went out to close all of my birds up for the night, I found one of my hens in the pig pen, it appeared that she had gotten in there and the pigs nosed her around as she was looking a little worse for wear. I put her in a cage so she could have some time to recoop, this morning...

I am wondering what age barred rocks stop laying eggs? I know that chickens slow down as they age, but wondering the average age of "retirement? Thanks:D

I have some muscovies that I just recently got. I am not sure how old they are:( The ducks are mating, and I was wondering if they are mating does that mean they are old enough to lay eggs? Or does that just mean they are sexually mature and have nothing to do with weather or not they will lay...

I have 1 male & female that I got last year, This year I got a male & 5 females. Other than the new male chasing the other male off, the ducks seem to be sticking together in groups, the 1 pair together and the 1 male & 5 females together. When I brought the new ones home I no more than let...