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I've found that anxious, timid, scared chickens newly introduced to our ranging garden will get over their anxieties if left to chill out and explore their surroundings and make new friends. It may take 2 or 3 weeks. Also, we found that when approaching poultry to not do so facing full-on. Angle...

Thanks for that reassurance. The morning of the hatching, I wrote, "Well, not a phantom brood after-all. Defying all the odds 'Zoomy' has begun to hatch her clutch. We managed to take one quick photo as 4 have hatched and we're leaving her to hatch the rest. Hatching ducklings in Autumn!? I ask...

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Chirpy is an Appleyard Call Duck, we have various types of Call Duck drakes any of whom could be the fathers.

I came home 3 days ago and a Red Legged Partridge was 'waiting' outside our duck pen. She had about 10 chicks with her. They were so tiny. I think they were hatched the same day. Then I left them alone. Today we came home to find her outside out back door and she all the chicks under her wings...

UPDATE: The cockerel is out and about in the sunshine again. He's much brighter. At 2 am (it's 3:20 pm here now) I gave him electrolyte by syringe (without needle - just to get it in his beak), not much. By 7 am he was crowing again and his eyes much brighter. I kept him in with electrolyte in...

We keep Call Ducks. 10 ducklings this year raising our population to 24 presently. All born here apart from 6.

Thanks for your reply ChickNanny13. We've checked the Layers Pellets, no added Calcium, organic feed mix. I'm giving him Electolyte this evening in his water and removed the pellets until the morning. We're in Dorset, England. He's inside the house in a quiet dark room, it's 19º C, his whiteness...

Our cockerel is not well. He's 25 weeks old. Today slowed right down and then by this afternoon was sitting down, head almost touching the ground and I was able to just walk up to him and pick him up, we haven't handled him much so normally he runs away, but not today. We've brought him inside...

Aye - lovely article. Thanks. We live next to a large coppice and open farmland in Dorset with 'leaky' hedges all around the garden. Top predators here are foxes, sparrowhawks and buzzards. Our chickens and call ducks are mostly running free in our enclosed garden. The ducks have a run to...

... bear in mind we're in Dorset, that's Dorset England not Ontario. Dood takes himself very seriously. He has an important job to do knowing everything about his domain and everyone in it.

We'd be grateful if you could identify the breed of our cockerel 'Doodle'. He's a lovely lad. Very gentle in nature and looks after his girls. Often pointing out nibbles for them and crowing proudly. He lives to serve too! But, we've lost a couple of hens lately (old age) and would consider...

Can you identify the breed of Doodle?

What breed is our cockerel?

Thanks for your help everyone. After my original posting, one our chickens was seriously injured. We didn't see the injury take place but we found our little brown hen on the ground unable to stand up. After a few days being nursed in a cardboard nesting box inside she is now back on her feet...

We're new to keeping geese. We were given a couple in October and they've been living in our garden with a pond and two chickens. We were hoping to have eggs by now. They are over one year old but now we're doubting if they're geese if they're not laying eggs. They seem healthy and they...