I am interested in ducks. I don't know all the details about care and how easy or difficult it is to take care of them. Please give any and all input so I can understand this animal better before purchasing them!! we have a pond that they can stay on, but until they are big enough to fly and...
I'd go with white OEGB... not a girl, that lil comb is popping up fast.
Well, white or a very very pale self blue.
Still, that comb is very defined already.
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What is OEGB?!?
I am trying to get better pics! Sorry about this poor quality!! I definitely knew she wasn't a frizzle. But I can figure out what she IS! Maybe a leghorn cross?
I was given 4 JG eggs and I was miles from home and it was freezing. I expected nothing, but I incubated and they are hatching. One down and three to go. The first looks great until he rolled over. There's a yolk colored - what looks like a belly button, but my guess is that it's a deformity of...
No. i found out what it was! the butter i used was somehow old! we now have made the habit of putting the buyer dish in the fridge just in case. after eating some mashed potatoes that tasted the same as the eggs i concluded that it was the butter!
Today I took out two roosters. One that I raised from a chick and who is now in the crock pot! YUM! the other bird I also raised, but his health i found to be very poor upon Butcher. I've seen some mites on my birds every now and then and have sprayed them and their roosts with mite spray. this...
I made some scrambled eggs with ham this morning. I finished cooking them and they smelled rubbery. I took one bite and it was awful! It Tasted and smelled like rubber. I cannot think of anything that would affect the eggs that they are eating. I suspected the ham but it smelled fine and was...
I have two doors on my coop, one that I use all the time- the other is mostly just wired shut until cleaning. The one I use the most was thrown together with bird netting which I have never been confident in, and hardware clothe which I feel better about. I keep my goats in the coop as well so...
It appears to be healing quite well. I would keep an eye on it and make sure that flies do not have access to her. I would also not let her near a rooster until it was completely healed.
Such wounds heal 'from the outside inward' and can take a long time to heal completely.
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Hard to say without a picture, but it does sound like 'rooster damage'. If dried up and scabbed, just keep an eye on it to see that it does not get fly strike. If open and moist it would be a good idea to apply antibiotic ointment (non pain killer).
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this is a red hen I purchased 2 months ago. I saw this on her then and also noticed that her back was bare from roosters mounting her. Now she's started growing new feathers on her back and due to low energy and her stayin in the coop during the day I moved her to another coop until she's back...