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We’ll be moving in to our new house this winter, early December most likely. We’ll have more acreage and don’t know yet what we ultimately want to construct for our flock, but ideally it’ll be moderately mobile so we can move them to different parts of the farm. Anyway, my question is, what...

We rescued some hens from our neighbor about a month ago. They were locked in a disgusting shed without light, food or water. Only 3 were still alive, all emaciated and extremely stressed. The leghorn had poop matted all over her belly/chest, under her wings and an extremely poopy vent. She was...

I have a flock of 6 indian runners, 3 adults and 3 ducklings that are 7 weeks old. About a week ago, I noticed that one of the ducklings was limping. I checked it out, it looked fine, nothing in its feet, appeared healthy otherwise. This week I've kept a close eye on it and have been giving it a...

That's what I've been doing, but as long as he is penned, the rest of the flock won't budge. They'll lay right next to the fence. I put a mini pond into the fenced area, 2 other ponds outside of it. No matter what, if he's penned, they won't forage, use either other pond, etc. They just wait...

Our 4 week old ducklings are doing great, and mom has been trying to integrate back into the flock, however, one of the drakes, chases the ducklings whenever they move. I made a separate area to hold the adult ducks in order to give mom duck and her hatch time to forage, splash in the pond. Etc...

That's kinda what I thought, but have no experience to base it on. They are getting plenty to eat and drink, looking very healthy. As far as I can tell, she literally has not left the nest at all since last Sunday. However, another duckling just hatched. I saw a cracked shell this morning and...

Our runner hatched 2 ducklings last Sunday (which, based on my notation of her brooding was only 22 days), 1 yesterday and there are still about 10 eggs she's laying on. I'm expecting that any of the eggs that will hatch, should do so over the next couple of days. My question is, being that 2 of...

Thank you for the response! They have a safe place at night, but spend all day wandering around our 6' fenced yard between their various "ponds". This drake is kind of the troublemaker in the bunch. Once he and the others were full grown, he started chasing the dogs. Both dogs have been great...

Yesterday I went to change our 3 runner ducks water and noticed what appears to be puncture wounds on the back of one of their heads, a wound on each side. His head looked swollen (as you'd expect) and I tried to clean the wounds and examine them, but he seemed too freaked out to try and catch...