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Dear all, One of our greylags has a problem where the sides of his bill does not seem to wear away and continues to grow. The tip does grow too much also along with his toe nails which suggests an excess of keratin but the sides of the bill is the main problem. I've removed the excess from his...

Dear all, Amongst our flock we have a female black swan - the only swan we have. Last year she made a clutch of eggs, sat on them for one day and thought better of it and rightly left them. This year however she sat on the for the long haul until a couple of days ago. So, I collected the eggs...

Hi there, I do some rehabbing for wildfowl that aren't ready to be returned to the wild and had a greylag goose brought to me at the weekend. It had been taken to a rescue center and looked like it had eye damage and was wobbly on his feet. It received some anti-biotics and eye creams and once...

Hi there, Sorry for the long post - I need to put some background detail before I explain the problem. We've recently acquired an 18 year old Embden gander (although he weighs 7.3KG and I gather they're supposed to be heavier - he looks like one and is significantly larger than the other geese...

Dear BYC readers, We've been at our new home for a year and a bit now and some species of fowl were here when we bought the place. There are 2 drakes that are white runner-ish but a little stockier. We took in an aylesbury female that gets on fine with the boys in fact their mating appears...

Hi there, I'm new to the way of non wild duck egg laying and wondered what to do. We have a pair of white male runners and last year we homed a duckling from a rescue center that turned out to be a female of a similar breed that I believe is a white campbell. Initially we thought it might be...

Dear all, Each year Mallards choose my flat roof to nest amongst the herb boxes. This makes for exciting times as the female visits during breaks and the males thankfully seem to hang around for the rest of the day to wait for her - and enjoy the attention/food they receive from me as a bonus...