I've just noticed 2 of my hens have yellow mold looking spots on their combs and my rooster has feather loss around his neck. The last few weeks our eggs have decreased and I haven't thought anything of it until I noticed the spots. It's sounds like fowl pox but all the pictures I've googled are...
Ok so we have a duck that went clucky and has been sitting on 10 eggs. They would have been due to hatch 4-5 days ago, since then hens have been stealing the ducks spot and sitting on the eggs. The problem is the last 4-5 days we've gone from 10 eggs down to 4... I candles them and they were all...
Wow thank you all so much! Yes I want her to hatch chicks, but the duck eggs have been sitting there for around a month as we wanted our ducks to sit.. Which they are now just not on that nest.
Thank you im in Melbourne so I'll jump on my local bss site
Ok so one of my hens has gone clucky yet she's sitting on very old duck eggs.
Our rooster will be returned to us tomorrow so my question is.
Do I leave the eggs under her OR kick all of the eggs out from under her and introduce the rooster?
I want her to stay clucky
I'm in rural Victoria Australia so raccoons aren't an option ;)
Yes fairly certain it's a fox feathers everywhere we have lambs taken this time of year as well
The cage is ridiculously safe.... I am amazed at how he has gotten in... Can they scale 9ft chook wire fences? There is no holes and the chooks are locked in at night... I will definitely be shooting him thank you Mary I'm very disappointed, also our sheep are lambing so will do a stake out...
Hi all,
This morning I was horrified to find 3/5 Isas dead not eaten/attacked 5/7 aras dead 3 had gone and 2 just the insides eaten and my sussex dead insides also eaten. Our 5 ducks haven't been eaten but are in a very shock state (also ducks were sitting and ALL eggs are gone).. I'm so...