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So sorry for your little bird. I'd take her to the vet, along with a fecal sample. In the meantime, some probiotics and electrolytes, and massage the crop several times a day. If she improves today, still take in a fecal sample to be sure. It can give you all sorts of information about what's...

I have a bumblefoot epidemic happening here. I feel like hot garbage smells over it. My birds free range and I have many problems here that could be causing it, so I'm working hard to remedy them...could be gravel, logs, fallen sticks, etc. I keep coop bedding clean, sanded rough spots on roost...

I have Scout ( broody duck setting on chicken eggs) and Skippy (bad mom) in a small coop/run with the ducklings. They all eat non medicated chick starter. Why did Skippy just take off? She's just more interested in preening and hanging out by the pool with the drakes. The ducklings are healthy...

Two eggs hatched under Skippy, this was her first time going broody. She was all about sitting on those eggs. She hardly ever left the nest! It was Serious Business. Well, two eggs hatched 5 days apart. The first duckling left at a few days to get into a nest with another duck(who is sitting on...

Well, the little duckling pipped internally, I can see lots of bustling about in there! Skippy is still sitting, and her other duckling, hatched and named Tuesday, has moved in with Skippy's sister, Scout. I am checking the egg periodically, hoping for a hatch today. Because Tuesday & Friday...

I had three eggs under my muscovy hen, one hatched two days ago, one went bad, and the third is still u hatched. I see movement inside, it looks as if the duckling is trying to pip throught that membrane to the air sac, but isn't able to. Since one egg hatched two days ago, I haven't seen her go...

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I'll get one tomorrow! :)

I think that's what I'll do tomorrow night, I prefer they be together, and kind of separate from the rest of the flock. :)

Scout went broody even though I took the eggs every day, she's sitting on 4, some are hers and some are her sister's. Same story with Skippy, broody on like ONE egg, so I let her have some of her sister's as well. Waffles, the third of the sisters, has shown no signs of going broody YET! Scout...

I have two broody muscovies, they started sitting about about a week apart. Scout started brooding in the chicken coop, and Skippy in the duck house. My question is, can I move Scout and her ducklings into the duck house after the hatch? I have a mixed flock, and I'm worried about the other...

I had a little old lady tell me that when she was a girl, she used to "catch the eggs" when the hens laid them, and she'd get to watch those egg shells "harden up" as she held them.  No way could I convince her that wasn't possible.  When faced with such "unarguable facts", the better part of...

I've offered eggs to many people, and MOST of them have declined, as they prefer store bought eggs. I don't know why that is. The ones I have shared eggs with are always impressed and want more. Crazy question I was asked yesterday: "How many eggs does the rooster lay?" o.O

I spoke with a veterinarian at the USDA this morning (did you kmow they would do that!? I DIDN'T!), and after lots of questions, he said this sounds bacterial rather than viral, and also like a manageable/treatable thing. If other birds get sick, I'll have a hard choice to make. Anyway, after...

I'm not concerned with being able to give away or sell any of my chickens, but I do understand where you're coming from. I just want a little flock for my own enjoyment, I am happy to have some eggs, but happy still when there are none. Thanks for your reply, I did consider doing that for a...

Thanks for that!

Two weeks ago I found one of my pullets roosting on top of the coop alone, gasping, and all puffed up. I was given amoxicillin by a vet, but she still passed away. A second pullet began gasping, and the vet gave me tylan 100 and panacur to be given for 6 days. My flock finished their course of...

I took her to the vet this morning. The vet said she had badly twisted her leg, that her patella slides around some. Eek. As a result of being sedentary, she developed a respiratory infection in her left lung (but this was not something contagious), which is the same side as her injury. Little...

I looked at the diseases and their symptoms, but none match up. She's not GASPING gasping, just stretching her neck a little and opening her mouth. She's eating, went crazy over some grapes and cheese, and drank drops of water out of my hand. There's nothing I can hear when she's breathing,no...

Thanks so much for the info. I called the store, and their chicks ARE vaccinated for Mareks. The leg injury came first, then the gasping. I thought maybe the pain would make her do that.....