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My neighbor found a baby duckling in her yard that appears to have been dropped by a predator. It is very healthy with only minor scratches and nobody around here is currently raising ducks as pets, only a farm 2 miles from here raising them as meat birds. I tried integrating it with my Silkie...

Hello friends. We have 2 Partridge Silkie birds who are now almost 9 months old. Muffin is the grey-ish bird and Puddin is the larger brown-ish bird. Puddin (the darker one in the last 2 photos) lays eggs regularly. However, Muffin (the lighter one in the first 4 photos) does not lay eggs, does...

We have a Barred Rock chicken, about 6 weeks old, who was just pulled out of our coop and carried through the yard by a fox. I managed to fire an arrow at the fox and scare it into dropping the baby bird and running off. However, the baby bird was lying on its side and soaking wet from the rain...

Hello friends. We have 2 about 4 1/2 month old Partridge Silkie birds. We know that one of them laid an egg for the first time today, but we don't know which one. We are trying to determine if we have a rooster and a hen or two hens. They do not crow, but they open their mouths and stretch their...

We hatched 2 Barred Rock babies from hatchery eggs and 1 possible mixed Barred Rock and Rhode Island Red mix from our neighbor. The mixed egg was the only one left when his chickens were attacked and killed, so he gave it to us to raise. We need to know if the 3 birds are roosters or hens. Any...

My sweet Plymouth Rock Roo was apparently stung by a wasp in one of his feet. We were able to find and eliminate the wasp nest in the large coop, but he is now limping badly and the foot on the left side is larger than the right one. We can see a welt where he was stung, but no stinger is...

We have had issues with wild (domestic) cats killing off our flock when we allow them to free range in our 3 acre yard. However, I worry that the run we built for them on the side of the coop may be too small to keep them happy and provide enough hunting ground. We have 4 adult birds now and 6...

We have 3 Speckled Sussex babies that were born at Christmas. Two of them were born with the same black feet that our Silkie Mix babies have. However, the third (who struggled to be born at all when he/she couldn't get through the shell of the egg without help), has pink/orange feet and a large...

We are having trouble determining if our latest batch of Silkie mix are roosters or hens. My hubby says Roo for both, but they don't act like the other Silkie roo we have (their father) at all. They were born at Thanksgiving. They are shown in the picture below, which actually shows our entire...

Hi there. I have been following this site for a couple of years now, every since we adopted my cousin's chickens and started a flock of our own. We bought some Speckled Sussex babies over the internet and some of what we thought were White Rock hens from a local supply store. The Rocks actually...