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A video to look at when you suspect illness in your flock. This video is probably the easiest to understand that I have seen while still being fully informative and educational and thought it needed a permanent spot on BYC to be found. Sez is a fabulous New Zealand vet with lots of great...

So, I can't get to a vet please don't suggest it, nope, the roads are slush and closed. My vet is also closed Friday to Sunday so its a 2 hour drive to a clinic to get anything, though at this stage I don't suspect infection so antibiotics won't do anything anyway. SO FOR NOW I just need...

Okay guys I have found a couple of older threads on similar things but no real answers in what it is so I apologise in advance for asking but with newer members maybe newer answers? So, I've noticed afew growths on the bottoms of 4 out of 6 of my ducks, and I am going to post pictures of the...

The breeder owns plymouth rocks, splash wyandotte, siler laced wyandotte, partridge wyandotte, australorps, silver laced barnevelders, silver spangled hamburgs and isa browns. I had a family member pick up a mixed box for me and while I can pick the wyandottes, hamburg and plymouth, this ones...

Two weeks out from October, time for another hatch-a-long! Although most hatching in October are probably aiming hatches for the halloween HAL, this is for the other 30 days :jumpy

See what I did there? For those that don't know me, I'm Amy from australia and I thought it was time I stopped hijacking other threads and make my own thread to share my lovely birds. I invite you all to share your flock with me here, and some light hearted chit chat. Here's some snaps of my...

Hey guys! So I thought it'd be nice to start a thread for all the singers. Feel free to share your machines, and ask the community questions (this is what I'm hoping to do) I've been using singers since I could sew but today after 10 years I finally pulled out my nanas old 114G Singer, and its...

So 2 days ago I got this white indian runner duck. From what I could tell she had scar tissue around her eye, and its also slightly sunk in. Today she's finally let me get close enough to look closely. And she appears to have what looks like a skin tag in the corner of her eye which is causing...

My 8yr old son has taken a big interest in studying poultry lately, and he's been attempting to read my copy of Storeys Guide to Raising Poultry but there are some tricky words in there. I'm wondering if there are any more age appropriate or easy reading books out there. He's interested in all...

Okay so before we get into it- I live in Australia, we have weird looking animals, I do not consider shingle back or blue tongues predators or pests, I'd rather them then snakes, but wasn't sure where else to post! So today I had my pelvic floor tested while I went to do waters, when out of the...

Okay sorry if this videos already been shared but friend sent it to me this morning. And in all of it I focus on his phone light hack with the piece of sponge. Do you think this would work? Do you think this would melt? Enjoy watching.

Long story short, I thought hen was sitting on dud eggs so we went to investigate., I didn't think to tell my husband careful picking up incase she's holding eggs... well one dropped and top of shell broke off. Membranes still intact. Chick is wiggling inside membrane. Rushed egg to incubator...

Hey all! So I can't believe no ones started this thread yet so I thought I would! I know the northern hemispheres heading into Autumn/fall/winter so things are getting quiter on the hatch front, but there's surely plenty of us southerners heading into spring to hatch!

Sooo I wanted to share with you all my beautiful 3week old indian runner duckling, who I knew was crested, but on inspection today, discovered two seperate bumps under that fluff. Essentially double crested. (Newborn pic first, then 2 from today) Okay so now a question for a breeders point...

Okay guys... I've had a duckling hatch, and instead of fluffing up like the others when its dried, the goo has caked everything together and gone hard. Is there away to safely clean this gunk off? Will it come off on its own?

Hi all! Long story short timeline- pekin and indian runner duck eggs. Its only just day 23 and I have one clear as a bell internal pip and 6 that are possibly, if not will soon be internal pips. *Incubator Janoel8-48 set at 37.5 degrees Celsius and humidity 50%. Temp checked with mercury...

I'm having issues That ' have only Just discovered with my Janoel incubator, and am hoping Someone out there Can help me. my incubator has no issues maintaining 38C throughout the unit but when l set the temp to 37.5C as recommended for Duck eggs the temp ranges from 37C to 36C throughout. I'm...

Hi all, So I am going to be buying some fertile duck eggs. I considered having eggs posted to me but the couriers around here are absolutely brutal so I am going to collect myself (conviently I have family that lives 30min from breeder). Now the trip will take 6-8hrs (travelling with kids) is...

Is it possible for a duck to get too heavy for its legs? My muscovy drake has gotten very much on the plump side as of late, and spends alot of time sitting. He can walk, he's just slower and waddlier then the hens, and there appears to be no sign of injury, soreness, lameness, illness...

Hey guys, I wasn't sure which forum to post this but this seems right to me (please let me know if you think another forum is better suited). Been doing an old farm clean out and found an old book on farm/home life from 1882, and came across this gem on poultry .