Compared to his sibling immensely quick. First day after I hatched him out he was really weak like the other one wasn’t really moving I got him warm and dry and just checked on him every two hours... yup like a new born next day was sort of dragging himself around then after about three days he...
Cauga/ magpie from what I can tell. Daddy of all these babies is a magpie handsome boy for sure the Mini(one of the moms) is a grey swed her babies are very much different and grey Daisey the other mother( I don’t think she had any but the one that didn’t make it) so no pure magpie babies so...
Here is squishy when I am not at work I carry him along or we go take a bath or he helps me work and sits on my lap while I work on the computer he seems pretty content so hopefully it will be enough until his friends come
Sorry squishy is my lone duckling that came out three days before the one that was early and sadly the other one was soooo crippled and weak she passed about a day later I can’t help to feel that was me having to hatch her out. I don’t know I had to do the same with squishy and he/ she is...
Squishy is alone but doesn’t seemed bothered he is spoiled and with me when I am home and has little interest but I suppose I should ask... should I get him some pals too. The moms rejected him and tried to kill him so it’s just me and him two buckaroos watching this strange sick duck
A bit of a story but important details, I had two hens decide to brood a clutch of twenty. Each. Now I took all the chicken eggs they had collected and each ended up with 15. First mom, mini, hatched out 5 healthy babies then left her nest...I pulled eggs and put them in the incubator and...
out of all my chickens o have never had this happen before, I have a chick she is about three weeks old and up till now has been perfectly fine, still acting completely fine, eating drinking flapping around with her mates and fighting me when I try to pick her up as chicks do.... but her lower...
I have offered her water with electrolytes, but she won’t drink, I mean there really isnt a way to force them to drink and I have turn her food to mush as well nada... do you think if I opened her bill and eye dropped water in do you think I can do that without hurting her?
hi y’all this is a first for me so I am reaching out I feel like I have tried everything.... I have an 8 day old chick who isn’t thriving she is smaller than the other, barely moves really she will follow them to the water might drink and might eat now she won’t do either I have tried a dropper...