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Thank you all for the help. We had reached the conclusion that we should cull, but the little guy/gal had passed overnight :(

Two days ago I had this chick hatch at Day 22 of incubation. Of the 11 chicks that have hatched thus far, this chick had the longer and seemingly more difficult time of hatching. Even after 24 hours when the rest were freed of their shells and at least moving around, this little guy/gal was...

It’s because they’re different species of ducks. *Edited to add* I should have clarified....this is in reference to WHY they would be sterile.

Mine do this to loosen up the dirt so they can take a dust bath. This is how birds clean themselves.

@Eggcessive I’m still not 100% sure how/what happened, but all the pictures I could find online pointed to a throat prolapse. Is this pretty common? We definitely have raccoons and foxes here. We probably have the same predators in Indiana as you do in Ohio. We had two raccoon attacks and a...

It is pretty gross looking! 🤢

I am definitely keeping an eye on my other birds, but I think I’ve got the WHAT part of the problem solved. https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/horrible-swollen-thing-coming-out-of-my-hens-mouth.763473/ The hubby said it looked exactly like the hen in the above link. Now if only I can...

Thank you for that info @ MGG. I wish I knew what it was. When I squeezed it a bit it was a little squishy, but still firm. A very fleshly feel to it, if that makes sense. I’d compare it to the feel of a very full boil or cyst that was slowly starting to drain. My husband said when he first saw...

Thank you @Fluffyflufffluff !

@Shezadandy That was my first thought as well when the hubby told me he made the decision to euthanize. But, when I suggested that when I got home, he looked at me like I was some morbid weirdo 😆 Sending her to the state lab was also out of the question as he wanted the body disposed of as...

@LikeTurkeys Thank you for your input! I wasn’t quite sure how the air sacs looked or felt, so I thought I’d throw it out there and someone would set the record straight 🙂

Good evening, all. Yesterday afternoon while walking around the chicken yard I noticed one of my Australorp hens, almost a year old, just sitting there almost motionless. They love sunning themselves, and we had just went from below freezing temps to a “heatwave” in the 50s, so I didn’t think...

Holy...:oops: *Edited to add: My apologies for using a swear word that had to be edited. It was a slip...though I have seen worse here. LOL*

Oh no, I’m sorry! :(

@BirdsBeesTrees Wow, you’re still living in the house? What makes you stay, if I may ask? The one house I mentioned in my story...we didn’t make it but a few months. Of course, we were only renting, so it was a little easier to walk away from. I don’t know that I could stay in a house with that...

@gimmie birdies I was wondering if it was THE Sir Francis Bacon in your story, and it was. Interesting, though. I don‘t hear a whole of these kind of stories involving animals.

Thanks, @gimmie birdies . Does anything else happen in your house or just that? You can sense these things too, @room onthebroom ? Anything you care to share? If not I’d completely understand, I just don’t find many people that do. Or I guess I should say that genuinely do.

DISCLAIMER: Long story ahead so I cannot be held responsible for those that fall asleep. I’ve had so many things happen to me, for so long, that the few people I’ve shared some of my “stories” with have said I should write a book about it all. Maybe one day I will, but for now I just share...

Very well said! I will try to contribute something here soon. I have some chicks I’m brooding indoors that need my attention, and I suppose I should help the kiddo with her homework 🤪

Well, I’m a writer, so my stories aren’t always short, and I think we’d like to keep people with this thread, not bore them to sleep or scare them off 😆