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    What is wrong with my male duck's member?

    I will be separating him and keeping him in another cage (as the first commenter recommended) and try to put antibiotic on it like he recommended also , but it's very difficult to keep these ducks clean since they seem to love filth and mud
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    What is wrong with my male duck's member?

    Thanks for the information about your experience. I was thinking last night that he might have to be culled but I'll just keep watch on him, since he's eating fine and staying with a flock, doesn't seem to be in any distress, I'll keep that option in mind
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    What is wrong with my male duck's member?

    It's funny. I have the same thing. I wonder if it's a virus. LOL 😂
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    What is wrong with my male duck's member?

    Thanks I appreciate the quick reply I will follow your suggestions
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    What is wrong with my male duck's member?

    I noticed this hanging from his vent area the other day and it is still present the end of looks deformed and there may have been a little blood on it. Today I saw one of the other ducks snap at it while he was bending over. Is there anything I should do? What is it? It just hangs down all the...
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    Abundance of flies - how do they affect chicken health if larvae is ingested

    I had trouble with flies on my cows when the ear tags wore out. I saw a video of a trap using a black tot with yellow top from a big box store with PVC fittings on all 4 sides with Ts on the outside several inches from the bottom and elbows on the inside pointing down so the bottom of the elbow...
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    Need advice for the best vines and plants for in a chicken run!

    I have night blooming jasmine and grapes but the free range chickens don;t bopther with them at all. My best plant for shade, fruit and perches is Mulberry , they love my trees which get big
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    PLEASE HELP!! My chickens keep escaping the run and getting killed!

    As far as ruining the dog with too much power of shock .I start low just having them approach the fenced in area of the chickens and gradually increase until I see they respond so I use the least possible shock I can. I also have an electronic invisible fence around my whole yard which excludes...
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    PLEASE HELP!! My chickens keep escaping the run and getting killed!

    I have found that I don't really need to use the shock function very often once the dog knows what's happening they will usually back off and just with the buzz. You can use that collar quite a distance so you don't have to be present like one of the other commenters said so even left on their...
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    PLEASE HELP!! My chickens keep escaping the run and getting killed!

    I have had the same problems with my dogs killing multiple chickens and guineas in the past. I think you have 2 options. 1) use thin PVC pipes attached(zip ties) to the existing fence and bent so it is extending inward and over the run somewhat(as high as you want) with attached thin wire or...
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    Meal Worms or Black Soldier Fly Larvae?

    I raise Black Soldier fly larvae and the only cost is a black tote which has holes( 3/8 to 1/2 ") drilled in the upper part just below the over hanging rim so rain doesn't get in. The female black soldier fly will get in thru the holes and lay eggs on the walls of the container or paper or...
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    Growth over guinea eye

    I have a young Guinea with tissue growing over the eye. It looks like what is underneath jaw.At the top of the beak. It's healthy eating and stays with her hatch mates. The eye is actually below the growth, and she does at times open the lid that is darker tissue underneath the pinkish growth...
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    What am I doing wrong? (Ducklings)

    Try dried mealworms every day in small amounts. Throw them on the ground and eventually the ducks will eat them. Then eventually after a few days they will get excited to eat them. Then after throwing some on the ground, hold your hand open with the mealworms in it and eventually they will come...
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    Sudden Death

    I just lost a chicken today with what felt like small rocks in her crop. I found her this morning in the coop not eating with the other chickens when I fed them outside the coop. She had a full crop with hard "rocks" and other larger less hard masses. Since it was morning and she wasn't eating ...
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    The Ring/Nail Test Experiment (Just for fun)

    Since all humans have what is called "physiologic tremor"(not even perceptibly to look at it most of the time) when they hold an arm still as when holding the string, would that not affect this testing? This can be made more obvious by holding still a piece of computer paper at the bottom and...
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    Who's the cutest animal on your farm?

    baby goats, no doubt.
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    Rooster chasing pullet, help?

    I have 2 coops : one with arched walls 6 foot high at the center that is 9' x 16' with 2 roosts that run the full 16 feet on each side ( so 4 roosts 16 feet long) . There are 7 nest boxes that are on the ground under the roosts with "poop boards" between the nests and roosts, which are about...
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    Electric fencing, do you really need it vs non electric fencing

    "I stay with my chickens as much as possible an shut them back up after couple hrs. I have a lot of feral cats an hawks an such " The only chicken I ever lost to a hawk was 35 years ago at a different farm than now . I was talking to my neighbor at our fence with the chickens scratching around...
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    Electric fencing, do you really need it vs non electric fencing

    I have let my 40 chickens and 10 guineas free range along with my 14 goats and cattle. The birds and goats have about 1 acres just for them and also access to the cattle's 3 acres. All of it is electrified with 4-5 strands electric ( along a road there is the 5 strands )along with barbed wire...
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    Rooster chasing pullet, help?

    The numbers vary but there seems to be 3-10 with each roo at times but other times the hens seem to be independent . I have noticed that since the roos have their "girls" they all seem to be integrating better with less fighting and more feeding together. I am not sure the girls do not move...
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