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I really enjoy owning insects but my family only allow me to have ones that are useful - at the moment I have darkling beetles that act as my own mini mealworm farm to feed to my pets. I really want to get some locust, i think they're neat. I've read about ducks being used to battle locust...

My drake (call duck) was flying and had a funny landing and he isn't using his leg. I can't see anything on the foot (he isn't letting me see) and he's refusing to put any weight on it, so I assume its an internal injury. He will run-limp to catch up if I'm too far away otherwise it's just...

That was my original idea but my parents didn't like that idea. Thanks tho

Can anyone help me find a suitable poultry run. I haven't been able to find any that don't have massive gaps by the doors or really thin wire on the outside. The area that I live in has a large population of foxes, so being predator proof is a priority. If you could link your favourite runs that...

My ducks seem very healthy but their poop is really green which I assumed was normal cos I do give them lots of veggies but I read an article online saying it shouldn't be that green. What do u think?

Update for anyone who was following this thread - a few months later I hatched some bantom chicks to donate to a petting farm that was struggling through covid (this made me confident in how the hatching worked) Now, a year later, I just successfully hatched 3 call ducks - all of which needed...

I think it's eating enough, apparently they put the food and water near its spot

I don't really know how, I thought u could only post photos?

My only idea is that it could have splayed leg(straddle) in only one leg, if that makes sense? I had a chick with splayed legs once and they don't really look similar though

My friend just hatched an unwell chick, this is how he described it, has anyone seen this before or has any advice. "I think one of the chicks is unwell, it’s spending all of its time under the heat lamp and isn’t running around all over the place like the others, and we have to give it food...

Looks like affectionate grooming to me, but I'm no expert

UH sorry, I'm afraid the chick died later that day :(

I didn't think I could attach videos

So my friend hatched a chick about a day ago (only out of seven) and they have noticed recently its hobbling quite seriously and there's a quite red bruise on the "knee". I assume she probably got it whilst hatching, but I'm mostly worried about her adapting to it as she grows and then walking...

Oh yeah, they said its fine in moderation, but make sure they don't eat the tomatoes leaves or flowers because it's toxic or something

He didn't need one in the end

Not yet, he was part of a Foster experiment, in which we bought a batch of eggs from a local farm raise them, and give them back as adults, to support the farm as it was struggling due to covid. The others had already gone back because they were healthy and our permant flock would just harm him...

I'm not sure, he was a free range egg from a farm that we hatched, but that seems likely This is him as a little chick :) (he had splayed leg)

If anyone is following this, I have an update: We had to wait 2 days to take him to the vet and he survived on asparin water and antibac spray till then, but he was in pretty bad condition. When we got to the vets we had to wait another week to have his bone amputated and wound sewn. After that...

It was definately a fox, we don't get other predators in my area - all the chickens in the pen were moved inside, all my other pens are definitely secure