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So, my 7 month hen has black super runny poop, she is outside all day eating stuff. all of her sisters are laying, but not her. i think it started when i had the ducks in with the chickens. she's on corid, but it doesn't seem to do anything. all of her sisters are fine and laying but not her...

I am getting a few chicks soon and was wondering if there is a way to treat the chickens to prevent coccidiosis. Thanks!

So, i was thinking about getting chickens in the spring, and was wondering what are like the top three best chicken breeds for egg laying and cold-hardiness. And also, what would be a good rooster breed? Please share your opinions!! Thanks...

I am thinking about getting chickens in the spring and an wondering if an electric fence will hurt my chickens? i have a lot of animals that might kill my chickens. should i just keep the fence running at night? this is the fence...

They say there are lists of ducks favorite treats, but i found that mud is the best one. I caught Donald, my runner duck/mallard cross very guilty... . and all this mud ends up in their pond. and i wonder why it's only dirty when the ducks are out.

so my two mallards just started laying yesterday, and they were hatched in april. so, even if they are laying right now, will they still lay in the spring?

So I am preparing for winter, and I was wondering if I should use the clear/yellow heat lamps, or should I use a red one. I don't know if either one is better, I am worried that the bright light is probably bad for them, but then, does the red one have any disadvantages? I tried the ceramic...

So, I took my mallards out to their outdoor pen this morning, and they went straight to the pond as usual. Then my hen put her neck down and started talking to my "other hen" and then my "other hen" grabbed her neck and climbed on top of her! Before anything else happened, my wood duck hen came...

I was like scratching my wood duck's neck when I saw a louse crawling on her neck!!! I sprayed permethrin on her to kill it, but I have my 2 other mallards. I had to watch her until the permethrin dried. I know that isn't the best way to kill lice, but it was the only way at the time. What do I...

so i have two mallards and they are both around 2 1/2 months old. I can't tell if they are both hens or if one is a drake. I was hoping some of you could help. Thanks! The two pics on the top think is a drake and the two pics on the bottom I think is a hen

So I have a hen wood duck, a hen mallard, and a drake mallard. The mallards are inseparable. every time I take one farther than 6 feet away, they start panic-quacking. The hen mallard never liked my wood duck, but last night something amazing happened- they all slept together. I put them all in...

So I have has these ducklings for about three weeks and am still wondering what gender they are. So the first one has the lighter head stripe and the other two pics are the duckling with the dark stripe, so what I found on google is that the males have the darker stripe? it is just confusing for...

Hi, so I have a hen wood duck and I have had her for two years now. She didn't even think about making a nest the first year, but I thought I would just wait till this year. Well, the wild wood ducklings are already hatching!!! I have a security camera in my wild duck boxes, and they are...

HELP my duckling ate a piece of Styrofoam, what do I do! my ducklings were in the garage playing around when I saw them nibbling at a piece and I went to go take it out of their mouths when one just swallowed it!!!! what do I do? will it die??? please help!

look what I got today!!! baby mallards!

As some of you know, I have a wood duck and I am getting her some friends. But recently I have had a duck hunter in the area- a red-tailed hawk. I wouldn't want to get some ducks and have them bond, but then a hawk eats them. the hawk has already eaten a few wild wood ducks, some right in my...

Hi, Just recently I ordered a few mallard ducklings from a hatchery. They used the post office and I was just a little worried about that, but that hatchery was the closest one I could find that didn't have an order minimum of ten. Well, they used the post office to ship and they got delayed. To...

Hi, I was wondering could i get my ducklings tested for E-coli and salmonella at my vet? I could do a 20-30 quarantine for them, but I thought it would just be simpler to just get them tested. If you guys could let me know, that would be very kind. Thanks!

Hi, I was wondering could i get my ducklings tested for E-coli and salmonella at my vet? I could do a 20-30 quarantine for them, but I thought it would just be simpler to just get them tested. If you guys could let me know, that would be very kind. Thanks!

so I am getting a few more ducks and my duck that I have has angel wing and can't fly. I don't want that to have that happen again, so what duck feed would you recommend? Thanks!