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I noticed something hanging off one of our americanas legs, in trying to look she kicked and it fell off, what is it? It looks like she has on about a quarter of the size on the other leg but she’s mad and won’t let me look at her now

After three years one of my geese finally managed to hatch out a clutch. Toulouse female and male, she had 8 eggs, 7 hatched, 6 made it out all the way and are surviving. I noticed that two of the surviving and the one that didn’t make it have pink feet and beak and the grey feathers are...

I have two first time nesters who lost all the eggs in their nests this year, one made a late second nest and eggs are starting to hatch. This is the first time I’ve found a duckling like this and it still be alive. The mother removed it from the nest so I know she knows it’s going to die. It is...

So my mother got some Turken chicks, and I loved them as they have great personalities and make good decisions, now they have gotten to an age where they’ve decided to establish a pecking order and getting into small skirmishes, nothing had been very serious but I had one come up to me with its...

When closing up the coop for the night I discovered an egg in the run of one of my sitting Muscovy ducks. When I pulled it out it was one of her eggs and it was in the process of hatching. I have not looked further into the condition of the duckling to see if it had an obvious reason for her to...

Last year we started using the Spaulding fly predators to help with the flys(we have horses and a few goats) Not long after starting I ended up with about fifteen chickens, two Muscovy ducks and their sixteen ducklings. We did see improvement on the number of flys, but I’m unsure if it was the...

So yesterday my geese decided to go across the street to help our neighbors hay field’s insects. We do have a somewhat busy road as we are near town and next to the high school/middle school campus. Luckily it is the weekend otherwise I would have had quite the line of traffic held up as I tried...

Two weeks ago or so I noticed my black crested duck had a white feather in her floof and a black feather with white edges at the base of her neck on her back. last week I thought I saw another white edged feather on the side/bottom of her rump but it must have been groomed out. I thought I had...

Last year I got kahki campbells from the local farm store, which came from Hoover’s hatchery. im not to happy with the quality of them. I’m not getting new ducks this year, possibly next year. And I’m wondering what hatcheries have nice ducklings. So I have time to look around. I havnt found...

It’s always fun to see what we can use repurpose items for. Nesting boxes are one of them! I have ducks an geese. my ducks have an upside down chicken nesting box set that they use, and my geese have a dogloo, endtable cabinet, and I just gave them a dollhouse the ducks used to use outside. I...

One of my first time layers laid a soft shelled egg tonight. I thought people who havnt seen one might want to see it. I was going to see if I could share it to the type of eggs thread that had a bunch of egg deformities listed, but I’m having problems finding it. Here is a video and some...

So first attempt didn’t yield anything but stinky eggs First attempt so I decided that I would try again when one of the geese that my lone gander mates with quite often starts laying and at long last one of them laid her first egg today! I caught her making a nest today and snuck over and saw...

One of my pekins has bumble foot in one foot and the scab/plug came half way out on its own this morning, and while I was checking that foot I noticed on her other foot this? She is growling at me when I’m touching this foot. This foot has never been swollen, she’s never favored it, and it...

So I discussed this briefly on my first hatch a long thread. But since that ended I now have three goose nests with multiple eggs in the one dogloo. There is always one goose trying to warm most of them, so I havnt been able to get an egg count every day. Today one of my nicer broody geese has...

I’m wanting to try and set an egg hut up at the end of my driveway to sell some of my fresh duck eggs. I’m not to sure what I need/how to keep the eggs fresh inside. My mom says she knows how to build it or that she has something in mind(she is super crafty) but like me isn’t sure on what we...

noticed one of my girls foot, mainly her middle toe, looked swollen when putting them up for the night, it has quite a bit of heat but she doesn’t mind me touching it. This bird is going to be going to butcher next month, if that makes any difference in treatments.

Tomorrow I’m getting some BSL chicks for tsc, I was there today and they had a good amount and the lady said they were mostly roos. And almost all that I could see were black with white chests. So my mom is letting me get some (not sure how many yet) to raise to butcher. I’m setting their...

My first attempt incubating eggs, they are goose eggs and none of them look like they are doing anything. It’s day 18. I candles them today and one formed a crack down a whole side. I have two that are really dark the one is cloudy kinda? The stuff is moving in side as it turn the egg and I have...

I figure this is from mating, should but the redness is a bit concerning should I put anything on her?

Hi, I’ve had a goose go broody so I’ve been leaving the eggs the geese have been laying to her. Since I did this this is how the clutch grew Day 1 2eggs Day2 4 eggs and one crushed egg Day3 there were then two nest in the dogloo, 6 eggs in the front and I’m not sure how many in the back as...