I have a decent size flock of 20 ducks and 30 chickens. All of my chickens are vaccinated. I had a lady ask if I would take her 2 Cochin bantam hens from her because she didn’t want chickens anymore. She bought both from a hatchery, and were her only birds. They are over a year old. I took them...
Nobody is compatible with him. He will jump on and right back at another hen without missing a beat. They all run away from him. I have 2 full grown African geese that even run from him.
I have an ameraucana roo who’s just about a year old. I hate him, I want to cull him. But, my husband loves him and doesn’t want me to. He’s super friendly and follows him around when he goes in there. But, all I see him do (I spend more time with them) is over breed all of my birds. Nobody’s...
No pasty butt, I check for that quite a bit. Just not reacting to me if I put my hand in the brooder, or sitting under the heat lamp for most of the time. And their eyes are like squinty? Not sure how to explain it. The ones who are normal are bouncing around and acting like I would expect...
I recently got 26 chicks, 10 ducks, and 3 african geese. I have them separated. They were all doing fine up until day 5. I’ve lost 2 chicks, a goose and a duck all within 24 hours. The ones I already had picked out as acting different than the rest the day I got them. There’s 1 more duck and 2...
Ok, thanks!! , I had 3 Marans like this. One died this morning. now I’m worried about the others. Matter of fact all 6 of my Marans are just acting blah. I thought it might have been a breed trait or something (never had Marans before) but I’m slightly worried about them now. All 30 of my other...
Hi I have a 5 day old copper maran chick, almost appears like it has angel wing (I know that’s a waterfowl term.) the wings are flipped over and sticking out like what I would see on ducks. What can I do? Thank you!