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I went out to feed the rabbits this evening and noticed that one of the bucks has a partially clouded eye. He's less than a year old. He seems happy, active, and eating and drinking fine. Is this something I need to worry about? Is there some way I can treat it? I might be able to put up a...

Thinking about getting an automatic coop door opener. Any recommendations on which is best?

Sorry for posting AGAIN about such a "popular" topic, but I did have some questions that I can't find the answer to. Today, a family member discovered a worm in a chicken dropping. I didn't see said dropping, but those who did and saw Internet photos say it's a roundworm. Their description...

About two days a spur removal was attempted on our big BR rooster. Per online instructions, pliers were used to gently twist off each spur. The instructions said that in their experience, 1) there was just a nub under each spur and 2) there was just one drop of blood under each spur. However, we...

Yesterday I found our favorite bantam hen standing still under the rabbit hutch - not normal. She stood on one leg. She didn't want to move, but still seemed alert. I felt around her thigh and didn't feel anything out of the ordinary (this is what baffles me, as you will see.) We took her in and...

I have a 2-week-old kit who has survived over 24 (probably more like 40-48) hours with diarrhea. At first I just thought it had peed on itself, but now it's clear, jellylike, foul-smelling diarrhea. The kit has no interest whatsoever in nursing. I made a solution of water, sugar, and salt...

One of my rabbits was loose in the yard and, when he was found tonight, had limp hind legs. He acts pretty much normal - eating, hopping around as best he can - but doesn't fight as much as usual when picked up. He may have some use of the legs, but mostly he just moves around with his front...

No, I don't feed my chickens styrofoam. I just didn't know where else to put this. :D I don't know about you, but my chickens LOVE styrofoam. If we leave a styrofoam cooler on the back deck, they find it. They also found the styrofoam archery target and the sheet of styrofoam. And they ate...

One of my does has not been eating her cecal pellets for over a month. I believe it started rather suddenly. I read that limiting her pellets would help, but she was nursing a litter of six at the time and needed the pellets. She is getting plenty of Timothy hay every day. She has been getting...

Our duck survived a raccoon attack over a month ago and now her wound looks to be infected. What antibiotics would be good to use? They would need to be available at Tractor Supply Co. or Southern States, as the vet is not an option. :)

Everything was going along fine for years using our 8'x24' chain link run covered with turkey wire and tarps--(except it's appearance. :) as the coop.) Then, just after planning to make a trip and have someone come once a day, we have a coon(?) hit, finally realizing they can come through old...

What size cage/fencing wire can raccoons not crawl through? This would be for the top/ceiling of a run, so there wouldn't be the concern of raccoons reaching through - just getting in.

We're building a hutch for the first time (having used our collection of wire cages before) and we want to make this one definitely snake-proof for having bunnies in. Most people seem to think that 1'' x 2'' wire is fine - but I know by experience that snakes get right through that. We've gone...

I'm honestly not very experienced with different colors of rabbits. I have one doe whose color I haven't been able to make out. She has ticking like an agouti but her color is closer to orange. I asked a breeder I know and she says that the doe is broken orange with smut. Is this true? When...

My Holland Lop litter of 7 bunnies is 4 days old. A few of them are smaller than the rest but only one, probably the smallest one, has a shrunken belly. It is very weak and the mother has not been cleaning its bottom very well - it is wet and dirty. I tried restraining the doe and letting...

Our dog, has had sensitive back paws for a while. We wipe his feet with a towel (for the white carpet's sake) before he comes in from outside, and he sometimes kicks when we wipe his hind paws. But just today something really strange started happening - he would be walking around and suddenly...

I bred a Holland Lop doe about 11 days ago. She was ornery and did not submit to the buck - she just sat on the floor of his cage with her tail down. I did raise her hindquarters to try to help it along, and I let the buck have plenty of time to do his thing. However, the buck never did fall off...

I didn't notice it yesterday, but today, at least, I saw a small purplish-pink lump on one of my rabbit's ears - looks like a sore. It's hard and seems to be on the outside of the ear. It's about the size of a small pea. There doesn't seem to be much fur on that one spot. Besides that, she's...

One of my does has had a very small appetite for a while. Just a few minutes ago I checked on the rabbits. Her left eye was bulging out, with what looked like tissue with blood vessels appearing at the lower corner of the eye. There is white discharge along the lower rim of her eye. Her head is...

We had several ducklings hatch the other day. The duck hen has had one batch previously, which she rejected. We tried again this time and she seemed to accept them. Unfortunately we were wrong and she killed one and injured another. I was able to get the injured one while she was flipping it...