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  1. BlessedChaosHomestead

    Guardian Dog- Questions for Owners of them

    Hi, So I have some questions that I am hoping those of you who own Guardian dogs can answer. We have a small homestead. Poultry & 2 pet rabbits with the typical cats & dogs. Our one female dog killed a chicken last summer. The youngest of the 3 dogs might try to harm chickens if they...
  2. Lunes

    Coop setup advice! Help a first timer 😅

    Hello! I know, I know, everyone says not to buy the crappy little cheap coops online or at tractor supply and listen I totally agree with y’all, I wish I had the knowledge to build a big boy coop and I honestly might now that I’m learning so much from peoples post on here, but I tried to make do...
  3. Chickenwithnobrim

    1 week old chick sparring

    So is sparring this early a good indication of being a rooster? They are exactly 8 days old. My one chick tried to spar today with its siblings, full kicks and neck poof. It was ridiculous seeing a ball of fluff karate kicking. Im already calling it a he because hes the most cuddly and bonded to...
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    • advice advice appreciated ask baby chick behavior change guess guess gender new chicken mama one week old please advise
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: Raising Baby Chicks
  4. H

    Help! Very Strange looking egg.

    Hey everyone! I opened the coop to gather eggs this morning. I haven’t gathered in 2-3 days but I have very strange looking eggs. I don’t know what they are and I’ve searched but can’t figure out what they are. The closest thing I could find were lash eggs but they still look nothing like this...
  5. Kazizl

    Help !! Duck acting like she needs to puke

    My female duck has been making odd jerking motions like she needs to vomit for about an hour now. I can hear occasional gurgling sounds from i assume her crop. I tried massaging her chest, gave her some grit and olive oil, she's drinking water but it won't stop. All she ate today is some kale...
  6. kanami

    bullying or molting?

    i’m so stressedddd, i’ve noticed some of my chooks are losing feathers and this is coming up on year one of me being a chicken tender and this is a first for me. i need the experts to look at all these photos and help me see if they are getting bullied or if some are molting or both! one day i...
  7. KathiQuacks

    Sweet drake suddenly harassing all the females. Do I need to rehome him?

    Hello everyone. At the moment, we have 6 drakes and 5 hens. I know, the ratio is horrible. Each girl is paired off with a different boy, so there’s only one drake who has no partner, though he doesn’t seem to mind this. I assumed, with everyone else having a partner, there would be no issue…...
    • KathiQuacks
    • Thread
    • advice appreciated aggressive drake rehome duck too many drakes
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: Ducks
  8. M

    Roosters with frostbite in cold climate

    We live in Canada and try our best to keep the coop above freezing but the outside temps got to -30C for a couple nights and now we have two boys with frostbitten wattles. We brought one inside for now because he’s low in the pecking order and at greater risk of getting bullied. The other is...
  9. Lilybljm

    Worried about duck.

    I had nineteen ducks until yesterday morning, now I have four. Not something I ever wanted to say. A mink got into the coop early in the morning and killed 15 of them, injured two, caused one to hurt herself, and left a single duck unscathed. I’m devastated. Somehow though, it’s the unscathed...
    • Lilybljm
    • Thread
    • advice appreciated ducks traumatized wound care
    • Replies: 7
    • Forum: Ducks
  10. A

    Chicken Questions

    We are new to chicken flocks and might have messed up for being new chicken parents. But about 8 weeks ago my husband and I bought some 'year' old chickens from a questionable place on Craigslist. He said they just started to molt which is why the feathers looked so bad. (which I get). Here...
  11. mychickensgivemelife

    Please help my Penny found her like this after being the backyard!!

    PLEASE READ I AM DESPERATE: Penny is a young healthy chicken full of personality we’re in the middle of winter so I know she’s not overheating I’m worried she’s hurt her poor little wing badly I’m taking her to vet tomorrow since it’s night now her only symptoms are fatigue closing of the eyes...
  12. S

    Worming

    Hi how often is it recommended and safe to worm a cockerel, he was abandoned so I have no idea how long it was since he was last wormed so I’m not sure if to do it or to wait, any advice would be brilliant thank you
  13. Aquaticember06

    Coop fire- advice needed!!!

    I hate for this to be my first post but we desperately need some advice. We had the coop catch fire this morning. I smelled it before I saw smoke. I didn’t get out there to let them out at my usual time because I’ve been sick and I have vertigo. By the time we got out there, one of our four...
  14. H

    Recovering from Sour Crop, further advice needed

    On Saturday night, I posted about my hen Max behaving very lethargically and not eating. Some kind folks on here lead me to believe she had sour crop, which I have been treating her for since Sunday after getting her crop to empty on Saturday night. Max seems a bit better. I have given her some...
  15. E

    Anything contagious that presents as either salpingitis or water belly/ascites?

    Hello, I have unfortunately lost 2 of my ex-battery girls quite close together, and have another 2 hens I am concerned about. I’m pretty sure one of the deceased had salpingitis as I found a lash egg not long ago and one of the ones I am worried about now may have water belly as she is starting...
  16. kanami

    FIRST EGG?? now what?!

    hi friends!! our dear Butter has laid her first egg, but it was done underneath our stairs, using a nest made out of bubble wrap! me and my mother were outside doing our own thing when we noticed she was under our stairs and was in a nest sort of thing… we were like “huh maybe she will lay...
  17. K

    Recurring Symptoms of Vent Gleet

    One of my chickens has been getting sick with the same symptoms every few months and I’m unable to see a vet. The symptoms she has is lethargy, lack of appetite, gurgling sounds from her stomach, red, swollen and sore vent with discharge. I think this time there’s been small bits of blood? I...
  18. Hchaplin

    How to identify if a rooster had a heat stroke.

    I've never had an issue with heat stress or heat stroke, personally, yet. I was checking on my brothers flock and noticed his rooster, Benjamin, wasnt roosting and laying in the feed pan. His comb was almost white and his one eye he wont open the inner eye lid. We scooped him up and got some...
  19. Nattyice

    Does he need an amputation?

    Hello guys I had an accident last week due to one of my cockatiels being on top of my canaries cage the other day manage to reach to grab one of them and did some damage. I haven’t made an appointment to the vet because I thought at the time when it happen it was some blood and was going to heal...
  20. M10lk

    Lump on goslings neck

    My 5 week 5 days old gosling has a hard lump on the side of her neck, (she is the one who I had previously posted about with the yolk sack). She is well and healthy, eating and drinking lots but I’m unsure of what this could be, I thought at first it could be a full crop but it seems too high...
    • M10lk
    • Thread
    • advice appreciated goose gosling gosling lump lump lump base of neck
    • Replies: 6
    • Forum: Geese
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