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  1. ColleenRyan

    How Do I Hatch Duck Eggs?

    This weekend my beloved pet ducks were taken and killed by a predator while they were spending some time in the yard like they did every evening. I had been letting the female duck keep the eggs she had been laying and putting the ones she laid in the yard into the hutch for her after I found...
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    • advice needed asap duck ducklings hatch a duck heat lamp help incubate incubating duck eggs incubator
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Ducks
  2. Catherine_05

    Rehoming Black Swedish Drake, New York

    Hey guys, unfortunately I’m thinking about rehoming my drake. The other option would be to cull him, and while I don’t have an objection to this I would rather him get a nice new home. He will be 1yr in June, I hatched him and raised him from a baby so he is imprinted on me. I know this will...
    • Catherine_05
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    • advice needed black swedish imprinted rehoming
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Ducks
  3. riversbendhen

    Large Abscess on my Bantam's Breast

    Concerned about this large abscess on our little bantam's breast/neck. Been watching it for a few days and it is rapidly growing. Found a couple of scabs underneath it. It is oblong and hard, Anyone have any advice? She acts fine but it can't be comfortable!
  4. ColleenRyan

    Will My Mallard Come Home?

    i posted earlier about how I thought something happened with my male Mallard. After searching my backyard even more I see no sign of struggle or harm, just an open hutch door and a few missing eggs (I’m assuming my dogs wouldn’t have found / been interested in all of a sudden eating those eggs)...
    • ColleenRyan
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    • advice advice needed duck fly help mallard missing missing duck
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Ducks
  5. ColleenRyan

    My Mallard is Missing

    Hi guys, I have three ducks. One male Pekin, one male Mallard and one female duck whose all black win some white speckles on her chest. They’re all best friends and totally comfortable around people. We raised them inside and we treat them as pets. They have a hutch and every night we put them...
    • ColleenRyan
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    • advice advice needed ducks find back home help mallard mallard duck missing duck raccoon racoon attack
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Ducks
  6. Larouxbestfan

    Help! Worried my chickens might have infected toes?

    [I've already posted about another problem one of my hens was having today and I don't want to make it seem like I don't care about my chickens here. This is my first year having chickens and I love them very much. So any sort of unknown bad thing happening to any of them really worries me...
  7. Ria

    Urgant Help/Advise Needed for injured Duck

    i have a 1 year old female aslbury duck shes very healthy until recently we noticed she had the start of bumble foot, she was seen by a vet last week who advised that there is no infection and she can be treated at home with iodine and pile cream brought from a chemist. since yesterday she has...
  8. Bollmash

    Hello from Texas!

    Hello all! My name is Ashley and I am in Dallas county with a love for chickens! My first chicken, Queen Egglizabeth (Elly for short), is pictured in my profile image. I got her through an experiment in my AP Biology class. My teacher really sparked my interest for chickens and I raised Elly...
  9. Chickycammy

    Duckling leg problems - advice

    I have a now 22-day old Pekin duckling that has leg problems. His legs cross over one another between the knee and foot. He can't walk and just kind of pushes himself along the floor or ground. I was trying to work with him by letting him swim in the bathtub but today he can't even swim. His...
    • Chickycammy
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    • advice needed disabled ducks help
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    • Forum: Ducks
  10. labelcherky

    Older chick - Splayed legs treatment

    I just noticed today that I have an older silkie whose legs are splayed. I feel terrible for not noticing before now! She has extra long feathers and tends to stay under the Brinsea heater. Anyone have experience with treating older chicks? It's about 7-8 weeks old. Thanks.
  11. Chickycammy

    3 day old baby chick acting weird

    I hatched out my own chickens and yesterday my little roo started acting weird. He isn't eating much and he tends to just stay under the heating lamp and sleeping. When you hold him, he peeps a bit and then sleeps. Within seconds he'll fall asleep. I hand fed him today and he's very talkative at...
  12. nszrmch

    Chicks old enough for coop?

    I have another post about transitioning them into the coop but I just wanted to make sure my babies are old enough to go outside. Planning for this Saturday. Local weather will be high 60's in the days and low 40's at nights (with some occasional rain). What do you think? I want to avoid putting...
  13. nszrmch

    New chicks and New coop

    Hello! My chicks(5 of em) are getting ready to head into the backyard coop. However, we have an older flock (3 hens) in the backyard already. I've read a lot about how to introduce them on other posts on here. However, we are also purchasing a new, bigger coop. We are planning to keep the...
  14. wthspirit

    To Lock or Not To Lock?

    Hi all. We have 9 backyard chickens and 2 ducks (well, this morning we had 3 ducks...) :-( Sad to say that although it doesn't happen often, we lose a bird to a predator. Today it appears to be a hawk or owl. We have two options for keeping the birds: coop and run only or selective free...
  15. Kimmyh51

    Sudden unexplained death in duck. Grass green stain round vent

    hi all I just went to put some of my ducks indoors for the night and discovered one of them dead and I have no idea what happened. Hoping someone is online now who can give me any thoughts on what it might be or what I can do in the morning to try and work out if it was anything contagious And...
  16. Chickycammy

    Am I doing this right?

    As of a week ago, I got my first incubator and I've had eggs in it from day 1! I've read a lot on here and on other websites but I keep hearing from others in my family/friends that I'm not doing it right. Some info on my incubator: I got it from the farmers market in my town, it's a Little...
  17. Tiffany Baker

    Hello! New here.

    Hello everyone. My husband and I are new to having chickens. We could really use some advice right now. We've had our chicken for a few months now. Everything has been going really good even though we've never had chickens before. Unfortunately, the other night she was attacked by a cat, because...
  18. Rebecca dean

    Moulting. Help

    Right I have sort of new to owning Pekin bantams. I rescused a lavender bantam she was roughly around 6 months when I rescued her she was laying eggs then stopped in the October and started to moult then stopped moulting then started again in November for a few days then stopped then has just...
  19. Star and eclipsa

    Deep litter method

    I just raked my yard and i have alot of leaves in trash bags. Ive heard that you can use leaves for the deep litter method? Can anyone tell me all that they know about it?
  20. M

    Advice please... Splayed leg chick

    Hi there! You lovely chicken people are going to be sick of all of my questions this past few days, but I think that I have managed to learn a crazy amount in this past weekends about incubating/raising chicks that I ever thought possible! So, Saturday morning we had a chick hatch who had a...
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