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  1. Chickenmother26

    Polish lethargic & pooping watery yellow/green

    Hello, thank you for reading! My polish chicken Jolene, about 2 years old, was standing with her tail down and acting lethargic so I brought her inside. Thought she just needed a haircut, but it didn’t help. Inside I noticed she was pooping watery/mucousy textured diarrhea, yellow/faintly...
  2. biscotti

    Duck behaviour question: shaking heads and fast movements

    I'm wondering if any more experienced duck folk could tell me what these guys are doing? This is a google drive link to the video (It wouldn't upload it here, sorry) [video link] From my perspective it seems like they're anxious and frantically looking in multiple directions back and forth...
    • biscotti
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    • advice behavior ducks head shaking help runner ducks scared shaking
    • Replies: 5
    • Forum: Ducks
  3. Chickenwithnobrim

    Would a dyed silkie attract predators?

    Hi all, i have a pet white silkie and my girlfriend wants to dye her wingtips and tail for easter fun. My concern is that will make her much more visible to predators as she and my other chicken have free range of the back yard during the day. The only predators we have to worry about in our...
  4. R

    Quail egg emergency on day 17

    So, this is my first time hatching quail with an incubator. I had only two broody hens before, so I'm not completely new to the game. My eggs are on day 17 now, and so far everything went good, chicks developed great and the first ones started to pip the shell yesterday afternoon. However , I...
    • Retrosveni
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    • #quailegghatching #quaileggs advice emergency hatching help
    • Replies: 13
    • Forum: Quail
  5. Thechickentrainer1999

    What food to buy?

    Does anyone have any idea what food would be best to feed hens to extend their life? I don't care as much about getting eggs as I do for them simply being pets. I of course want them to be healthy, however I learned about Matilda the chicken that lived to be 16 years old, and based on all the...
  6. paradisepentacoop

    Pasty Butt - Bloody (?) Vent?

    Hey all, I got a mix of chicks from a local hatchery (Australorps, Silver Sebrights, Golden Sebrights) on Tuesday. Checking my little flock this morning I noticed a Golden had what appeared to be pasty butt, so I checked a bunch of resources on this site and "My Pet Chicken" on how to treat. I...
  7. paradisepentacoop

    In the Mail! Home Tomorrow!

    Hey all! I am so excited to announce and prep for our babies that are going to be here tomorrow (Tuesday Feb 20) afternoon! Three golden Sebright, two silver Sebright, and two lady Australorp chicks from a hatchery on Oahu, being direct shipped to Hilo. I have a medium dog crate with a trash bag...
  8. Gill-b

    Savage mini dinosaur - a day in the life of a keet.

    The keet (26 days old) showed me in person this morning, just what little savages fowls can be. It caught a gecko and, after knocking it about a bit, swallowed it whole. I already knew fowls to be so, but to witness it just a few inches from my eyes is a little... well... I can't think of the...
    • Gill-b
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    • advice baby bird cape town chick feed guinea fowl indigenous keet rescue south africa
    • Replies: 37
    • Forum: Guinea Fowl
  9. Aprilxoxo

    Dosage for chickens with vetafarm triple c

    Ive been perscribed antibiotics from a vet for a sick quail. Its fixed my bird right up but it cost me a bloody fortune and i was even angrier when i found out it was stuff i can buy from the pet shop (Vetafarm triple c) Ingredients: Chlortetracycline Hydrochloride 100mg/g Recently one of my...
  10. biscotti

    Runner Duck's sunken chest? Fighting?

    This morning I noticed my one boy Runner's chest was looking different than normally and more obviously concave at the top. I'm still so new to owning ducks or birds in general, so sorry if this is a bit of a silly question. I kept an eye on him and he's eating and acting normal, but is the way...
    • biscotti
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    • advice breast chest concave duck chest help runner duck sunken
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Ducks
  11. D

    Rooster help

    I have 7 chickens (6 hens and 1 rooster), Richard the naked necked rooster has always been super docile and never given me any issues or tried to harm any of the hens. I just got a female pekin from a bad home and when I went to introduce them he just started attacking her with his beak and...
    • Duckdude474
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    • advice advice needed duck help aggressive help anyone😰😰😰😭😭 introduce new duck introduce to flock mixed flock rooster
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Managing Your Flock
  12. M

    Another duck after partner duck passes

    A few years ago, we got a pair of ducks. One suddenly passed today, and we're not sure why/how. Our remaining duck is very much grieving, and it's absolutely heartbreaking. I would like to get her another duck friend to assist with her loneliness, but because we don't know how our duck died...
    • mmoral514
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    • advice duck loss new ducks
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Ducks
  13. Birds1243

    Unwell quail - please help :)

    My female quail has recently become very unwell. She hasn’t laid an egg in a while. Recently started not eating as much and has lost weight. Her crop also seems to be full and she drinking a lot. Her poo isn’t normal. I am unsure how to help her recover fully. Would love any advice please :)
    • Birds1243
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    • advice quail quailadvice unwell quail
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: Quail
  14. ColonelMustard

    Help! Vent gleet or something else? (Pic attached)

    Looks darker than the pictures I’ve seen of discharge from vent gleet. Noticed she was separated from the flock and had no energy to eat. She seemed very disoriented and had trouble standing for a moment when I put her back down. She is currently separated in a dog crate with food and water.
  15. M

    Leg bands on fluffy feet

    I have a pair of chocolate Maran pullets which look almost identical, I’d like to give them leg bands to tell them apart more easily but being Marans, they have lightly feathered legs. Does anyone know of a type of ring that would be suitable for feathered legs or some other alternative?
  16. S

    Advice for pipping quail, day 22...

    I have a clutch of 15 eggs, all viable as of day 14. It's now day 22 for my quail and yesterday we had 5 start pipping. The humidity has been between 50-70% since day 14 and heat at 99.5. Is it true it can take 12-24 hours for quail to "unzip"? Any other advice for a first-time hatcher too...
  17. xKaitlin

    INJURED DUCK! Please help!!

    So almost a week ago, a fox attacked my 7 ducks and I thought i came out as it was just started since noone seemed to be badly injured. Although by the morning they were all silent and most of them limping. In the daylight i saw two of my babies had some sort of injuries that made them unable to...
    • xKaitlin
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    • advice attack by predator duck help injury sick
    • Replies: 12
    • Forum: Ducks
  18. ElfenLied89

    Trying out hatching shipped eggs...help?

    I have an incubator I bought off of eBay which is pretty neat for how much it costs. It heats up, turns automatically, and has a candler light. Even has a water mister bottle, and a way to humidify the incubator. Picture of incubator is below. It has an external water control bottle. I don't...
  19. M

    Hello from another newbie!

    Hi everyone, hope it's a great day for you all! Here's a little introduction. We adopted a hen from a neighbor a few months ago, and she had a hatch out in the grass, we caught her and all 9 chicks and put them in a coop to protect them from cats and mongeese, one disappeared early but the other...
  20. ColonelMustard

    Yellow chalky discharge around vent

    Details: Several weeks ago I brought home three adult hens, two Blue Andalusians and a Plymouth Rock. They are all around 1.5 years old and molting. The Plymouth Rock has only layed one egg so far, I assumed this is because she had bumbles on both feet and has been recovering since I removed...
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