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One of our hyline brown hens has had their leg injured. I can’t see anything external but she is definitely in pain and is limping, and will usually lie down instead of standing. We don’t want to take her to the vet because of the cost, but is there any way to help her leg at home?

Lost one of my muscovy girls to what i think was a fox, leaving me with a hen and drake. She seems very upset and not her self as those two did everything together. Is it worth getting another female just for her and am i okay with just adding one or do i need to get two? I have sorted an...

Hello feather lovers. I’m not new to chickens but will be attending my first poultry show next month in GA. Apparently it’s a huge show! Swap meet is the 1st and 2nd day and show is 2nd and 3rd. I’ve read 2 great tips of bringing a wagon with cages for what you plan to buy and attending the...

Hey guys! (Sorry I can be long winded.) Im getting a beautiful mixed flock of 10 chicks the week of the 8th here in central Oklahoma. I know its late in the season, but by the time they are 8 weeks it will be October and starting to get cooler from this 100+ degrees we've gotten lately. So I'm...

Hello! I’m incubating chicks. One has already hatched and it only took about 4 hours from when I noticed the pipe. The second egg piped and we’re now going on 36 hours since then. It’s opened enough that I can see it’s breathing. Doesn’t seem to be sticky. Every once in awhile it chirps. I don’t...

I have a lil chick that is having not thriving like the others but I have been hands on since I noticed. this baby started making clicking sounds I have never heard.

I incubated 3 mandarin duck eggs and 2 call duck eggs 31 days, 2 hours and 40 min ago. They have been trying to get out for 2 days has their shells continue to move when I speak to them through their incubator. I just candled them cause I needed to see what was going on. Eggs were shipped so all...

Hello Community! Yesterday, I saw some small "lifting" of the shell (like a pip) but it hadn't broken the membrane or very much of the shell. I simply assumed that the chick inside had made their internal pip and pushed hard on the inner wall of the shell. A few eggs have this, I think. Its day...

First time hatching... We have 11 mallard ducklings. So far 10 have hatched (started around 7am, ended around 2pm). The last egg had internally pipped (and was moving), but not externally. I made a "safety hole" in the air sac end since it had been 18hrs since the other eggs had pipped...

I have a polish rooster that ended up fighting with the other rooster recently and one roo just has plucked feathers off his head making him just look very funny but he’s fine. The other however has developed what I believe to be wry neck. He doesn’t act like he’s in pain although when he gets...

So hopefully I'm in the right place and can get this photo posted. I have a 6 week old EE, Hula Girl aka Hawkeye, that started developing what looked to be crossbeak aka scissorbeak at about 3 weeks old. I initially got an electric nail file and filed it down as much as I could. It seemed like...

HI! I have hatched 1.5 groups of chickens. Waiting on the second group to hatch. I would like to hatch quail eggs. Any dos and don'ts that you can give me would be great. Thanks

Hi I have a a duck about 3 weeks old. I started him on chick grit about two days ago and the first day I started him, that night, he fell on his back and started shaking. I thought it might be the grit so I took him off. That was two days ago and he hasn’t been on it since. When I came him from...