:hiti am so upset. This morning I went out to the coop to find one female standing on top of a stand with a bloody mess where one eye was. The other eye is fine and she was eating and running around but is missing an eye! :hit. I’ve done all i know, they have enough room and I give them meal...
Hello I have a young finch named tiny. I adopted tiny from a shelter a couple months ago because he was being picked on by the bigger males and had to be kept to himself. We got tiny a female now named Minnie so he would be happy and was and so was Minnie, they would sit by each other and eat...
one of my pigeons has hatchlings about 2 weeks old maybe,one was froze,the other I brought in,and seems to be coming around.My concern is that it seems to have grain in its throat,when it opens its mouth,I can see seeds,like oats. Not sure what to do,should I try to clear the throat?
I'm brand new to owning chickens i just got 6 hens a few days ago and one snuck out of her area 2 nights ago. She got into the other half of my yard where my dog was out. he got her in his mouth and i instantly told him to drop her. he listen and she ran off. She ran away at a good speed and it...
I have a 6 month old silkie who’s been super hyper, she’s been pecking at everything, being so loud.. but the thing is her poop looks unhealthy, I gave her some electrolytes yesterday & oatmeal, her poop has gone worst
I have 6 Rhode Island Reds that are around 3 months old and one day i come out to a chicken missing all the feathers on its back and under its wings, but its also was missing feathers on it right leg. The chicken suffered a severe pecking. She is not walking one the leg and is curling the foot...
I have been wanting to start my own Turkey, geese, quail, chicken and duck Hatchery. Questions include...
1.) Can you sex day olds, and how?
2.) How much room is needed for them (Acres)?
3.) I was wondering how much can I sell Ocellated Turkeys, (Once I get them this spring)????
So I had a good hatch of 9 quails and then today a 10th one came out, its really weak but looks like she is breathing fine and starting to try to move around but she has some stuff on her backside. The vent has a pink almost organ/placenta looking thing with some blood next to it (or something...
Hello! very recently I adopted a male finch from a bird sanctuary because he was kept in his own cage alone. when i asked why he was alone they said he was picked on by the rest of his old cage mates and would of died otherwise so i took him home with a cage for 10$ but i know finch cant be...
Help!.. Silkie has gone broody. Cant wait till sept18th+ To buy some offline(ebay ect). Anyone have some cute silkie's that have fertile eggs? Really wanting her to be able to raise some babies! Please post pics+ Contact details can pay(paypal ect). (located Eastern Wa)
My chicken has been doing this yawning type motion very very regularly for around (every few minutes and then usually shakes her head directly after the “yawn”. Nobody else is yawning in the flock, but one other bird has a runny nose. She has been normal until recently she started to become...
hi I candled my dozen chicken eggs from a local farm today. Two were infertile, and all the rest were good. But one of my eggs looks way more developed then the rest. Like i saw a big form and even a darker spot where the eye is. I am wondering if this is an egg that was being sat on whenever I...
My Rosecomb rooster, Octavian, just got over an anemia episode. He seems all right now (he's perky and alert and is now crowing a little more), but his eye is still funky. I haven't noticed any problems with it before he had anemia, but now it is swollen and puffy. It seems to irritate him...
My one Muscovy is chirping away in its egg and I can hear pecking although NO cracks yet! It’s been over 40hrs now! I also candled the egg to see if it’s piping internally although I cannot see it’s beak! Please help! Anyone with the experience??
I can hear my Muscovy duckling chirping and tapping on the egg... it’s been 40 hours and there is still no crack.. should I be worried? What should I do?? (Incubator process)
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...
It's chilly here and my 1 year old hen who is used to much colder is suddenly panting with her mouth open, her wings away from her body, and when I walked in on her it looked like her mouth was watering. She's never done this before and she's refusing to move when I lifted her to isolate her...
Hi guys. this morning i checked on my girls and when i picked one of my chickens up, bertha (RIW, around 9-12 months, laying eggs but stopped in the past 2 days (i think)) when i picked her up she was making a gurgling sound and started to ‘cough/sneeze’. yesterday she was fine? should i...