behavior

Any help, suggestions, experiences would be greatly appreciated here. About a month ago we had a daytime predator attack. We lost a chick and a duckling to the predator, and a number of our ducks were rattled by it. A Muscovy hen and Cayuga hen stayed out on the pond all night. We saw them in...

Hi, We’ve had chickens for almost 2 yrs now. Throughout that time, we’ve lost a few and were left with one, who happened to be the “leader” of the flock. The day she lost her sister we immediately went and picked up 3 new ones of the same or similar age to keep her company. The 3 new ones are...

Hi everyone! I signed up to take a free class on Coursera titled "Chicken Behavior and Welfare". If you arent familiar with Coursera, you can take all their classes for free (equivilent to auditing a class) or you can pay and end up with some type of certificate of completion. I am not endorsing...

Hello everyone. We have 3 pet geese, and recently I kept hearing a squeak every so often. Sounded just like a squeaky toy noise. I finally figured out today where the noise was coming from, one of my male geese. I watched him for around an hour. He still honks like the others, but will...

So I have 1 Black Jersey Giant Roo and 8 hens. I have had them for about 2 years and got a few chicks from them but never one like this one. He’s 7 months old now and he’s black and white. I thought it was so strange because all of mine are fully black and any chicks before him had white when...

Hello! (long back story but my question is at the end) I'm also a chicken novice! I live in Hawaii and we have TONS of wild chickens running around. Specifically, I have this 1 hen that cruises around my neighborhood with another hen and rooster. Eventually the other hen and rooster phased...

Yesterday my duckling lost a blood feather but we couldn’t find the source of where it came from as he wasn’t bleeding anywhere we could spot so he seemed to be good. However strangely this evening every time he went to flap his wings he’d let out a single shrill call and then stop trying to...

Hi, recently my one of two quails that I made a post about because it began pecking the other, has started to try jump out of its box... The box is big enough for the two and the one quail that jumps had its behavior changed around 2 weeks ago, it used to be fine with me holding it and...

I have a buff orphington hen that chases the other hens away from the hen house. Has anyone else had this problem, and how do I solve it? She is one of my newest to the flock, normally in the past, I have found buff orphingtons to be very gentle and passive. Any and all help appreciated!

I noticed an odd thing today that I've not seen my geese do before, I let them out to eat grass and a couple of them kept doing a motion to rub their head/neck on the grass in between eating pieces, the only way i can think to describe it is as if they were 'marking', like how a cat rubs its...

Hello, I have a 4 month old bantam frizzle Cochin rooster mixed with my flock of 11 4-5 month old chickens and one other rooster that is extremely docile (standard breed size). Now the bantam bites the hens in the neck and tail area. My mother in law wants me to get rid of it but they’re my...

If you have female ducks you will probably know by now how loud they can get. My Khaki Campbell usually quacks super loud at random times of the day but usually no more more than twice a day and not every day. This is what I mean by quacking super loud Well today she’s been doing it so much...

My ‘lowest ranking’ is a sweetheart. If I am ever sitting in the yard, she’ll check on me every 20 mins or so and sit next to me. Sometimes she will put her head under my leg. I’m presuming that she finds me safe. She’ll often sleep near me. She has done the rooster squat to me for the last...

What is this Duck behavior? I observe it often from my two Pekins and have always wondered what it was. I thought of it as a “Duck hug” but I would like other more experienced Duck parents to confirm.

Hi Guys.. New to the water fowl world. Two of my ladies are getting bullied excessively and they're currently bleeding from the wings as they're growing in. I am trying to figure out fowl behavior. I have a sneaking suspicion one of them might be a drake in disguise.. but I am not sure when...

Hey! I’d love to hear from people who own Silkies and about your experience with them! Laying abilities? Behaviour/temperament? How often do they go broody? Winter laying? Etc

I think the birds may have been pooping in the coffee bean jar again today. Anyway.... relative noob here. Designing my first coop. Here is a nerd question.... Assume a coop with a square floor plan has X chickens, where X is the max number that can be in this coop and still be happy...

Imagine: a neighbor's cat gets into your yard, and kills one of your birds, what do you do? You may warn the neighbor to keep the cat contained. You may set out a trap, or have other means to keep the cat away. But, do you call the cat aggressive? More then likely not. If a fox, coyote, hawk...