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  1. CaliFarmsAR

    What is my Muscovy drake doing to my Muscovy hen?

    Hello all, I have 7 Muscovies, 6 hens and a drake. Well, the hens don’t let my drake mate them. Anyway, yesterday I noticed that my drake cornered my chocolate hen and ran his bill down her back, but if she would try and get away he would catch her again and do the same thing until he was done...
    • CaliFarmsAR
    • Thread
    • behavior drake hens muscovy
    • Replies: 10
    • Forum: Ducks
  2. T

    Normal broody mama behavior?

    So my first time broody hatched a chick yesterday (on Mother’s Day!) and I noticed that when she is interacting with the chick it looks like she nibbles a bit on its beak. Doesn’t look like “biting”, but wasn’t sure if this was normal. For those that have done this before, is this just curiosity...
  3. 4Urbanchix

    Barred rock pullet being mean

    I have three 11 week old pullets. 2 barred rocks and 1 black Australorp. I used to have a buff Orpington but he was a male so i rehomed him about 2 weeks ago. They were raised together since the day I got them and they never had any aggression problems. I noticed that after the rooster was gone...
  4. spicegirlchicks

    Is this a roo?

    This little chickie seems more bold than the rest. Jumps at me and pecks at me and chest bumps the other chicks. Won't run away when I reach for him/her (which is nice because my kids & I like to hold them). Is it too early to tell if a roo? It is one of 12 chicks of various breeds including 4...
  5. RayrayB

    Rooster and Hen fighting

    Hey guys, I have a silkie hen who recently started "refusing" our rooster's advances and now is fighting with him. They were raised together and they've never had issues before-she was his favorite and is the head hen. Is this a little "lover's quarrel", or will I never get fertile eggs from her...
  6. SaltyOldDog

    Newbie questions about the first few weeks of a chick

    I'm going to ask a series of questions in this post having to do with the first bunch of weeks of raising chicks. These questions come up due to conflicting information from a variety of sources of my research and talking with the "Chicken Expert" at Tractor Supply (aka TSCE) . As I stated in...
  7. auzzvacha

    2.5 week old mallard with twitching wings

    Hi, I have a 2.5 week old mallard duckling. She is a rescue so is with me all the time but we try to spend a couple hours a day outside with the other ducks so she can integrate back into being a duck as she grows. Because this is my first duckling I’m not sure if her actions are normal. Her...
  8. Blue Raptor

    How does quail do for you?

    How do quail work for you? I don't have quail, but i might get some someday, and I want to know how they are like.
    • Blue Raptor
    • Thread
    • attitudes behavior egg laying quail
    • Replies: 16
    • Forum: Quail
  9. buffy-the-eggpile-layer

    Do your chickens stay on the roost when cold?

    We've had a spate of cold and windy weather and I'm having quite the time of it getting some of my girls to emerge from the coop. Our coop isn't big enough to house food and water--it's mainly for sleeping and laying. And with the deep litter method I worry about spillage that may cause issues...
  10. G

    I don't want to get rid of my rooster!

    I am new to chickens and have a small flock of 7 hens and 1 rooster (started with 8 non-sexed chicks). My Rhode Island Red rooster "Eric" is fairly tame. He has chased my boys, but they are learning to stand up to him, plus my German Shepherds protect them (non-violently and semi-hilariously)...
  11. Q

    Traumatized duck???

    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...
  12. A

    Chicken not friendly to new chickens

    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...
  13. ackie

    Chicken Behavior & Welfare class thread! (free & online)

    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...
  14. amynw

    Squeaking sick goose????

    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...
  15. M

    Black and White Jersey Giant

    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...
  16. W

    Wild chicken Foster Mom!

    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...
  17. ForestAlice

    Is My Duckling in Pain?

    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...
    • ForestAlice
    • Thread
    • behavior duckling feathers pain
    • Replies: 2
    • Forum: Ducks
  18. B

    Quail crazily jumping and going insane

    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...
    • bored
    • Thread
    • behavior behaviour cant sleep harsh jumping help injured quail injuries quail quails stressed
    • Replies: 14
    • Forum: Quail
  19. D

    Mean hen

    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!
  20. zydrate

    Geese rubbing head/neck on grass

    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...
    • zydrate
    • Thread
    • behavior goose
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Geese
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