What age can I start feeding my baby chicks cheese? My older hens go absolute crazy over it and that's the main food I trained them with when they were young. When I say feed them cheese, I'm talking about only 1 shreded piece at a time broken into 10s per bird. That together is only about 1...
I got four middle aged ladies two austrolorps and two blue marans, about four years old, one maran died from scaly leg mites x anemia, the two austrolorps are fine but this other blue maran named Ducky had a layer of smelly yellow gunk on the inside of her cheek x mouth, I removed it and tried...
I’m gonna be getting a few ducks this coming April thought i’m not sure what breed to get? They’d be living with my chickens for the most part. I have a pretty big backyard too and my chickens get out everyday to forage. Only slight problem is i have one neighbor on my left that’s pretty close...
Looking at some chicken breeds and saw one called a Cream Legbar. I then remembered Cin has a Plymouth Rock hen that looks like she's constantly angry because her head feathers are always up. Cream Legbar has the same thing going on. Could she be a mix of the two, or is she just an angry birb?
Wasn't sure where to post this, so if it gets moved or something, that's fine.
So there was a post I made about my friend, Nubby, who sadly passed away last month from some illness or something me and...we'll call her Cin...didn't detect. The only clue something was wrong was a lump on the...
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I seen somewhere on here a trail cam photo thread where you can post your pics. I could not get enough of seeing what kind of shots everyone got. So I decided to do my own because I really do love seeming all the different kind of animal or critter pics everyone gets. So feel...
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We have a Dominique chicken, who is at the bottom of our pecking order of 9 guineas, 7 chickens and a rooster. We got her from a family with three times as many birds, and frankly she wasn't given any special care or attention and was in bad shape when we got her. Her health...
Our little chicken has never had great balance, but I thought I should add it. He cannot open his eyes, aside from a little part. He drinks when I put water up to his beak, he tries to eat, but he can't quite see it. Preening like he's comfortable, a little fluffed out (less fluffed now that I...
I bought some button quail eggs off of Ebay and iv'e had them in the incubator 17 days and on the 15 day i put all the eggs in water none of them moved beside this one, but nothing is happening(no pipping, peeping or moving in the incubator) so i was a bit concerned.
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Hey everyone! I hope you're doing well! :)
I'm a digital artist (hobbyist/freelancer), and I thought with Christmas approaching, that I'd give back to the community here at BYC a little bit by drawing some head-shots/busts of your feathered friends! Any type of bird is allowed; be it a chicken...
Does anyone know any good medicine for button quail. Shes sleeping a lot and shes all fluffed up in a corner. Shes eating well but her droppings are mostly water or brown watery. Ive been feesing her a lot of cucumbers and mealworms as well as her feed.
Hello everyone! I'm back! I have more Issues with My ducks sadly. My female black swedish duck, April, has been turning white which I guess isn't really that big of a deal I think it's from all the stress because her sister died but she's been turning white at a very fast rate and I've noticed...
Hello everyone, I just have some quick questions on Green Cheek Conures.
1) Are they loud, and do they make a lot of noise at night?
2) Would they do well with Coturnix Quail and Button Quail?
3) How much attention do they need daily?
4) Are they a lot of work?
Hi guys! I got some chicks a while back and am now having a hard time telling if my Pearl is a hen or a roo. They were fully feathered when we got them but the gentleman wasn't 100%sure yet if she was a hen. What do you guys think? I also don't know what kind of chicken she could be, any guesses?
Ok, found 4 feet up in Johnson grass, barely attached in a small branch of the grass, as we were weed eating the garden by an alfalfa field, in desert southwest, in new mexico, saw them fall to the ground as the grass got weed eated, (ate?)
the grass was about 6 or 7 feet tall and in big thick...
I am staying in Dublin, Ireland, and I was wondering if I caught wild city pigeons, are they safe to eat after cooking well? Or they do have parasites that won't be gotten rid of by cooking? Everybody eats fish from the sea, or other birds we hunt.. right? So, apart from that "yucky" thought...
Hello, yesterday I found a bird on the ground near the highway. He was using his wings to propel himself along the ground, squaking and very much alive. His legs are splayed out and useless behind him. I put him in a box with holes in it, gave him some water and put him in a dark room. I called...
good afternoon, I would like you to help me with my duck he is 8 years old, what happens is that he was recently detected coccidia in an exam, and began a treatment with Toltrazuril 0.4 with a dose every 8 days, also with Trimethoprim / sulfamethoxazole in suspension 0.6 every 12 hours and a...