Okay, to make all of this make sense I have to tell you about my hatch. It was rough. First the power was out around day 10 and my eggs got cold. Then on day 17 my cat crashed into my bator and 2 eggs cracked prompting me to go into early lockdown. THEN after moving the bator to where I thought...
Hey in my last post I said one of my eggs was more developed and he really was. He’s hatching about a week before the rest. He popped open a hole, but I noticed he popped through a blood vessel and there was a little blood I put a moist paper towel around him, because I’m worried about him. Part...
I was at the lake with two of my ducks and I received a phone call from my brother, he had seen either a coyote or a fox (were thinking coyote but I can’t be sure since I didn’t see it) standing near the duck pen and staring at them. My brother says he immediately shouted at it and scared it off...
Okay so maybe about three weeks ago i took home five baby chicks that were hatched in my biology class.One of them being a smaller one whose egg sac(or at least that's what I was told it was) grew on the outside of her body and dangled. It has then fell off and she appeared to be fine. She...
We had a snake crisis this afternoon. At about 3:00 I went to go feed our chickens and saw a black snake in our quail pen. It had already killed and ate one of our 10 quail. (We took this one down the road to relocate).We went to TSC to go get rabbit wire to replace the chicken wire on the quail...
My girl Pearl has been acting strange the past few days. She is very quite and much more layer back than usual. Usually when I feed my girls I run to the barn and they will all follow me running. However today Pearl stayed back and only ate a few bites of food when I brought it to her. I’m...
So I had a chicken egg that I was putting on lockdown today. I saw no movement and was just dark so I did what someone on the site suggested and water tested it. Well it suck and so I took that to mean it was a bad egg. I wanted to see if there was anything that I did wrong and was told to crack...
Hi there,
As some of you might know l, I've been very concerned these last few weeks about a duckling who I believe was burned by her heat lamp when she was younger. Her eye And wing have consequently had problems but I just now noticed that there is an ugly bald patch on her upper forehead...
Hey everyone, I have a chicken who I have been housing at a different location temporarily. I went to visit my chickens there and I noticed that one of them had a crack in her beak as well as a bruise. I’m concerned about it and I need some advice on what to do. She is acting normal besides...
I recently adopted 8 ducks that the owner was giving away for free. The ducks had no pool just a small dish of water and the ground was dirt. They are not quacking and when I looked at their poop it was dirt in small amounts of water. I have given them two plastic pools one deep enough for them...
I have a emergency i put ducks out in a spot i thought they would like. Now out of 3 we can only find 1. We see no feathers and the duck were raised together. But now they are gone and we cant see them. Because it is a thick brush pond with alot of food but they are gone... please help we are...
I have a straight run week old silkie with its vent swollen quite large. I haven't seen the little one use the restroom and I've been watching it. Its skin is black so I cant tell if its irritated because it cant redden. I checked on the chick around 12 this afternoon and it was fine till I came...
Hi, I am new to the community as we just got two baby ISA browns and two white pekin ducks. All between one and two weeks old, they are currently inside under a heat lamp. they have a constant supply of water and are being feed Purina start and grow feed. Whenever the ducks eat they shake there...
I have a flock fifteen (now fourteen) and yesterday our light brahma hen, Haliwir kept laying down and panting. It wasn't that hot out but she did it anyways, our two roosters tried to chase her down to mate with her but they didn't look like they were hurting her. Then this morning my little...
I have a hen that recently got snatched by my dog, I was able to save her and her small cuts healed up great, but now two weeks later she seems like she’s trying to poop/lay an egg. She’s also been laying around a lot. she still comes and eat when I bring food, and she comes running fast for the...
One of my three week old chicks has started to shake (not constantly) and lose balance, she can’t always keep her head up and opens her mouth a lot. Not sure how much she’s ate or drank today. Will try to link a video as soon as possible. Anyone know what could be wrong with her?
Update: she’s...
My four week old duckling started sneezing a couple of days ago and I thought at first it might've been just some food in her nose so I let it go at that. Tonight the sneezing has gotten worse and she is shaking terribly even when she's under the heat lamp. She shakes her head back and forth...
Hello! My neighbor rescued a baby bunny from his cats, they found a nest of them and killed them all :( but I have one, it's eyes are open and it has a full coat of fur. I put it in a bin with a towel and a crumpled up t shirt, and it burrowed down in as soon as I moved away. The question is...
I have recently bought two ducklings, ive had them for a week now and tonight after bath time (i dried them off 100 percent) i had them out on some towels and was laying close, then one of them nibbled my face and then my nose and pulled my nose piercing out. Its a 20 gauge L shaped staineless...
I have a Rhode Island Red chick who isn't doing great at all. She was fine for the first 2-3days when I brought the chicks home. 2nights ago she ant the other Rhode Island Red chic started acting lethargic, and having pasty butt, and liquid poop. I gave them corid yesterday but after talking...