frozen bird

*edited to add photo references* (Including a photo of her “condo” as I like to call it…) She is a singleton khaki campbell duck born in March of last year. Her companion unfortunately died of a fox attack this past summer. :( She has about 6 inches of pine shavings inside of a cardboard...

Hello all, I had made a previous post about this same duck a little while back about his droopy wings, but this is a different issue now. I wasn't sure if I should add on to that prev thread or make a new one, my apologies if I did this wrong! Cheese the muscovy drake now has ice frozen to...

All grown up

I live in Montana and have a small shed style heated chicken coop. The smallest hen, Violet, gets picked on and tends to stay away from the rest of the flock especially at night when they roost. Well, yesterday I found her frozen solid in a nesting box. She was non responsive and cold. But -...

So I was feeling lazy and didn’t go out till about a half hour ago. Over night around 0f the girls seamed good last night. This one hen has been low bird in the pecking order for a while now, she has been sleeping alone on the floor in I pile of deep shavings. I haven’t thought much of it. Most...

We were away for the holidays and one of our hens died under our neighbors watch. He put her in our freezer thinking we would prefer not to waste the meat, which is true. We figured we would process her when we returned. So we have an entire bird, feathers and all, that has been in the freezer...