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4 week old ducky has been doing this quite abit is it a sign of anything worrying? I don’t want to over look- she’s eating fine pooing fine and otherwise seems ok I’ve put the link to watch on YouTube as can’t upload on here.

Hi I'm Heather New mum to a human baby (8 months) and 2 aylesbury ducklings they hatched 5th april. I brought home 3, but We have sadly lost one a few days ago, one is really small and one is huge.. We are now worried about the small duckling as she doesn't appear to be gaining weight. They...

Only our second hatch and we need Help and advice needed for a speckled Sussex born this afternoon, Five are fluffy and alert , one is very lethargic and if she gets knocked on her back we have to put her back on her front, she pipped first and hatched 3rd, What should we do to help her...

my naked neck who is now 11 weeks old is perky but her wings are spread from her body she feels light and her crop isn’t full. When she tries to eat her head goes near but not far enough to get the food. She also has this with drinking She pooped for me and it was clear with a few pieces of...

Today 2 of my 5 ducklings spat/snorted quite a bit of fluid (I couldn’t quite see where it came from) when I picked them up to clean out the pen. That’s the only time I’ve noticed anything like that. Then I put the ducks back and the same two did it again but this time I saw it come from the...

EMERGENCY :My favourite girl silky (who is a warren hybrid) would not come out of the coop this morning. I have done all of the proper procedures of egg bound (check with lubricated gloved finger etc) and I can not find an egg or egg shells anywhere. She doesn't want to move, drink or poop and...

Hi, I have an 8 month old peking cross hen. She has been laying at the bottom of the coop on the straw breathing shallowly and looking very floppy. When I went in to check food this morning at 06:30 she was up and eating layer pellets even though it was dark. She also fell over yesterday. I...

My seven-and-a-half month old hen, Dorothy, has a crop that has grown to an alarming size. When I felt it a few weeks ago it felt soft, squishy and full of water like a balloon. It had been sticking quite far out of her chest, wobbling about and growing in size for quite a few weeks, but I...

Hi all, I'm new to the site and to chicken keeping - I adopted 4 ex battery hens in September 2017. One of my chickens seems to have become very ill over the past 24 hours (she's called Blossom). She appeared fine when I left for work yesterday morning and was out free ranging in the garden...