Our americana, Pudding, spat up this weird foggy brown substance today. i went into the coop today to check on a previously injured chicken who miraculously healed suddenly and i had gone to pick Pudding up while in there. i’m holding her on my side and she suddenly just drools out this foggy...
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I'm incubating Coronation and Light Sussex's, Plymouth Rocks and Silkies and I believe that my incubator has stopped turning the eggs... for about a day... maybe? Will the chicks still be okay?! They've been in the incubator for about a week. How many times a day will I need to manually turn...
I have 7 chicks and 5 of them are growing nicely but 2 of them are way behind (about half the size as the rest) And one of them seems a lot less energetic I separated the 2 smaller ones out but they are still alive at 4 weeks old so I’m assuming they are eating and drinking so just a little...
My chick is hopping. Won’t put weight on other leg and it is starting to twist round more. It can move its toes and seems healthy otherwise. Any advice?
There isn’t a lot of information out there about mycoplasma, or chronic respiratory disease in geese and ducks other than vague descriptions that are often copy pasted from few sources, so I thought I’d post a useful article I found about it...
We have a broody chicken who we are hoping to be able to use to raise some chicks. We haven't ordered the chicks yet as we hope to first move her to a dog crate on the ground where it's safer for her and the chicks. Last night we tried moving her, however, this morning when we went to check on...
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So, I have a hen called Snowy who was rescued froma chicken shop. She has a number of issues (blind in one eye, one foot has turned outwards and the joint is limp-ish and very watery poop with undigested seeds) that I've been trying to help her out with.
Recently, she started...
Hi, It has been about 3 days from an internal pip and so far no external pip has been made. I didn't understand the difference of temperature between a still air incubator and a forced air, so the temperature has been a little colder than it should be.(around 98 in temp in the final hatching...
I recently just lost one of my roosters; he was completely fine last night (following me around, eating, drinking, pooping, etc), and this morning, dead. The thing is, this is my 4th Silkie to pass in the last 2 months. Aside from one, all of them have been completely fine the night before (I’m...
I recently purchased up 2 Indian runners and the male doesn’t seem to be able to walk properly, I rang the person I purchased him from and he told me there was nothing wrong with him when I picked him up, he was in a box so I didn’t get to see him running around. He seemed to think it’s because...
Not sure what is wrong with my Silkie. It almost looks like the beak has been chipping off and her nostrils are covered? The skin above her beak looks bad.
I have a 2 year old Muscovy female that has an unusual eye issue. It started out as the foamy eye which I was treating and it cleared up but now it looks like this and she has a loss of vision. She's the only one with this issue. I'm at a cross roads and need assistance to help her.
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Got some welsh harlequin, Cayuga, and mallard ducks. They went all broody and I let them. The male welsh and mallard were schtuping everythingwth a feather and a welsh and Cayuga female each were sitting. I was just going natural with the hatching until I found a dead duckling. So I...
I would like to know if My 5 week old flock of 20 with 10 silver wyandottes, 8 golden comets and 2 unknows is going to have any problems with 4 to 7 roosters that were all raised together. The 4 that are definitely roosters are golden comets. There are 2 unknowns in terms of breed an sex (they...
One of my birds has been having issue after issue. First it started with pasty butt, now she is having an issue where she constantly picks up on of her feet like she’s in pain. Her legs look fine there isn’t any swelling.
Upon investigation, there is a bright red vein that goes from her hock...
We noticed our rooster had a swollen toe and foot and started limping badly so we took him to our vet (we tried to take him to an avian vet but were told because of shelter in place orders they are only seeing emergencies and they did not classify his problem as an emergency). Our vet did an...
Help! My Japanese quail kept one eye shut all yesterday and today she has been very sleepy, fluffed up and listless. She is one year old. Her eyelid looks a little bit pink and a tiny bit swollen. She is still pruning herself, laying, pooping (normally) and has had a drink. She also has a big...
So I have a duck that just started getting this white spot in her eye it went to the other eye so I separated her! I really would Love the advice! Thank you!
This spring I bought 3 Muscovy ducks, two females and one male. Since the start I noticed that something was a bit different with the right eye of the white female.
During the summer months it didn't seem that bothered with the eye but now that the weather is around -3C to +9C here in Norway...
A very annoying problem is mud in the run. Because it clumps onto feet and soils nestboxes, feathers, roosts, etc.
I was thinking of laying down hay.
What do you guys think would be good to use?