#stress

Hello, I’ve had a situation today and separated my Peking ducklings from their mother. I believe something may have gone wrong during incubation or right after hatching and we lost 5 of the 8 ducklings. After that I believed their best chance of survival were to remove the ducklings that hatched...

Hello! I just adopted a two year old satin silkie chicken from a show breeder who "had no use for her anymore." Her loss, my gain, as far as I'm concerned. Anyway, she was caked with poop, has a big red sore on her head that has creepy crawly mites of some sort crawling in it, empty crop and...

After many moons of convincing and compromising, we will be renting chickens. Not my original plan, but hey! it's chickens! How can I make the transition from the farm into my coop as stress-free as possible? We will be picking them up, and I wasn't sure about putting them right in the coop...