We recently got a few Ameraucana chicks (currently around 4 days old.) We noticed how of these chicks was reluctant to move and stood away from the group. We brought her inside and discovered she had spraddle leg! When we were trying to put the hobbles on her legs I noticed how she had a bloated...
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But I have now 1 week and 2 days old goslings, 2 are the same breed, one is a different one, but they all came shipped together and have been siblings, pretty much, ever since. However one of my yellow geese, (I can't remember names, I'll ask...
One chick hatched very quickly on day 20 (yesterday) and came out with a large red ball on his/her back side area. This has now turned into a sort of red tail. It was bleeding but now it has stopped and turned into an almost dark red colour. He or she dragging it around behind them. What should...
Question one of our ducklings just hatched and we don't have niacin handy so we want to go pick up brewers yeast. Does it have to be specific to ducks or can it just be plain brewers yeast for anything? Because we can't find any brewers yeast that's just for ducks. We can only find it for...
I have spent about 200 quid on golden, silver and swinhoe pheasant eggs. My Brinsea Octagon inky has, of course, stopped working a few days into the hatch. The eggs themselves feel lukewarm, but the inky still reads the right temps! My room has got significantly warmer in the past few days...
Were on day 27 of incubation and a couple of my duck egg have very light gray splotches on them. Were in lockdown so I didn't open the incubator. Should I candle them? Are they dead?
I had a 10 week old Faverolle pullet go missing around 15 hours ago. I've looked and looked, but haven't been able to find her. She went missing at dusk, it is now almost noon. I have woods very close to me, and they go on for miles. She had been in the coop and run for about 5 weeks now. She's...
I have a few chicks right now under close watch but I noticed one immediately, any time I picked her up she had her eyes closed. I threw it to fear since I had just got her. The second day I saw she still wouldn’t open her eyes when others did. She also wasn’t pecking at the food she I started...
My rooster was attacked last night and it injured his head really badly. He has been acting sorta weak, not like himself and is moving slower. He also hasn’t been crowing which he does a lot. He’s still eating which is good but I’m afraid he might be blind in one eye because he isn’t opening it...
Hi all! I have a 2 week old ISA Brown who has some dried blood above her eye, it looks like the others were pecking at her. I don't see much of an open wound. I have separated her but do not have any saline or rubbing alcohol to cleanse it with. I read the area should be cleaned before applying...
She’s been in the brooder but hasn’t been able to get both feet under her, we had to boot her feet due to curly toe but it seems as though one of her legs is broken or dislocated. It’s swollen and the joint is huge and unaligned and rough, she can only drink if I give her a syringe and is really...
Hey everyone- I had a little silkie chick who resulted from my female silkie getting out of my breeding pen and into my maran pen. So she’s half partridge silkie half black copper maran... but she’s having some trouble. She hatched out on her own, but she had curly toe, so we got her some little...
Hello! Today we were throwing some scraps to the chickens and the dog got a piece of food. One of the hens, Rosa, got too close and my dog attacked her. She is about a year old hen of the Isa Brown breed. She is currently in a cage in a warm, quiet bathroom in the basement. She is wrapped in...
I have a 4 week old quail with wry neck. In its first week that I noticed it had wry neck I was giving it vitamin e with eggs and rooster booster in her water. After a week she wasn’t improving and I started to forget to give her the vitamins regularly. She is now about 2 weeks into it. Is there...
I am looking for some black copper maran hatching eggs. I had a very very beloved rooster who passed away recently and I am now without a breeding rooster. I am looking for some high quality black coppers with super dark eggs. Fertile hatching eggs or day old chicks. You must be willing to ship...
So today I went to go take care of my chickens only to find that two of them were brutally murdered and two of them sustained injuries to the head. I believe the predator was a raccoon. One of the injured birds I am not as concerned about and I think she'll be ok, but the other one looks pretty...
So today I went to go take care of my chickens only to find that two of them were brutally murdered and two of them sustained injuries to the head. I believe the predator was a raccoon. One of the injured birds I am not as concerned about and I think she'll be ok, but the other one looks pretty...
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My 1 and a half year old mini Rex for is 30 days into her gestation period and I know she is supposed to be kindling anytime soon. She has built a nest however there is no fur pulling yet. And she hasn't kindled obviously. I'm starting to get impatient and worried that maybe it is a false...