Am I supposed to mark the air sack? Chick has broke sell but not membrane on the side. I didn't know if it was supposed to start at the air thing or not. It is day 22 for this egg and I'm worried. No movement from what I can see.
I've been hatching an egg for a while now and it pipped very recently. I only saw the pip this morning and noticed that the inner membrane was yellow, which meant that it was dried out. I looked at other posts and tried to give it moisture, so it now has a wet paper towel around it, but I can...
I woke up this morning, and usually I have a “ritual” of waving to my flock from the bathroom window upstairs, and usually they’d honk and start getting restless. Today, I noticed little movement in the coop. There were my two Pekins, but they weren’t giving me their usual side eye. I saw brown...
Earlier today while I was gone my dog got loose and killed two ducks and injured one pretty badly. She's bleeding from her hip area and I found what looked like a puncture wound but it was hard to tell. I cleaned it out with hydrogen peroxide and put on prescription strength antibiotic ointment...
Hi, this is my first post and I'm a new user so forgive me if I didn't write this properly. Open to suggestions to improve.
I have 2 female silver quails about a year old and 1 one them bullied the other when I first got them. I had them in my bird cage temporarily until I bought a big cage for...
Good morning! I'm new to this website I've been reading multiple threads about my ducklings but i truly don't know what else to do. I had 9 Cayuga ducklings when i left for work yesterday they all looked healthy and happy and had plenty of food and water. I came home from work at noon and 1 of...
I have a 2 month old Belgian bantam rooster who I urgently need to re home.
He's lovely and inquisitive, but he's started crowing in the morning and my parents are worried the neighbours will start complaining.
If anyone in or around Surrey (UK) can give him a home I'd be so grateful
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Hello! So this morning I looked into the hutch and saw a kit sitting on the wire, still alive. I had no idea my doe was pregnant, and took action to remove it and the mother and placed them in a Tupperware. I put some rabbit fur Ive been collecting in there, since the “nest” the doe made was 3...
Hi, I urgently need advice about humidity.
Our humidity levels have been quite high throughout incubation (around 60 - 75%) and we’ve tried to lower it but then it goes to low, it’s like one extreme to the other. Anyways today is day 21 and it’s almost 8PM where I am (UK). The incubator...
Okay so a few weeks ago I lost a young pullet to unusual symptoms. The bird acted lethargic, puffed itself up, closed its eyes, retracted it’s head inward, and eventually it couldn’t walk. It also would occasionally make strange noises unlike anything I’ve ever heard from a bird (sounded like a...
Hello! My duck, Nibbles, has recently developed a large swelling on his foot. He isn’t moving much because he doesn’t want to put pressure on it, but he otherwise seems healthy. It has been there for about 3-4 days. Does anyone know what this might be?
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Can someone please please help ASAP! I have a little chick here who is almost a week old. Shes been having issues for the past 3 days. Shes not eating or drinking, shes panting/ breathing heavily and shes really weak and lethargic. She seems to have a fair bit of...
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We just picked up a new chicken tonight, we got her as she was being bullied by her flock, the other chickens wouldn't let her roost or eat and were pinning her down to pull her feathers out. She's just over a year old, hy-line chicken. When we saw her we immediately agreed to take her...
My week old bobwhite is constipated so much that her colon is sticking out. She tries to poop, but its painful for her and nothing comes out. What can I do to help her?
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One of my 2 month old chickens, who we suspect is a rooster, is sick. He was perfectly fine this morning, eating and all, but then we let him outside where he would usually go crazy eating grass, but today he just stood there not eating and barely staying awake. I then when up...
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I am a total newbie at raising chickens! We recently let our hens into their run from the coop. I live in the Midwest and weather is literally bipolar. Yesterday was 75 degrees and today it’s snowing heavily and a cool 34 degrees. Anyways, the leader of the flock is sitting on top of the...
So our hen Jazzy has just started looking sick today. She has this weird thing where it looks like she’s pecking at the air and closing her left eye every time she does it. She does it constantly; it’s like she can’t stop. We have one other hen in our flock with a limp neck and one that just...
I got some new chicks to add to our current flock today, and we’ve already lost one chick due to a poor decision on my part. Right now one is displaying odd behavior, where she’ll be standing there, then start leaning back before catching herself and quickly leans over. Also, a few times it...
We got a newborn chick on Sunday evening from a local breeder. It looked like it had unabsorbed egg that dried (first pic). Then today the dried part started to come off. I knew to keep an eye on it. I heard loud chirping and found a lot of yellow goo (yolk?). Pics of chick (sorry it's blurry)...
I have a new pair of chicks to replace the ones we had pass on, and one of them is an Australorp with a white ring around one of its eyes. They’re both newborns, and the other is pecking the Australorp’s eye and egg tooth. Every time she pecks the Australorp screams and runs, and the other...