I recently got to American Peking ducks (they are around 5-6 weeks old) and they were so healthy! I clean their enclosure every other day, change their food every other day, and change their water 2 to 3 times a day.
I have been keeping them in my garage to protect them from the rain and cold...
Hi, i hatched my first chick in a DIY incubator (my mistake) and there were severe temperature fluctuations. My chick hatched very sticky, and it took 2 days after the first pip. I ended up having to help it out of the shell, its legs were too weak (i helped on day 2, very slowly and carefully)...
My duck is sick and weak. She won't eat. When I approach her she hisses at me. We found a lump on her wing joint. It was warm to the touch. I have been administering antibiotics twice a day for the last 4 days and no change. Yesterday I force fed her a mixture of yogurt & honey, but only a...
I have 6 ducklings from tractor supply and these are my first ducks-yellows are harlequins, yellow/blacks are rouens, and browns are kaiki Campbells-the kaiki’s are only a week and the others are two weeks. The one harlequin seems to be weak, and has sort of a puffing sound. I had them out for a...
Help I have a chick with a unabsorbed egg sac! It's a silkie and polish cross it has a sac on its stomach leaking egg yolk the chick is weak but sweet. Does anyone know anything to help please? What should I do?
I was able to successfully hatch my first three Call ducks 7 days ago. I’ve hatched crested and runners before but no Call Ducks. One duckling has a very hard time keeping up with her siblings, and they are already twice her size. She won’t pant but she will breath heavily, and lay still for a...
I have about 50 chicks in the barn that I'm raising for meat, there are various breeds, like Brahma and RIRs. (Frypan special). They are roughly a month old now.
In the past 3 days, 3 of my Brahma chicks have died on me.1 right now is hunched over, very weak and I'm sure she's going to die in...
My 5 year old hen is back with another impacted crop, only this time it's worse than usual. She's molting, which probably changed her appetite, which made her eat a lot of long grass. :barnie
I thought this would last two or three days, but it's officially a week now with impacted crop. Hasn't...
Hey all - need a little advice on how to move forward.
I've got a sweet polish hen (Roamie) - not exactly sure how old she is, but she started laying around March of this year (she just showed up in our yard and who knew we'd fall in love with her and the world of chickens!). She has 4 add'l...
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We have a young cockerel (about 17 months) who is moulting and is rather raggedy around the neck and for some reason has over the past 2 days become very weak. He hardly crows, and has stopped calling for hens to come and get food, he eats it himself. He hardly has anything in his crop but...
Having a gander of approximately 4-5 months old. It had a toenail broken earlier this week and had blood lost. The blood stopped eventually, but as it sometimes raises its foot with the broken nail, I think it hurts to him.
Today, the gander could walk earlier, but since a few hours ago, its...
Hi i got a broody Hen sitting on egg buh she got pale comb and is weak a bit and i saw red mites on her. My question is she is on day 16 and she is nearly around the cornor to hatch eggs.Now what shall i do?. shall i separate and make a new place for her and yeh i m defint gona treat her buh my...
One of my newly hatched chicks can't stand or open their eyes. I thought they were just premature and needed time to develop but it's been about a day since hatch and no improvement and I realized that they can't move their feet at all. I can manually move her feet and toes just fine, there...
So I have just begun raising pigeons and it has been a year, everything was going fine, but yesterday I had a pigeon suddenly die, for a while it was staggering and looked weak so I took it in but I noticed little bugs on it, they looked like flies, and I didn't know what to do or what they...
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I have a 5 year old silkie rooster he's been acting not quite himself for about a week, i searched him for mites but can't seem to see anything. We've had mites in the past that affected the chickens in the same way so i have been treating him with dust and xeno450 spot on. (The...
One of my buff brahma roos almost 10 weeks old is much smaller than the rest and he walks with kind of droopy wings. He eats and drinks fine the others do not seem to bother him. I have checked him for mites and lice and he is clear and I did a fecal and that too is clear. No coughing, no...
First time duck mama (plus, my first time with a broody duck!) She has only been on the nest for about a week, and she was not on her nest for most of the day. We thought, she may have gotten attacked, because she wasn't there for some time. We took the eggs and put them under a very broody...
Hi, I have been given a couple pullets with problems. The lady made her own feed mix, Austrian peas and barley, and I don't know what else. Would this be sufficient? One has wry neck and the other can't walk and is still fairly emaciated after two weeks. She eats well enough, we have commercial...
I have an Olive Egger Cockrel that all
Of the sudden 3 days ago started getting weak in the legs and breathing from its mouth. (Not yawning or panting.). Also shaking head every now and then. Very sleepy, and no real strength in legs. Still eating, but not really drinking. I’ve been giving...
Hello all, today I noticed one of my chicks I hatched late last week is very lethargic. I checked to find his abdomen coated in.. I dont know what.
He seemed lethargic a few days ago, but after a nap he was up and eating and drinking, and I noticed the naval area had a scab looking thing. I...