➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Open beak and give pill.

Alright, I figured as much but I wanted to be 100% on that. Thank you again!

 

[dpenning]

Open beak and give pill.

Seriously? These things are horse pills. I would think they would choke a bird.

 

[ShrekDawg]

Probably it's dry. My shephard/lab mix gets that when she is digging and nosing around in dry soil. There is a product called "bio balm" that works well to re-hydrate it.

Nose butter or bag balm will clear that up in a day or two. French mastiffs frequently get this real bad where it looks cracked.

very cool setup! I’ve always put them on a spit over a fire pit. My invite must have gotten lost.......

Thank you both! I'll be sure to get one of those! Glad it's nothing serious! I was paranoid he had something really wrong with him lol

 

[casportpony]

Seriously? These things are horse pills. I would think they would choke a bird.

The one I have aren't that big.

Is this a full sized hen?

 

[Kiki]

Seriously? These things are horse pills. I would think they would choke a bird.

They swallow whole mice!

 

[ShrekDawg]

Downside of big dogs: big poops lol Gator took a literal horse shit (bigger than yesterday) in the island thing again... I am going to have to start discouraging him from going in there cause it's gross and he's too big to and there's so much woods he could go in lol maybe I'll let him sniff them before we get there, like the woods off our driveway, then maybe he won't go there. But thankfully I literally just bought poop bags at Wal-Mart for this exact reason lol

Although I feel like the new food isn't agreeing with him or something cause he also farted after he went and they've been huge, greenish gray, and kinda soft/mush.

Going to have yo go back to grain free I guess. Got him NutriSource beef & rice, love NutriSource but guess the grain isn't agreeing. Or maybe the Alpo cans my dad made me buy. Maybe I should try no cans for a couple days and see if it's the cans or the dry food?

Sorry for the WAYYYYY too much TMI though. I feel gross talking about Gator's poop so much lately lol sorry.

Oh and I clipped 2 more nails, though I'm not sure the back counts cause I barely clipped it. He was somewhat distressed though, trying to get me to stop, and was sitting up, fully alert, rather than laying in his side, so it was harder. So clipped a back nail first cause he wouldnt let me do a front one, but I did finally manage to get one. Realistically I probably shouldn't have. I am probably getting a bit carried away now lol so guess I'll try to wait till tomorrow to clip more and when I do, I'll make sure he's asleep or at least on his side cause it is much easier that way.

And he was huffing and puffing on the walk again. But I did get a video of how he walks. He really sways back and forth a lot, I think more so than he used to but that could be because his nails are so long.

 

[casportpony]

250 mg calcium citrate on the left, 500 mg calcium carbonate on the right.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

The one I have aren't that big.

Is this a full sized hen?

Yes she's a year old full sized brahma hen.

 

[casportpony]

Yes she's a year old full sized brahma hen.

Okay, she should be fine. I just gave a whole white one to large bantam sized hen. She's about the size of a big Silkie I think.

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

Okay, she should be fine. I just gave a whole white one to large bantam sized hen. She's about the size of a big Silkie I think.

Yes ma'am! I'll be sure to update when I can get to the store then get one in her.