Hello! We just had a little incident, a raccoon was around our birds and got in with our goose and 2 ducks, luckily nothing happened and we are going to before it gets dark fix the area were it got in and set two traps, we've had raccoons in the past and we first started trapping and then...
Hello, I come back for a simple question, we have a hen who's not doing well and we are now thinking about trying to put her down just so she stops suffering. We have never really put down our birds except for once and that was our first year of getting chickens so we don't know how to put them...
This is nothing recent, I just want to share this, idk why really but I feel like its right. Maybe so other people who've had birds pass from being deformed know they aren't alone. I don't really know. But I did cry while typing this.
So I had a Leghorn named Sunny(she is my online name...
Hello! I just wanted to say that I have and my dad- have been flapping our arms whenever he tries to hiss/attack us, and this is causing him to turn away and stop, sometimes even hide.
I hope we aren't challenging him because as I see it us flapping our arms like that is telling him that we are...
Alright, but if we see signs hes trying to mate with them we'll have to move them during the night.
His separation anxiety is so bad that once the two runners were on the inside of a fence and he was outside, when I was putting them away I saw him and saw that his eye was really red so I had to...
Okay thank you! We have never had a goose before and frankly didn't do proper research for personalitys, when it stops snowing we're I am I'll attempt to get him into our yard and just sit there with him, I'll give this information to my family as well so they know to :)
Alright I'll keep that in mind, usually when he hisses at me I'll try and grab him and put him in-between my legs, my mom has been trying to get him to eat from a container from her hand and he has but then he got scared and ran away- thank you
Will most definitely take this into hand, only problem is when he is separate from his two ducks he starts freaking out and ends up hurting himself trying to get out to them.
The only time the goose is with our other birds is during the day, he is only really mean when they are all eating. But...
Hello! I need some advice with handling a goose, we have never had one before and we don't even know his breed but- I need to know how to make him more calm she likes trying to attack the chickens and has attacked them not badly and he likes hissing at us through fences-he has tried to challenge...
This is the oldest chicken we have, she is 14 years old!
Her name is Bubbles
Second oldest chicken is Lily at 11 or 12-
And then our oldest duck!
I think she is like 9 years old now?
She is blind in one eye because of our male ducks and she can be very cranky at times but she is doing...
She appears to be doing a bit better, she is staying inside for now, she is still breathing heavy on and off, she has electrolyte water and I mad her an egg she can peck at
Hi! Back again anyway that Chicken who I thought had impacted crop.
She still has some stuff in her crop but not a lot, she is now just breathing heavy.
She is just standing up looking around right now but she is obviously not well,her comb is a normal color she has a steady balance.
She seems...
Hi- next chicken problem, so another more recent thing-
This is another one who is about 7 months old, she hurt her leg and my mom fixed it, when we put her back out with her friends she broke the same leg- she is doing better and is now able to put pressure on her leg but thats not what...