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Hi, I currently have a mixed Australorp rooster who has a wonderfully large red comb. But for some reason near the base at the back of his head there is an odd scab forming. It was initially white then it changed to brown and grew. The brown is surrounded by pale and seemingly flakey white. I...

Hi, I hatched out some muscovies back in December. That would mean that they are about 6.5 months old. All the ducks I have left are one male and one female. The male is very interested in the female but she doesn't seem to respond at all and she is still not laying eggs. Is this normal? When...

make the app it seems like a great idea but make it free

maybe she sounds like a car with a flat battery

hey everyone i have this chicken i have rescued from an egg factory and she layed her first egg since she came into my possession and well..... her egg song is strange to say the least. does anyone know why ?? here is a small clip

i have found that its very very normal they tend to stop eating feathers after they mature a lil if they are pecking that could be another issue but if its just off the floor dont worry

Hello fellow aussie. I have the same problem especially in summer but the only solution that I have come across that seems to work is MORTEIN DIY spray the one the large jug thing I spray my chickens with it all over and I spray their bedding and the perimeters of their 'age and they have no...

Yea it was in her gizzard for a while and nothing was wrong with her we found it after we culled her

my chicken swallowed a screw it was one of those self tapping ones it stayed in her system for 3 years not a single problem and for some reason she really loved screws she used to peck at screws that were on a wall and i say was because we killed her and ate her because she was getting to old...

No I don't think its that either because I don't have a heat lamp although it has been quite hot here in Australia maybe they touched hot piece of metal that was out in the sun. I know that u would burn ur fingers if u touched it that may be it

Its not a fungal or bacterial infection or a nutrient deficiency because I have another duck same breed that doesn't have any weird lumps.also it happened all at once like one day I looked at them and it was there but now its starting to go down and fade in colour and no I am not in the tropics

That's all three of them

i have three muscovy ducsk aroufn breeeding age but in a matter of 2-4 days a yellow lump has appeared on each one of their bills it hasnt impacted them at all and i have had muscovies before except i have never seen these lumps so i was wondering if this was normal ??? it is on all of them male...

Thnx its ok I have one left and the mother is a dud so I might take over from he and feed the lil chick coz it loves me more than its mother

it died it just stopped moving and gave up