I have always started every chick, duck, pheasant etc on peepads with a rubber liner without a problem...til now. I got 6 new little goslings about a week ago and they try to eat the pee pad, the rubber liner, fingers, dishes! Worried about them ingesting rubber from the liner or plastic from...
Hawks are getting ready to migrate so there are tons of them hovering. We've seen anywhere from 3 to over a dozen, flying in circles over the house! I hate them. It was around this time last year that I saved a chicken from one as it was trying to out exhaust it and drag it across my front...
A woman came out a couple hours ago and brought 4 baby ducks to my mom. She said two of her cats, 2 of the neighbors and others she had never seen before chased off the mom and were all trying to catch the babies!
My first thought would be a mallard. You see a lot of wild ones out here. But...
Last year while swapping my chicken rails to quail rails, my hubby broke one of the chicken rails. Well I could use it now, but can't seem to find a place that sells chicken rails without buying the whole turner.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank you!
My guineas were yelling, I didn't think anything of it because it's raining out. The guineas yell like acid is falling when it rains!
Then hear Ringo yelling - one of our roosters...well he yells every time a chicken lays an egg.
But with both yelling I thought maybe I should see what's up.
I...
I wasn't sure where to put this, but seeings it started with a duck I thought maybe here would be okay. Maybe I should post in the chukars too?
I haven't seen anything posted about this.
When our now 5 month old duck was little, we of course used to cuddle it hold it etc. One day I noticed...
My sister has an almost 3 month old Bantam D'Uccle chick that is now sluggish and won't eat. She will drink and my sister said she's drinking more than normal. Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
We have two Silkie bantam hens and a non-descript, unknown breed bantam rooster..(he's my profile pic)
This is what hatched out yesterday morning.
I just wanted to show his/her fluffy cuteness!!!
My mom has 5 guineas that are free range. about a week ago one of the 2 females went missing. We all assumed she was setting and my mom said she even thought she heard her calling to the others a few times.
Yesterday morning the missing female was back with all the other guineas which seemed...
My Mom runs an animal refuge. Has for over 20 years or so. She takes in mostly animals that can't be taken to the local animal shelters, ducks, turkeys, chickens, and more. I swear if someone had a homeless elephant she'd probably say yes!
I'd ask you all to like her FB page but I don't know...
We started out with 3 Pearls. Then last year our hen set, so more pearls. I decided to order some eggs of a different color. I'm new to the hatching your own so I thought it could be fun.
I also had a couple from our hen sitting on the counter in a casserole dish thinking I'd put them in with...
I've been on here a lot reading and asked questions as needed with much help, thank you.
Now I have a new one. Probably a dumb question but I don't know the answer so...
I've read about lockdown etc. So if I have them on lockdown, how will I know if they pipped or not?
I'm not supposed to...
I can not seem to find one of those thermometer/hygrometer that show the "outdoor" humidity. So when you stick the wire in the incubator it tells you the humidity in that and not how moist my room is!
So after getting a bit frustrated I thought who better to ask then the pros :) I've been...