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My house duck, a fawn & white runner named Olive, hasn't been laying super long (started 08/13) and she is already a chronic problem layer. We've encountered egg binding and yolk loose in the oviduct (luckily not the abdomen) multiple times, and she lays incredibly often. She lays massive double...

I've been hatching eggs for a few years now but this was my first go at buttons. I have over 50 eggs sitting in my incubator and a single chick here on day 16. I have no other movement in the incubator. I know this does not mean they are necessarily dead and this one could just be early! However...

My duck Olive is new to this whole egg laying thing, she's been at it about 2 weeks now and since she's a Runner that hasn't amounted to much. I know that beginning layers have lots of hiccups but she is laying oddballs more often than not! She squeezed out an immense double yolker (bigger than...

This is probably going to seem immensely stupid, but this duck is my first and only, so I have no base for comparison. I'm fairly certain this is abnormal and would like to know if anyone has experience with it. Google has turned up nothing for me. My duck is a fawn and white runner, barely...

My little cochin Party is usually the light of the entire coop. She's chatty, runs to the door when you come in, jumps all over you to be held. Today she didn't come when called and when I found her she was dead silent and a little off. Someone had ripped some feathers out of her head so I gave...

A terrifying stand off between the king of monsters Godzilla and the menacing fluff beast Cochinosaur. Whoever wins, the person who next has to clean the kitchen loses.

I waited years and years and years to get my backyard hens. We moved in to a rental home (a nice old place) where we planned to stay at least 3 years in sept 2014. I spent a lot of time and money I had saved for the purpose, converting a shed already on the property in to a huge coop for my...

I have a 7 going on 8 week old speckled sussex who is too eager to be leaving the brooder. All of my spring chicks have gotten used to jumping up on to the walls of it on one side to greet me for breakfast and dinner, so every time I enter the room they hop up. Today, I was greeted by 9 chicks...

I got some Poly-Vi-Sol today thinking that Nutridrench might not be enough on its own for an ill chicken of mine. I cracked it open to find EGADS, THIS STUFF LOOKS AND SMELLS EXACTLY THE SAME! Imagine spending $11 on something you already have but didn't. I feel pretty foolish right now. Am I...

I'm looking to purchase 6 fertile Muscovy eggs to set on 03/19 to sync their hatch date with the arrival of a shipment of other poultry. I know not everyone has laying ducks yet, but I figured I'd try. Can be be any variety or an assortment! I am especially fond of black/black pied, chocolate...

OK, so I admit I'm already kind of convinced. These would be my first ducks. I think they are beautiful, and I like the noises they make (and the lack of volume) along with their body language. I do not raise for meat and I'm allergic to eggs, so they would be kept purely for pleasure. I just...

I have for sale 2 beautiful Serama cockerels born January 2nd 2015! Their buyer backed out, so they sadly still need homes. All are sweet and tame, easy to handle, and energetic. They've been raised on soy free, corn free feed and given many fresh vegetables and leafy treats after 4 weeks of...

I have a house chicken, a Cochin named Pepper. She was an only chick who has been a part of our family since day one. She's given me many eggs, and every last one of those eggs has been dropped in an inconvenient place: my computer chair. I work from home on my PC, specifically as an artist...

My cochin is recovering very nicely from an RI that she has already been receiving antibiotics for. She is acting normal for the most part, all that remains of the illness is a slightly weird sounding voice. Tonight when I left her alone, she set to cackling an egg song-y cackle at full volume...

I hope this is the right place to be asking this! It includes questions about both enclosure AND husbandry. I was torn between this section and the coops section, but other indoor serama threads I found through the search were posted here. My apologies if I am incorrect in my selection! I'm...

Set up and Chick: Standard white cochin chick Pepper is a single child housed in two brooders depending on the time of day: she spends her evenings in a 40 gallon breeder tank, and my working hours in an entirely mesh enclosure with similar floorspace. Heat: Both are heated with a red light on...

One of my cochin chicks keeps getting poop stuck to her bumfluff! She is admittably the very fluffiest of all 4. It does not cover the cloaca and is actually far down enough that first day I was worried about accidentally tugging her umbilical cord while trying to clean it off! We're on day 3...

I have day old cochin chicks right now, my first chicks ever, so I am very unfamiliar with chick behavior! They seem to function like most small babies. They eat, drink, run around for a bit, and almost in unison get tired and take a nap where they are. Then it's right back up, rinse and repeat...

I'M SO EXCITED!!! They're so sweet! I have a couple questions. Do white variety babies often have grey on their backs? One of them is significantly darker on the back than the others, and I'm wondering if they perhaps had to substitute, but nothing was marked on my invoice. I'm assuming they'd...

I'm very new to chickens, but I've been dealing with the husbandry of many other critters for a long time. When I was new to it all, I fumbled and stumbled despite thinking myself a well armored champion of knowledge after many hours of research... experience is the best teacher in all ways, but...