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My Araucana chick was born last friday, a few days later than the others in her incubator, and wasn't walking and was sleeping an abnormal amount. We decided to giver her a few days to see if she was just disoriented from hatching, but she only walked on her knee joints. I came on the site to...

I'm hoping to show my two white silkies this summer. I've never been to a chicken show which I'm planning to do before I take my hens there but I want to be prepared and get a sense of what to expect. I've bathed one of the girls once before, she was a pretty good sport about it but the dog...

My two year old Pekin ducks refuse to eat their oyster shells. The shells are fairly new to their diet because they had strong rock hard eggs in the past but after one became egg bound we started feeding them small dishes of their egg shells. They ate some of them but we never worried because...

My Pekin duck has had common eye infections before in the winter when she couldn't flush it out properly. Her symptoms were; irritation around the eye, milky substance in eye, swollen and not opening the eye. I'm seeing that she may be starting to get it again. She's squinting and the feathers...

Our Pheasants will arrive in two weeks as chicks. Very very excited! We will raise them for meat but have never raised meat birds before. We currently own 6 ducks and ten chickens so we're not too absent-minded about how to take care of birds but we only have them for eggs. They will stay in...

Over the past few months we've been debating getting a goose. We'd get it souly for guarding our flock of free-range chickens and for a pet. We could manage it's upkeep but is the time and money that's put into raising a good well-behaved goose really worth the effort? We have our ducks and...

My ducklings are 4+ weeks old, I really need to know their genders but have the slightest idea of how to tell. They're a mix of Ancona, Harlequinn, Shetland, and Snyder. I'm really hoping they're girls please help!