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I just came home from college and when I fed my flock, I noticed my salmon favorolle hen’s comb was pink but the back of the comb is like a light tan/brown. She’s acting normal, eating, drinking, alert and aware. The only thing is that she hasn’t started laying for the spring yet. Her buddies...

So a couple months ago, we had a round of vent gleet run through our coop. We promptly moved the birds to a new coop, cleaned and disinfected everything, and repeatedly did epsom salt dips, cleaning, disinfecting and anti fungal creams. Most everyone has gotten rid of it but one hen will. Not...

I found my dogs chewing on this turtle this afternoon. There are pieces hanging off and bleeding still attached. It’s alert and moving but should I try to clean it up and release it or? Advice is greatly appreciated.

From what we’ve read, orps tend to be a wait and see breed but I just want to throw this out here for peace of mind. This is Guacamole, our 10-12 week old lavender/jubilee cross orphington. I’m hoping for a hen since we have two cockerels already and I’m a bit rusty on my chick sexing. Thoughts...

I have two 7 week old polish, one is standard and the other is a frizzle. I’m pretty sure the standard is a cockerel. The frizzle? I really don’t know. Opinion?

So our newest batch of chicks has a bit of an age gap due to a mix up on the breeders end. The polish are just short of seven weeks, the salmon favorelle is around five weeks, and the grey orphington mix is around 4 weeks. Our two black copper marans are pretty obvious so like…not even gonna...

So, several years ago I posted a thread on here about raising baby mice that I found in my house after a series of unfortunate events. Well guys you won’t believe it. It happened again. Except this time it was at my college workplace. My coworker was pouring a bag of feed only to discover one...

Due to increasing aggression between our two roos and aggressive neighbors, we are looking to rehome one of our boys. Olive is a buff Brahma just shy of two years old (purchased late March 2021). He is sweet and calm when being handled, but hard to catch. He is good to his girls and is not...

Our flock consists of seven laying hens two separated roosters, and a retired old Polish. I currently live at college and don’t see these birds regularly anymore. They laid consistantly over the summer but now that the cold season is in, they’ve all stopped. I’ve suggested increasing their feed...

So, my mom would really like to have some fertilized eggs from a breeder she found but the minimum purchase is 12 eggs and my incubator can only safely hold six eggs at a time. Can we put fertilized eggs in the fridge and then incubate them after the first six hatch or will the embryos die?

We have a hen with a Prolapsed vent and we did all the steps to correct it, however she is constantly pushing so when we fix it, she just pushes it back out again. It may have just been that it was an involuntary reaction, but it concerns me that there may be a blockage of some kind. Any ideas...

I got home from college this afternoon and saw one of my EE hens had some clogged down and white paste around her cloaca. Her cloaca was also red and looked agitated. We found a broken, thin-shelled egg in the nesting box as well. She’s acting normal with a healthy appetite. Just want to make...

I’m back with a new dog we’re currently fostering with intent to adopt. She was labeled as a hound mix but when we asked, all we got was a “I really don’t know”. It seemed like people enjoyed theorizing about Ollie, so I thought I would come to you all again. She’s 6-8 months and quite large. I...

Soooooooooo, we’re currently fostering with intent to adopt and this is our first day home with this pup. She’s crate and (supposedly) house trained. She’s a large breed roughly 6-7 months. She’s active and attentive but VERY thirsty. Constantly. She also relieves herself every 20-30 minutes...

Just….why are my roosters crowing at like 1:30 in the morning?? After they’ve bedded down?? And are asleep?? They just wake up, crow for 10 minutes, and go back to bed. At 1 in the morning….. Anyone have an idea as to why?

Just a collection of comments my intro to animal science professor has made about chickens and other poultry because I thought they were worth sharing. “Why? Because birds are weird.” Referring to any strange anatomical or physiological characteristics (there are several) “Chickens are...

I was observing my mixed bird Pickle, who was the subject of my ‘who’s my mommy the sequel’ thread, and I was lookin at him and suddenly I was like wait a minute………that looks kinda familiar… What I was looking at was his golden accents on his shoulders. That combined with his crest and honestly...

I was exploring my college campus and I found this small flock of ducks. They’re very small and don’t really quack. They almost make like a duckling noise but apparently they’ve been here for awhile because my student mentor also had pictures of the ducks. Any idea what kind of babies these are?

Soooo I deworm on a six month basis as I’ve never struggled with worms with my horse. HOWEVER, he’s being moved to my college facility next week and the manager has just now decided to email me saying that he needs to be dewormed within four weeks prior to his arrival on the 16th of this month...

So, my horse trainer also breeds. She breeds for the Champagne color family but none of her brood is homozygous champagne. The only two colors to come out of her stallion and mares are (various) champagnes and bays. Well this year, one mare popped out a chestnut. But she doesn’t look like a...