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My prized BCM rooster is trying to crow but no sound is coming out, I can hear air moving but he can’t make noise. Seems to be breathing. Won’t let me get close to check him out, was fine this afternoon, crowing away. Could something be stuck?!?

I just dropped of a pair of my duckies at my moms because she has wanted them ever since I’ve had them. I know she will take care of them but I miss them already

I have a rooster I want to cull because he is constantly crying wolf, like 10 times a day. I can’t possibly respond to that many alarms so I try and listen for other clues something might be wrong but I have missed a hawk attack because I thought it was a false alarm. They are mostly all false...

My drake decided this spring he no longer liked 2 of my ducks and started trying to ostracize them. The behavior escalated until they both went broody on the same nest. They hatched and raised 1 duckling between them who happens to be male. I tried to reintegrate them after the duckling was...

So I went from having some part time broody mamas to 2 mamas in the same nest. They both seem pretty comitted. Will they co parent or will this become an issue?

I have 2 ducks go broody this week but quit after a day. One has gone back to her nest a few times after the first day when she stayed all day but will then get bored and go off to join the others. She will try and quack at the drake and get him to follow her back, but he’d rather hang with the...

I have 6 female ducks and one drake and they have all been getting along great. The young ducks were mama hatched in the summer and they have since matured. They have always gotten along. For the last few months my drake has had a surge of spring hormones and has been a bully to the chickens...

So a neighbor wants to hatch some of my duck eggs in an incubator. I know that you don’t want to wash them, but should I wipe off any major debris and or poop? Also what temp should I store them at? Room temp? Cooler? They are coming to pick them up Sunday

Yesterday I found what, after looking at pictures that creeped me out, looks to be a round worm on my poop board. I know that the ideal is to have a fecal test done, but I live in a Covid hot area so things like this have become more difficult. I have 2 worm medications on hand, I have safeguard...

I have 3 eight week old BCM chicks, they have been going outside to their look but no touch pen during the day for a week and a half. When can they stay outside at night in their unheated mini coop? They have been spending the nights in my living room, but I’m looking to get my house back...

I have a BCM rooster that was already living here when we bought the farm 6 months ago. I have a few reasons to think he might be older. He has really long spurs about the length of my index finger. He doesn’t roam much, our EE rooster used to take the girls out to the field until we sold him...

This is Allan my BCM rooster (named after the real estate agent who found us our farm)

This is Cheeks, she came with the farm. She’s bantam and has cheek tufts. She doesn’t lay much but I think hers is a small brown egg. I’m just wondering if she is any breed in particular or just a mutt...

My goal is to be better able to handle my chickens to check their health, medicate them or even cull them when the time comes. I have some mama raised chickens and some ones I brooded myself (approx same age). Despite the fact that I rarely handled the non mama raised chicks and that I...

Meet Mini-Bloomer. He is named Mini-Bloomer because he is the only son of our only cuckoo Maran, Stripey Bloomers. Her name is fairly obvious... His father is Allan (named after the real estate agent who sold us the farm) a BCM rooster. So obviously he is no longer a Mini, he is a growing...

I had decided that 7 ducks were enough. I didn’t want to buy straight run ducklings and end up with too many males but I just received a McMurray hatchery catalogue offering sexed welsh harlequins.... you see where I am going. I have the room for more ducks... I feel like the universe is telling...

My Rouen duck and her offspring (mixes) lay an off white egg. The problem is that after she lays, she poops on the eggs (they are all laid together in a clutch). I’m wondering if she does this to disguise them or keep me from taking them? I try to wash them off but the poop stains the eggshells...

How do you all make your chicken feet broth. I have 20 feet to go into the pot. How do you use your broth when you’ve made it?

I’ve reserved my scalder and plucker through the county for the weekend of Dec 14th. Will be culling 7 cockerels that will be about 16 weeks. They are from a broody hen hatch and are buff Orpington crosses. I am also thinking about culling a cross beak hen and an older non laying hen as well...