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I have a hen today that was hiding in a corner of the barn, panting and has black poop. Now yesterday I had to catch a few peachicks and the ducks were avoiding me in a pure panic. One of them got stuck in the fence. This could be her. They all look the same, so beats me. No visible external...

I have a mixed flock so I am interested in this answer for many different types of birds. Peacocks are what has started the thinking though. So I am selling excess peahens. It's taken years for me to figure out how to hatch and keep the peachicks alive. It was a process but the short of it is...

6 ducks. 1 year old. Stopped laying while trying to hatch eggs. Been 3 months since that occurred and I am lucky to get 1 egg every 4 days. I did consider that they were laying eggs in the pond. Haven't found any hidden nests. No environmental changes. I will admit that I feed the birds just...

Lots of peas hatching. I left the mama with 2 eggs and took 6. All 6 hatched. Not sure about hers, she gets testy if I come close so I'm just leaving her alone. Anyway, mother is india blue, father is india blue blackshoulder. This one chick is not like the others. The eyes look kind of red to...

Last year I allowed my peahens to raise the babies they hatched. None of them survived. The chickens hatched out pea babies and those survived. So, I have a peahen sitting 6 eggs. I can't let her hatch them. I want them to live. So how do I go about taking these eggs from her. She's been setting...

He is the loudest peacock ever so it's not hurting him I suppose. He seems less intelligent than the last male we had but...beats me what this is.

Is this normal? I have a few birds that do it. They don't cough when eating scraps or when not eating at all, only while eating.

I had 3 peacocks. 1 male, 2 female. We lost our cock yesterday. He is quite dead. The girls are calling for him. I am wondering if they will stay now that he is gone.

I'm wanting to modify my duckponics. I had been growing pond plants for the animals. Now I want to fill the biofilter completely with rock and plant trees/bushes/veg plants. So, since my fence is a proven failure what can I stick in there that won't be consumed?

We adopted 5 kittens from a neighbor when the mom was hit by a car. They were feral cats. We had them in a mudroom type thing secluded from the rest of the house until they were large enough to go outside. I've since moved them to the barn with our birds. We had 5. We are down to 3. While we did...

Any ideas? I know some research suggests the birds might be still alive when scalded but I can assure you they were quite dead. This wasn't our first processing. Still, 3 of them had this skin. Any ideas??? I do know that this particular bird had a red butt pretty much it's whole life. I kept...

I'm not sure which it is to be honest. I have 2 roosters and 20 hens. A few of my older hens are always mounting each other to establish dominance, etc. I go out to see my birds every evening and when I went out yesterday a hen that had never been bothered before was lacking all of her head and...

More baby peacock drama/questions. Both mothers appear to be missing 1 peachick. So I’m missing 2. I didn’t hear them crying anywhere so I imagine they must be dead? How would they die? Should I take the other chicks away from them? The peahen from my "Bad Mom?" thread recently grabbed one of...

So I now have 4 chicks hatched by the chickens. They are larger and doing well. Then I have 4 hatched by one peahen plus 1 I hatched she abandoned. Now my other peahen has shown up with 3 babies. Question here is the most recent peahen appears to be a horrid mother. I've seen her peck her...

This is the peachick I hatched after the mom abandoned the egg. It's doing great. Had some feet issues but I splinted them and now it walks around just fine. So question here is about wings. They seem off. They don't lie flat. Should I wrap it? I suppose that's not a great picture of it. Sorry!

Mama peacock hatched 4 eggs. She abandoned 2. 1 died but other it's quite alive. I put it in my incubator. What to do????

Went in this morning and my mama chicken was roosting pretty high up there with the peachicks next to her. She’s really going to be disappointed when she has chicken babies. :P Good news is she’s been taking them in with the other poultry and things have been fine. Watched her get all aggressive...

This is stupid. I go to a feed store in another city, about 45 minutes away from my home, where they sell chicks pretty much all year round. I decided I needed more birds so off we went to get some. When we got there they had 20 Cornish that were too big for the cage. So I talked my DH into...

I had 2 hens go broody and share the job of hatching and caring for my pea eggs. One hen has officially quit. I guess I'm wondering if I should just play it safe and put the peas in a brooder. How upset would this other hen be? She appears to be quite content mothering still but if she quits I...

Baby #1 The mamas. Not happy at all because I moved them. I had to isolate them as I noticed the other poultry over there bothering them now that they have hatchlings. Also, baby photobomb! Of course now I have a pea hen who has decided to go broody. At least she picked a good spot. The...