Hi! I live in southern Ontario with my family and some of my fine feathered friends :) We started out with 7 Buff Orpington pullets, 8 Silver laced Wyandottes pullets and 3 Partridge Chantecler Roos, as well as two Embden geese and 6 Khaki Campbell ducks (4 drakes and 2 hens).
We got all the...
Does anyone have any experience with Avian Cholera? He passed away 10 minutes ago, I was with him and I'm kind of worried it was partially my fault for bugging him a lot. I lifted him up to examine him and see if anything else was wrong, and I noticed his legs were asleep (they still had...
He's very lethargic, like he just wants to lay down all day, but when I come see how he's doing he's completely aware of his surroundings, watches me closely and stands up sometimes. He seems too tired to make any noises, which is strange for him, just yesterday he had a nice strong crow and...
This morning I went outside to let the birds out and noticed my Roo's comb was very dark, almost purple. He was walking a little strained, went to drink water and whatnot though, still on his feet, but a little tipsy. I read somewhere that this could be heart failure? Please help, what's going...
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I have a female buff orpington (a little over a year old) who, a few days ago, stopped walking. Instead of going around on her feet, she would crawl using the rest of her legs; she seems like she could be a little sick too. There's no discharge from her eyes or nose, and no struggling to...
Has anyone ever had an experience of the temp going over 99f by 12f (around 112f) and having any chicks survive? My family thought they knew more about hatching eggs than I did, and I think they cooked our ducklings that were about to hatch. I could just cry right now...
eta: they were in that...
Thank you! It hatched! I was so worried all day because I could not be home, had to go to a meeting two hours away, and I thought the temp. would be too hot and it would get cooked. I did not expect to find a chick when we got home, but I did =] I'll take some pictures soon and put them on. I'm...
We are hatching out some ducklings and chicks. Last year when we had babies, we got unmedicated chick starter. This year we got duck starter on accident, can the chicks eat it or is it too much protein or...?
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Another chick is trying to hatch! A chicken and not a duckling yet! on day 26! WOO? She's still under the momma, we plan on taking it away when it's done hatching. I wish I could get some sleep instead of being up for this though, ugh.
Not yet, we still might get some ducklings (maybe even chicks, considering we weren't expecting them to hatch at all, and one pipped today, only to be partially eaten <_<). As soon as they pip we're planning on taking them away from mom. This is so sad, I really wanted to let her be the one to...
Going through the same thing right now =[ Day 24 and we thought all the chicks were dead in the eggs, but one pipped today, and the mom ate it! It's dead now, and I have no idea what to do with the rest of the eggs, ugh.
Should I let her try to hatch out the rest of the eggs or should I take them away as soon as I get a thermometer? This is really upsetting =[ It was so full of life an hour and a half ago, I was so excited.
EMERGENCY BACK ON!
I think the chick is dead, I think the mom killed it. She was eating something, so I looked in to see what it was, and I was like, "I don't hear any peeping, I'll check on the chick" so I lifted momma up and saw it lying there, dead. She ate all the shell and the yolk. AGGH...
Well. I've checked up on the mom since putting the pipper back under her, and she hasn't pushed it out again. PHEW! I hope it goes okay, thanks for the info guys!
Patchesnposies, thanks a lot! I really need to get my hands on a thermometer. Since the chicks are indeed starting to hatch, I'm...
Yup, duck eggs do take longer, we put them under then hen before the chicken eggs, they all about have the same due date (although the chicks were supposed to hatch first, but I had kind of given up hope on any chickens hatching!!).