They were on a Dumor Chick Starter/Grower and are now on the Purina Starter/Grower (Non medicated). The purina one at least mentions having a Niacin supplement. I mixed an oral supplement as well as the recommended yet large amount of nutritional yeast into this feed as well. I know the best...
I have two ducklings. Friday evening of two days ago, these ducklings turned around 3 weeks old. They also however started showing some signs of niacin deficiency. I had not supplemented them extra at this point but came to the rescue with a liberal amount of nutritional yeast in their food each...
My 4 week old black swedish drake (I am assuming due to vent sex results) has these black spots on his beak, similar to those found on the beaks of a laying female.
He is so young, but does this mean that he is actually a hen or is it just a unique trait?
If you have a fence, the problem is most definitely Racoons. Foxes and Coyotes cannot scale walls🤣😂
I have had issues with racoons myself and they tend to drag the bodies off to eat them later.