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I have a young hen, about 5-6 months. I started realizing some odd behaviour this week. She would hardly walk, and carried herself very top-heavy. It was like she was leaning all the way foward all the time. She also had kind of a limp, and tried to stay off her right foot. Yesterday, she...

We bought a pair of Sebastopol geese this summer.We noticed this November that hen had been going in and out of their little hut we built them(about the size of a dog house). I didn't bother checking for eggs because I read somewhere that geese lay eggs in the spring only. Well now she is broody...

I have been saving guinea eggs for a week now, and my LG is still test running, but it wont heat up! I've had a it for a couple years, so I know it's not the best...but it doesnt even heat up to 80 degrees! I wondered if it was even on , so i turned the little knob and the red light flickered so...

I just saw this video today and it really inspired me. This guy did all this on a tenth of an acre! It was an award winning short film in 2009. Hope everybody gets something out of it.

So its summer again in the central valley of CA! Which is also synonymous with the surface of the sun . I as well as a lot of other people here are running into big problems and I really need some tips to keep on keeping the chickens cool. Just to give you an idea of the situation, tomorrow it...

So we went to the Cherry Auction today which is largest outdoor swap meet in California and they sell everything there. Well I was walking through the animal section where there are countless amounts of chickens, ducks, peacocks, snakes, lizards rabbits and so many exotic animals that I have no...

So I have maybe around 50 animals on my property, most of which are poultry. Now I've been using a loot of money buying feed for the chicks(ducklings, chicks, guinea keets) it's hatching season and it's getting hectic over here. I make a rule of always keeping the babies and confined birds well...

We got our male peacock about this time last year, then got our female a few weeks after. Well anyways, I walked into their pen yesterday and I found an egg in the nest area . We waited a long time for that egg, the female was about a year when we got her last summer, so this was probably her...

Guineas vs Ticks So this all started during the early months of last summer, when our dog was still alive....... An early spring had given rise to a stupendous tick season, which caught most of us by surprise. We started noticing more than usual....actually a lot more than usual. I would...

So I saw an add on Craigslist for chukar eggs for $ 0.60 each! They just seemed to cheap to pass up. I have a hen that just wen't broody, can a chicken hatch chukar eggs? I know absolutely nothing about chukars but I've had pheasant's before, and I raise and hatch chickens, ducks, quail and...

This was my first time incubating quail eggs, I am a newbie to quail so I need some help. I set 30, and 25 made it to lockdown. They aren't supposed to hatch until tomorrow, but there are six already hatched and more hatching right now. I'ts too late to go to the feed store and buy game bird...

Ok, so I have three Mille Fleur D'uccle bantams(1 roo 2 hens), we've had them for a couple months and in the past few weeks, they have been laying. These are the first bantams I've had, but from what I've heard, they are supposed to be really good mothers and go broody at the drop of a...

So for the past year we have had the regular guineas, and they fly all over the place and are good at pest control and all that. I recently just bought some more guineas, they are bigger and heavier even though they are way younger than my regular guineas. I noticed they cannot fly because they...

I went outside to feed this afternoon, and my muscovy hen hadn't moved from the coop I let her out in during the morning. When I came near she tried to walk but couldn't. Whenever she took a step, both of her legs stuck out straight behind her. She can stand up, but can't walk for some reason...

I though i would make a thread that listed some of the benefits of Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV). I know a lot of you people here know what it is, but for some of the newbies, it may be a mystery as to why you occasionally see the word ACV pop up in threads and might wonder why we give it to our...

I have a couple females that hatched last summer (june) and they still haven't started laying yet. I was starting to believe that maybe they had a hidden nest somewhere, but i checked their vent are an only one finger fits between both pelvic bones, so I know for sure they haven't started yet. I...

I came home and noticed something was wrong with one of my drakes eye. It is swollen shut and this yellow/clear goo is coming out as well as blood. Does anyone know what this is? Can I do something to help? Or is it just better If I cull him? Thanks

All my females have started laying, and i was wondering if they can go broody and hatch their own eggs. They are coturnix quail. I have my incubator already full with duck eggs, and this is my first year with quail, so I don't know much about them. if they do go broody, how many eggs do they...

Im planing on having another garden this year, but I want to do it in a way that the chickens can free range in it whenever they like without completely destroying it. In the past years, they did a really great job at keeping it free of bugs and weeds, but as we all know, they ate some plants...

I went to go check on the birds this morning, and I collected one egg (they're not laying a lot right now). I noticed the dummy eggs in two of the nest boxes were cracked in half and eaten up, leaving just the two halves of shell behind. I have ducks, chickens and guineas and I have no idea how...