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I am in New Braunfels and am looking for a single female button quail. My female got scared and broke her neck on the inside of their enclosure when a dove flew into my window that is next to their enclosure. My male has been very loudly calling out ever since. The farm where I got her no...

My goose Babette turns three this week, and she just started laying her first eggs since she was 7 months old. She's so far laid two eggs, but after each regular egg, which look and feel perfect, there's also a shell-less egg. This has happened with both eggs. A perfect egg, and then about 2-3...

I have a lone button quail, Penny, who is 3 years old. Her last coturnix companion died night before last, and she's been depressed ever since, understandably. She's never been alone before. I would like to find two other button quail companions for her, but I've only come across coturnix. I'm...

I have a lone button quail, Penny, who is 3 years old. Her last coturnix enclosure mate died night before last, and she's been depressed ever since, understandably. She's never been alone before. I would like to find two other button quail companions for her, but I've only come across...

One of my rouens and two geese claw the dickens out of us. They love being cuddled, but when climbing into a person's lap, walking over legs or hands, or being picked up, these three start kicking and clawing until in their most comfortable position. The other birds don't do this. All of us have...

I have two Sebastopol geese that are 11 weeks old. I know my boy is a saddleback, but I don't know what my girl is. These are my first geese, I'd always had ducks before. Is she lavender, lilac, buff? I'm still really unfamiliar with colors.

My only guess is she was running from a hawk, tripped, and broke her leg as the hawk got one of my smaller ducks. The vet said the fracture is too high up to splint, and truth be told, I don't have the $2,000 for the recommended surgery. We've had Ming's leg stabilized in a wrap for the last two...

About a month ago a barred owl swooped down and hit me with its wing. For about a week after that, it would sit in my highest trees and watch me for hours outside. The next week, it was obviously studying my routine with my chickens and ducks, and last week (after I started talking to the owl)...

My chickens and ducks are all pasture raised birds who eat local organic feed and whatever they find on my property. I've been selling their eggs to neighbors for $4/doz for chicken and $6/doz for duck. In the grocery store here I've seen the equivalent sell for $6/doz for chicken, and in the...

Today I saw this huge thing in the pecan tree above my duck pen. Is this a termite nest? It's 110ft from my house, which used to have a horrific termite infestation due to neglect from the previous owner who was very ill (the termites ate the drywall and carpet). How can I get rid of it if it's...

I'm not sure where to post this. Indy is one of my younger chickens. When I found him in the nestbox, his legs and wings were straight out in front of and to the sides of him, he only wobbled and couldn't walk, and his abdomen wasn't completely formed. I left him there with his mother thinking...

I need to re-home a large portion of my birds, sadly. Since I let them roam freely, the younger ones are mixed between blue wheaten ameraucanas, splash silkied ameraucanas, favorelle, buff orpington, and black copper french marans. The eggs are either blue, green, very pale green, dark brown...

This little thing I think is a pullet, but I'm really not sure. It's almost three months old and rarely leaves its mother's side, still tries to get under her at night as well. The other birds the same age are all independent. I'd appreciate any help.

I am doing an annual deworming of my birds (I have 40 chickens and ducks), so the vet said to not eat the eggs during this time but the chickens can. I'm blowing out the eggs since I use the shells for crafts, so I have the contents in a large container in the fridge for now that I am going to...

These are the last of my chicks apart from one. They are 2-4 weeks old, so I'm not sure if it's still too early to tell. I think they're either three roos and one pullet or two of each, but I've been way off before. Sorry for so many pictures, but they never stand still and I wanted to get as...

I have three roosters I need to give away, but I'm not certain of their mixes. Any help is appreciated. Goliath - his mother is either a blue wheaten ameraucana or a partridge Easter egger. His father is a white favorelle. Goliath has extremely shiny feathers that often appear white in photos...

My snowy mallards make an effort to hide their eggs, and I don't always find them until sometimes weeks later. We let the planted wildflowers grow all spring into the fall, so finding their buried eggs in nearly two acres of wildflowers is a daily challenge. This will be their first fertile...

This little guy is 7 weeks old. The father is a white favorelle mix, and the mother is either silver laced wyandotte or buff orpington or a mystery hen that was given to me (black, Rose comb, beard). I think it may be a rooster, but after my white hen, Casper, I'm not sure. She didn't develop...

This is Chaps. All I know is the father is a white favorelle mix. The mother is either a silver laced wyandotte or buff orpington. Chaps is now 9 days old and has part of a comb showing. Is it too early to tell sex? S/he rarely sits still, so this is the best picture I could get of the face.

Three of my hens have been broody, and they hatched their eggs between one and four weeks ago. There was one egg that vanished about a month ago and another egg we put out in the greenbelt after the chickens repeatedly kicked it out of the nestbox, and finally, the coop. That was about three...