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On several occasions my friend has offered me swans. She has a pair of black swans, and has recently offered me two of the babies. i am intrigued, but unsure of how to care for them. i guess the biggest issue is a pond. We use kiddie pools for our ducks, but i would assume swans would need an...

We are down to only four ducks now, after losing some to ovarian issues and cancer. One of those ducks has ovarian tumors so we will probably lose her within six months. My husband has actually said he would like more ducks. Yah! i had a very bad experience once adding adult chickens to our...

i use a 60" kiddie pool for my duck pond. i have a drain in one end for easy emptying. i have pavers stacked so my ducks can walk up to the top and get in. Those are fine, they are stationary and don't need to be moved. Then i have pavers stacked right inside the pool so when they get out...

Yesterday i made the very hard decision to rehome our geese. i'm very much a believer in giving pets a forever home, so this was not easy. When we got our first trio of Sebastopol geese 3 years ago, the two white females were so sweet. i loved them so much. Unfortunately, they both suffered...

After pulling out to dump and refill the water bin i keep in the duck coop, my hands came up covered in red colored mites. i was reading elsewhere and sounds like they are Northern mites. i have chickens also, but all except one are penned separately. Hope they don't have mites, too. i check...

i'm sure there are a lot of threads about this, but wanted a fresh perspective. i am looking for a good game cam, easy to use, around $100. i have a Wildview Infrared Xtreme that i bought for $135 at a gun store a couple years ago. It was great, but pooped out. i also bought Wildgame...

The very first chicken i ever hatched is a smooth feathered silkie named Guinevere. She is 7, 8 years old? i forget exactly. Anyhow, she broke her right leg last year - not sure how. Just found her in the coop splayed on the floor. She had surgery on it and it seemed to heal, but she just...

i found one of my Porcelain D'Uccles, Penelope, in her pen just standing and staring. Brought her inside, looked her all over, but couldn't find anything. i was putting her outside with her friends, then back inside at night. Then noticed her friends were picking on her, so decided to keep...

i took my runner duck Dafny to the vet this morning. Her abdomen was getting bigger and bigger. i suspected internal laying. My vet brought me into the room where she was doing the ultrasound. Her abdomen is filled with roundish things with connective tissue. My vet is puzzled and says it...

We have two savvy rats skiddling around our coops during broad daylight. i go outside a hundred times a day to find them sitting inside the duck's food bin eating (and pooping and peeing). So i am constantly setting the food bin up, then down again so the ducks can eat. i have set snap traps...

Help! i'm out of my knowledge zone. A pair of doves i purchased last month laid two eggs. Both hatched, but this morning found one baby dead, out in front of the mother. That was the younger of the two doves. The other baby, which hatched Tuesday is alive, but not moving a lot. i have not...

i have a white silkie dove pair i purchased from a woman about two weeks ago. She said they are a very broody couple. So the female laid an egg the very day i got her, then another egg a couple days later. They are both setting on the eggs. But when i passed by earlier, one egg was peeking...

i am new to doves and have one single and two pairs, all in separate cages. They will have a large aviary, once my shoulder issue resolves. But one pair of ringnecks i got from someone have started fighting. They are a pair and have gotten along well in the two weeks i've had them. They have...

I've tried looking for a thread with pictures of dove aviaries, but can't seem to find one. Would love to see pictures of them, if anyone has any. I've put together a simple enclosure so far, with kennel panels. But want to make it more inviting, and prettier. From what i have seen, you can...

i found a white dove in my backyard several weeks back. Looked her (or him) over and did not see mites or anything crawly. But i treated with a drop of ivermection as a precaution. Have been looking for a friend for him/her, and all i could find on craigslist was a pair of ringneck doves, so i...

We bought our first three Sebastopol geese two years ago from a local woman. Two were white girls, and then we got one Lavender male. At only six months, Jeanne broke her leg and pelvis. We have no idea how. But she limped along okay for quite a while. We added more geese last year. i...

i found my duck Ellen dead last week. i took her body for a necropsy. i received three reports - a preliminary, another one, then a final. My regular vet is on vacation until the first of July. i have a call into the doctor at UC Davis that performed the necropsy. But wondering if anyone...

Our biggest goose, Baby Huey, has turned from a sweetheart into a problem. We have five Sebastopol geese outside. We have one 2-year-old male, three 1-year-old females, and then Huey who is 1-years-old. i think they are done with breeding season. Huey is huge, and only has a handfull of...

Wednesday was just a horrible day. Our 19-year-old cat, with many medical problems, declined to the point where i had to take her in to be euthanized. It was gut-wrenching. Came back to find our white crested Cindy Lou could not stand. She has had neurological issues since we got her as a...

i have a bantam White Crested Polish who has had an injury above her vent for some time, weeks. She keeps pecking at it, and she has a friend who pecks at it. So i have isolated her inside and put Blu-kote on it twice a day for several days. But the problem is, she keeps pecking at it. When i...