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Hey there, I have a female buff duck, almost 2 years old, who recently has started acting strange. We first noticed that when the flock would venture to the neighbors yard she would stop walking, drop her wings and wanted to be carried back to our yard. This is very unusual as our ducks do not...

Ok, so on Sunday we bought two new Isa Browns that we were told are both 10mos old... One of them is in great shape, full plumage, bright red comb and wattles, drinking, eating, etc. The other one... she looks like she's been through it. It was our first time buying chickens from anyone, and...

Hello all, I’m back, though unfortunately not under better circumstances. Another one of my hens, 3 year old Barred Rock Luela, seemed to contract a mysterious illness. Over the course of last week, she seemed to slow down and not keep up with the flock as usual. I didn’t think much of it...

5 month old hen fine this morning, eating and drinking fine, gave an egg this morning. Now she's making this horrible noise, see video. Doesn't seem to be distressed, still eating and drinking. Just this awful sound. Is there anything we can do to help her, and does anyone know what might...

I have 7 chickens (6 hens and 1 rooster), Richard the naked necked rooster has always been super docile and never given me any issues or tried to harm any of the hens. I just got a female pekin from a bad home and when I went to introduce them he just started attacking her with his beak and...

My little brother recently went to a farm house with my dad. It’s owned by a friend of my dad’s. While there, he saw them killing runt baby chicks. (know it’s runt because he asked why are u kill killing them and they said it’s because the chicks were too small.) My brother originally picked...

Hi all!! This is my first post on BYC but i have been using the site for some time to look up concerns etc. We recently adopted 5 production reds and one of them came to us with a droppy comb and watery droppings. I had no clue what was wrong, she was laying fine, eating fine. A couple weeks ago...

Im new to incubating Muscovy duck eggs and I made a lot of mistakes that forced me to help assist the ducks. They were a day overdue with no external pip after internally pipping for 19 hours. Two of them just hatched but they looked injured. The area has less feathers, and it looks like a dent...

they can barely support their heads too and isk what to do

Hello, so recently one of my hens have been sick I believe it has been due to a crop issue. She’s been doing okay I’ve been giving her olive oil, vinegar water mixture, not too much but enough to do something and I’ve been syringe feeding it to her. and I also gave her yogurt with probiotics...

On my duck eggs it looks like their this weird design that almost makes it look lines are on the egg. I candled them and some had air sacks and others I couldn't see through the shell. I am just wondering if I completely screwed up and killed all the eggs.. please help

We have a chicken who is not well. She has been sick for two weeks. We been giving her antibiotics, Pedialyte and yogurt and molasses water. We even used Monistat on her for fungus for maybe vent gleet now she is trying to push and here vent is swollen and red. I just went to get some...

hi all, so I'm in New Zealand I keep a largeish flock of ducks, many 20 or so, and recently I've had a couple get something wrong with their eyes the first one over a month ago, who is largely recovered now although it appears to have left her blind in one eye. and a new one in the last week or...

Hi everyone, I'm completely new here and have stumbled across this forum while trying to catch-up on my hen homework, (as it were). I'm new to keeping hens and have stumbled across a 2 main issues I'd appreciate some tips and tricks on. I've rehomed 3 hens: a buff orpington, a dominique (or...

So, I went out to feed and put away birds this evening and I noticed one of my turkeys was "coughing" upon closer look, it looks as though it's "cheeks" are swollen. I'm finding a sinus disease, (which they will forever carry) but will it spread to my other birds? Do I need to put it down, will...

I had 2 female ducks about 4 months old and one or them died recently from a predator and my other duck is okay but she is alone, she seems to be fine but I'm worried like very worried for my duck because I know it will grieve and I don't want her to die because I love her and I know I can't...

Hello guys I recently made a account here so I could get some help with my silkie. I started raising chickens last year and have them as pets and earlier as I was putting the chickens away because of storm threat I noticed that my silkie hen is badly injured underneath and I didn’t find anything...

please help me, my 2 week old Rhode Island Red chicken is limping on one foot. The foot the chick is not using is always clamped and closed and also has some kind of black dots! i can not tell if it’s a boy or a girl I think girl considering it’s fur is uneven and a little Chucky, this chick has...

Hi I’m new to raising backyard chickens. I incubated for the first time and half the eggs hatched. I have three cute polish and the rest of the eggs didn’t hatch even after 22 days and the ones that piped got shrink wrapped because I took chicks out and the last one was the polish had its leg...

New here, my name is Randol. I have a question about my chickens. My chickens are about 2 years old now and I've had no problems until now. I have placed a fence around my yard and now my chickens free-range. Out of 7 hens, only 3 are laying, this is been for 3 weeks now. Can anyone help me...