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Got home from appointment today and they are starting to pip! I think we will have babies by tonight or tomorrow morning!

My niece was given a dozen coturnix quail eggs. We are at day 19 and still no sign of them hatching. 2 of the 12 had been cracked and did not finish developing (we removed them on candling day - day 10). The other 10 all looked like they were developing normally. But now it is day 19 and not...

We have two black hens with white spots on their combs. Thank you for posting your treatment. We are going to try it now.

After 3 days of shoving his face in a glass of molasses mixture, he is starting to walk a tiny bit better. We have also been giving him a bath in the house every night which makes sure he gets water at least once a day, and makes sure he is clean. Hopefully he continues to improve.

We also have an adut male goose (1 of 3 adult male geese) who suddenly started falling over and having trouble walking. My geese free range our property with the rest of our chickens and ducks. He is having worse trouble today than he did 3 days ago. He is over a year old so I'm not sure if the...

This is so awesome! I had an idea this morning that we could build a straw bale house for the chickens that would be warmer than the plywookd house we built them this summer. I did a google search and here I find this awesome house! Does the creator of this house have suggestions for how to do...

Thank you for confirming what I was worried about with the big mealworms. Also, beautiful Ayam Cemani in your profile pic!

I have a big container of dry mealworms I give to my chickens for treats. Are they safe for baby ducks? I do have some live "superworms" that we feed to our leopard gecko I could give them also but they are about 2 inches long and seem like they would be too big for baby ducks. Since they eat...

Thank you. A descriptive suggestion really helps. This is constructive advice I can work with. The earlier posts saying everything is wrong didn't really offer anything useful. I appreciate you taking the time to offer a descriptive suggestion. No one suggested HOW to get a deeper water dish...

Large enough, yes, they have an entire orchard fenced in. But way too cold. And too windy here. We had 30 PMH winds yesterday. Talk about recipe for pneumonia for babies!

A lot of assumptions have been made without asking for clarification. The ducks and chicks are not together. Have never been together. The swelling is not from a wound, there is no visible wound on the outside at all. I started treatment immediately as soon as I found out I could not get...

No the chicks are in a different brooder. There is only one chick in with the ducklings, because the other chicks were pecking on her. She has been very content to live with the ducks peacefully. If anything the ducks have been picking on her rather than the other way around. She's lost most of...

It's actually about 3.5 feet long and almost 2 feet wide. They just like to huddle together and I was trying to take closeup shots. The brooder that is too small is the one for the chickens behind it. We are running out of big boxes. And our plastic tubs are too small.

Tried several shots having trouble getting a good pic of the buff duck with the bent leg. It's mostly her left leg.

This is the complex. I looked for brewers yeast in the store but these people here never heard of it. Kind of baffling really. I didn't think brewers yeast was a new thing? If I still lived in Oregon I know I would be able to find it. But not in this part of Idaho apparently. The brand is...