Born in March 2018, started out fine, but too aggressive with my females. Nice and healthy, beautiful all white Pekin Drake. Should be a nice addition to a larger flock. We only have a few ducks.
My chick seems almost paralyzed - no control over her legs or wings. Eats just fine, is alert, but has no muscles. Her legs are bent so her feet are by her neck. She rolls over on her back as she is unable to stay on her belly. I have to hold her to feed her. She came from McMurrays (then the...
My chick seems almost paralyzed - no control over her legs or wings. Eats just fine, is alert, but has no muscles. Her legs are bent so her feet are by her neck. She rolls over on her back as she is unable to stay on her belly. I have to hold her to feed her. She came from McMurrays (then the...
1) What type of bird , age and weight - Red Sex-Link hen, about 4 lbs, 2 years and 3 months old.
2) What is the behavior, exactly. - not eating or moving - keeping away from the flock, not resisting me picking her up, not even squawking when I gave her a shot...
Please help - My hen is probably very uncomfortable - I have read through most of the older posts regarding "water balloon" and other swollen abdomens. This is very large, hard and she has whitish-grey diarrea. I washed all of the poop off her, put her in a dark cardboard box with a bit of...
Broody hen hatched chicks about 2 weeks ago. How soon will she be back in egg-production mode?
She is very busy being a good mom and caring for her 2 chicks.
This is my first time incubating and hatching. I read with interest the article about "dry incubating" and quit adding water on day 18 - so as not to "drown them". I had 20 eggs in my LG 9200, on day 22 i got one chick to hatch. Day 23 (yesterday) i got a pip, this morning, no improvement, so we...
OK, in all the hundreds of posts here I still cant find the answer to this question:
How do I care for our fertile eggs while collecting enough to put them into the incubator all at the same time? I get about 7 per day, but am only interested in collecting the larger ones.
How long can I collect...