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Thank you for your quick response! I believe they are all acting healthy as of this evening.

The pictures included are a couple close-ups, and then a bit farther away (for size perspective). The chicks are a few days over four weeks old, and to the best of my understanding, they have not been exposed to anything that has been outside or used by other animals. I think everything they...

Thank you for your response. The chick died shortly after I separated it from the rest, unfortunately. I do feel a bit bad I didn’t realize its size difference earlier; I may have treated it differently.

I have ten chicks at the moment that hatched right around April 3rd. One of them is acting in a concerning manner and doesn't seem to be getting better. I originally noticed her looking quite puffed up and not hanging out with the others last weekend. Since I have experienced having chicks...

We have a coop on the property that, after roughly thirty years, has been knocked down with plans to replace it. It served the family well since my childhood, but it was rotting. The last time there were chickens there was about two years ago. The coop was designed with a little room that was...

The run attached to the coop is where they will be locked up to try to get them used to it. The rest of the flock has been locked up quite a bit lately since we need to fix the fence between their free ranging area and the upper part of our lawn (I like having areas without chicken droppings for...

In addition to our main flock, we have two "feral" chickens we obtained from a friend. We have had these two for probably close to a year. Other than a night or two one of them spent in the coop (the other escaped and ran away into the woods for a day), they have refused to join the flock in the...

Our roo was killed this morning, sometime around 5 and 7, I believe (I heard it happen, but the noise he made was so brief, I didn't realize he had been attacked). This particular rooster insisted on roosting in a tree instead of the coop due to the older rooster who doesn't care for him, so we...

I wouldn't think it would hinder them. Chickens hatch in many different nesting situations, from whatever is in a nest box to whatever rogue hens use when they hide their clutches in an outdoor nest. I would just monitor to make sure, and thin out the layer around the shell if you find such...

He is beautiful!

Have you supplemented B vitamins? When I had issues, aside from taping the legs, I added brewers yeast to the food (thanks to some advice I got on here) and electrolytes to water. I think it was a mix of the two methods that helped the chick get better. If you are already supplementing, I don't...

There is an Oregon Chicken Lovers page (mostly about chickens, but there are occasional posts about ducks), and then a much smaller group called Oregon Duck Lovers, you just have to look for the one not associated with being Oregon Ducks fans (not too hard...there is a photo of ducks as the...

Wish I was closer (and that my white layer drake wasn't so territorial when it comes to new introductions :hmm). Are you on Facebook by chance? If so and you don't have any luck on here, there are a couple pages on there that are pretty useful for rehoming ducks in Oregon.

I think I have read people have used B-complex for their chicks, and you can probably do a search of threads to find it, and maybe dosing information. I have in the past gotten the electrolytes from the poultry section of our outdoor store and put them in the water. I have also (especially for...

I am not 100% sur re, but I believe I have seen something similar in a post about chicken eggs and it ended up being little clots. I believe the chick(s) hatched okay, though. Perhaps this is something similar. Hopefully someonebwho is more experienced/knowledgable sees this and can give you...

Is the head tilting only when she walks?

That is so sad! I am so sorry for your loss and that it sounds like it was someone's choice to do that to the poor girl :(

It could have been a number of things, but with what I have experienced this year, my first assumption would be coccidiosis. I haven't had issues with it before, but this year all three batches of my chicks dealt with it and I lost a few. To err on the side of caution, I would start them all...

They can be a bit of work. Too bad you are finding yourself needing to rehome them; they can be fun little critters. It might be helpful to change the heading of the post to something like "Looking to Rehome Ducks in the Chicago area" so it catches the eye of people nearby who may be able to...

Thank you so much for your suggestions. I will give them a try :) So far he seems the same today, but I haven't let the out yet for the day, so I haven't seen how well he is actually getting around yet.