My Cayuga ducks are almost 2 now and one of them has had some egg trouble before (laying soft eggs or eggs with just membranes) that was last year though and she’s been totally fine this year until today. The ducks get layer pellets and oyster shells so i think they’re getting good calcium. The...
We have a 4 month old Rouen/Swedish Blue duck who since the first day of hatch has done this weird thing with her neck. It’s a very slow, non stop up and down motion making her look like an animatronic robot duck as she also has unnaturally large protruding eyeballs.
I’ve attached a video...
Just got this picture from a friend who hatched some of my birds eggs and just as I was thinking that the eyes looked really pretty, I remembered that Marek’s can cause something that looks like this. The other chicks still have blue/green eyes but nothing like this. I’ve never seen eyes this...
My girl has a white spot that is next to her ear and above her waddle. It looks like it’s the same skin as the waddle and comb but I haven’t been able to find anything on it to make sure it’s normal. I’m unsure of the breed. She’s been acting fine but I’m just worried it’s something more serious...
Not seeing this pop up on the Already Asked thing, and I'm not getting answers from people I follow, so here I am.
My Leilei is a 5mo SilkiexBarbu Cross who I've confirmed laid 2 first eggs as opposed to 1. How I confirmed was I saw her poop and I thought her vent had prolapsed! I quickly...
hey all!
i’m looking at getting a silkie rooster for my silkie girls and i found a lady that has one around the same age however he has white skin.
i was just wondering if this is a genetic thing or if it’s possibly crossed with some other breed. the lady says it’s unlikely that it’s a cross...
this is the first egg of the clutch and pipped this morning and started zipping soon after
but they have not made any progress in more than 4 hours and the membrane looks like its dry and looks like its going hard humidity is 75-80% and temps are high end of 37c
baby is peeping and trying to...
My girls are 20weeks and 4 days and just last week I had at least one of them start laying but I think at least two now(light brahma and one of my rhode island reds). Both of their hips/bone structures were of a laying hen and wide enough and their wattles are super bright red. I heard one of...
So my 5 month old silkie/polish cross started to make weird purring/growling sounds and won't move. It's been at least ten minutes. The chicks started to do it too. Should I be worried? Everything was fine before.
Someone I know got Pekin ducks a while ago, and I noticed that their ducks have differently shaped beaks.
Their ducks beak shape(photo is not of their duck):
My ducks beak shape:
Are these both normal Pekin duck beaks?
this is my "10 week old" barred rock chick (my guess is roo) it seems to have a wetness on the underside, maybe from laying in poo or is it something serious? What is your guess this is?
4 hens - all just turning 2 years old. For the past 6 to 8 weeks the laying has basically stopped. My RR was laying 3 eggs per week and now is down to maybe 1 egg per week. One hen is laying super thin shelled eggs, maybe 1 or 2 per week. End of egg concaves because the shell is so thin. Oyster...
So, it seems Speckles has gone crazy with the fact that adorable fuzzy things come out of the eggs if she sits on them long enough, as I am pretty sure she isn't meant to be laying eggs yet until after she chases the babies away when they are old enough!
The babies are still fuzzy and just...