My flock has fowl pox. I have another thread about it but no one is answering my most recent questions.
2 hens who have bad fowl pox have their nostrils closing up from the swelling and bumps. Will they still be able to breath soon? :-(
Also it is wet fowl pox and one hen has "cheesy things"...
Hi, BYCers!
I need help with my flock.
I have about 20 birds right now and they are not well.
They ALL have wet fowl pox. :-(
Some have a few scabs on their wattles comb and near their nostrils. Other have large scabs everywhere on their face. Others have a few small dots.
The fowl pox is...
My sweet choclate runner duck toby duck seems ill.
This is my first time having ducks.
He is 5 months old.
He has a wry tail, his neck is not stretched out very far, he sometimes seems hunched over, he makes a weird sound every once in a while, and his eyes look glazed over sometimes.
Pics soon
I have 12 fertilized bantam eggs that I don't know what to do with.
I recently built a raised duck pool for my ducks, and there is a very nice bantam egg laying nest under it I discovered a few weeks ago and I found 2 broodies under it. I removed the eggs and the broodies stopped sitting there...
Toby my chocolate runner duckling is acting different.
He is being raised by my bantam columbian plymouth rock hen with 4 other same age duck siblings.
He is 2 weeks old.
He is twisting his neck around and stumbling a little.
He is being raised with 14 chickens all together.
We think he...
They are a day late externally pipping. Is it my fault? I candled them during what would be lock down. Is that bad? Because I was turning them in the process. Am I just a worried hatcher? The eggs are rolling and chirping though! :hit:fl:he
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One of my mottled D'Uccle pullets and possibly a few other of my chickens have nits from lice in their head and some neck feathers ONLY. The mottled D'Uccle is pullet her head feathers out with ease and they are covered in nits. she has little blood dots all over her head from her...
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My lovely EE hen olive has something strange sticking out in the corner of her eye it is very slightly bubbly. Is it part of her nictitating membrane? Is it infected? Did her eye get stuck on something? And is it serious?
Thank you.
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I have a broody chicken hen, and I want ducks. So I obviously bought 4 chocolate runner duck and 2 Cayuga duck eggs from Metzer farms.:D:lau
They should hatch on April 20th!! I'm very EGG-cited, but I have never had ducks so I need help. I did lots of research before and after...
my friend who sews and I have been designing and making some chicken outfits.
Is anyone else doing this or have pictures? Dont worry they only wear them for a minute during pictures. Its very fun and i will post pictures of my own chickens soon.
I have one of pullets in the fridge who died earlier today i want to know what she had so im thinking about sending her to the local lab. i have one question what happens to the bird after you bring it to them and the do the necropsy? what do they do with whats left?
I have recently gotten 6 new chickens. 2 mottled D'Uccles, 1 silver duckwing oegb, and 3 seramas. The D'Uccles are 6 months old, the oegb is is 2 years old, and the seramas are a few months old. D'Uccles never need much integrating with our chickens because my rooster is fine with most D'Uccle...
my new exchequer serama pullets and cockerel have gotten used to the flock so i let them stay their first night in the coop. i leave at 7 in the morning to go to the horse farm i visit every thursday. before i left i opened the coop door and checked on the seramas. they were all snuggled up. i...
my serama pullet moonie who i recently bought from an exhibitor at a show along with her sister and brother seems ro have a tail flopping to one side.
i have never seen this in my chickens and it seems to be wry tail. dont chickens hatch with wry tail though? because it just startes happening...
I got 2 mottled D’Uccle pullets and a silver duckwing OEGB
I named the OEGB xochitl which is nahuatl for flower it is pronounced (so-cheel)
The D’Uccles need names and I cant think of any but i know byc is full of people who would love to help name them
I go to a horse farm every Thursday with a friend to ride horses be with them and care for them. The lady who owns the farm also has a flock of chickens. She doesn’t really know anything about them it really upsets me. She never ever cleans the coops and they are piled up with poo. Also she...
Help sick chick
Symptoms
Droopy wings
Diarrhea
Beak open neck outstretched
Sneezing
Wheezing
Won’t gain weight
Crop won’t fill bad comb
Weird breathing
Everything is bad!!!!
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