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I have a young mallard drake. He lives with my chickens. This morning I heard him hee haw, like a donkey but I wasn't sure that I really actually heard it so I just went on my routine. But then I saw him arch his neck and do it again. Has anyone ever heard of this? He is a quirky little duck but...

My buff orphington has been acting ill since this morning. She is panting constantly, limping very badly and just wants to stand in one spot. She isn't drinking as far as I can tell but did eat some yogurt and oats earlier. I thought it might be egg binding so I steamed up the bathroom but was...

Out of 10 ducklings there is only one still alive. All the symptoms fit duck hepatitis. One minute they are fine and then the next they are lethargic then twitching/ seizing and dying. It is awful! Is there any way to help the last duckling? It is breaking my heart thinking that she is doomed...

A friend gave me a wild turkey egg that she saw a turkey lay and leave (not in a nest or anything). She had been incubating it at 85 degrees on a heating pad and but decided she couldn't keep it. I took it assuming that nothing would probably come of it, as it was already 5 days old and showed...

One of my chicks hatched a few hours ago and is stumbling around the incubator. It is bumping its head and face on incubator's heating element. Is this going to burn it, particularly its eyes? It feels very hot to me but certainly incubator manufacturers thought of chicks standing up when the...

This is my very first time hatching chicks and it has been very turbulent. First a temp spike, then a power outage. But much to my surprise one pipped this afternoon (day 22). I opened the incubator a couple times to add warm washcloths because the humidity was at about 50%. But there hasn't...