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This female Muscovy is 10 months old. She loves staying in the creek overnight. The past 3 days had turned cold. She has slept in the coop with the other ducks and chickens. Yesterday warmed up but she did not go to the creek and spent the day sleeping near the coop. She drank some water but I...

I have lost 4 (out of 6) muscovy ducklings and now their mother in a span of a week. 2 ducklings are still alive and seem to be fine, but all the ducklings seemed fine.... Until they became weak and died within an hour. They were hatched on May 19. The mother looked off 2 days ago and started...

Is there something I can give for pain management? The ulcer is obvious and she does keep that eye mostly closed. She is keeping up with her hatch-mates and her mother, eating and drinking, and everything is normal that way.

My 2 year old Sussex rooster, Nole, died last night. He seemed off all day, only crowed once and sounded strange; he ate and drank well but kept laying down, and had watery poop. When I went to check on him at lock up, he was in a nest box. I checked him over and everything seemed okay. I placed...

Yesterday afternoon I watched what I thought was a black squirrel run towards a hen and her week-old chicks. The hen poofed up and ran at the creature. The black animal backed down, ran at her again, backed down again and ran away. As it ran away from the chickens and away from the underbrush, I...

I have a very skittish 1 year old khaki cambell that is limping. She can move around but is using her wings often for balance. I was able to have a look at her leg - it is swollen and her hock has an inch long wound that seems to be a few days old. Would the swelling be infection? I was going to...

I have a free-ranging flock that consists of 2 roosters and 13 hens. As of yesterday 2 were broody hens who brood in the coop with the entire flock. AngryBird had hatched a chick one week ago today and MaryAnne has been brooding on her eggs for 12 days. AngryBird was killed in the night. Now I...

I let a broody hen hatch out chicks. The hatching period lasted 6 days with 4 chicks surviving. The chick hatched on the last day is obviously much smaller and weaker than the chick hatched on the first day. This little chick seems to have circulation problems with her feet. When she hatched...

I have a flock of four 8 month old roosters that I received as chicks, and five 1 year old hens that I've had for 4 months. Its Ontario and they are in a small, well-insulated coop. No heat. No artificial light. They have a covered outside run, and I shovel paths through the snow for them - With...

Hi all, I just finished building a coop and an extra large run, but I have no chickens! The ready-to-lay hens from the local farm store have had their beaks trimmed and I just cant do it. Is anyone here near Kingston Ontario selling young laying hens? Or know of where I can go to get my first...