Comments on: Frequently Asked Questions

By: mya

mya — Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:34:43 +0000

i have two baby ducks about 5 days old and the past 5 days they seemed extremly healthy till this morning i woke up and one of them is limping and its beak seems a pinkish pale color and the other one seems more darker im wondering if its sick??? its been eating and drinking just fine for alittle while it was breathing through its mouth but stopped is it goen to be ok?? could its leg be broken? what should i do??

By: Mick

Mick — Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:48:22 +0000

Hi I have Aylesbury duck eggs in my incubator for 30 days know they are beginning to crack and have movement.is this ok

By: sara

sara — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 15:01:00 +0000

Hi Heidi,

Congrats on the hatch. I have added your enquiry to my forum here http://farmingfriends.com/forums/topic.php?id=3114

One member Katy has replied saying,

Hi Heidi,
it sounds as though she has had enough, sitting for 6 days and then 22 days. It’s enough for her. If the chicks are still alive but she is abandoning them then they need to be put somewhere warm to finish off. If you don’t have access to an incubater you need to try and keep them around 37degrees.
They can survive for a while if they are cold but not indefinately. You may be able to reintroduce them to her once hatched. Bantams are usually good mums.
Good luck
KT

Hope this helps.
Let us know how you get on.
kind regards
Sara @ farmingfriends

By: heidi

heidi — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 13:06:14 +0000

Hi, I have a broody bantam who has was broody for a week before I put 6 fertil eggs under her. She hatched one on day 22 and one on day 23, now she keeps getting off the nest to eat and leaving the eggs on their own despite cheeping and pipping from two of the remaining eggs. Its now day 25 and think maybe sh has had enough. Do I finish these eggs off to hatch under a heat lamp? I dont know what to do as none of my other 8 bantams are broody. HELP PLEASE!!

By: Kim

Kim — Sat, 14 Apr 2012 22:24:34 +0000

Hello,
My husband and I are wanting to find out if the five Canadian goose eggs we retrieved from a nest that the female had built on an island in the river and left after the river rose over it will survive if we incubate them. I believe the eggs had been submerged for at least an hour before we could get to them.

By: Tori

Tori — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 21:55:59 +0000

I had a ginnie she was laying eggs so we got a male she keeped laying but now when we find eggs it looks like one of them has peecked a hole in it. Is their a nest some were or what is going on why are they doing this? Thay have the run of the farm during the day and thay are trained to come in at night were we lock them up for the night to keep them safe

By: hussain

hussain — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 09:33:43 +0000

hello every one………. I have a pair of fantail pigeon who has recently layed eggs…….. But the problem is they have layed 2 eggs but bothat some distane within cage…….. Male sit on one egg and female on the other……… My question to u all is why dont any one pigeion sit on both egg to incubate…………. And some times the male pigein kicks the egg on which the female sits…….. Although he dosent do that intentionally but is it ok????? Plzz help me guyzz…………. Waiting for your all answers…………..

By: Ashley

Ashley — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 18:30:19 +0000

Hi Sara

my neighbour brought me a goose egg and she told me its about 3 days old. The rest of the eggs was gotten rid off because here is to much geese.I have hatched duck eggs before but I am not sure if it is the same way with geese. I don’t know if it is firtilized. do you have some advise for me?

thanks

By: farmingfriends

farmingfriends — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 08:03:18 +0000

Hi Allie, I hope that your sow will be ok this time. I put your question onto my forum http://farmingfriends.com/forums/topic.php?id=2700 and Shirley from Canada who has experience of raising pigs said,

“If she was really young, she was probably upset when she farrowed, and didn’t let her milk down. I would consult your vet, as he/she can give you some oxytocin if the same thing happens. Sometimes sows can farrow with mastitis and that can inhibit milk production also. We used to give them a shot of banamine with the oxytocin after she was done farrowing. Hope this helps.”

Let us know how she gets on.
kind regards
Sara @ farmingfriends

By: alliewink

alliewink — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 05:58:13 +0000

my pig is haveing a litter of pot bellied piglets and last litter her milk didnt come in (acidental litter). i woke up and heard skweeling out side and i looked and piglets!!!! any way she is due for halloween and i realy dont want to bottle-feed 4-10 piglets. last time only one lived. the runt which was skinny at birth so bottle feeding started at 1 hour old. the others we didnt relize until later where eating hay. are there any ways to make sure that her milk comes in. (i’m only eleven and i have three younger brothers. they where crushed when they woke up in the morning and there 3 favorite piglets had died when they where sleeping) i have been giving her tons of vegies. will that help or should i do something else? i dont like staying up till 5 a.m. and then getting up again at 6 a.m. please help
allie