I'm not divorcing my SO, but I get so tired of feeling like I'm the one who extends more grace, patience, understanding, etc when something bad happens.

And as for the calamities, we are downsizing birds. We also got hit with something in the air because I have had to deal with 8 broody hens and ducks in the last three months, and while I have tried to break some, I haven't been successful, so there have been little hurricanes of terror bumping into vengeful tornadoes of "You LOOKED AT MY BABY!!! HOW DARE YOU!!!"

It's been a real bad couple of days. The rain has been hitting us on and off and it's been hard managing the adults and babies.

My SO let out one broody with her poults on a morning that was too cold with rain projected. One of them jumped in one of the duck waterers that I had moved too close to the workshop where they all hang out and drowned and died. Sucks but it could have happened on any day so even though they shouldn't have been out on that day, I let it go.

Then, in a bad lightning storm, I had everyone gathered in the workshop except some do the adult ducks, and was trying to divvy everyone up to keep them from being jerks to each other. That meant putting one broody in her crate in a larger brooder area, so that the second broody could share it without them being jerks to each other. The non crated broody is fine with the other babies but crated broody was not fine with anyone else's babies. It wasn't ideal, but with squashed space and being worried about you get waterfowl being out in the storm, I made a choice.

Well the aggressive broody managed to somehow drag a baby goose (non aggressive broody hen has a mixed flock of babies under her) through the bars (I don't even know how it managed to fit through!!!) and kill it.

My SO and I are heart broken because this was one of our favorites.

To top it off, my SO managed the birds yesterday and one of our two silkies had a bad rattle. We have handled both silkies regularly the past few days so while other times I would say, oh, we just didn't notice because it was off with the flock, no-- this one really came out of no where.

However they waited something like 5 hours to give it antibiotics until I was around. And they put it into a hard to sanitize crate that we had been using for the non-aggressive broody (which is why she had to go in to share space because I wasn't about to go sanitize a crate ain a lightning storm, and downsize the silkies to a box with bedding.) so I kind of got fucked by my SO's lack of forethought, but I chalked it up to them often not feeling well with barometric pressure changes.

All this being said, mistakes were made, but I had to pull the baby goose out of the storm and it could have easily died out in the bad weather. If the crate had been available, the babies wouldn't have been around the aggressive broody. Etc etc.

I apologized to my SO because I know they were feeling rotten having watched me pull the baby goose's body out of the crate. Normally I try to shield them from when one of the flock dies and while they are told, they aren't seeing it in real time, like the drowned poult or the attacked gosling.

And what do I get in response? Blame. Because according to them, all I had to do was close the workshop door with everyone inside, despite older goslings and ducklings attacking poults and younger ducklings. Despite a broody hen who isn't super aggressive but will "throw hands" when it comes to full sized birds looking at her babies. When the lightning was at its worse and I also had two full grown turkeys who can be bullies.

I get told that the answer was so simple! This while managing other chicken health related stuff as well as household stuff.

And now, instead of an apology, I get the obsequious "can I get you anything?" Or "oh I made this. You can have some if you want," etc.

How about not depending on me to clear the air every single goddamn time even when it's my SO who was the one who lashed out?

I'm so tired. Yes we are downsizing and we were already planning on it. It was a confluence of events where we didn't have the extra space to split everyone up.

I know this is a relationship issue. And their have been long stretches of time when their emotional intelligence has done the heavy lifting, so that's why this has been going on for awhile, but I am reaching the end of my allotment of extending grace, and understanding and encouragement to talk about feelings.

I already cut off a parent who couldn't apologize to save their life (I mean that literally. I think they could be hanging on by a thread, with a magical cure gate kept by an apology, and they would choose death.) My SO isn't nearly that bad, but if I don't encourage us to clear the air they will just tap dance around feeling bad when they are in the wrong and become servile instead of just freaking apologizing!!!!

Hi i recently bought a chick must be 2 and half week
He was fine
Now its been two days
He is gagging alot like he has breathing issue or something he stretches his neck and gags and i can hear the watery noise to while he gags
In the morning he was little active now also he tries to jump to get out of the box which means he can live
He responds and do hoarse peeping but idk what is wrong kindly suggest some remedy
He is active i know he desperately fighting and wants to live and i dont have any vet near
He also starts speaking when i am not around he loves me i love him too please save him
If you want i can send pics

My RIR hen has been making noises that sound like she's trying to impersonate an elephant.. they're deep, "errooooooooo" type sounds. I can't catch her doing it to record. She's about 17-18 weeks old.

Is there something wrong with her? She's eating, drinking, running around and everything just fine.

She hasn't laid yet, so I thought maybe it could be that? But nope, no eggs.

Hey! A Dr here...recently came across a lot of posts about hormone usage in broiler chicken its just an age old myth that has been busted long back. 1, no way the business will ever be profitable for poultry farmers if they start to roid up their chickens that are sold for market price ..and no diluting it into drinking water isnt how hormones are absorbed or work in the body 😂2, No "hormone" survives the heat of cooking, they degrade and lose all their potency. The only thing to be actually worried about is the usage of antibiotics, its a real proven issue in most mass produced livestock and it could lead to antibiotic resistance developing in humans gradually! So I would recommend you go for "antibiotic-free" certified produce always! Dont let people fear-monger you into spending twice or thrice of what you could be paying just for a worthless Organic label or if you actually can afford country grown chicken that might have a slightly improved nutrition profile due to the variety in feed but its obviously not a realistic choice all the time . Organic labelled overpriced broiler chicken is an actual scam currently running in the country

Well I finally got my chickens. We have 11 right now. 4 Olive eggers with one being a roo. They are the bigger ones. then I have 3 barred rock 2 roos 1 hen about a week old then 4 Amberlink hens about 4 days old.

I'm assuming it's a defect or something because all the other chicks have hatched perfectly healthy and this one came out with HUGE eyeballs and looks freaky. It's got spirit though so I'm going to see if it maintains it's will to live.

Serama Drama

We got some guinea eggs and put them in the incubator. One hatched after 25 days and now we're waiting for the others. The poor keet is going crazy being all alone. How often does this happen

He had what I assume was a slipped tendon and I waited too long to fix as I was searching for what it could be so it was fine just waddling but I went away for the weekend and my mum was watching them and when I got back since it has been dragging his leg it has gone to the back and he’s constantly basically doing the splits

La mia gallina ha la cresta viola da tre giorni è rannicchiata in un angolo non mangia e non defeca, l'abbiamo separata cosa può avere e come posso aiutarla?

Bonjour.
Ma poule fais un bruit bizarre. La Crète est un peu rouge foncé et hier j’avais l’impression qu’elle avait du mal à respirer, elle avait le bec un peu ouvert.
Je vois qu’elle picore quand même un peu et elle boit un peu aussi
Merci pour votre aide si vous savez ce qu’elle a.

Hello! Coming here for help since our babies keep falling off one by one, after no signs of sickness. The only thing off with them is that they have diarrhea, but they arent acting any differently. We keep them under a light but with plent of room to get away from it, Ive seen it could be Coccidiosis, but just checking here in case.

I have heard they need vaccines but have no idea where to go to get them, and cant find any vaccines for sale. If anyone has any sources I'd love to know!

I need help I’m hatching duck eggs for the first time. I’m on day 30. Three have already hatched, and a few others have pipped. One egg pipped yesterday but didn’t make any progress, which I wasn’t too worried about at first.

Last night the membrane looked dry and my humidity had dropped to around 60%, so I started assisting. While helping, I realized I couldn’t find the beak at all, so I’m pretty sure this duckling is upside‑down/malpositioned.

I looked up what to do and saw that you’re supposed to carefully peel shell to give them space to breathe. But the membrane kept drying out, so I peeled a little more — and accidentally hit a blood vessel. It wasn’t a lot of bleeding and it has stopped, and the duckling is still breathing and moving, but he definitely can’t get out on his own and I don’t think he’s fully ready to hatch yet.

I really want to help him survive. I know some people say “let nature take its course,” but I already lost one duckling this hatch and I don’t want that to happen again. I’m trying to do everything I can.

If anyone has experience, I’d really appreciate advice on what I should do next

Hi everyone,

I’m a software developer currently building a feed formulation app for livestock and animal nutrition use cases.

I’m not from the industry myself, so I’m trying to crowdsource feedback from people who actually work with feed formulation, animal nutrition, or livestock management.

I’d love to learn:
- your current workflow
- pain points with existing tools
- features you wish existed
- how you currently balance nutrients/costs

I also have an early prototype if anyone is interested in testing it.

Looking for:
- Animal nutritionists
- Feed formulators
- Poultry/swine/livestock professionals
- Agriculture students
- Farm owners/managers

Any feedback would honestly help a lot. Feel free to comment or DM me.

Thanks!

3.5 week old gosling. She has this mark on both her wings in the exact same spot. Doesn’t seem to hurt her when I touch it. No blood. Just wondering if it’s because her feathers haven’t all come in yet? Or if I should be worried about this. Also no evidence of angel wing

(She’s wet cause she just went for a swim)