my hart sank today

picked up my fave hen chick and found this big lump on her breast

i thought oh no she is a lot smaller than the others and felt a bit skinny

so im thinking Tumor or such then i felt the others and they had it too


 :oops:  :oops:  :oops: its the crop  :oops:  :oops:  :oops:

when should i offer grit for them they are now 6 weeks old

Had the same embarrassing moment. Birds had got at the dry cat food without me knowing so the hard, craggy malignant feeling mass in their neck was pretty alarmimg :shock:

well chick crumb growers pellet grass bread as a treat and ahem cardboard  :twisted:

i was also told today that you should not hatch ducks in July   :?  :?  :?  :?

Why is that :?:

no he said they are called July stragglers

i just looked for some info on this and found nowt

sounds like a wifes tale to me  :roll:

I have heard something similar about hatching ducklings -hatching for them started I think March, they assessed how many they have colours, breed etc. then a last hatch in May,however, they hatched on a large scale with very big ponds so would imagine not a problem with just a few.