Good morning. Two days ago I discovered that my hen sugar was limping. She has swelling on her upper leg joint. She is also not been laying properly. She’s 5 1/2 years old.
In advice from this thread I gave her a warm Epsom salt bath for 30 minutes. I thoroughly dried her off and dusted her...
Hi there. I’ve got a five-year-old hen named sugar who is limping pretty badly. I noticed she was laying in the grass with one of her wings spread out and at first I thought she was sunbathing. Then I realized that she couldn’t get up. She’s got a lot of lost feathers around her belly and she’s...
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I have a covered run in Vermont that has sand and diatomaceous earth in it. Throughout the year when it rains heavily, or when it snows heavily or when the ground freezes, the run will absorb water from the Earth. Then it will dry out again and be usable.
I’ve been wanting to...
Hey. My Guinea keets are 8 days old. I have 23. I have one that I noticed on day 4 had pasty butt. Cleaned it and treated with prep H. I clean the area twice a day under gentle lukewarm water. Then I take dry the keets butt and put it back in the brooder with the others. My brooder has low light...
So….I have the GQF brooder. Right now I have the bottom lined with tea towels which I change and wash twice a day, because the Guinea keets are only 4 days old and I’m worried their feet will fall through the grating if I remove the tea towels this soon.
But they’re starting to fly, so how do...
OK. I have 23 three day old, guinea fowl kids. They are growing nicely in their brooder and drinking from a drown proof chick waterer with marbles in it. When they get older, I’m gonna graduate them to the trough, the water trough that hangs outside their Brooder.
Before they are released from...
Hi there! I noticed this morning one side of my hens face around her eye is swollen. I’m not sure what happened. I don’t see a puncture or a cut.
She’s pretty skittish. How do I treat this? I have vetricyn, blue cote and some other sprays. Im not sure if any will treat this though.
We just...