Recent content by JoanieShrubs

Hi, no, i don't see them for two days and they're not willing to help me DIY a medical formula. I'm on my own.

hi @casportpony just getting your attention 👋

hi @Eggcessive @azygous and team, I hope you're doing well... all that talking and i still forgot a poop pic 😏 First is a few days ago, the dark stuff is today

Hi, I need some expert advice on dosing my sick pullets with Tri-sulfa tablets tonight. I only have an emergency stash of tri-Sulfa tablets and I'm not sure how much to give them or how to administer it. The lasses have no respiratory symptoms, normal behavior, they eat and drink (Fine Layer...

When my chicken’s poop looked like that it was a sign of physical starvation, she had feed but she had a resp infection and wasn’t able to eat it with all the swelling and pain. I put her on baby bird food for concentrated nutrients and had to crop feed her the liquid through a tube for a while...

That’s right, we have a sleep box in the outside laundry and the young cockerels move into the laundry at night as soon as they are witnessed crowing. The collar is for when the big guy is out free ranging during the day and defending his ladies. He got so skinny though, we had to stop using it :/

You have to be super vigilant. And don’t buy a cheap brand. They can’t wear it overnight, too dangerous… it works okay in the daytime until they work out how to wiggle it around so the loosest point is in front of their larynx, then their mighty crow is set free. The other issue is, eating is...

There are paths forward depending on what the illness is, so it’s a good idea to upload as @casportpony said, so the experts can watch him and weigh in. There’s also a pinned post in the top of the section which explains all the relevant info you’ll need to provide in a new post on your thread...

I expected to see a video of normal rooster behaviour calling the girls over to the food and waiting for them to eat, but sorry to say, his affect is very flat and I can hear rales in his breathing which suggests a respiratory infection.

I can’t work out how to take photo while candling with my iphone 😬

Following because I have a chick with big open staring eyes but the way she follows sounds around I’m beginning to suspect she may also be blind.

Offering to buy her is the kindest thing to do, so that's what I’d do. Chickens get dealt a pretty rough hand in this world, giving even one bird a better life is a contribution.

It’s my first breeding season here in Australia and I’ve been hatching eggs from other breeders, shipped and local. I recently borrowed a Sicilian Buttercup cockerel to put with my three pullets and the breeding pen has been going for a few weeks. The first batch of 12 fertile eggs, well I...

Get a sulfa antibiotic if you can, I swear by it for treating infectious coryza if that’s the path you choose to take.

Pics are a bit gory, sorry!