Recent content by Jingles000

Hi, Can anyone help me please? I purchased a gold partridge Brahma breeding group around a month ago. There was 1 rooster and 5 hens. The rooster is around 1yo and the hens are 18 months. Around 2 weeks ago I was putting them away in the coop and found the first hen dead in the coop (next...

Hi, I have a mite problem and all the dusting, permethrin, bedding changes etc. for the past several weeks has not worked. I am looking to try either Eprinex or Ivomec pour on. The active ingredient for Eprinex is 5 mg/mL EPRINOMECTIN and for Ivomec pour on it is Ivermectin 5 mg/mL. There is...

I culled her today. I feel awful! She had been eating and drinking and seemed content the entire time but there had been no improvement with her ability to stand. She couldn’t move one leg at all and the other she could only move a little and couldn’t grip with her toes at all. I hoped she would...

I have added a video. She seems to be getting worse. She can't grip at all with either foot.

Hi, I have a chick that has injured her leg. The leg just sits out and she doesn’t seem to move it. It happened when I was filling the feed, she got a fright and ran but her leg looked like it got caught on the fence. It has been 4 days now and it has not improved. Other than her leg she seems...

That’s what I think. She is defending her packing and apparently I am one of the only ones with an issue. I have 2 eggs that have survived her shipping out of 24 😥

I was going to do that. I waited the 7 days and incubated them like she asked me to even though I could see all were damaged on candling except 1. On day 7 I had 2 growing, 2 that had quit and nothing else developed at all. She was going to give me 12 ‘free’ as she put it and she would pay for...

No, a show quality silkie breeder that is only about an hour from me. They sell some of the most expensive eggs for this breed so to say I am shocked is an understatement.

Thanks. I contacted the seller. They want me to incubate to 7 days then update them. There are air bubbles in most which I assume is a ruptured air sac? Multiple have broken yolks and several have slipped air sacs. There is only 1 egg that looks normal. They did not acknowledge any issues with...

Hi, I had 2 dozen eggs posted from a breeder. They arrived the next day after posting and did not travel far. They arrived yesterday and I was in shock. I had paid $40 for shipping which is the norm for the eggsafe cartons and postage so I didn’t think twice and $200 for the eggs. They arrived...

Thanks. They are all hatching now so she has managed to stay on them which is good. My preference is to keep her and the chicks with the flock if possible but how do I go about feeding mixed ages?

Hi, I have a white leghorn hen that is broody. She has been sitting on eggs for around 4 days now. I have 15 eggs in the incubator that are due to hatch in 4 days. Could I put these under her to finish them off and remove the other eggs she is sat on? I read white leghorns make poor mothers...

Hi, I am setting up a silkie pen and to start I am just having a mix of colours (these will be for pets, not show although all are good quality silkies). Eventually I will have a buff pen also but at the moment I will work with what I have. My girls include the colours buff, black, blue and...

Hi, I have a silkie that is about 3.5 months old is no longer able to eat or drink. She was born with a deformed beak. I had been trimming it hoping it would help. She was always smaller but I observed her eating and drinking with the others regularly. Her beak gradually kept looking worse and...