Recent content by Yazzo

Well, since I didn't get any feedback on the Ulcer Aid Rx (guessing no one has tried it for bumblefoot), and I don't want to experiment too much right now, I ordered some Tricide from Koiacres, and it arrived pretty quickly. After reading through this thread on bumblefoot, I decided to also...

So sorry I haven't updated this thread in forever! Turns out the Tricide Neo I ordered from KoiDepot never came. After not getting a reply when I asked why I hadn't received it, I opened up a Paypal claim about it, and got a reply pretty quickly. The explanation I got for that was that it was...

I guess I'll have to see with the Tricide-Neo. I ordered it from KoiDepot BTW, cheapest place I could find. Still bloody expensive though. I got some great advice from a user (not sure if she wants her name mentioned here) about splitting the stuff into quarters, and only mixing up a quart at a...

Thanks for the input. :) I actually tried holding her partially upside down earlier today, but no go. Didn't seem to do anything, and the only discharge coming from her mouth is a bit of spit when she sneezes (which is hardly ever). I might try it again later though. I don't really want to...

One of my hens, seemingly out of nowhere, has developed very labored breathing. She is a quiet hen, but she wasn't really showing any symptoms before this afternoon, when she started breathing very heavily. I took her inside and gave her a bit of warm horehound tea (horehound is an expectorant -...

Huh. You just put so much of my philosophies and techniques into one post, and much more eloquently and cleanly than I did with my rooster post and page from a few years back. The most remarkable thing is that you are mentioning Cesar Millan. I have NEVER heard anyone else mention him in...

Thanks for the input TwoCrows! I actually did try piercing the squishy part on the side of his foot (not the joint) a while back, but there wasn't really any notable liquid or pus. I didn't want to cut in really deep though. Before that, I used a syringe to try and extract any liquid or pus...

UPDATE: Haven't figured out what it is, and I've been very apprehensive to cut into his foot and possibly cause infection. I've been trying non-invasive methods - I just started to soak his foot with essential oils (tea tree, eucalyptus) for a few minutes a day to see if that does anything, as...

Alright, so good news and bad news time. Firstly, the bad news. The morning after I posted last, the gosling had declined very rapidly. Bobby had been eating and drinking fine the previous evening, but that morning there was no eating going on, so I resorted to force feeding some cooked...

I'm not actually feeding them any kind of processed chicken feed (unless oatmeal and apples are considered 'chicken feed'), but I have been giving them raw wheat, which with many past geese has never caused any problems. The gosling had been eating plenty of that as well as grazing a variety of...

This, is Bobby. Bobby is a three-month-old gosling, who has three parents (two geese and a gander are raising him/her right now). Anywho, 'Bobby' has been just fine in life so far (albeit a bit smothered by the excessive parenting caused by first-time parents and being an only-gosling ), but a...

Well, there are many anti-hawk measures that other people have more knowledge with and will advise you on - devices you can use, fence you can put over the coop, etc, but I'm going to go out on a limb and ask: do you have any ravens or crows nearby? Believe it or not, it's the ravens that keep...

Looking forward to seeing how this one turns out. I have a rooster with a bad case of what I'm pretty sure is bumblefoot, and I'm trying to find a non-invasive way of treating him, as I'm not sure where I would even cut, if I would have to cut into his foot, or it may turn out VERY messy and...

I have a rooster with one foot that looks almost exactly like this, and I'm trying to get a diagnosis. Hope you get some answers!

Well, washed his foot off really good, though, surprisingly, it was already quite clean. This is what the bottom looks like. That one scabby-looking thing on the bottom doesn't seem to be a bumblefoot scab, as it's covered with scales, and seems like more of a sore than a scab, but I'm not sure...