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I've got old tylan but is very old. Cant buy this stuff in the farm/feed stores anymore. I've got a chicken with rales, shaking head, slightly swollen face, decreased appetite. Isolated from flock. But will need to treat everyone. Vet not a option. Thanks

2yo Buff with now cloudy eye. She's my broody hen. Treated whole flock of 12 with valbazen for suspect thread worms, repeated in 10 days. Then I found on broody buff gray/white lice on and treated the whole flock with Elector PSP and throughly cleaned entire coup and run. day after treating...

Hi. I removed the entire scab from the one pad, now I need advice to excise and drain the puffy bumble in the other foot. She's s 2yr. Old leghorn. Limping and holding the swollen leg up. The black scab is where I've removed a stem and drained white curd like puss. If you look carefully there is...

This is our 3rd flock and we've never had a rooster like this. He keeps the girls in the coop just about all day. We have a small coup only meant to house them at night and to lay eggs, not to be huddled all day in the hot weather without food or water. He is a Buff Orpington always to us a...

For a good part of these hot, hot days the rooster keeps the hens in the coup. If he hears and sees anything he tells them all to go in. We seem to have a lot of crows in the area and their squawking bothers the roosty. Hawks also fly overhead frequently and in they go. I know this is natural...

We've got a 10wk rooster whose primary feathers are dragging. He lays down much more, not able to flap his wings. He is eating and drinking but the area of the covert primaries is severely bruised. I can't tell if its broken. Should it be splinted? Should I isolate in a protected area? How long...

We have 9 week pullets in a raw pine coup. Some of it is venier bead board. I know we need to protect it or its going to warp badly. I want to go with a natural stain and keep the natural look, no paint, except maybe the window frame. Do I need to put a conditioner on it first? I'd like to...

Hi. We bought a Premier solar electric fence. We keep it on all day. We lost our last flock to weasels, mink and I'm not going to let that happen again. We also have fox that come in the middle of the day so its important they stay safe. Occasionally a hen gets zapped and they all run in the...

Hi Chicken Family. More than one black mink have been terrorizing our chickens. The coup is situated not too far behind the house where we can hear any unusual noises. lt took only 1 night of going out multiple times trying to figure out what it was. We couldn't see any tracks, the chickens were...