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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...

The hens were already in critical condition from the sounds of it, so it's impossible to say exactly what they died from without having a complete assessment. However, even if the garlic does have some ill effects on birds, the compounds that cause ill effects are likely to be quite slow acting...

@ casportpony I recommend reading up on it a bit more before trusting one article saying garlic is bad. As I have said before, you have to use it RIGHT. For that, I really recommend reading a book like "The Healing Power of Garlic" (I'm not trying to promote this book or anything, but it is the...

Garlic can and has cured my chickens of various ailments, and I've eaten it myself when I had the flu, and it drastically reduced the time I was sick. I also contracted Lyme disease, which is pretty serious, but was able to cure it with just garlic, something I'm still marveling over. As I said...

I feel like I'm putting this advice everywhere anymore but...that's good I suppose. The FIRST thing I would personally do, would be to feed them garlic. It has amazing healing properties, and I've just begun to see how amazing it can be. It's a very powerful natural antibiotic, almost impossible...

Anyone? Any input would be helpful!