toxic chemicals

One of my hens keeps getting into the area where heating fuel/oil spilled all over the ground a month ago. The ground was covered in leaves & I thought was frozen, but she managed to dig/peck her way through to reach the soft soil where there’s still oil residue/fuel that got absorbed into the...

So my 9 year old was being a great farm kid and was feeding the chickens some yummy bugs... unfortunately he had picked up those "bugs" wasps...from a nest in another part of the yard that my husband had sprayed the night before.... Anything i can do to mitigate effects, i dont know how many...

Hello! I have been using galvanised water buckets for my 10 chicken flock for a year. It has been so easy really, to fill the scattered buckets in the run and fenced yard with the hose. I freshen them up in the afternoon if it is hot. During the freezing months, I put them on an automatic heater...

I had a few drops of vetrx (poultry) and a table spoon of apple cider vinegar in my chicken's water and our giant tortoise drank from the same water. Is it safe for the tortoise and our dog to consume if we add those to the water for the chickens regularly?

I know you should never NEVER run the self clean cycle on an oven when you have birds of any sort, or hatching eggs, in the house. My question needs a little background first. I’m going to try to hatch eggs next month or the month after, duck more specifically, not that it should matter I...

• Is it possible to overdose from prolonged use of a vitamin & electrolytes solution? • If the vitamin & electrolytes solution is from a concentrated batch, can the chemical properties change into a toxic mixture if not used in a short time period? • How many days in a row should the vitamin &...