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So we have had four hens in the past six weeks come down with some kind of gut bug I believe. They become lethargic, and have watery yellow/green poops, pic attached. Their crop is squishy too. Three of the hens bounce back within a week on SMZ/TMP and nystatin, and they were back to laying eggs...

I just went to place an order for aqua SMZ/TMP from valley vet.com, which I’ve done in the past, but now they’re saying I need a prescription from my vet??? Since when?? Does anyone know where I can get it without having to do this baloney?? Ugh

I have a quick question about button quail hatching. I’ve had success in the past with shipped chicken eggs and keeping them upright in the incubator for seven days. Then I would lay them on their side for turning, and then put them back up again for the last three days of lockdown. My...

Hello, attached is a genetics test from IQ bird testing for my Prairie Bluebell Egger boy. Does this mean he has both copies of the blue gene? Thank you! I want to learn more about it!

Hello, we are planning on putting a quail addition to the front of our very large chicken coop. it will be 4 wide by 8 feet tall to be cautious with flushing, and probably have an outside door for access. The base will be built up on a frame equal to the coop, with a sand substrate added in...

Hello, I posted about this a couple months ago and I can’t find the thread (so sorry). Anyway, my Jersey girl who just started laying a few months ago, is presenting with very bad watery poop, on the reg! Not one is good at all. For several months. She drinks a lot of water too. So I’ve...

I’ve got a seven month old Jersey giant that just started laying a few weeks ago. Well coincidentally around the same time, I noticed her poop has just been this splooty, watery mess! I sent in a sample to the state lab, who only test for parasites, and they said they didn’t find anything. She...

I have a round compost barrel, that’s only been used for food scraps, and browns and greens. It has a ton of grubs and worms. I was going dump it out and give it to the chickens, but is it safe? I just wasn’t sure with all the different kinds of bacteria in there…?

since yesterday, my buff Orpington has been acting very subdued, drinking a lot. This morning, she started vomiting and positioning her neck in weird and unnatural ways (wry neck symptom?) , and her crop has a foul odor. Poop is watery as well. I started this morning giving her poultry...

I have a BCM that pimped yesterday at about 5 PM. It’s almost 24 hours later. She managed to get through a lot of the shell, and maybe the babies bouncing around her helped too, but she still hasn’t come through the membrane? It looks moist, she is breathing, but I do see a lot of veins so I...

Hello, I live in the mountains of Asheville, NC with my family of four, and started my chicken-keeping journey a year ago, with ten mail order hens and a rooster (that 10%er lol 😝) . He is a RIR, and the girls are leghorns, cuckoo Marans, Ameraucana, Easter Eggers and a golden comet. It has been...