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thank you so much for replying I so appreciate it. I wish I could take a sample to the vet we are having trouble just keeping gas in the car for my hubby to get to and from work and get our son to school. I will do another warm water bath and will try to get her to eat and will just keep...

I am so so confused here, I thought tylan was mostly a antibiotic for respatory stuff, if it is a gut or intestine thing will tylan help?

I have a barred rock hen that we got on the 25 of march. she is acting sick and I don't know what is wrong. she is panting, her belly feels swollen and warm and she had a bunch of poo stuck to her bottom, I cleaned her up and saw it looked like she was trying to poo or pass an egg as her vent...

I hope this is the right place to post this, I want to worm my flock with ivermectin and I only have the paste, does anyone know how much I should put in a gallon or two of water so I can just do it that way instead of having to catch each bird pry open there beak and give them a pea sized...

egg yokes ruptured when I open eggs, what causes this? seems when I crack some of my eggs the egg yoke is ruptured or breaks and I dont know why?

my hens pull out fethers when they want to go broody, and even if they dont have eggs they can just set on the empty nest for a long time... are they eating and drinking or do they just set on the nest get up and grab a drink and go poo, a big poo would kinda conferm they are trying to go...

I have an Americana chicken that is staggering she had a drooping wing and I thought it was just do to the heat but it is cooler today and she is still kinda staggering not as bad as she was but still a bit. she is thin and did not want to eat. the only thing she would eat is berries. she...

I took some hort classes and two teachers had so many different feelings on manure of any kind one said he would never use it on veggies or even flowers unless it had aged for at least 6 months due to diase and contamination of food. the other teacher when I brought this up in his class said...

we are getting some hot weather and we usaly do not get hot weather like this or at least not for a long time. my birds seem very stressed. I am keeping water full and wondering is there anything elese I can do to help them in this heat?

thank you for that comment, I am so worried abot mine getting sick that I try to limit where I get my birds. I got one from a friend one time and then had some get sick. we got lucky and when I had a couple of others checked they were OK. the one that got sick had the thing were the eye swells...

we have way to many roo's and we only have two coops. we have aprox oh maybe 30 hens and wow we have like 5 roo's we are trying to decide which roo's to keep, now the one coop is mostly a Cochin coop it has some small and large girls and then it has two frizzle bantam roo's very cute and one...

it is so odd that these hens are mating each other. they have been best buds for so long they go and take there dust bath together and eat together and all that good stuff. I was just so surprised. when I pulled the Americana off she was so upset she just acted like I had broke her hart. we...

I went to the coop to collect any stray eggs and make sure they had water this evening and I saw the weirdest thing. we have some hens that have been raised together since they were chicks they are about 4 years old one is a Americana and one is a road island red. at first thought the...

yes I am thinking I will get a picture and put it on line. now if I can just remember how to upload the picture..I would get one from the man who has the really nice ones but he has had trouble with merix and I am just terified of putting my flock even close to that. does anyone know can merix...

I will look into the deep liter method, our coop is a dog run outside play area and then the back side of the coop that they wont go into. I just like to give them fresh straw becuse the stuff they have gets so dirty looking. I dont know if it is really bad for them dirty or just looks that...

I like to clean our coop once a week. I clean the water and food holders every day, and I scoop poop if I see it laying around. I free range my flock a lot so they poop outside a lot but they poop at night also. we have a horrid time getting them to roost on the bar in the back of the coop...

I have a hen french copper maran with nice feathering a little sparce but nice on her legs, and then we have a roo copper maran we call Copper. he has a lot of coper on him all over. a friend who breeds them and sells them for money 25 a bird says my roo is not fit to breed is this true? are...

we have a Easter eager that is very ill, we have had our share of trouble with our birds we had a couple checked out and the vet said we are OK so we felt we were on a good roll. my bird was bought march 25 she had a rock hard crop and I massaged it and then she ate a bit the next day her crop...

lol lol I love it super hero cape , I was asking my mother in law if she had any scrap fabric, she used to be a seamstris for a living, for chicken sadels and if she could help me to make some. she was not very nice she said you were going to get rid of some of thoes they will never be cost...

thank you I see they made one, but is there a patern or do you just eyeball them?