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by windwalkingwolf
Sat Aug 15, 2020 1:44 am
Forum: Around the Waterer
Topic: Good Morning!
Replies: 1534
Views: 414607

Re: Good Morning!

My hens (ones not sitting or toting chicks) are mostly all on strike as well. It probably doesn't help that we're having Saharan temperatures, or that we've had some spectacular thunderstorms directly overhead. And speaking of brooding, this summer most of my mother hens have been done with their ch...
by windwalkingwolf
Wed Aug 05, 2020 3:39 am
Forum: Around the Waterer
Topic: Good Morning!
Replies: 1534
Views: 414607

Re: Good Morning!

Morning all! I did a BAD thing. I "pandemic bought" some buttonquail eggs. Backstory: a fellow poultry keeper couldn't keep up with demand for (chicken) eating eggs, so I've been selling her my extras, about 4-6 dozen a week. She gets stupid money from her customers and I pay for food for my pleasur...
by windwalkingwolf
Sun Jul 12, 2020 1:07 pm
Forum: Poultry Breeding and Projects
Topic: Somebody talk me out of this...
Replies: 74
Views: 60861

Re: Somebody talk me out of this...

"I'm curious to see what the chicks would look like" is ALWAYS a good enough reason to hatch roflmbo
by windwalkingwolf
Sun Jul 12, 2020 12:55 pm
Forum: Health
Topic: Swollen Feet
Replies: 18
Views: 13240

Re: Swollen Feet

There's a couple of things it could be...articular gout, as already suggested, a bacteria infection (likely staph), or mycoplasma synoviae. Are her wing joints swollen or knobby as well? Sorry to hear the one has passed :(
by windwalkingwolf
Sun Jul 12, 2020 12:08 am
Forum: Health
Topic: Is this Bumble Foot?
Replies: 10
Views: 12602

Re: Is this Bumble Foot?

Yep, that's a bumble! An early one. Hopefully you got the core out, otherwise the skin will heal over but the cyst in her foot will continue to bother her and likely grow and cause structural problems. The infection once loose of its cyst but no outside escape will eat tendons and even bone, or even...
by windwalkingwolf
Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:33 pm
Forum: Furred Friends
Topic: 4 yo male Pyrenees mix looking for home on farm
Replies: 3
Views: 5912

Re: 4 yo male Pyrenees mix looking for home on farm

I wish I could take him, I'm pretty positive I could set him straight.
by windwalkingwolf
Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:20 pm
Forum: Around the Waterer
Topic: Good Morning!
Replies: 1534
Views: 414607

Re: Good Morning!

Question for all you chicken quarantine and integration experts: hypothetically, if a lone hen has been a house pet / apartment balcony pet for her entire life, what are the chances of her harbouring diseases that can be passed on the other chickens in an existing flock? Would she need to be quaran...
by windwalkingwolf
Sat Jul 11, 2020 10:52 pm
Forum: Around the Waterer
Topic: Coronavirus - how much do you worry ?
Replies: 593
Views: 165786

Re: Coronavirus - how much do you worry ?

Farrier1987 wrote:
Fri Jul 03, 2020 10:12 am
windwalkingwolf wrote:
Fri Jul 03, 2020 2:33 am

Do you sound like Darth Vader when you talk?
No, I sound like a fart in a snowsuit roflmbo
by windwalkingwolf
Sat Jul 11, 2020 10:47 pm
Forum: Health
Topic: One eyed chicken?
Replies: 20
Views: 17203

Re: One eyed chicken?

Oh yes, mites and lice, that's another point to consider with special needs chickens...they rarely dustbathe, and need more parasite control than healthy birds. I use pour-on Noromectin, 2-4 drops on bare skin, once every month or two. Kills the little nasty critters and regular application keeps ne...
by windwalkingwolf
Fri Jul 03, 2020 3:00 am
Forum: Health
Topic: One eyed chicken?
Replies: 20
Views: 17203

Re: One eyed chicken?

I've had several sight-impaired chickens: just one eye gone or both, and varying degrees of sightedness in between. It hurts, there's an adjustment period, and they lose flock status while they're recovering. Sometimes, especially if they've lost sight in both eyes, they will never regain their prev...

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