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- Sat Aug 15, 2020 1:44 am
- Forum: Around the Waterer
- Topic: Good Morning!
- Replies: 1534
- Views: 419516
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...
- Wed Aug 05, 2020 3:39 am
- Forum: Around the Waterer
- Topic: Good Morning!
- Replies: 1534
- Views: 419516
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...
- Sun Jul 12, 2020 1:07 pm
- Forum: Poultry Breeding and Projects
- Topic: Somebody talk me out of this...
- Replies: 74
- Views: 62265
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
- Sun Jul 12, 2020 12:55 pm
- Forum: Health
- Topic: Swollen Feet
- Replies: 18
- Views: 13334
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
- Sun Jul 12, 2020 12:08 am
- Forum: Health
- Topic: Is this Bumble Foot?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 13135
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...
- Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:33 pm
- Forum: Furred Friends
- Topic: 4 yo male Pyrenees mix looking for home on farm
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6095
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.
- Sat Jul 11, 2020 11:20 pm
- Forum: Around the Waterer
- Topic: Good Morning!
- Replies: 1534
- Views: 419516
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...
- Sat Jul 11, 2020 10:52 pm
- Forum: Around the Waterer
- Topic: Coronavirus - how much do you worry ?
- Replies: 593
- Views: 167587
Re: Coronavirus - how much do you worry ?
No, I sound like a fart in a snowsuit
- Sat Jul 11, 2020 10:47 pm
- Forum: Health
- Topic: One eyed chicken?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 17386
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...
- Fri Jul 03, 2020 3:00 am
- Forum: Health
- Topic: One eyed chicken?
- Replies: 20
- Views: 17386
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...