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Can I vote that we WON'T make 170,000? That would be my vote - On 1/30/2013, we will not make 170,000 members

Don't you just hate this? I have another rooster on the mend and he had the same symptoms but is slowly recovering but he is in isolation with the one who pulled through. Gooey is our rooster and he is all piss and vinegar right now. He LOVES being in the sun room and having all the attention...

Thank you, I was afraid that was the answer though - just was hoping I remembered the warnings incorrectly! Thanks again!

We've had this quite a bit with different chicks but when they grew up and the toes we larger and thicker, they were just fine. It seemed like the bones were "soft" when they were young and then when the matured, they seemed to 'firm' up and get thicker and stronger and looked just fine. This is...

Hello, We had a rooster get rather sick about 8 moths ago. We (BYC group and I) thought it was Maerek's disease. He pulled through and he is nice and strong and awesome! We would like to put him back outside with the rest of our group but we are afraid that he may have had something that he...

This is a great thread! Okay, here goes, we have A LOT and my son (13) and daughter (10) named them all! We have Blue, Light, Peanut, Amelia, Unicorn, Lukette (thought it was a Roo which would have made him a Luke), Honey, Mayhem, Jayko, Barricade, Dewey, Gooey, Fox, Queeny, Princess, Red, Amil...

Hello, My opinion on selling eggs vs. selling milk and meat would be, if the egg is bad - you'll know it! It doesn't have to be a full blown rotten egg to be bad and you can see it. With meat and milk, there can be contamination (bacteria lurking) without smell, taste or sight. And if the meat...

I'm in CA too and my advice about wetting the ground is, it raises the humidity. Dry heat vs. moist heat. Some animals don't care for the high humidity and my chickens don't care for it. We have dry heat here and they have acclimated to that type of heat. If you were in FL, they would be used...

How much apple cider vinegar to how much water??

Hi, just following threads, and if I'm reading it correctly, I need to to do a round of vaccines! Our 'chicken yard' is full of wild bird droppings and I saw the list of birds who need to investigated, and we have them all! If I can vaccinate and possible prevent the loss of my flock, it's a...

We just had a hen do the same thing this morning and she ending up passing away. She also had a blue comb and no other signs or illness, etc. I'll keep checking back too since I'm confused! I have a rooster who possibly has Maereks but he's been away from everyone for two months now...

I love your info on Maereks, could you fill me in on where the chickens get the disease? We have a rooster who was a backyard hatch (really a kindergarten hatch) so he wasn't vaccinated...and he seems to have all the symptoms. He's on our sunporch and in a wire dog kennel so we can care for him...

Please keep me posted! we have a rooster that looks a lot like yours, but he's a cross with a orpington and is much bigger! Our rooster has been hanging in there for almost two months now but he has NO walking ability, he lays on his side all the time and he can push with his right leg but...

Sorry for your loss. I'm kinda thinking it might not be the dog....please don't stop thinking about this and investigating. Yes, he may have been playing with the chickens, and got carried away and with his size....just a little pounce could do the damage. Were the chickens mauled, wet and...

Thank you all for your thoughts! Mareks - could definitely be that since we had the songbirds come through but because we are having a VERY mild winter (60-70 degrees and NO rain whatsoever) they haven't really left.... And yes, he could have been very sensitive to the dusting. He's still...