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I've heard about the cayenne pepper. The girls will probably end up getting it. This has been unreal - they show symptoms one day, and are dead the next. Ugh. Thanks, guys. Hugs for everybody having trouble during this blasted winter and losing critters!

My last tom, my big, gorgeous pride and joy, died today. I'm heartbroken. All three of my beautiful boys are gone. I was giving him metronidazole on top of the amprolium and, now, Sulmet for coccidiosis on the off-chance that it was actually blackhead, although blackhead is incredibly...

The Town Supervisor posted on his public FB page that they've caught the idiots responsible (it was nearly 200 birds). Good - throw the book at them, if only for dumping. It's horrible to hope that the poor things were just killed outright and didn't die of a disease, but that would be better...

I've had two seemingly healthy turkeys die in just over a week after showing nonspecific symptoms for less than a day. One was my Pencilled Palm tom, and the other was the gray PP hen. Now my smaller Bronze tom is showing signs of illness as well. It *looks* like coccidiosis - the affected...

One of the turkeys is a woman now. *sniffle*. They grow up so fast. !

I don't dare to go to TSC lest they have Pekins. I have no problem resisting chicks, but I'm a sucker for duckehs.

Welcome to the Cult of Ducks. Resistance is futile. You shall be assimilated.

I'm scheduled to work that night, but I'll see if I can get it off. Given that I'm working an extra day for them every other week (on my week off), hopefully I can get it.

My Rouens lay light green eggs, and tons of them. The KCs lay a lovely pinkish-cream egg, and even more of them than the Rouens lay. I have a wealth of duck eggs. Two of my turkey hens think I'm the hottest tom on the block. They both squat for me, so of course I pat their bums and put...

Tab - sweet! Is there a get-together thread yet?

They'll be a year in May. They're a lot of fun - very personable and entertaining!

I really need to check in here more than once in a blue moon - when post counts are in the THOUSANDS, I've been out too long. I am over this weather. No more. The few days it was warm enough to get water from the outside tap instead of having to haul it from the downstairs bathroom were...

Who ordered this rotten cold weather? Yuck.

I bought what amounted to a grab bag from Porter's this spring. I have several Bronze, two Slates (self-blues), a White Holland, a mixed-breed that is mostly white with some brown barring in her tail and wings (they do experimental breeding for color), and three Pencilled Palms, which are Royal...