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If you'd like I could probably find some time tomorrow (today?) to talk to you about the wild chickens, lacey.

Victor is sold, but I still have his brother and the 4 White baby fluff balls available!

The calico cockerels I current have for sale: First boy, "Mud".^ Second boy, "Victor". ^ Brothers from the same hatch and parents. Hatched and raised on island here on my farm in Puna.

Aloha folks. I've got 2 bearded Calico Silkie cockerels for sale (about 7mo) and 4 White Silkie chicks (about 1.75mo) for sale currently. I'm on the East Side, Puna.

I realize this is an ancient thread by now, but I'm still going to throw my hat in the ring. Just in case you're still out there, looking. I live on the East side and raise a variety of colors of Bearded Silkies.

Oh, I see. Sorry, I had missed the context entirely and thought you were perhaps responding in my direction. I hadn't seen the update about him scratching because it itches. My "alerts" for the forum are not showing a large portion of new posts to threads I follow for some unknown reason.

Not sure if joking, or--- A cone would not work to hold medicine in place.

HeiHeisMom, are you having trouble with shaping it to fit him or is he fidgeting with it to pull it off? I drew a couple diagrams of ways to try. The first one is what I did and just tied it using the 4 long strips. This may be harder to do than I'd thought of, because I grow my fingernails...

I have had worse scalped chickens make it. There was gamefowl rooster I found running down the road in the rain years ago. He was exhausted, scalped, his right eye was swollen shut and the lid bulging with infection. I caught him and took him home to heal him up. Here's what I did for the scalp...

I'm too sleepy to write a comprehensive list at the moment, but one tip I can share is to obtain a traffic cone to make into a "kill cone". You turn the thing upside down, firmly affix the rigid part of its base to a wall on a shed, tree, etc, and cut off a couple inches of the tip (skinny end)...

Thank you for detailing your success in treating this, and especially for including photos. I'm glad it worked out and that your girl recovered from the ordeal! Thankfully (miraculously after over 2 decades of chickens) I've never had to deal with even a single prolapsed vent, but should the...

By the way, @SuperDuck I love your avatar. =)

Snuggly ducks have always managed to melt my heart so easily. If none of the Muscovies I get in the future wind up being cuddly I'll have to find myself a snuggle duck of another breed. When I was a little kid I encountered what I now believe was of the Pekin breed. Someone had abandoned himat...

The mental image this gave is priceless. Thank you for the best laugh I've had all day!

@oldrooster The black color of the bin's shell and the ability to easily and regularly turn it would indeed aid in quicker decomposition. However, there are some potential reasons why you might not want to do this with carcasses unless you can locate it WELL away from your dwelling. The animal...