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I need this for my geese. https://www.tractorsupply.com/tsc/product/producers-pride-universal-poultry-pen-8-ft-x-8-ft-cr0808

Ganders can be total a-holes (and that is not a term I use often) during breeding season. Here in the US where I live that is February through April. *raises sleeves to show bruises on arms* They will defend their girls to the death, fight with each other, be noisy at a leaf falling in the wind...

My goose was about 18 mos old this spring. Last winter she was treated for lead poisoning, I was pleased that we had 4/5 eggs hatch. The eggs were all sizes and shapes but pretty close weight wise. When they hatched two goslings were pretty good size and two were smaller - this one being the...

I have a week old Buff/Toulouse cross gosling that is not growing like the other. Can I worm her? What type of dose should I use? I'm resisting the temptation to take her away and cage her in the house, but not sure if the stress would make it her worse. Not sure what else I can do. This is my...

I have my first goslings. They are American Buff mamma and a Toulouse type pappa. There are 4 of them, dirty gray-ish brown backs and heads and lighter undersides, one might be a wee more brown than gray. The two littlest ones, one has the very tips of its feet white toes, the other has half of...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/articles/step-by-step-guide-to-assisted-hatching.64660/ I've referenced the above link many times. I do help chicks if needed but have found that since I have been using broodies instead of an incubator I rarely have a viable chick that doesn't hatch. Seramas...

There is no chicken/goose vet in 100 miles of here unfortunately. I was hoping maybe someone had seen something like this before.

I'm worried. There is no sign of injury but my beautiful goose has a lump on her head above her right eye. You can barely see it in the picture, it's more noticeable in person. It is very hard and doesn't seem to be painful. She doesn't like her head messed with anyway but I gave it a couple...

Hatch day: A little later: (along with mom, Modern Game, extra small Serama, and regular sized Serama. the black chick wasn't hatched yet) Next to the black one that doesn't quite look Serama: Twelve days later. Grey and black chicks: At this stage I'm thinking that the grey, who was...

I asked because I'm trying to sort through a mixed batch of chicks I hatched under a broodie. The most are Seramas, but there are two Modern Game Bantams. We were kinda hoping for d'Anvers or Wyandotte to hatch. I was sure one of the shells were marked d'Anver, but only 2 chicks are not...

Do d'Anvers have frizzle or silke or sizzle feather type? I looked in the standards and it doesn't speak about body feathers, only furnishings. Is the feather leg gene present? Perhaps I should assume that unless it says otherwise, all feathers are smooth?

In what form is the echinacea that you use? extract? powered? brewed?

Yes, but I was speaking in the reference to medicated poultry feed as shown for Swanson chick starter and Farmer's best chicken starter. Now if you want bacitracin, you have to put it there yourself - you can't buy feed that has it already.

When I ran sled dogs (very hard on livestock if they get loose) I went around to the neighbors and introduced myself and asked if they saw a dog they thought was mine in the stock please come get me. If I couldn't call them in I'd shoot them myself. I was on the Army high power team at the time...

Always replace B vitamins removed by coccidiosis treatment. A good water multi-vitamin should do it. Amprolium works by limiting the availability to thiamine to the bugs - and consequently the animal as well. So, AFTER treatment is finished, always increase the B-12 at least by supplementing a...