To anyone dealing with this issue, there are TONS of posts about using Fenbenzadole (wormer) and Miconazol ( antifungal), both off-label for chickens. The antifungal is involved with the sour crop treatment and the wormer for the underlying cause of the sour crop. It took a bit of time to find...
Tick tock, how long can a 5 year old hen go without drinking? Thanks to BYC forums advice, am treating her with a syringe of Miconazole 3 ( off label use of anti fungal) and yogurt twice daily, plus apple cider vinegar in her water. But she doesn’t seem to be drinking, and this is day 4 in...
As awful as this is, she can survive! We had this happen too. We used generous amounts of first aid solution ( get to your feed store/ supplier) and kept her in a dog crate hospital in our basement with lots of TLC and treats. Eventually we took her in the crate to the run so she could...
I wanted to report back in after all the help with integrating 6 pullets into an old flock of 6. It took three weeks of evening choreography due to reluctance of pullets to enter run/coop with old girls intimidating. Lots of scratch, a new roost in the coop, moving the new girls from run to coop...
So helpful to me, also dealing with integration of pullets ( six, 18-week golden comets) with old flock of six hens ( all 4-5 years.) Our evening scene, such as you describe moving the pullets from run to coop roost is very labor intensive! After just 8 days of this I am worried this is going to...
Thank you all for great advice. All we did was add an extra layer of straw in the coop and keep water available thru some rare near zero temps. Our girls look great and kept laying throughout. :)
In Virginia we are usually ok with unheated coop and temps into the mid teens. BUT end of this week forecast is for an unprecedented minus 7-- a huge change. Is it a terrible idea: to take them off the roost at night and keep them in pet crates for a day in our heated basement? My thought is...