Recent content by The Accidental Coop

Your reply did help. Fascinating! Thank you! We are happy her sight returned...If the pigment doesn't ... No worries.

Hello experts! My silkie lost all her black/purple pigment following a bacterial infection. Beginning December 2013, over a period of weeks, three of our hens developed bacterial infections. It hit one, then a week or so later another then another. Only one survived. Goldie...I was going...

Thank you Kathy...The Orbax was prescribed for out cat. I too found nothing about dosing birds.

Hi Wayne & Kim, Thank you so much for your response. I wormed her Nov. 26th with Wazine. The pullet is in the 'hospital' on our back porch....85 degrees yesterday. Cooler the next few days (cool for Florida). I will bring her in to keep her warm. Her crop was not empty yesterday...

Pullet is squirting out her poo every time is see her go. She has done this consistently for about a week. This is a photo. She is one of two Buff Orpingtons we bought as chicks in October. She has always been the smaller of the two. She is lethargic today and holding her tail down when...

Hi Eggcessive, Thank you for the links....Invaluable! . The poop in the first photo looks like either malnutrition and too much water or Clostridium perfringens. I truly hope I am not dealing with egg yolk peritonitis (photo 2) I switched my girls to organic layer feed two months ago...

Hello poultry experts! Please help me help my girls! Please look at my photos and tell me what you think. Photo #1 One pullet (5 months old) has had this for a few days...then today one of my older bantams (1-1/2 yrs) produced poo in photo #2. #1 Pullet is acts fine. #2 Older hen is...