Recent content by TWK777

Good luck, wish you the best! Let us know how they heal.

It's really a general term. It's just what most people will call a gnarly infection in the foot, where it literally rots while the bird is still alive. The closest thing I can compare it to is trench foot. When the conditions that they are housed in lets their feet get wet, muddy, or even caked...

I don't know if it's staph, but I do know that after the ailment takes its course in seramas, it usually has no after effects other than losing a toe. If it is bumble foot, they will have foreign objects in their foot which need to be surgically removed, but if it's foot rot, there's not much...

It should have hatched on day 21 or 22 give or take two days. After that it's pretty much hopeless. The one in the pic is definitely dead.

They are all dead. 29 days means that they are definatly dead.

Well, bumble foot would have started from a laceration on the bottom of the foot, it normally has a black ish look to it. Bumble foot is very hard to fix. I can say definitively that this is not scaly leg mites. I would agree with you on the bumble foot, but I think foot rot is still on the...

Hey me again, where are you local to? I'm hatching some right now and I'll probably have a few too many. I'll need a few weeks after they hatch because I put a few Malaysian S-neck in and I forgot to mark them. Some of them are Malaysian-traditional crosses as well so they will still stand like...

Third i mean not second

2nd looks like a female but I would need to see the head on the first to know anything. The lack of waddles and the paleness of the face makes it appear to be a hen.

the little white piece looks like a bulls eye @PingoBags This one looks like it may be fertile but I'm not sure, how old is your roo?

Hi, I don't know if any of you live in Asheville or around it, but we have some freak, very severe winters. Insulation is useful in our area. I live in Leicester. All of our coops have insulation, we use thin insulation but it is very useful in the winters. I actually just stopped working on a...

Also, I'm not saying anyone is wrong, but i have never found 10 hens to a rooster very necessary. Most of my breeders are pairs of two, and I never have problems. If they are young i just have all of them in a yard together until they start to tussle. My breeder pen is designed so that only two...

@PingoBags No, by any means this would make it worse and only infuriate him. I agree with @carlf , I'm no peta all organic crunchie, but beak clipping is cruel, it would be better to just eat him.

Tylan is more potent. I would lower the perch as much as possible. An infection could possibly have occurred after a bird cut its foot. I would isolate the birds and keep them in a smaller enclosure, with nothing on the ground that would be too rough on the feet. I would use shavings, because...

Never had one hatch. They usual struggle all day on hatch day, then run out of energy and die. If you help them out I have never had one live to be 1 year old. They are weakens by default it seems.@romien