I've heard about the cayenne pepper. The girls will probably end up getting it. This has been unreal - they show symptoms one day, and are dead the next. Ugh.
Thanks, guys. Hugs for everybody having trouble during this blasted winter and losing critters!
My last tom, my big, gorgeous pride and joy, died today. I'm heartbroken. All three of my beautiful boys are gone.
I was giving him metronidazole on top of the amprolium and, now, Sulmet for coccidiosis on the off-chance that it was actually blackhead, although blackhead is incredibly...
The Town Supervisor posted on his public FB page that they've caught the idiots responsible (it was nearly 200 birds). Good - throw the book at them, if only for dumping. It's horrible to hope that the poor things were just killed outright and didn't die of a disease, but that would be better...
...than a day. One was my Pencilled Palm tom, and the other was the gray PP hen. Now my smaller Bronze tom is showing signs of illness as well. It *looks* like coccidiosis - the affected birds are hunching over, fluffing up, drawing their heads in, walking very slowly, and have signs of...
I'm scheduled to work that night, but I'll see if I can get it off. Given that I'm working an extra day for them every other week (on my week off), hopefully I can get it.
My Rouens lay light green eggs, and tons of them. The KCs lay a lovely pinkish-cream egg, and even more of them than the Rouens lay. I have a wealth of duck eggs.
Two of my turkey hens think I'm the hottest tom on the block. They both squat for me, so of course I pat their bums and put...
I really need to check in here more than once in a blue moon - when post counts are in the THOUSANDS, I've been out too long.
I am over this weather. No more. The few days it was warm enough to get water from the outside tap instead of having to haul it from the downstairs bathroom were...
I bought what amounted to a grab bag from Porter's this spring. I have several Bronze, two Slates (self-blues), a White Holland, a mixed-breed that is mostly white with some brown barring in her tail and wings (they do experimental breeding for color), and three Pencilled Palms, which are Royal...
The front store night manager says that they have to pull up the internal security video of that for me, as apparently it's hilarious. One of the managers kept leading them out the door with food. They'd all follow him out, he'd go back in, and they'd all turn around and promptly follow him...
1367 unread replies? Egads!
All my turkeys survived Thanksgiving, the lucky things. They're big enough to butcher, but I worked (got paid very well to do it - I need it for my feed bills), my biggest boy is my breeding male and fair-bird-to-be, and the other two are his posse, so everyone...
No way am I reading 1300 posts tonight - it's been a while since I logged in! At any rate, the Saratoga Springs CVS had a flock of about fifty ducks waddle in, apparently to take advantage of our great buys or sign up for Double Extrabucks or something. I have just been transferred to that...
The state told us that we were well within our rights to shoot the bear that destroyed our beehive if it came down to it, as it's considered protecting property.