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Hey all, I've got a 2 week old African x Chinese gosling that had a yolk sac that wasn't completely absorbed when hatched. I took it to our avian vet today and was told there's an infection brewing. So vet said to do 5 days of oral Clavamox .50 cc 2 times a day. I attempted to give the 1st dose...

Hey all, I've had geese for a bit, but these are my 1st goslings. Approx 5 week old American Buff. Siblings look normal, but just in the past 24 hrs, this goslings wing tips have started coming out at an odd angle. If it is angel wings, do I splint? How do I splint? Do I need an avian vet...

Were you all/y'all aware there's finally a Coccidiosis Vaccine available otc? Has anyone tried it? I have issues every spring/summer with young chicks that have Corid resistant coccidia. I order and give them Endocox.... and that works, but I'd rather avoid it if i could. I've talked to vets...

Hi everyone. :-) I'm going to be that person asking what color my roos are. I want to aim for a Silver Penciled, single combed, Naked Neck (NN) in my long term breeding (for fun, my own birds)..... I have a handle on what I'm looking for type-wise and genetics around getting the NN gene...

Hi all, I have a mixed flock of 40ish chickens - in 4 different houses, same yard..... 7 geese, 3 turkeys and 4 ducks. I just had a routine fecal done on my chickens and it came back with roundworms (1st time for me). Vet said to worm chickens with Albendazole. 2 week egg withdrawal. Question...

Hi, it's me again. Thank you for all the advice and support you've offered here! My new goose has two broken nails on one foot- one of which is bleeding.... not profusely, but I've seen occasional drops of blood here and there. I'm pretty certain she injured them pacing the fence when she first...

Hi! Here's some background: I have American Buff Geese and recently got a couple of piercingly loud Chinese Geese. Someone heard that I'd gotten the Chinese geese from their previous owners and contacted me asking me to take their "African Goose". It lived alone with sheep in a pasture and their...

Ok. So. I picked up two Chinese Geese yesterday from a family that got them 1 week ago from another family rehoming them. They wanted them gone after 1 week because they were just too loud (which is understandable)... then when I picked them up, the mother tells me they've been aggressive to...

Hi! I'm new to ducks. I've had chickens for decades. My 18 year old daughter got a couple of female ducklings this year. They are now fully feather juveniles living outdoors with my 30 or so chickens in their yard. One of the ducks is a Buff Orpington..... and she likes to follow me around as I...

Hello, I have a HovaBator Genisis with an automatic turner [I love the incubator BTW]: I'm hatching a bunch of shipped eggs right now (doing a dry hatch). On my Day 7 candling check, I found that an egg was cracked and leaked into the water tray under the eggs. I removed the damaged egg and...

Hi, Can I supplement my chickens with a multivitamin while they are on Albon, or is that counterproductive? I know not to supplement when they are on Corid, but I haven't used Albon before and want to keep it on hand as an option.

Hi I have a hen in my quarantine pen with 5 others. I brought them home 2 weeks ago. I've never seen a chicken do this. She was puffy 4 days ago, and I have had coccidia issues this year, so I started the entire pen on Baycox/Endocox (Corid hasn't worked for me). At the end of the 3 day...

Curious. I'm definitely reading too much and freaking myself out regarding contagious disease. Have you had any experience with using the Mycoplasma Vaccine (killed vaccine)? If so, how did it go? What are the side effects? Does it cause false positive Mycoplasma test results if tested? Will it...

Hi All, Who/what lab do you use flock testing - for things like Mycoplasma and other serum tests? Do you take samples yourself and send them out, or do you have a vet do it, or do you take samples and run tests yourself? I'd like to do a test every 6mo to annually to monitor my chickens (for...

Hi, I'm planning on taking a couple of young healthy roosters down to CA next month from Oregon by car. I went to the CA Dept of Ag website and I don't see anything about needing a health cert to enter CA, other than when specifically moving "Commercial Poultry" - which these certainly are not...

My vet isn't available right now..... I have 40+ chicks - 3 weeks old to 7 weeks old. Swedish Flower, Hedemora, Svart Hona, and Olandsk. Everyone had a clean bill of health as of 3 weeks ago when my vet was out for a flock check. I vaccinated everyone for Merek's at 1 day old as well. I did not...

I have 40+ chickens ranging in age from 3 weeks to 3 or 4 years. The younger chickens (around 30) are mostly Swedish breeds (Hedemora, Swedish Flower, Svart Hona, Olandsk). Portland just went through a heat wave 110-115 during the day and in the 80s at night. I managed everyone with wet ground...

Has anyone here tried BioWorma for managing parasites in their flock? I saw it on a ruminant (goat) forum that I'm on and it sounds interesting..... but it is expensive. It looks like it also works on monogatrics (like horses) but I don't see anything about poultry in their site. It says it...

Hi all, This is my first post here. I'm a long time lurker in the forum though. You all are an impressive source of knowledge..... so, here's my issue: We just vaccinated two groups of chicks for Merek's. The first group (Svart Hona and Hedemoras) was vaccinated Monday of this week at 1-2 days...

Hi from Canby Oregon! Canby is about half way between Salem and Portland. I've been a lurker on this forum for years. I figured it was time to join. What a nice knowledgeable enthusiastic group of people here! (1) Are you new to chickens / when did you first get chickens? I've had chickens...