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We are rebuilding and fighting a retched infestation of mites. They hide at the end of the roost bars (in under and at the ends where it attaches to the wall). I would love tips, photos or links of your roost bars that inhibit these rotten bloodsuckers. We need a new plan. I am Painting and...

I live in Germany where I can not get PRID drawing salve. I am sure there is something but i have not found it yet. I soaked the hen's foot and the opened the scab with a razor and dug out as much as I could. The hole is very deep and I never got to pus or blood. I then filled the hole with...

I live in Germany where I can not get PRID drawing salve. I am sure there is something else here I just need to find it. I opened the wound as her foot is swollen and looks terrible. I had soaked it for 20 minutes then dug around. I removed as much as I can. Then filled the hole with Neosporin...

I have been trying to handle our poults (2 weeks old and 3 weeks old) as often as I can to keep them "friendly". I was holding one today and it sounded like it has "gas". The poult just stood there with audible gas noises from about 3 feet away. I anticipated a big poo nothing happened. I had 2...

Our 1-year-old hen has decided to nest and brood in our small wooded area. Last week she had 11 eggs. She was getting off the nest every day and eating, drinking, bathing and laying. Then one day she got off and started eating her eggs! They were all viable, it was bad! We took the eggs away...

Hi our hen has some bald spots that just won’t get better. We found her last year on the side of the road so I don’t know how old she is. She has lived with us for a year. In autumn she had a pretty good molt but these patches have not filled in. The spots are on her wings and top of her back...

Today just as I was herding them all (4 ladies and 2 men) in the pen I notice Cher standing off to the side all fluffed up and there were small drops of blood under her! I got her up on a table and had a look under her wing. Her side is open, all the skin scratched away with a good size hole and...

I have noticed one of our hens has been pecking at the Toms/Jakes and when she gets a feather...she eats it! What is that about?!?

Hi I have found this yolk colored poop in the run over the last week. Its under the roost and in the run. I have one hen Robin, mature enough to lay. She has not laid since our other hen and chicks were separated into the "chick house". I anticipated she would start laying again but nothing as...

Hi! Our quail got attacked by something (evil quail killing monster). It bit the quail thru the top part of its beak, thru the nose holes and broke its beak. After being separated from its housemate (who further attacked it) it seems to be on the mend. The upper beak that was left has dried up...

we have two hens sitting on 2 nests (1rst timers, like us). One hen's chicks are hatching. We have 2 chicks but neither of the hens are getting off the nest. So the chicks are not eating. The hens are viscous and won't let us near the chicks to feed or water them. I am wondering if we should...

We bought our turkeys so that we could home hatch and raise poults. We are going to build them a separate house so they stay off the ground until they are 2 months old. We have chickens and I dont want to risk blackhead with poults and let them suffer and die. How much space will we need to...

Ohh goodness. We got these turkey's last month and didn't ask any questions. Just went home happy. I assume they were in born in June. The tom Sam weights 7 kilo, Robin is 5 and Nami is 4 kilos. Now I am sure they were not vaccinated against anything. 2 weeks ago they came down with Blackhead...

Hi I know i can feed the cows, pigs, horses: willow and hazel nuts, what about turkeys? Any other suggestions? I have been trying to feed them nuts too, acorns, walnuts, hazel nuts. But since I bought them from some one else and they are 6 months old, they aren't "trained" to eat weird...

This weekend we went to buy some new chickens. We processed 5 last week to clean up the flock. Now we have 1 rooster, 1 hen and 1 Mamma Hen (with 9 chicks). Last weekend we won (in an Auction) 3 Red Burbon turkeys (from April). So now we have 2 new Serbian Long Crowing hens, and we got gifted...

Hi, I need some help here. I had a hen die 2 weeks ago from being egg bound. And now this one has had a poopy bum for the last 3 days. So today I had a better look. I think she is about 2 years old. Has laid regularly until she just molted. So I dont know how long ago she laid ( have 4 birds and...

HI, I bought some new hens (from another hobby farmer, no idea of vaccines about 2 years old) and 1 is very unwell. I had a stool sample done because she was poohing liquid and the last 2 days there is blood in it too. Came back positive for coccidiosis. I had the hen in my hands 2 days ago...

I know the topic sounds straight forward. But I want to understand how a hen can start a clutch of eggs and not be present on the nest all day letting the eggs cool. She lays the first egg and later begins siting on all the eggs for 21 days laying 1 more egg each day. How is it possible that...

The dog was in the yard on a killing rampage with our 11 chicks, mother hen and 4 hens. He managed to kill 1 chick, injure another and injure one hen. The mom lead as many babies away as she could. I have not been able to handle her yet to check for injuries. So 1 hen is missing all her tail...

Hi, Our chicken has been a bit off the last 2 days, she looked confused when she was in the yard yesterday alone. I could not find her last night when I went to check the house for eggs. She was wondering around in the dark and could not find her way back to the house just after dusk. This...