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Here are some photos of what she's got.

Hello everyone! Bleeding heart chicken and bunny lover here. I just got a text from a friend of mine that her cousin has about 40 chickens and one of her "4ish week old" chicks has a leg problem. The cousin isn't willing to take the chick to a vet, so I said I'd do some research and see what I...

I do worm every spring and every fall, with Safeguard, but have not had them checked. I'll do that for sure.

Hello everyone! I have a Speckled Sussex (3 years old) that has had a perpetual reoccuring crop problem for over a year now. I can usually get it cleaned up with massages, crop bra, anti-fungal meds and the occasional stool softener and we have a couple months of reprieve before it starts over...

No duck for me... thank you very much!

Okay, crazy crazy question here.... I have 5 hens (about to be 4😢) in a backyard environment - it's a large backyard (1/3 acre) but within city limits. I am not looking to get more hens/chicks because I have Marek's in my flock, so that's a whole 'nother story. I have recently come across a...

Hi, and I am so sorry but this was so long ago that I do not remember now what happened... I'm racking my brain right now trying to remember. I do know that we got our first flock in the spring of 2014 and we lost one bird immediately to egg binding. After that it was 2 years before we lost...

Mine just died, so I will be no help. I have had good luck with Tylan and respiratory stuff with my birds when they were younger... this if my first adult bird with anything like it. I'm sure Marek's played a huge part in this.

Before I begin, here is my disclaimer. I have a Marek's infected mini-flock, infected 5 years ago. I have done in-depth Marek's research, and do not need comments on Marek's but rather on the respiratory infection that is infecting one of my girls. I know that these two things cannot be...

I know, I know. Most people would rather NOT have rabbits around, but I don't mind them. This morning I found a baby bunny (a little bigger than a softball) in our chicken yard area. It appears to be paralyzed other than small movements and it's breathing and it's little nose is going. It's...

Gotcha. I was picturing them all inside at night for some reason. If C02 kills insects, it might be worth a try.

Seems dangerous for the chickens?

My husband is thinking the same thing... but apparently their taking out 1000+ rats in a day with this in New York, so surely I could do it on a smaller scale and be equally as effective... I understand the dangers of dry ice and intend to not only wear extremely heavy gloves, but also other...

From what I can tell from multiple threads about how cities are using it, you have to find their holes and put it into their holes/dens, then block off the entrance. Cities Turn To An Innovative Method To Help With Rat Abatement

Hello! Like most chicken keepers, I have pest problems in the form of mice and rats. The mice I can deal with pretty well, but rats? Not so much. I have tried snap traps, live traps, electric kill boxes and poison. The first three work well for 1-2 rats, but then they learn. The poison I hate...

Update: My girl, Marigold, has improved by leaps and bounds, as shown by the video progression below...(NOTE: around August 20 she began limping, by August 27 she was doing chicken splits. Here she is a week ago and today) October 17 October 18 - you can notice a big difference in even one...

Thanks so much. I am sorry I didn't get a picture of my hammock/sling this weekend. We were busy. It's basically a cloth slung across a plastic bin secured with binder clips (the big big ones) with leg holes cut in place. There are water and food cups attached to the side with more binder...

Hi! I'm not sure if this should go here or in "Managing Your Flock" so please let me know if I should repost in that forum instead. I have a 2+ year old hen that has survived a bout with Marek's disease. (Yes, it is confirmed in my flock by multiple necropsies.) I did not euthanize her when...

I actually ferment it right now so they *should* be getting the good stuff now...