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He's a tiny bantam (d'uccle), he's 12 years old and a love of my life. I've always known something wasn't right with his esophagus/trachea because for his whole life he has drank water in a weird way to avoid choking. It's peculiar. It works for him but he has to go to some lengths. Because of...

So I took my very sick 12 year old rooster to the avian vet today. They were not very thorough, but they said upper respiratory infection and gave me a bag of Tetroxy HCA 280. The bag says it is "280g (9.87oz)" The vet tech and the rx label both say "Mix the entire bag with 5 gallons of water...

I was little when I saw it and don't recall much but I associate it with a special time in my childhood. I saw it around the mid 70's, in color, and I think it was a Western. Here's what I remember, it aint much. - A man is riding his horse towards the camera from a distance. As he gets...

I've had a hen recovering in the house for 10 days. I put her on the roost with her 8 flockmates tonight. She didn't seem to recognize her coop or her flockmates. The rooster saw her and tried to go after her. The hen beside her pecked her and she pecked back, which is odd because she's always...

Specifically the 5% pour on. I followed my vet's advice and just treated a 3 year old bantam hen with 3 drops on skin. It's been a couple years since she was wormed (with wazine only), and that's the only time she was ever wormed. Her fecal was negative, but vet said the test isn't 100%, and...

I've already lost one bird to sedation, birds don't always handle it well like mammals. Now my fav Bantam hen, 3 years old (definitely a pet) has something very large and sharp in her crop for at least a week. It's over an inch long, misshapen and very sharp, I can easily feel it. Vet wants to...

3cc per gal water? The vet figured this dose from the cattle dosage on the bottle. I see here on BYC 9cc per gal? Would 3cc even do anything? It's for a small flock of adult bantams and should be the 'treatment' dosage as one hen is ill (her poo sample tested neg, but cocci still suspected)...

I accidentally twisted off my roo's entire outer spur while trying to trim it. The little soft spur nerve thing is intact but it's raw and soft. The tip of it is blood red and the hens are relentlessly picking at it. I put on blue coat and pick-no-more, but the little bit of blood slowly seeps...

Barred Rock bantam hen almost 3 yrs old. Her back-end/abdomen area, (behind the legs, starting just beyond the end of the keel) is swollen big, feels really tight-not like solid rock, but not squishy at all. It almost feels air-filled (is that possible)? I recently changed feed from flock raiser...

My DH calls me a scrooge, joking of course, but still. Please don't think I'm a bad person, but I've never been big on Christmas. I don't mean that I don't appreciate the meaning of Christmas because I absolutely do, I just feel dismayed. Every year, you see videos of people on Black Friday...

My bantam EE a year and a half old pigged out on grit leaving her with a badly impacted crop. I've been treating her for a week and her crop is slowly moving things out and she has pooped out quite a bit of grit but her crop hasn't completely emptied yet. In the mornings, it's a hard putty...

I've dealt with impacted and sour crop, but this seems different. Bantam EE, her crop does empty but it can take over 24 hours and it's always soft, like water but NOT big and huge like sour crop, and her breath doesn't smell sour. Her crop doesn't seem to have much 'tone' and seems droopy...

When referring to D'Uccles, are Self-Blue and Lavender the same thing? I've seen some referred to as one or the other, sometimes both, but they look exactly the same to me.

I actually posted this earlier on someone else's thread about the hard freeze in TX tonight, but thought I should start my own thread. I know it seems silly to some up north, but I'm worried about my little bantam flock tonight! I live in East TX (piney woods region) and we're forecasted for...

I've got 10 bantam hens that just turned a year old (Aug. 10), so this will be their second fall/winter. A couple are showing definite feather loss and replacement, and everyone's feathers are laying all around. I have several different breeds so can tell whose feathers are whose. One of my EEs...

I feed FlockRaiser (20% protein) to my bantam flock, is that too much protein for bantams? They're one year old, don't free range (neighbors dogs) and get occasional treats, so the feed is their main food source. They also have free choice oyster shell. I want them to live very long lives and...

I have a big bottle of tylan-50 injectable that has an expiration of Feb. 2010. Six months out of date. Is it still any good? TSC here only has the big bottles $40, and I hate to buy another big bottle that I'd never be able to use up. But I will if I need to. I'll be giving it orally, if that...

I'm at my wits end here, I have a bantam BR who stopped laying and has had symptoms of gapeworms for months. Horrible gaping, violent head-shaking (no wheezing). I've treated her with Fenbendazole once and Ivermectin pour-on twice. I noticed she had some ear gunk so I've also treated her for ear...

I just discovered my bantam BR (who hasn't been acting right and hasn't laid in over a month) has an ear infection in both ears. Brownish-black gunk had completely plugged one of her ears. I brought her in and cleaned it out by softening the gunk with Baytril Otic for dogs, then I put several...

She's a bantam EE almost a year old. Started out with head shaking, gaping (with her head tucked in, not stretched out), lip smacking, intermittent panting, face scratching. Thought it was respiratory, brought her inside, gave Tylan 3 days. The tylan seemed to perk her up a bit, she's not gaping...