Recent content by capow21

For the first time in four years we have mites in the coop and on the birds. About two weeks ago I came inside and was sitting here and felt a little bug crawling on my arm. Then about six or eight more. I smashed them all. Then it happened again, just a few another day. Then on Tuesday again...

So OSU just got back to me about a necropsy and it's $48 plus whatever the cost of overnight shipping is. They also told me to take it somewhere to be euthanized. That will cost more. I have no way of euthenizing it, except for chopping its head off and I don't think they want that. So I'm...

Thank you so much for your help. I am going to call today after work about getting a necropsy done and my husband is going to pick up Tylan 50, so we'll have that and Sulmet on hand ready to treat. My husband is not for culling them and starting over next spring. He votes we test them, treat...

So we just got off the phone with a friend of ours who has almost two hundred chickens and sells eggs. We have given him a few roosters. He said his whole flock has had one of these respiratory illnesses and treated them (but of course are carriers), so now that could be where we brought it in...

Well, I tried to smell around there heads. I picked one up and she didn't really smell. One of the hens that has a super swollen eye has a lot of goopy white stuff in her eye. The rooster whose eye was swollen shut yesterday is much better today. If they have something they're going to be...

So, I suppose no matter which they have I should just cull all of them tonight? I don't want a chance of spreading it to any of my friends that have chickens and my are free-range, so it would be all over. After observing all of my chickens today, the only ones that don't seem to be sick are...

Thank you for replying. After reading last night, I'm almost certain it is Coryza. A few of them have one side of their face swollen, pale, with one eye swollen at least half way shut. Runny nose, sneezing, and raspyness. It spread like wildfire. I first noticed one hen with it Friday and this...

Thank you for your input. It has been a few months since the neighbor's rooster died. I know they didn't treat it at all. I will get some Tylan 50 and treat them all in their water. More and more are getting that raspy congested sounding.

SITUATION: So, about three months ago I bought some copper marans chicks from a lady. Those did well and are healthy and beautiful, nobody got sick, so I trusted to get a few more. I put them in a separate run under a broody hen. Three died the first day. One is left and seems to be healthy and...

I don't do anything with the chickens until daylight (7:15). I go out, get them fresh water at the faucet. Put the water container back. Open the coop door, upstairs windows and latch them open, so they don't blow shut. Out go the chickens for the day. I use river sand in my coop, so I spend...

I found the bonnet in a Mother Earth News article. Google "chicken sweater." Those are cute too. I think someone does (or did) sell the sweaters on Etsy.

I'm in NW Oregon. I've had my chickens for about 20 months, so this is only their second winter we're coming up on. The low for today was 17 and I think that's about the coldest they have been in. Other than standing on one foot to warm the other up while foraging, they seemed pretty happy...

This link may help: http://www.sagehenfarmlodi.com/chooks/sexingchicks.html At that age it might be easier to look at the tail feathers rather than going by the comb. I got 10 chicks last year and I read that a cockerel's tail feathers will be more pointed at the tips and a pullet's are round...

I use pine shavings still in the nest boxes. A little gets kicked out into the sand, but not much.

If you go with the Quickrete, you may want to read the bag first. I am making stepping stones right now with a sandy Mortar mix (similar to Quickrete) and it has a warning to flush/wash thoroughly if it gets on your skin, because when cement is mixed with water it creates calcium hydroxide. I...