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Pronafit smoke pellets are brilliant. They are for pigeons but work wonders on chickens without any side effects. Lock all chickens in to a coop. Close all vents and light a smoke pellet. It will smoke quite a bit for about 5-10 mins. Then simply remove. It does not harm any chickens, on the...

A friend of mine recently gave me a vaccine known as PPMV-1. I had asked him if he could get me the nobilis vaccine for mycoplasma. He has now given me this injectable vaccine, which he informs me will protect against newcastles dieses, bronchitis etc. But its meant for pigeons. Does anyone know...

Tylan soluable is what you need. Its put into their water and works extremely quickly.

Keep them quarantined, put them on a course of herban(easily avaliable on the interent) and if you can get your hands on it, definately a couple of doses of tylan soluble(usually need a prescription for it). Both are put in their drinkers. Best of luck.

Sounds like they could just have a cold, if no other symptons are showing. I put beechams powders in my drinkers, for a couple of days, this usually sorts the problem out.

Put all your hens on a course of herban or if you can get your hands on it, then tylan soluble. Both are added to drinking water. I would recommend you do this for a couple of weeks, because it sounds to me like they could have infectious bronchitis or possibly mycoplasma gallisepticum. I would...

Hi go to the pharmacy and buy a tube of golden eye. Ive used it on my chickens for months. If you can pull back her lower eyelid and spread a thin layer inside her eye all the better, but if not rub the cream all around the outside of her eye. You should find it heals up really quickly. Its for...

Hi, give him a weeks course on herban (easily bought off the interent, try ebay), just add a little to drinking water, and golden eye (buy it from any chemist) used for humans but have used it on my chickens for months. If you can pull his lower eye lid out and squeeze a little along it, also...

Hi Go to your local boots the chemist and buy a tube of golden eye. Its used for people but everytime my chickens get sore eyes I rub a little cream on it twice a day and it really seems to work very quickly. If you can, pull her eyelid back and run the cream along just inside and rub a little...

Hi I have a digital incubator set at the standard 37.5 which I have used several times with great success. I have 60 eggs incubating at the moment which are due thursday. However yesterday I had a brahma egg hatch out of this incubator, which is 4 days premature. I have taken it out and placed...