Recent content by georgiegoose

Thinking back on it, it seems that some of our other hens have been falling ill with similar symptoms as none of the flock has been laying for months now. One of our larger hens is currently showing symptoms of watery diarrhoea and isn't strong enough to jump onto her perch. We have been giving...

Hiya, we have a 2 yr old silkie hen that is possibly eggbound but unsure if it could maybe be something else causing her distress. She hasn't laid for months but she is exhibiting a lot of the symptoms of being eggbound so we have been treating her for this. She is usually very active and...

Thank you, it's never easy 😥 I had felt her crop and it was empty, I didn't think of an impacted crop. Though I did give her some water + electrolyte solution with a syringe and seemed to go to her crop. I've watched our camera and it seems she was a bit unsteady earlier and her condition...

The temperature lately has been warm + humid. Today was actually breezy and cool compared to previous days which have been climbing close to 30c. We have been trying to keep them cool. As for diet, they've mostly been eating layers pellets, occasional vegetables (we always check it's safe...

Hi, Today we sadly lost one of our silkies out of the blue with no clear cause, disease, or injury. She was one of our healthiest (at least we thought) and seemed to be doing well. She was happily interacting with the flock this morning, eating and moving about as usual. This afternoon she...

Apologies, it wasn't letting me attach anything earlier. Hopefully these labels are clear enough to read, the first image is the leaflet information for the baytril. I am currently giving her one daily of the baytril tablets for five days.

She was originally on tylosin water and clavaseptin which didn't totally clear up symptoms, though definitely did make some improvements. We have had mycoplasma before in our flock and used baytril + tylo water last time we had a flare-up which worked fabulously. I used up tylo powder from our...

Hi there, I'm looking for some advice on medication as one of our silkies has been having some trouble with a mycoplasma flare-up. We have given her water-soluble Tylan prior and believe the dose was possibly too weak (0.5g per litre), though we did see some improvement. We are going to try...

Interesting! the egg this lil fella hatched out of was actually blue/green in colour - at nearly 8 weeks we can definitely see the Cayuga traits but we are still not entirely sure if there is some Khaki mixed in too. Some of the feathering is appearing more brown than black, which is especially...

Have you found out the gender of your cayuga ducks yet? we have one (7wks) that is making noises similar to yours at 1:46 but finding it hard to voice sex as they're a bit squeakier than other breeds 😂

It's interesting that you say that as I had this thought too! We bought hatching eggs from someone online who only has these ducks and were told they were Khaki Campbells from a breeder. The people we ordered from don't keep Cayugas themselves but it made me wonder if maybe there is some kind...

Hello! We are new to incubating eggs and recently hatched our first duckling which is now 5 weeks old. We have a young Khaki Campbell (?) duck that has been a bit tricky to sex, I was wondering if anyone can help us or if it is too early to say with any confidence. Edit: We were sold these...