Recent content by JDowey

We have so many less birds at the minute, a combination of feed prices, and job changes as well as issues with land we rent has ment that we're down to only 7 chickens and no ducks or geese. We however set up a are first pig pen which will hopefully double as space for winter geese

That's incredibly helpful thank you

Oh! I think I actually do, any advise on how to get it into them? Can I mix it with water since it's a powder?

That's great advise about the feed so thank you. We don't have the fish antibiotic loophole here unfortunately. The pigeon one we kind of have, it's the only reason I can get amprolium or ivermectin, but it doesn't exist for us for antibiotics which is a pity because the vets here don't want to...

Having had a look at that list I think they may have gotten at some curly Dock unfortunately 😬 we have some in the garden for sure, chickens arnt bothered by it and they haven't had any tremors but the other symptoms match

Amprolium I actually do have, I give it too my chickens. Antibiotics there's no chance of my getting, you can't by them here unless you import them illegally from Eastern Europe or India. The febendazole I could only get as part of a chicken feed, would that be a problem? I know it is with...

They get a young game bird mix feed with wheat berries and sunflower seeds etc in it but mostly what they eat is grass and other greens from the garden. Over night temps have been roughly 18c/62f, which is pretty much the warmest my country gets

Unfortunately we don't have a vet near that would do that for a bird. They have been on the runny side. No slime. The second one had no symptoms at all until it was pretty much dead

Over the past two days we've lost two goslings. So for context, goslings are pilgrims, first time I've had this breed as previously only had Toulouse (which I still have, just wanted to expand in breeds) started with five, they're about 4 nearly five weeks now, starting to feather up abit but v...

I personally think they're definitely old enough to be outside, I put mine outside in summer from 3 weeks old in a netted run and then unnetted from 8 weeks on, however that being said I have the complete opposite climate issue than you, even though it's June nearly July it's rare for us to be...

My main question would be what's their water access like in the chicken coop? They're alot more water dependant than chickens for starters as I'm sure you already know

That's great thanks, I'll change it now. Last time I put down sawdust at the start and then changed to paper later

The vitamins are a good idea, I'm using shredded paper, do you think that could cause problems?

Hello, I don't live in the USA, I live in northern ireland, so there is no NPIP here. It's also extremely hard to get hatching eggs or chicks in general so I take what I can get. The brooder seems to be the correct temperature and the surviving chicks arnt panting or huddled. Thank you for your...

I have been incubating Cobb chickens, so far 4 have hatched. The hatching has been extremely erratic, with only 4 out 12 hatching so far. Over the course of the last few days, two of the chicks have suddenly died, they haven't seemed sick at all and the chicks haven't been huddling/acting cold...