Hello, i feel your pain. I had Marek diagnosed in my flock. I chose to wait and see and thankfully most of them made it through. The Vet suggested that, if i want to enlarge my flock to breed my own chicken with my roos since the baby should be already more protected from Marek. She was right...
Hello, how did your eggs hatch? I am going to get some chicken this week from DC and i am getting quite worried! But being in Québec, finding chicken that are vaccinated is sooo hard! thank you
I have always taken my hens or rooster that were too sick or needed to be put down to my vet. We are treated as well as if it is a dog or a cat. The injection to get them to sleep then they will inject the euthanasian agent. If the hen is not sleepy enough, they will get her to sleep with the...
Yes i know, that is why, as soon as she is well enough with that foot, she can join our other 4 chickens. Now she sleeps in a dog crate next to them, so they can talk together and get to know each other. In those 4, one is a rescue from that same place.
Good afternoon, yes i will take her to the vet. It's a factory where rooster and Hens are together, they collect the fertilized egg to send to a hatchery then the chicks become rotisserie chicken. Those hens stay about 8 months then they are send to the butchery site. This group of hens was...
Good afternoon, we rescued a chicken from a breeding factory, she is in a rough shape but since we rescued other in the past we know that the comb, feather etc. will heal. But her paw is really weird. Do you think this is bumble foot? she can not stand on it. We just got a her a epsom salt bath...
Hello. I am from Lanaudière, about an hour north of Montreal. I am glad to hear that some membres are also from Quebec! Have a great long weekend!:frow
good afternoon,
i am a new member. I am a single mom with 4 kids (16-18-21 and 23). One of which is a vet tech and one who want to become a marine biologist. The other 2 picked non animal related fields!!!
We all are involve in animal rescue.
We have 3 dogs (seniors), 7 cats, 1 dove (injured)...