I started growing Mammoth Pumpkin’s this year for the first time. I noticed squash bugs in my pumpkins and tons of eggs on the leaves so I got the name oil out and heavily sprayed the leaves top and bottom and removed all the eggs I could find. but it’s been a very very hot summer and the name...
Thanks for the information. My chicken in Scott in the tomatoes a couple years ago and while the ate the fruit, they didn’t really bother the leaves and they were fine.
Thank you. Now though I just discovered Fowl Pox on three of my girls. Going back to the vet tomorrow. I did clean their water bowl with 10% Iodine over night. and I have separated the sick ones.
Fowl Pox is contagious. She needs to be separated from the flock, and may require a vaccine. It is caused by a virus. Three of my girls just came down with fowl pox yesterday. I will most likely have to inoculate all of them. It is not spread to humans I read on the internet. Good luck. I...
Same thing happened to one of my Barred Rocks a few months ago. My puppy had actually ripped the skin from her left wing and torn the skin on her neck as well as pulled out a lot of feathers. My vet did surgery on her to clean her up and sutured her neck laceration. I kept her in a small dog...
Ok. I figured she would be my house chicken for a few months. I am putting on
silver sulfadiazine cream, and giving her antibiotics with a syringe twice daily. I did take her outside on a warmer day and let her peck around some while I kept the other girls locked in the garden. and we watched...
My Barred Rock was injured last week by y 5 month old puppy. She has lost a palm size amount of feathers off her back and left wing along with a good chunk of skin from her wing. My Vet said the wing will granulate over and be fine. New feathers are starting to emerge on her back now. I have...