Recent content by Notaneggpert

This looks like what my Turken had and I was recommended to give it Tylan 50 three days, it is completely gone now. One person told me it was called cheese eye and to isolate her from all the other chickens.

Quote: With so many chickens at hand I always have a bottle of Vet RX on hand and you can see by the oily head feathers I treated her with at also. I know she does not feel well and the temperatures being so high is not helping but I have her isolate pen under a lot of shade trees and two...

Quote: With so many chickens at hand I always have a bottle of Vet RX on hand and you can see by the oily head feathers I treated her with at also. I know she does not feel well and the temperatures being so high is not helping but I have her isolate pen under a lot of shade trees and two...

Quote: With so many chickens at hand I always have a bottle of Vet RX on hand and you can see by the oily head feathers I treated her with at also. I know she does not feel well and the temperatures being so high is not helping but I have her isolate pen under a lot of shade trees and two...

Okay was watching the interaction today and it is actually the hens that are starting it. I think they are fighting over the cool spot just on the side of the horses water barrels. I run the water over twice a day so it is cool and with the Temps being in the 100s the chickens mill around the...

I have a two month old Turken that had a pus pocket develop under her eye sometime yesterday, it has gotten bigger, I tried to lance it today but nothing came out. I have put tetracycline Hydrochloride in her water and isolated her from the other chickens. Anyone have any idea what this is...

I just got four young Turkeys (not up on all the turkey terms yet) and two are still little just getting feathers but I also got a male and female white pair. I often see turkeys with chickens and did not think it would be a problem, but the male Turkey, not even full grown attacks and drags my...

Quote: Can relate to that, I had one of my male guinea get baling cord wrapped aroung both of his feet and he had to hop everywhere, after chasing him for what seemed like hours, (they can hop almost as fast as they run) I only caught him because he tried to squeeze his body through a hole...

What is a Guinea's natural life span? Was reading some of the post about Guineas not being so smart but very entertaining, I have to agree, not sure of my Guineas or Turkeys who would win the stupid award more. I had 13 Guineas and thanks to my neighbor's son driving 100 miles down a 30 mile...

Wish I had been aware 40 chickens ago of this forum. I started with 4 hens and a rooster in 2005 because of of grasshoppers. I have an unnatural fear of them (grasshoppers). Since I live in the country and was trying to start an organic garden a friend suggested chickens. Well they did take...