Recent content by reeds16

Thank you everyone for your advice! Now I know that I can keep the flock. I'm going to butcher them on Tuesday and it seams to have gone away. They look much healthier.

I'm raising my last batch of 100 meat birds for the year and they were growing really well. I was going to have them out on pasture like I usually do, but it got really cold so I've been raising them in our barn on hay. It has decent ventilation and windows so they get natural light. I hadn't...

Don't they have a red dot though? When I had roosters I collected the eggs daily and refrigerated them the same day and they still had the dots in them.

I don't have any roosters because the ones I've had in the past have been very aggressive and I sell my eggs to restaurants so they can't be fertilized.

That does seam like a good idea to use a classified ad. I have a sign by the road which doesn't seam to work very well. I have about 35 Ameraucanas because my customers love the blue eggs, but they don't lay well either. I'm getting about 2 eggs a day from all 35 and they're a year old.

They free-range in a large fenced in pasture but I've checked every spot where they could be laying eggs. I find an occasional one or two under the coop, but for the most part they stick to the boxes. My hens are a 1 1/2 years old and 1 year old.

my hens are a year and a half old and I actually havn't wormed them in a few months but they show no signs of worms.

I've been raising free-range laying chickens for many years and I've always been disappointed with their productivity. I've tried just about everything to make them lay well. They live a stress free life with access to a large amount of pasture during the day. I feed them gmo-free, locally grown...

Thanks both of you, I looked into Flubenvet and it looks like it's good. Do they only make it in the UK? Also, it's pretty expensive and I've heard of many people using DE as a wormer, so would you recomend that? I have about 20 pounds of food grade DE in our barn so it would be really convenient.

I recently discovered worms in my flocks poop. Out of 35 birds, I'm only getting around 5-8 eggs each day. I think the worms might explain this problem. I went to our local tractor supply and bought Wazine, but after I got home I read the last line on the bottle which says do not use on birds...

That's a good idea. I'll call a vet when I get a chance. Thanks!

No their heads didn't turn dark. I have looked into blackhead a lot and one thing that did happen to them was their livers grew huge and got light colored splotches on them which I know is a sign of blackhead but I'm not sure. If it was blackhead, do you have any advice on how to prevent it in...

One was about 3 weeks old and the others were 3-5 months when they died

A couple looked like they had trouble breathing but I'm not sure about the other two

Last year i decided to try raising some turkeys for the first time. I had heard that BBW turkeys had many health issues since they were the equivalent of Cornish Cross for chickens. I raise around 400 cornish cross every year and they hardly ever have any health issues so I figured the turkeys...