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Crappy internet right now.. between zero and 250 kb/s if I am lucky! TRYING to upload a pic!

We found one of our two year old layers dead in a nestbox yesterday morning. This is not the first time this has happened but this is the first time we have seen this :( No sign of ascites, but after starting to dress her out, hubby finds what look to be hundreds of small white tumors.. you can...

PLEASE get this product - Nutribiotic Grapefruit Seed Extract - it is a broad spectrum antibiotic which is effective against more than 800 strains of gram negative and gram positive bacteria, including E. Coli. It does NOT cause diarrhea. In fact it has virtually no effect on beneficial flora...

Thanks! That is MY feeling .. but hubby needs persuading.. so that's the next task this morning :) Your answer helps!

We have been using a non-GMO starter/grower feed for raising our Cornish Cross and they are doing well. It is milled in fairly small quantities by a Mennonite farmer. We DID start those birds on commercial chick crumbles and then moved on to the starter grower at around 3 weeks. I hadn't...

Yes, those ARE Red Rangers! We raised 50 Red Rangers last year and free ranged them. We slaughtered the roosters at 15 weeks (later than we wanted but we were waiting for delivery of a feather plucker). They dressed out between 6 and 8 lbs and the meat was superb! We kept the girls on as a...

I am adding two level tablespoons of Cayenne to their custom feed. They have access to their hanging feeder 24/7, but every evening I take about 1 kg (2.2) lbs of their feed, add in their GSE, their two drops of Oregano Oil, and now the Cayenne Pepper (I got 5 lbs for less than $11 from...

So.. we found one of our White Holland Turkeys (they are now a year old) dead on the nest a couple of days ago. Our small flock has their own 1.5 acre patch of open woodland and meadow area where the chickens can't reach. although prior to last October, they did share the same ground. None of...

Thank you! I am tending towards keeping two Toms right now. I have a fear that if anything happened to the Tom, I would have a hiatus of at least 7 months before I raise another (assuming I have fertile eggs to incubate), and a bunch of hens to feed during that time who don't have fertile eggs...

Of the 30 poults we raised from day-olds, we lost 1 to crushing on day 10, and 2 to heatstroke in May. Two developed respiratory infections. 2 weeks of nursing for each and they got well. Another with yellow diarrhea, inappetance and weight loss. Again, I nursed that one back to health also...

One Tom and 4 Hens it is then! Good news - turkeys are negative for parasites

Thanks tons Ivan3! I am saving your reply in a file as it gives great info on faecal analysis. Hubby has a magnifying jeweller's visor for microscale warship ship modelling so that should do the trick! If I find any worm issues I will get right on to it. The turkeys are loving the extra...

Thanks for the reply. Yes, this is our first experience with turkeys which is why I though we were doing so well! Other notes in response..we have had virtually no rain since we moved them to the far end of the duck pen so "soggy" has not been an issue in the run. The duck pen (palais du...

We are raising 29 Holland White poults, now at 8 1/2 weeks of age (one poult was DOA from McMurray) and, quite suddenly, out of the blue, three days ago, I found one of the girls keeled over. No signs of sickness, no symptoms. All were running, jumping, flying, drinking and eating the day...