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@Eggcessive, would this kind of Tylan work for oral application, or would I have to purchase the soluble powder? http://www.allivet.com/p-2103-tylan-50-injection-100-ml.aspx?sku=28918&gclid=Cj0KCQjwvabPBRD5ARIsAIwFXBlzgGJJv4DHSaVlWFe-Z4ltS-Fs6qaJybm8Wma8A2WNczWF2lhFPb0aApwJEALw_wcB

Thank you. There's no foul odor around her face as far as I can tell. I'll look into the link you sent me and try to get her to drink.

My blue-laced red, Mora, is a pullet approaching her first birthday (end of November). She has always been quite hefty since reaching laying age, but since having this problem, I fear she has been losing weight as she seems lighter when I pick her up. Around three days ago, I noticed one side...

This is really helpful, thank you! I'll check the two of them for the characteristics you added.

In mid April we got two Mallard ducklings from a local feed store. We think they're five weeks old now, maybe six. I believe we have one male and one female, but the rest of my family thinks we have two males. My reasoning: one of them has grown bigger rapidly even though they started at the...

I'm Googling right now actually! Thanks for the helpful link! :)

Three months ago, my boyfriend gave me three baby chicks for our five-year anniversary. I was overjoyed, of course!! One Easter Egger, one Blue Laced Red Wyandotte, and one Black Australorp. They became Mrs. Hudson, Mora, and Kylo Hen, respectively. We integrated them with the flock of five we...

Recently we took out the old roosts we had in the coop and replaced them with multi-leveled, much wider ones, which made our girls pretty happy. Since this change I've noticed that my SLW Bertie has, funny enough, been sleeping with her entire head under my Salmon Faverolle's body. They have...

My Red Sex-Link, Ronnie, started to lay at around the same time my Speckled Sussex did--at 19 weeks. While Pippa has continued to lay on an almost daily basis, Ronnie laid two eggs, and then stopped. She hasn't laid an egg since the incident I'm about to talk about below. Nothing seems to be...

I have recently moved three nine-week-old chicks in with five five-month-old pullets, and things are not going well. First of all, there is Pippa, who has been the terrorizer from the start. She likes to pull and eat feathers and has put marks on the babies. The only thing I can think of to...

I'm soon going to integrate my three 7 week old chicks with five 19 week old pullets. What feed do you recommend I put them all on? I've been looking at All Flock, but I can't decide on a brand. As a sidenote, is it okay to switch the pullets off of their layer feed right now? I just put them...

I've talked about this before, but she's really out of hand at this point. My Speckled Sussex, Pippa, is doing her best to take a chunk out of my chicks. The chicks are 7 weeks old now, and were introduced to the coop at 3 weeks. They live in a pen that sits adjacent to the bigger pen we have...

Really? That makes sense. Yes, it was all there! Broken open a little on the top, but I opened it into a bowl and all the good stuff was inside--yolk, whites, etc. :) It looked great. I just picked some up around an hour ago to put in the coop, and all the girls think it's pretty good stuff.

Today, my Speckled Sussex pullet, Pippa, has laid her first egg! It was so small (about the size of a golf ball), soft-shelled, and broken open a little by the time I got out to the coop to discover it, but I was so amazingly proud. She's been shrieking nonstop for so long that I thought she'd...

Iroquois is a Buckeye, 18 weeks. Unsure of weight, but she's a big girl. Heavier than some of her brood mates. She was very frightened at first by what happened and the dangling skin confuses her; she can see it, tries to nip it, feels pain, rinse and repeat. As far as exhibiting signs of...