Hi all,
What are everyone's thoughts regarding adding daily Probiotics to your flock's feed? I presently have a hen recovering from a bout of sour crop. I am thinking that it would be good to start adding probiotics to their diet. They are primarily in the run with a limited time free ranging...
My 2 year old Red Star has had sour crop for 6 days. What is the best and safest way to treat sour crop. I heard that yogurt was bad to feed and also not to feed anything. Should I empty her crop? Is this safe? She is now making jerky movements with her neck and her crop is very full. She...
We are having a cold snap here. Temps are in the single digits. I have one chicken who is going through a late molt. I just noticed today that another chicken, the top chicken, pecked her in the throat. This chicken is having a hard time growing her feathers and this is one of the places the...
Thank you. Today it looked better. Not as swollen and no dark red scab. I actually thought about mites too because one morning last week I saw some blood on the roost. So I cleaned the coop, sprayed mite spray and dusted roost and coop with DE. She is getting thin so a little worried.
Hi. I took my hen to the vet 3 weeks ago for bumblefoot. She recommended Epsom salt baths to lossen the scab. She did not recommended cut out the "kernel" I got the scab off a couple days ago but could not get any puss out. I was just squeezing because the vet said no cutting. My question should...
I have been reading a lot of information about adding supplements into my layer feed. I recently had a chicken that needed to be put down for what I believe was some kind of intestinal parasite or imbalance. I have never adding supplements but because of this hen having such bad health I thought...