Cool! I'm hoping so! And her legs are smaller than the Roos leg usually are. Some from this mix have been hard to tell until the pointed saddle feather came in.
About 10 weeks old. EE x SLW cross. All of the offspring from this cross have been some variation of black and white.
We are saying girl, but I'd like some outside opinions.
I have a young pullet who is recovering from a respiratory infection that had watery bubbly eyes. She had been rubbing her face on her wings to clear her eyes. We were also rinsing them twice daily with saline solution. Well one eye cleared up but the other continued swelling and getting kind of...
Unfortunately we decided to go ahead a cull her.... She wasn't eating and drinking and I feel like we were only able to do enough to just keep her alive.
Everyone else seems to be improving. I have one that's still a bit lethargic but I took her out to the garden and caught her some...
Update: I wormed everyone last night that wasn't still on the Tylan doses (which was most of the originally lethargic hens) the rest I will do over the next couple of days. Those still on Tylan are only showing respiratory symptoms for now anyway so I figured I would continue treating that.
I...
Also what is the best kind and way to give probiotics to then hens that aren't eating much? I was thinking of using a syringe with yogurt or buttermilk or rooster booster
I followed the guidelines for giving ivomec pour on as a wormer. I believe it was about 3 drops for them. The lethargic hens are about 1 1/2 years old. Can they get coccidiosis that old?
I will try the Rooster Booster but they are eating and drinking little and do have the symptoms that you...
About three weeks ago I noticed a round worm in a pile of poop that was in the yard. So about a week and a half ago I wormed everyone with pour on ivermec. They had been wormed about 6 months prior with Wazine. We were going out of town so we did it several days before we left so we could...
I haven't noticed any sex linking with my mixes. They are mostly all brown chipmunk patterned and come out laced or like the two I just posted. My bunch has been really hard to sex until they get around 8-10 weeks.