So, here is my problem, ( well, technically my neighbors problem). He ordered 15 white face black spanish chicks from cackle hatchery, they arrived april 28th, He has been giving them medicated chick starter since he got them, everyone has been fine, growing well, looking healthy and active, he...
After doing a bit of reading, seems like Nu-stock is the way to go for scaly leg mites. I have a few questions about it, how should i apply it? when should i re-apply it? Will just the Nu-stock take care of it, or should i give the chickens something else with it? Like ivermec?Any help would be...
This has been a bad week for parasites! first mites, now scaly leg mites. so i had a couple of bantam cochin pairs dropped off, all of which have bad cases of scaly leg mites. i hsve applied vasaline for now to help, but i have heard nu-stock works great. So, where can you get it? and how often...
Okay, here is my dilema, I put some eggs in my incubator at different times, meaning some will hatch before others, I know for the last 3 days, bump the humidity up to 75-80%, now will the 75-80% humidity harm the other eggs that arent do to hatch untill another week or so?
Okay, One of my OEG bantams was being bullied by another rooster, so I took him out, and put him with a couple of my pheasant, he was in there for 4 days untill i got rid of the bully rooster. When he was in with the pheasant, he got a little sneeze, wasn't constant, but it didn't just come and...
I plan on using food grade DE as a preventative measure for worms for my pheasant, and I have a few questions, How much do you put in their food? and how often?
My neighbor had a raccoon scalp one of his chickens last night, it's just an open, bloody wound, I have blue-kote that i was going to give him so he can apply it to help stop infection, but it expired in feb. 2012, is it still okay to use?
I have just completed a 10x10x6' fight pen for my 2 pairs of modena's, I was wondering if I could put either a pair of red golden pheasant, or a pair of chukar in there with the pigeons?
I just went out to my brooder and saw i chick that i thought was dead, he was laying down with his eyes close, i went to pic him up when i saw he tried to move, i felt his crop, it feels like he hasnt been eating, hes very lethargic, cant really move, i fed him drops of water, which seemed to...