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  1. Chicken Keith

    Case of Canker? How Best to Treat? If not canker, then what?

    I just dosed one-fourth teaspoon of copper sulfate, plus 1 teaspoon of apple cider vinegar into 1 gallon of drinking water. The bird, a white marans roo (4 yrs old), has this posture: Here is his son, for comparison with a healthy bird. Here are photos of what I believe are canker: I...
  2. Chicken Keith

    10-day deworming follow-up question

    Ten days after deworming peafowl, it's advised to re-medicate to ensure newly hatched eggs are killed. But what if you cannot get to the bird on day 10 because you're out of town? What if you apply the 2nd dosage on day 11, or 12, or even 13. Is this a big deal?
  3. Chicken Keith

    Who here lets broody chickens hatch and raise their peachicks?

    First off, if my peahen would sit on eggs (in a controlled safe environment instead of out in the wilderness where possums and raccoons dine on her clutch) I'd let her raise them. My peas are kept penned, but I let them free-range if I'm home and can respond to dogs or other predators. They...
  4. Chicken Keith

    Gasping peachick (2 weeks old)

    Seems to fight for air, as if it took too big a gulp of water except this behavior seems independent. Could gapeworm be a problem at such a young age? The same chick at 3 days old was showing signs of pasty butt, and I treated with 1 tsp of Corid per gallon water, fearing Coccidiosis could set...
  5. Chicken Keith

    8 week old peachick lethargic, droopy wings, dehydrated

    This bird has been out of the brooder for a solid month now, separated from chickens by a chain link fence. My birds were not on the ground, they were on a plywood floor, but not a mesh floor. Gave some water diluted sulmet two days ago when I first noticed the problem, switched to Wazine in...
  6. Chicken Keith

    sav-A-chick Products for Pea Chicks?

    Wanted to get your opinion on these: I want to use the probiotic, but felt I probably should ask this group, first. I currently use the electrolyte product on the right, I've used it for all my hatched birds, chickens, broilers, whatever and it really gasses em up ready to go. I don't think...
  7. Chicken Keith

    3 yr old Bourbon Red Hen won't walk

    Help, please. My bourbon red hen may be dying. She cannot walk as of today. Her wings were droopy before but she would at least walk around the yard foraging. Any idea what has caused this and can you think of how to cure?
  8. Chicken Keith

    Pics of Lonely Chick

    I swear these pics make him(her?) look weak and lethargic. He's(She's?) anything but that! Very very spry, jumps around like a mouse. He's(She's) the only survivor of three eggs placed in my Brinsea Octagon 20 back on May 25th. My 5 yr old step grandson named him(her) Chase. His (Her) beak...
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    Lonely peachick in brooder

    Only one peachick out of three eggs hatched. The sole chick chirps for attention and seems lackadaisically interested in food, but hasn't coordinated pecking, grabbing and swallowing as a muscle movement. It stands well and can run around fine. It pipped its shell (breech end) on Wednesday, I...
  10. Chicken Keith

    First Time Incubating Pea Eggs

    Eggs have pipped in the pointy "breech" egg end. Been pipped for 24-36 hours, and no unzipping, yet. Hear a little chirping but I can see the beak moving to assure life is there. I'm using a Brinsea Octagon 20. Auto humidity control feature is constant at 53%. Is it normal for peas to wait...
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    Pea Eggs in Brinsea Incubator... THENNN a power outage :-(

    Power went out for almost 2 solid hours yesterday from a nasty thunderstorm. Pea (IB) are 22 days in to their 28 day incubation. My Brinsea Octagon 20 Advanced has a 1 hour cool setting built in that mimics a real setting hen's daily patterns. Do ya think the eggs are hurt by just two hours...
  12. Chicken Keith

    My lame story -- I'm overwhelemed and feel defeated.

    Dogs (two stray labs) wiped out my flock of 6 Marans (except for one roo) in Feb 2012. My birds were protected really only by a Premier1 electric net fence. Since I hatched my 6 marans in April 2011, the fence did it's job for a good while. In Aug 2014 a skunk raided my chicken house killing...
  13. Chicken Keith

    Fair Price for India Blue juvenile female?

    Curious, but what is the going market rate for a peahen between 9 and 18 mos old? A few years back I would've answered this as ranging anywhere from $75-90 per bird. One seller wanted to part with his 2 x juvenile females for no less than $320 for the two!!!! I said, thanks, but no. Was I...
  14. Chicken Keith

    Necropsy Photos: 3 yr old IB hen died Sun 5-15-16 (EXTREMELY GRAPHIC)

    I'm hoping someone can shed light as to the cause of death of my peahen. She became lethargic, droopy wings, would not eat. I suspected round worm, so I began a dosage of 3ml of undiluted Wazine orally once every 24 hours, for 5 days. She seemed to improve after day 2's dosage but she died...
  15. Chicken Keith

    What is this in the breast meat?

    A little context. I butchered Cornish X broilers today. This is the breast meat of 8-9 week old pullet. The meat is fibrous and green. If it were gangrened I'd think it would smell rotten, but there was no odor. I disposed of this meat, the pink "healthy"-looking meat adjacent to it had a...
  16. Chicken Keith

    Getting sick of dogs killing my chickens

    July 18th 2015: Two huskies from a neighbor's chainlink fence figured out how to escape, tracked down and killed 22 of my 31 prize Marans. My birds free range behind 4 ft tall Premier 1 electric netting. I was at work, broad daylight, my wife gets home from running an errand and sees the...
  17. Chicken Keith

    First time peafowl owner: How can I tell if my peahen's going broody?

    I know chickens well, been raising them off and on for the past 40 years. Peafowl, ...well, not so much. I have two IB hens, aged around 2 years. I didn't think they were sexually mature. The IB cock they're penned with will be 2 this Aug. His train is about 2 feet long...I'd surmise he's...
  18. Chicken Keith

    Heated base waterer reservoir is dry rotted and need a replacement reservoir only...

    ...and before everyone rushes in responding telling me to contact Farm Innovators Inc. in Plymouth IN, this IS NOT THAT WATERER!!!! I promise. It's a different one, looks similar to it, but definitely different. The cord to the red base wraps around a wheel like structure beneath the base...
  19. Chicken Keith

    What kind of preventative meds do you give your peas?

    I've been keeping peas for a little over year now. I have been worming my peas with Fenbendazole, (3cc per gallon of water) about every 4-6 months or so. This is all I have been doing. I keep my peas with chickens and turkeys, but have never experienced disease problems a lot of folks...
  20. Chicken Keith

    Help w Sexing: Eight weeks old--He or a She?

    This is a Bronze Red (I think). I'm new to turkeys but I'm familiar with poultry: 25 chickens, & 3 peas. Can anyone impart some sexing wisdom?
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