so recently i had a holland lop die. it was a buck. i realized something was wrong when he started to lose weight. i gave him tetracycline and brought him inside for a couple of days figuring he was sick from the cold weather. it seemed to help then he declined again. the final symptom came...
i have a mourning Dove whom i'd like to get a male and a couple of females to put her with. i wondered if domestic dove breeds can breed with wild dove species?
one of my cornish rocks has mysteriously started favoring one leg. she is only 7 weeks old and her food is cut back to meal a day which she shares with two other cornish rocks so she is not over weight like the breed is prone too being a meat chicken. there is no apparent injury, and as far as...
i have 5 japanese bantam/sebright mixes. they are not as pretty as i'd hoped. they took after the japanese bantam who is white. they do have hen feathering and rose combs. however they do have quite a color variety concidering their parents. the two roosters are whiter than their father who...
i had a red sexlink who did the weirdest thing. one day i picked her up and noticed she felt strangely puffy on her thigh. i was busy so i came back later to get a closer look. when i felt her i thought she felt like a balloon and was afraid she might literally pop. i got my mom and she...
i have some sebright japanese bantam mixed chicks. i started with ten and lost two to a snake and one got trampled by its mother. but i also had two others who had a strange sickness that killed them really slow. at first i thought they had something in their crop but they couldn't breathe or...