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    Turkey Eye Goopy and Shaking

    Last night it drizzled most of the night, and our Tom was squinting an eye in the morning. We dabbed some triple antibiotic Vectromycin for animals (safe for poultry), but it's getting worse! Now he's standing there sometimes shaking, and sitting down. He flinches when we come up b/c he doesn't...
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    Bumble Treatment

    Our beautiful roo has Bumble. We only caught it this morning, he had started to limp a bit more than usual (always had a tiny limp since we got him), not like that yesterday. Bottom of right foot is swollen and warm, noticeably different from the left. I read an article on this site to treat it...
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    Turkey Chick Sick

    I have a sick turkey chick, Broad-breast kind raised for eating. They are probably less than 2 wks old, 4 of them living in a feed bin. We clean and sterilize and put new bedding every time we change birds in the bin. These guys get generic "game bird / "Meatbird" food, and we give all our...
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    Male Injured by Fighting - Treatment Advice?

    We have 10 quail, 6 white and 4 brown. They recently started crowing and laying (2 eggs yesterday). As of now they are kept in a large cage on the ground just outside the house, with some greenery and branches for cover. They seem much happier since we put that stuff in the cage. Yesterday...
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    1 wk old chick has anus in wrong place!

    Now a week old, we noticed one of our new chicks has its anus in the wrong place. It's actually ABOVE the tail feathers instead of under them! Is this some sort of birth defect? Will this chick live, or should we put it down? So far all chicks seem to be eating/drinking/pooing fine. We saw...
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    Sick duckling, has infection, shivering! Is Amoxicillin safe for ducklings?

    Mallard duck baby, we have 4 we're raising, one is sick. He's only as big as my hand, maybe 2 wks old, and started shivering all the time, picking at his back like there's a sore, but we didnt find any. Is pet amoxicillin safe? Anything else we can do? I tried mixing just a tiny bit of...
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    Hello, Just Joined

    Hello all, I just joined today. I heard about this site from my horse trainer, who has a bunch of chickens. We have a mixed flock at our farm: Bruma rooster, and several chickens (Rhode Island Red, Americana, some kind of black speckled one, and some kind of white one. We love their eggs...
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