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I have depopulated after an M.S. outbreak. How do I properly disinfect the coop and run before adding new chicks? Everything I have read is for mycoplasma gallisepticum and it seems like it lasts on surfaces longer than mycoplasma synovaie. I have read that MS only can last 4 days...
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I have a 6 week old Wyandotte whose gender is a mystery to me. What do you guys think? Some redness in comb and wattles but has not changed much in a week. My Dominique (another rose comb) has about the same color comb and wattles, and I am pretty sure it's a girl.
I have a super sweet Bielefelder hen laying daily. She is the last one left from a Mycoplasma Synoviae positive flock and she's pretty lonely. I thought I would try to find her another suitable flock before we have to cull. Know anyone with an MS flock that may be willing to take her?
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I have 8 chicks, each one is a different breed. I just weighed them for the first time at 3 weeks today and my Cochin chick is quite a bit smaller than the rest. She was the smallest the day she shipped also and was having trouble getting off her back when she flipped over. After day...
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I received some day old hatchlings through the post yesterday and one little chick stands a bit odd. Sometimes I see her stand straight up like a duck and her legs look a bit wide. She pecks at herself on the rear, like at the back of where her hocks attach to the rest of her. When she...
I have two healthy (looking) hens left out of six chicks I purchased last spring. The first bird I sent for a necropsy came back positive for M.S. (PCR). The last bird I sent in for testing in December, with similar symptoms was negative for M.S. I want to see if the two girls I have now are...
My 14 week old Cochin pullet seems very uncoordinated.
When all the chicks first started roosting, I came out and saw her on the top roost bar (3-4 ft high). One morning I saw her get down and it seemed like she missed the lower bar and landed awkwardly on the ground and it sounded loud. She...
I think this one is a dude, but the comb is so pale compared to other roosters of different breeds in my flock. Comb starting coming in around 8-9 weeks.
Hello everyone,
This is me and my husbands first flock of chickens and I think we have started off on a very wrong foot. We got several chicks from various breeders around the same time and did not keep them separate, which I now realize was a mistake. About 2 weeks later a few (3 of 10) started...