How long can you keep unwashed eggs at room temp? My chickens are laying more then I can sell at this time. Schools out and I have lost some customers so I'm just storing them in my kitchen about the cabnits
I have 9 babies and this morning I found one that now has a legs that turns backwards on him. having trouble getting around but does make it to the feed and water. What to do?
I had to cull all of my Flock today for any of you that have not been following my problem I had a bad upper respiratory tract infection. OK The flock is gone and now the start of the cleaning. I went and got lime from the tractor supple store and going to but in through out my back yard both...
Can anyone help with this? my flock has been attacked with this and I have lost about 15 birds. two more won't open their eyes and I have the rest on tetracycline. eggs are low but haven't ate eggs in about 3 weeks now. I have heard that I need to cull the entire flock. I have been told that it...
Well we have now lost about 12 birds. We took two up to Auburn to be biopsied and have talked to the doc. we are waiting for test to come back but she is thinking that it is infectious coryza. The question is what has others done to over come this. We have been told that adding antibiotics like...
With in the the last two days we have lost two of our hens. no signs on them. found them in the coop. the first one was still alive until my husband picked her up and she just quietly passed away the second one last night. a month before that our older rooster passed away inside the coop...
Hey last week was the ending of the 4 week separation for my two new roosters. I kept them totally separate for 3 weeks then I pulled the diver out from between them so they could see the other hens and roosters when i put them together my black giant faced off with one of them and drew blood...
what is a heritage bird. I had three different breeds this year. one was a bourbon red. and one was a white bird but don't know the breed of that one and I have a brown one. but I don't know the heritage breeds please enlighten me.
I have two different turkeys. 1 pic of the brown and white one which is the youngest. and a few pics on the white one. I have know idea what they are or how old they are. i know that both are long
This was our first turkey and raised him from a baby. I worried about how we were going to do this first off we needed to get him from his pen, to a area on the other side of a creek about 30 yd away before we could start. I read about the bag and I thought that was a great idea but when my...
do you cull a turkey like you do a chicken? I'm having a problem picturing that. we normally catch the chicken hold it upside down and then chop the neck off. Turkeys are much bigger so how?
I just went out to lock thw kids up for the night and found one of my 1 1/2 year old white leg horn in the spare small run that has no enclosure. I gave her feed and water for the night. her back has blood on it but not bleeding at this time that I can see, The question I have is will she be ok...
Found a nest this morning. at least 16 eggs. some chicken and some turkey. they don't fill warm and they don't look like they are developing. The nest can not be older then 9 days old but it has been up in the high 90's here in AL. The question is are the eggs still good to eat or do I throw...