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Hi all. I have a chicken that I am pretty sure has peritonitis. Earlier today I found a lash egg in the nest box. The question i have is: if I cull her, would the meat still be usable if I butcher her out, or does the infection spoil the rest of the meat? I tried googling, but I couldn't find an...

Hi all. One of my lavender orps has a severe case of vent gleet. I didn't recognize it for what it was until it had progressed and the hen started isolating herself. I brought her in and cleaned her up and started treating topically with monistat. I had read about feeding her some too, but...

Hey all. I lost one of my new brahma chicks today while I was at work and the other brahma as well as one of the orpingtons had pasty butt. I got them cleaned off, but I don't have a hair dryer so I had to just dry them as well as I could with a towel and put them back under the heat lamp while...

Hi all! I had a thread in the ducks area about the new ducks I got a couple of weeks ago, and last night I added chicks. :) Thought I'd make a little thread over here to post the cute. Buffy, the Buff Orpington: Apparently the food dish is the best bed: And Duckies! (Pic of them is from...

Hi all! I'm new to the forums but not completely new to ducks. We raised some when I was a kid. I just recently bought a property in Tacoma, WA, with a couple of acres of land where the previous owners had chickens and goats. The plan was to get some chickens first, but they took the coop with...