A couple of days ago one of my 8 week old cockerels started staggering and having trouble walking it almost looks like he’s drunk, he’s still eating and drinking on his own and poo looks normal. Any ideas on what’s going on?
One of my roosters has white growths in his mouth and foul smelling breath I’m pretty confident it’s an oral yeast infection or sour crop and would like to treat it. Does anyone know where I can get oral nystatin in Australia?
I have a Two week old chick who struggled with what I thought was pasty bum for about a week, I was bathing her every second night to remove sticky diarrhea from her anus. It has become significantly more severe and nothing I’m doing seems to help. She is very lethargic, swollen and sore around...
I have a 4 week old chick who is eating and drinking well, she is slightly lethargic but will still run around with the other chicks, she will occasionally stop and fluff herself up for a few minutes and then find the other chicks. She doesn’t like to open one eye and when she does it looks like...
I’ve just noticed today a white almost pimple like growth on one of my hens, she’s acting completely normal and none of my other chooks have these and she only has the one. It’s not soft like a pimple at all and I’ve never seen anything like it before has anyone else?. I’ve included a picture...
Ive been raising chicks lately and had crows take the occasional day old or week old chick, which wasn't too much of a problem but today two pairs of crows killed one of my 6 week old cockerels. The crows have now learnt they can eat larger chicks which is a huge problem. I also cannot kill off...
Hey there!
I currently have a dark brahma rooster, 2 golden partridge hens and 2 silver partridge hens and would like to expand my color variety.
Are you able to put a dark brahma rooster over light hens and buff hens and have the hatchlings keep their mothers color? or will the color be mixed?
I have an australorp hen who may be going broody, I picked her up today and felt a lump this is what I found underneath her. Should this be something to worry about if so can I treat it?