My EE bantam roo started acting off about a week ago. He seemed to have less interest in interacting with the other chickens, which is very unusual for him. It started getting worse a few days ago so I brought him inside. He’s eating only a bit, and i’m giving him water through an eye dropper...
I’m currently deworming my chickens with safeguard, but I also have a suspicion that a few of my chickens are having respiratory problems. I’d like to put some Tylan Soluble in their water, but I wasn’t sure if it was safe to do so when there’s safeguard in their water also. Anyone know the answer?
I’m trying to deworm my flock using safeguard. I heard that the correct dosage is 3cc per gallon of water. Is this correct. And I also have some 8-10 week old chickens, who will run over and drink out of the big waterers when we let them out. Is the dosage the same for them? Considering how...
I lost a chicken a couple days ago to what I thought was gapeworms. She had all the symptoms of it. Another chicken started showing the same symptoms so I took her to the vet yesterday and they tested her feces. They said she does not have gapeworms, but hookworms? Does anyone know what the...
Please someone help. I have a hen, around 15 weeks old. She started acting oddly a few days ago, being very lethargic, gasping for air, and not eating much. We thought it might be the heat, and brought her inside for a few days. I checked her crop to see if it’s impacted and it’s not. Now about...
This brahma is 15 weeks old and it came from a pullet bin. It has had no signs of being a male until now, it just crowed this morning? I immediately assumed it was a boy, but then I looked it up and saw that hens will sometimes crow, especially the “alpha females” of the group, and this one is...
Help!! I have around 40 chickens, and the other day me and my mom discovered that around half of them have bumblefoot. Now, I’ve done my research, and I know how to go about treating them individually. But 20 or so chickens is a lot of chickens to have to treat. Has anyone else had this problem...