I have found tiny black mites on my chicken. I am going to treat all of my birds for mites, I want to use a pour on like Ivermectin. What do I need to know? I have polish, quail and turkey, what would be the dosages? I have read that the polish should get about 4 drops
I noticed one of my girls had bumblefoot. After doing research all day and watching some videos I decided to do the surgery. Sure enough the puss and kernal came out. I flushed the wound, put on antibiotic ointment and bandaged her foot. Today has been 48hrs with the bandage and I removed it to...
I have been doing some research on mixing my own whole grain chicken feed. Here is the recipe I came up with:
50lbs wheat
50lb cracked corn
25lb oats
20lbs sunflower seed
10lb alfalfa meal
Any thoughts? Should I add/take away any ingredients?
So the It went from 80 and sunny to 60 and raining and now my quail have started sneezing. I have given my turkey and chickens Tylan 50 injection (a few sneezes from them as well) but I am new to quail and not sure if I can give Tylan? If not what could I give to clear up all the sneezing?
I lost 2 tukeys the past few weeks! They had bright yellow colored poop before they died so I looked on the internet and found out they might have blackhead. I cut the recent one open and looked at her liver and it is most definitly blackhead. What can I do beside cayenne pepper to save the rest...
I'm hatching out some turkeys and they went on lock down Tuesday. I was told to lock them down 5 days before hatch date (Saturday). Well yesterday early morning (Thursday) 2 started to pip. I was gone the whole day and came home around 6 yesterday evening. One was about halfway around the shell...
I have a mixed bunch of birds. Chickens, quail, and turkey. I feed layer which I have heard that it isn't enough protein for the turkey and quail, so my question is: if I get the 28% gamebird feed can I also feed that to my chickens?
I posted about my hen's swollen face not too long ago. Now today she isn't acting herself, she "droopy" looking. I've given her Tylan. Is there anything else I can do to save her?
So I have raised turkey before along with chickens. I let them out in the morning and at night they would naturally return to the coop along with the chickens. Now I am wanting to raise strictly turkey's and I have a dumb question, do turkey naturally return to the coop at night like chickens...
I was given a golden pheasant. To me he looks horrible. His color is very light, he has missing feathers, and was being fed bird feed. I read that they need 24% protein in the diet. Any suggestions on how to bring him back to health?
In my new starter flock I have 6 buff orpington chicks (5 weeks), a lavender cockerell and a blue hen. I only have 1 coop and I am interested in getting more chicks/hatching eggs so my question is.....
Should I get more BBS orps or more lavender orps? I plan on selling chicks and having a mini...