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    Lump on turkey poult's heads.

    Hi, yes I wondered too if the lamp was too low and they might be being effected by it. We have moved the lamp higher as they now don't need so much heat so hopefully that will make a difference. I think the lump though might be an infection? We are treating it as such but animal/bird medicine is...
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    Lump on turkey poult's heads.

    We have a few 2-week old turkey poults and some of them have developed a lump on their heads. The lump is in exactly the same place on each turkey's head. We keep them in a brooder. i thought at first that it might be avian pox except for the fact that the lumps are in the same place. As...
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    Blind goose with fowl cholera

    Thank you so much for your help. I'll check out and see what they cal them here. The blind goose and the ducks have recovered but not without after effects. obviously the goose is blind and the female muscovy's neck is now crook! NOW, two of my turkey's have whatever the goose had. They have all...
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    Blind goose with fowl cholera

    Thanks for your reply. What is Sulfa? In this region, Luxor, when the temps suddenly change, moving into the heat of summer in March/April and then, October, moving into the cool of winter, we get cholera! Everyone around us is losing birds hand over fist! But I have never lost all the birds...
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    Blind goose with fowl cholera

    I live in Egypt and keep geese and ducks, chickens and turkeys. All of our chickens were wiped out in a matter of days with fowl cholera. It is nigh on impossible to find the right treatments for birds here as the vet pharmacy is a teacher, and not trained in veterinary care. Nothing about...
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    Float Testing, Checking Egg Viability For Late Or Overdue Hatching

    I did this float test this evening with hens eggs and according to the test my two remaining 40 day old eggs are viable! Now this is possible as one of those chicks, which we put under the Muscovy hen, hatched only yesterday!!! How, I have no idea! We did have to help it but now it is running...
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    Strange Pekin behaviour

    Thank you for that. I did wonder if it might be an 'egg thing'. She has always laid 'rough' eggs but recently they are less lumpy and more 'evenly rough' but weaker at the apex! There are only two females so maybe the Drake is getting too enthusiastic. We can't get oats here in Upper Egypt, but...
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    Strange Pekin behaviour

    She lives with another female and a drake so there is no shortage of mating!! It is not her usual mating behaviour. Both females have been laying for a couple of months now. . It seemed more like she was uncomfortable. Her eggs too, always have calcium deposits on them, and after this behaviour...
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    Strange Pekin behaviour

    I have a female Pekin duck who lives with another female and a drake. They are all around 10 months old and both females are laying. Since yesterday she has been twitching her wings, splaying her tail feathers like a fan and making little purring noises. She seems uncomfortable but is eating...
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    Dying gosling

    Well we discovered yesterday, when my husband went to a neighbouring town to get drinkers and hoppers, that we can buy ready-made chicken and duck feed! Thank God!!! Its only taken 3 years!!!! It is so hard to get info here but slowly slowly... My family here have always struggled financially so...
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    Dying gosling

    Well we discovered yesterday what was killing them. Only one survived and only because we weren't giving her the same food!!! Ducks/chooks/geese are fed moist wheat middlings (the stuff left over when wheat grain is milled and all the goodness is removed. The middlings is the goodness!) My...
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    Dying gosling

    Ah that's interesting. I'm not sure if it applies to mine though as they were only on grass for an hour a day, and some days only on greens and feed. We had only had the babies for a few days and they all died within two days. Our two oldest goslings died today and we have one left...out of 8...
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    Goslings dying daily of convulsions.

    I live in Egypt and have chickens, ducks and goslings. Over the past week they have been dying daily. Their wings droop first, then they cannot stand and they end up having convulsions. This has effected the geese and ducklings mainly but we have had one chicken death in a similar way. One we...
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    Dying gosling

    Did you find out what had caused it? I live in Egypt and have lost 7 ducklings and 6 goslings over the past few days in the same way. I thought it might be botulism, the heat, lack of water, except that they have loads always, or something they had eaten, I am at a loss and vets here are not...
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    Comment by 'gaiamethod' in article 'Using Sand In Your Chicken Coop'

    I've been using sand for a while now as we don't have any other litter methods in Egypt, except for their outdoor time in the garden. Works well for me and it doesn't smell! In the heat of summer here in Luxor that is a huge bonus!!
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    Let's talk Wry Neck/Crook Neck

    I have noticed the same thing with my chickens who develop wry-neck. I live in Egypt where people don't generally watch their chickens so don't notice if they wry-neck or not. If they do they eat it!!! But I have my own chickens, a mixture of traditional Egyptian breeds and different ages. We...
  17. These young cockerels are raised for meat but have a good life before that, roaming around our garden!!!

    These young cockerels are raised for meat but have a good life before that, roaming around our garden!!!

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  18. Our new cockerel with his hen. We have our own chickens in with my Mother-in-laws chickens so we have 20 in total!

    Our new cockerel with his hen. We have our own chickens in with my Mother-in-laws chickens so we have 20 in total!

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  19. Our Egyptian Chickens

    Our Egyptian Chickens

    Pictures of our Egyptian chickens from our home here on the West bank in Luxor.
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