Any progress or updates on your chicken?
I have the exact same swollen eye in several of my birds and am starting them on sulmet. Vetrx has done nothing for them and sulmet is my next try.
They have no other symptoms, no smell, fluid discharge, weezing or sneezing, Just swollen around the...
Go to the learning center and look up the egg candeling pics, looking for an egg with a blood ring.
Smell the eggs and if none smell rotten, don't give up quite yet. I had 6 eggs I marked out of 30 in my incubator this spring because I couldn't tell if there was life in them or not. They all...
I bury mine in the garden compost pile with the chicken poop that aquires from having 30 to 55 little and big feathered rodents running around on my property. About 1.5 to 2 feet down will take care of any stench that may happen. I spread the compost from last summers killings in the garden this...
Above, first born chick from my incubator at 5 days old.
Mutt chicks from my sexlink chickens.
Day 2, I Can not believe the colors I got from my sexlink chickens, I have a red sexlink rooster, 6 red hens. 5 black sexlink hens and 3 sagita hens. I cant wait to see how they look grown up. I set...
I brew beer and the hens get all the barley after brewing, but before fermentation. I freeze it in serving sized bags and just take some out a day in advance to thaw. I use it as a treat with their layer mash and they love it; If I could fine a source of whisky mash I'd jump on the chance for...
I started 35 eggs 10 days ago and on day 4 I could see 2 that had not even started, cracked them and was right. On day 7 I could see 1 with a blood ring, and 6 That I could see no movement in but could see movement and life in the rest. On day 8 one of the six was dead and I could see movement...
If the egg is less than a couple days old and was taken off the nest right after if was laid, then it is probabaly a meat spot. A spec of blood in the egg from when it was developed inside the hen. The big grocery egg companys candle their eggs to make sure they have none of these in their eggs...
One of my Black Sex links has been laying huge eggs, I have been getting one every couple days for the past 3 months. They have all been around 3.5 oz. This is the biggest one to date, 4.25 oz., 120.5 grams.
These are usually double yolks, but not always.
What have you or others here had for...
I switched from straw to wood shavings in my nest boxes because I was having the same problem. It helped alot but I still have to keep up and add shavings once in a while. I do notice that with the shavings, the eggs are much cleaner when I gather them.
I started many years ago with 1 female rabbit that was house trained and would run arount the yard most of the day. Then out of the blue she had a litter of babies in my shed, all different colors, including a couple of these little guys that I am guessing look a whole lot like their father...
Cut rabbit into sections,
Roll in flour, salt and pepper to taste.
Brown in skillet with bacon grease or olive oil
Lay pieces of bunny in slow cooker or crock pot.
Cover with onions, Cream of mushroom and Cream of celery soup, Half the milk to keep soup thick.
Cook until done, serve on rice or...
Smoking is the way I use up almost all of the roosters I have butchered, They are excellent smoked. I hot smoke until internal meat temp is 175, using 200-225 smokehouse temps.
Brineing is easy, 3/4 cup salt,3/4 cup brown sugar and any spices you want in any reasonable ammount, per gallon of...