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Not until tomorrow night. :/ It's too late now and I won't see them once it's light in the morning, unfortunately. Her leg is swollen on the footpad, but not really up the leg, which is why I don't think I really noticed it before. I was so focused on the little wound itself. And I was soaking...

Successfully removed a long thorn from a hen's foot last weekend after soaking in Epsom salts. Soaked, flushed, antibiotic ointment, dressing. Soaked foot every day for three days just to make sure got all of it, Epsom salts. Re-applied antibiotic ointment and dressing. Skin has healed...

We have a rooster whose eye got wounded in a fight with something (fox?) Not the eyeball, but somewhere in the socket. We had to deal with pus and the videos you posted were spot on. Thank you so much for helping us figure out what to do!

I reread that link. The only think that seems fitting is aspergillosis, but we haven't really had wet weather. We did still have some tarps up inside the coop and we had one freak warm day, but we use tarps to cut the wind throughout the winter. If it is aspergillosis, is there any treatment...

We decided to move her for many reasons. She was in the rafters over our barn door and not fitting very well into the space. It is hot up there, she was right next to an electric wire and just terribly inconvenient in that we couldn't close the barn door without disturbing her. We were able to...

Makes a lot of sense. I will check the crop and the belly again. Really haven't noticed anything out of the ordinary and we've held her multiple times. No foul odor from the mouth and nothing unusual about the abdomen. I appreciate your advice. Thank you very much.

Hi, everyone. One of our Muscovy hens has decided to start sitting a nest in a rafter (kind of) above the inside of our barn door, about 9' above the ground. We didn't realize it until we heard a commotion up there and found her. I think today is just her second day of sitting the nest. My...

Thank you, Eggcessive. I had read your reply to someone else and had been to that link already. No wet conditions. No enlargement. She's 3 years old. We are 5 days out from me noticing her symptoms and separating her and no one else in the flock shows any signs of anything. I can't really find...

Hi, all. Discovered one hen with some respiratory distress. Aside from her breathing being labored and not quite clear, she looks and seems fine. We have been treating with Tylan 50 injections, but she's not improving. Her condition is mostly unchanged. Wondering what else I should try, if...

She does this all the time after and while moving. The birds free range, so I don't see how it can be dust causing this much sneezing. She doesn't do it when she's eating and most of the time I feed them a dampened mash anyhow because I find it reduces waste. Right now, for instance, it's...

I hope so. We are into month 3 of this. It just hurts to listen to her. Doubly so because she's my favorite hen. Thanks for the input.

https://youtu.be/YdtrTt7R80o

Well, she didn't do this for the first three years we had her. It just started in December, so I don't think it's normal. I haven't tried to post video to one of these, but I will try.

One of our EE hens (4 y/o) has been "barking" since early December. First, we thought it was some kind of illness and tried her on antibiotics. No improvement. We waited a week, tried a different antibiotic, no improvement. It now seems she must have something stuck in her larynx/trachea. Is...

Hi, all-- This may seem like a silly question but we've just finished processing our first round of Muscovy ducks. Apparently, we didn't scald them at a high enough temp for long enough and we've had a tough time getting the carcasses clean. We cut the wings off to make stock. There are still...

Thank you for all these awesome pictures. We have 3 Muscovy hens that all raised clutches this year. We have broken up their nests when they tried to go broody a second time. Just today one of them started trying to nest again and while we don't need any more ducklings (26 was enough!) we do...

I really appreciate all the advice I get from this board. It makes me sad when someone poses a question and you never know how things turned out. Just ecstatic that at least this time we made the right choices and managed to save a bird that most certainly would have died in the shell if we...

UPDATE: The duckling hatched in the incubator did very well overnight. This morning she was very, very active and chirping loudly. We decided to try putting her in with her siblings and mother, despite pretty crappy weather conditions. My husband rigged up a heat lamp for their area. The baby...

The hatch was staggered. The oldest is one week old today. Then there are two that are five days old and two that are three days old. Weird, right? Now that she's almost completely dry and starting to try to walk around, she actually looks bigger than the 3 day old ducklings. Tomorrow and the...

Thank you. After I posted I saw the 95% and we realized the humidity was too high because #5 wasn't drying. Now we have it at 40%. Anyone have a suggestion about when to try to put her back with her "family"? She's been hatched 3 hours and is doing great!