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An update as promised. Everyone has fully recovered now and all eyes and noses are clear!!! The tylan worked wonders and I have been watching them since the three days of treatment I gave them and they are all happy and running the yard again now. None of the others showed any signs of sickness...

Thanks for the advice, I will do that when I get home. I will update here also.

Thanks, I am lucky I guess, been having these chickens for almost 4 years and this is the first issue I have had. I think it came in with the 4 new adolescents I got from a "Trusted Breeder" in my area that I have known for years. I kept them apart for a couple of weeks and they seemed fine...

This morning I had two of my older girls down with rattling breathing and one of them had eyes glued shut with a yellow mucus. I got her and opened the eye and yellow ooze squirted out all over my hand. She was in miserable condition as she did not even object to any of this. I read a few older...

Indy, I have tried my best to get grocers to allow me to have the scraps and stuff they are throwing out but they say it is an insurance issue for them. They are afraid that a person will consume the stuff and possibly get sick and sue them. I do get the bags of bread from the day old bread...

Looks like a tapeworm to me, only more pink than white.

Roll Tide, I grw up in Natural Bridge and now reside in NW Florida.

I got one of those little eggs a while back from my Marans. And I get at least one double yolk a month from her, I have had 3 of those in the past two weeks.

Dave from Milton, Florida (Panhandle) Checking in. How y'all doin'???

I lost a chicken yesterday to some predator. They free range all day while I am at work and have for almost an entire year with no problems. I got home after dark yesterday and went to check and had one missing. I though it was not a big deal since, on occasion, one of them will stay outside and...

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I got mine from a guy that rescues horses and he does very little in the way of chemicals and stuff as the systems from these animals is damaged enough already from neglect. He feeds them hay and oats and some sweet feed.

They break up the material quickly and turn it constantly and it provides them a place to eat the worms and other insects that move in to feed off of the material. Just like any compost, you have to water it a little bit. It works a lot faster than the old fashioned way though... and it provides...

Dad to a wonderful 5 year old girl, 5 cats and 11 chickens (4 Jersey Giants, 2 RSL, 1 BSL, 1 Cockoo Marans, 1 Wyandotte, and 2 EE's)

I just built a Chicken Composter last weekend and I must say that it is going to be awesome for getting things broken down to use as compost for the garden. I built it fast and easy, I used 4 1x8x12 boards with corner blocks and I drove stakes in the ground on the sides to keep it from bowing...

I got my first 5 hens (1 year old) from a local young man in 4H that had raised them as a project. He was selling them to finance his next project. They were immediately at home with me although they do not care to be touched or handled by us, the sure do like cleaning the yard of bugs and...

I just built a chicken composter this last weekend. I used 1x8x12 and drove some stakes in the ground around the 12x12 foot box i constructed. I dumped in a large wheelbarrow full of shavings that i had removed from the coop to get it started and am putting all the kitchen waste in it also. I...

I would love the directions on making a water heater. You would think we do not need it in Florida, but it is in the 20's at night and not much better during the day here lately... I can tell ya, I sure hate this global warming stuff...

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