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I have a girl who needs her oviduct removed due to build up of impacted pus material but wondering about costs and risks. I have heard chickens don't do well under anesthesia. I am in Canada and would have to go through U of Guelph but its $100 to even get them to see her and I am over an hour...

I have a flock of around 65 hens, a mix of whatever I could order as layers from TSC in Canada and some barnyard mixes. This spring will have been 5 years since I raised my first batch and some are so dear to my heart. Many were lap pets. This fall I have lost 4 of some of my very favourites...

WoobsieChillin' With My Peeps My very favourite hen is very ill and I wanted to ask you the right course of action. (I am in Canada fyi so not all drugs are as readily available). She is walking very waddled and ysing her wings to keep her somewhat upright. Also has a poopy bottom, diarrhea but...

I wanted to post my experience recently with a hen with ascites. I have lost 2 hens in 4 years to ascites. One I had drained and she never swelled up again and continued to live for 6 or 8 more months but never regained full health and was thin and basically starved to death. I had brought...

I wanted to post my experience recently with a hen with ascites. I have lost 2 hens in 4 years to ascites. One I had drained and she never swelled up again and continued to live for 6 or 8 more months but never regained full health and was thin and basically starved to death. I had brought...

Last week my beautiful cochin rooster got into a fight with another rooster who escaped the roo pen. Unfortunately he was the loser and after only a 15 min fight I found him lying in a hiding spot. When I picked him up he couldn't put weight on his one leg. He moved around to different spots...

Hi, I have a hen, Darla, that is 3 years old and doesnt want to walk around or stand more than a minute or so. She has been like this for about a week but getting worse (a few days ago could walk around a but more and stand longer). One day she just didnt want to come down from the roost so...

I had a broody hen I couldn't break and she got thin and went downhill. Eventually ending up with what I thought were egg bound symptoms. I had to put her down Monday because it was too far gone. Now I have another hen with similar symptoms but just started showing the characteristic penguin...

I wanted to post an update since it has been around 6 months since I had the worst summer ever due unfortunately being acquainted with MG. I know that this is a controversial topic since many people believe having a closed MG flock is unacceptable and irresponsible, however, I chose not to cull...

I randomly ended up with this bird and I wasnt sure exactly what it was....can anyone help? Looks like it could be an auracana but not sure. Female I think...not sure if she's young. No muffs or anything under the beak

Unfortunately I have a CRD with likely MG problem with a large backyard flock. I took a roo to the vet facility at the Vet Faculty at university of guelph and they didnt help a huge bit except to say they compound Tylan into capsules for oral admin and that Tylan will burn the esophagus of a...

I live in southern Ontario Canada and last year I had about 4 or 5 of my chickens get bumblefoot. I lovongly soaked chicken feet for 20 min in epsom salts every 3 days, sprayed the foot with rubbing alcohol and bactine, covered with a small piece of guaze with some polysporin cream amd held...

Ha I am moving to a new farm at the end of this month and while we have been doing reNos to the burn we noticed that there is a weasel in the barn. I think it's be living off of mice and we have seen it eating out of the alpaca trough at night using the camera that was in the barn. we spent two...

I have a lovely New Hampshire Red I named Tamale..she was a wonderful chicken, very friendly and liked to cuddle. Unfortunately she got a case of bumblefoot that I had to treat. During this time I had her segregated in a cage in the garage by herself for about a week to a week and a half. I...

Looking for someone intersted in some young (just over 8 weeks old) Columbian Rock roos..a very strong and large bird. Beauties Here is the daddy:

Wow I am having a bad chicken week :( My rooster has bumblefoot and I just sequestered him last night and been soaking it. But today I notice a beautiful hen has a drooping wing. No blood or protrusions..and she is eating and drinking and scavaging fine. At what point do you decide to wrap...

I have a BR rooster with what looks to have early bumblefoot ie. Swollen footpad, swelling between toes. He isn't limping and is eating, drinking and acting normally. I dont see that black scab or opening yet. His leg above the toes looks slightly more swollen than his other leg. He is...

I broke my basement window in my old century home and replaced it with a new one. Apparently, my other basement windows are rather dirty and/or old because now my big Musovy drake Hamish sits infront of the window all day. He sees his reflection and becomes obsessed with it. Does he think it...

All you need is a smartphone app or iphone app with the superbright flashlight and an empty roll of toilet paper. Place the phone on the table, flashlight up, the roll of toilet paper on top, with the egg on top. Squish the top of the toilet paper roll in accordance to how you move the egg...

I free range 19 chickens and recently the roosters (I have 3) have been mating with the older hens who are around 6-7months old. One of the barred rocks didn't come back into the coop last night for the first time. There were no signs of feathers anywhere, and none of the birds seemed...