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We found one of our two year old layers dead in a nestbox yesterday morning. This is not the first time this has happened but this is the first time we have seen this :( No sign of ascites, but after starting to dress her out, hubby finds what look to be hundreds of small white tumors.. you can...

We have been using a non-GMO starter/grower feed for raising our Cornish Cross and they are doing well. It is milled in fairly small quantities by a Mennonite farmer. We DID start those birds on commercial chick crumbles and then moved on to the starter grower at around 3 weeks. I hadn't...

Of the 30 poults we raised from day-olds, we lost 1 to crushing on day 10, and 2 to heatstroke in May. Two developed respiratory infections. 2 weeks of nursing for each and they got well. Another with yellow diarrhea, inappetance and weight loss. Again, I nursed that one back to health also...

We are raising 29 Holland White poults, now at 8 1/2 weeks of age (one poult was DOA from McMurray) and, quite suddenly, out of the blue, three days ago, I found one of the girls keeled over. No signs of sickness, no symptoms. All were running, jumping, flying, drinking and eating the day...

So.. we went away overnight for 24 hours.. 22 ducks in their 300 sq foot pen, and as soon as we gte back, we let them out for forage and swim. We have an acre of spring-fed pond that is up to 20 feet deep in places. We have three catfish, 3 large grass carp and a bunch of Koi.. all the ducks...

Ordered 6 Cayugas from Ideal Hatchery.. shipped Wednesday. Picked up from PO today, Friday. Box contained 10 male chicks "for warmth", 5 live ducklings and 1 dead one .. we reckon that one had been dead a day. Brooder ready to go.. heat lamp.. thermometer, 94F at one end of the prooder.. 85 at...

I am wondering if the issue is that GMO grains have recently been found, by Brazilian scientists, to contain MUCH lower levels of minerals and vitamins than even conventionally grown grains and soy, let alone organic. And I am talking up to 80% lower. LINK to RECALL ARTICLE...

Well, hallo everyone! Here is the story so far... As we have a large property and a one acre pond with no restriction on what we do on our land here in WV, hubby and I had discussed getting domestic ducks way back when. Then out of the blue, we get a garbled call from a guy who works for us...