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Thanks Miss Lydia. I should have said they are coming at 8-10 weeks and they were raised outdoors with their parents. The breeder says they're plenty big and feathered enough to be out and about alone. That's going to be a problem with the little trees...oops! We may have to fence the geese...

Well I was so excited to discover this thread as we are getting some Pilgrim geese in a couple of days! We will keep most of them as "weeder geese" in our 2 acre market garden, and a pair with each of our chicken flocks to help deter aerial predators. We are preparing the garden area now with...

Yes that was the first thing I did. I'd read that can contribute to/cause impaction.

That was an excellent read, thank you! I no longer feel a lump but her crop is not moving and she's not pooping much at all, so I'm going to start the epsom salts in her water and the yeast infection cream 3x daily, morning vomits if the crop isn't empty, and continue massage. I happen to have...

I have a 10 month old hen with an impacted crop. I noticed her a few days ago not wanting to fly up to roost, then saw that her crop was very low and full even in the mornings. So I did some research and learned how to vomit a chicken, which smelled very sour and brought up quite a lot of mostly...

Sadly, I had to send her over the rainbow bridge yesterday. The wound was really bad, there was a large gaping hole and a lot of flesh missing, no skin that I could see to even pull over it. By the 2nd day her leg on the affected side was cold and she had no use of it, I suspect the nerve...

Thanks everyone, much appreciated. I've been on a poultry group on FB as well and have gotten some more suggestions there. She is cleaned and disinfected and wrapped up cozy. She's had a drink with oral antibiotic and nutridrench, and a wee bit to eat. All tucked in for the night now and we'll...

Urgent assistance please. We just had another eagle attack, this time we got to the hen in time....maybe. But she's pretty badly injured. As far as we can tell there's just the one wound, but it's large, under her wing. Looks like a big piece of flesh missing so not even sure we can mend her...

I use Eprinex Pour on, it's sold for cattle and is off-label for chickens. I get it from Jeffers.com, works a treat. I've also tried it orally by mixing it with feed/scratch and it seems to be equally effective that way. Also much easier and faster to administer, but somewhat less precise as...

I apologize if this is a duplicate post, I could swear I posted this a few days ago but on checking back for replies I can't find the post anywhere! Maybe too much Christmas cheer? Oh well. :) Anyway, we have just started having eagle attacks on our determined-to-free-range chickens. We have...

OK thanks everyone. I will add some 18% grower crumble to my fermentation vat, and see that they get extra supplements as well. I've got lots of extra goat milk in my freezer, so perhaps some home made yogurt would be a nice treat as well. So relieved to hear this is normal, but sure do miss my...

I was wondering the same thing and stopped by looking for information, so thanks for asking the question! I have two flocks, the older girls are in their 2nd year and it's their first moult. The newer girls just started laying in August and are not moulting, though egg production is down a bit...

I'm in Canada and unfortunately we don't have the support of extension offices or provincial (state) labs. Not sure if a vet would do a necropsy, as we don't have any avian vets in our area, and our farm vet is a 2 hour drive away. Might be worth asking though. We did have a red mite...

We have had our flock of laying hens about a year and a half and have learned a lot in that time, but this is a new one... Our flock is fairly large, almost a hundred birds, Two weeks ago I noticed a hen looking "off" first thing in the morning. (I'm getting a good eye for that now, after...

THanks for the feedback, I'll get DH to modify it.

So at my request, DH made me a chicken catcher. We have over a hundred birds in several free ranging flocks and I needed an easy way to get my hands on individual birds to examine them or treat them. We looked online and found instructions to make this simple tool (egg is in the photo for size...

Thank for this great article. Can you suggest an appropriate does and method of administering castor oil? Do you mix it on the feed? I have approx 100 chickens so not sure how much to use and for how many days?

I've just read through this entire thread and have gotten lots of good info and ideas for treating my flock of about a hundred birds. Mites seems to be the main problem for me right now, I've lost two birds in the last week and have put 2 into the Chicken ICU ward in the last two days as they...

Thanks, I got the same advice on the older thread and that's exactly what I'm going to do. :)

Very helpful Den, thank you. I will keep him in the portable pen until I'm done with my current store of layer pellet, or until he's done his quarantine period, whichever comes first. At that point I'll switch to grower for all, make sure to keep the oyster shell feeder full, and let him meet...