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I have a 2 yr old RIR with vent gleet (also called thrush?) Feed store sold me some Duramycin 10, which is a form of tetracycline. Not sure on the dosage. the package gives a dosage of 200 to 400 mg per gallon. I don't have anything to measure that with. Anybody have any experience with...

I have a 2 Yr old RIR that is looking pretty bad. Gasping for breath and her comb and wattles are blue. Her belly is swollen and has been for a couple of weeks, but she's been eating and laying, though she's not as active as the others. Today, I found her laying on her side in the egg box...

Thought I'd post this just because it surprises me. Generally, I think of chickens as being pretty stupid birds, with just enough instinct to keep them alive. Not smart enough to even learn their own names. But three times now, they've done something that surprises me. They come to me and ask...

My BO of unknown age (got her as an adult, she got broody this spring and hasn't laid since. I've had her 2 years) has some kind of problem. I first noticed it because she wasn't breathing well. I saw she had a lot of mucous in her beak, and when I looked, I found this: It's swollen to the...

18 month old RIR. Has had this for a while. I've bathed her but it looks bad again in just a couple of days. Smells bad too. I'm wondering if it's vent gleet. She acts fine, eats good and maintains her place near the top of the pecking order. Eyes are bright and she's as alert as the...

My question is coming, but first some background. Here in the desert we use evaporative coolers. An evap cooler is a big fan that draws air across a wet substance, thereby lowering the air temp by 30 degrees or so. Works great on dry days and way cheaper than regular air conditioning...

One of my EE hens has a large open wound that covers an area about the size of a half dollar under her left wing and on her back, which is somewhat featherless from rooster attention. I suspect the roo opened a small wound, which the other birds picked into this large wound. She's pretty much...

I have a 1 year old RIR that has developed a wet tail, like something is draining from her vent and running down to the end of her breastbone. All the feathers between her vent and breastbone are soaked and matted. And it does NOT smell good. Her poop is dark and wet - the consistency of...

Last Tuesday two of my roosters passed from this life...with some help from me. Made great soup. But since then I've had two people say they think it might be illegal to slaughter chickens at home. I realize this would probably vary from place to place, but are such laws common? Local or...

Had a couple extra roosters and they were being pretty hard on the hens, so they met their maker the other day. My first time. I just chopped the heads off then hung them for a while to bleed out. Went OK (for a rookie) but I was surprised to see the difference in meat from a supermarket...

Orpah the BO hatched out some chicks. Ended up with four - 3 EE and I BO/EE mix. They're about 6 weeks now, pretty much fully feathered, with a little down still under the wings and a few tufts around the head. Two of them are larger and a bit more aggressive and play fight at times, so I...

Well, she's not broody anymore, she hatched 'em out. Lost a couple for whatever reason, we think a hawk got one, but at any rate, she's down to four rapidly growing chicks, not quite 4 weeks old. Anyway, mom, a buff orpington, is being a good mom, but has really lost weight and doesn't seem to...

One of my 3 day old chicks has a lump hanging out of her vent. Belly feels like it's still full of yolk or something too. She's active, but not as much as the others. I gave her a couple of days to see if there would be improvement, but no. So tonight I used warm water to soften it up and see...

i checked the stickys but didn't find much about letting mom do her thing - I guess most of you use incubators. So... Didn't collect eggs or a couple of days and Orpah, our BO, decided there were enough that someone should be sitting on them. She volunteered. I think we'll let her hatch them...

I have an Easter-egger that looks mighty sick. Not sure how old she is, got her as an adult in early spring 09. After a couple of days she started laying, then stopped about 2 weeks later. About the time she stopped, I found a couple of empty leathery shells in the nest box. By color, I...

Hi, Newbie here, trying to get some tips on how to treat my rooster, who was injured by a coyote. According to the feed store I got him from, he's an Ameracauna, (although I've come to understand that the generic Easter Egger is probably more accurate). He's almost a year old. On Wednesday...