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Thank you so much! I really appreciate the information! I'm fairly comfortable doing injections, so that would be fine. I hadn't considered that, so thanks a bunch. I'll be sure to pick some up to have on hand in case of a crisis down the road.

I am anxious to know how people have responded to the rule changes as of 1/1. I have a hen with an upper respiratory infection that is being treated with the last of the antibiotics I had on hand. Going forward, what are the alternatives for treatment for similar issues (I have penicillin for...

Quick update on Rocky- he seems to have fully recovered!!!! We did penicillin injections for 4 days, kept him isolated until the swelling came down a bit. Continued to feed him higher protein crumble, along with some fresh yogurt from our local dairy. He's now back with his ladies and doing...

Someone on another site recommended penicillin via injection. Wise choice? If so, how to give? Or...is what we're giving enough?

Could be a possible predator for sure. We've lost hens to predators (hawks, fox, etc.) and he's been a pretty brave rooster in the face of them. We've still lost a few, but he's lost tail feathers, etc. standing up for them. It could have been barbed wire on some of our fences, but they are...

Swollen wattles are from injury for sure. They are mostly clear from respiratory issues now and the wattles swelled after we saw blood all over yesterday. They were free ranging yesterday for the first time in over a week. Tetroxy is the antibiotic we're using.

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I will post some tonight. We are going to grab him to isolate tonight. He is the only rooster. Whatever happened was in late afternoon. We returned from an errand and he has blood all over his chest. On one wattle, there is a sore from some sort of injury. This morning the second wattle was just...

Hey yall...rooster injury question. When we got home yesterday, our buff rooster had blood all over his chest. After they went to bed, we got him down to look and it looks like the wattle got injured somehow. It was super swollen and crusted over. We cleaned it up and put Neosporin all over. The...

What great info! That's what I thought we were dealing with. We tried to cut and just got blood. No yuck. Can anyone give us an idea of what we're dealing with? A tumor? Something else? She's walking ok, but when she's standing still, she curls her toes up. No eggs the past few days and yellow...

So glad we have made the permanent switch to Oyster Strong Layena Pellets! Our ladies LOVE them and I'm seeing much less waste on this feed. I love that the oyster shell is already in the food- I've noticed a big difference in the strength of their shells! Since switching feed, one of our hens...

We just got through the broody experience with our first broody, a buff orpington, Rose. It was all super exciting! We tried to leave her be as much as possible and took all the newly laid eggs each day. The day before hatching, one of our Easter Eggers squeezed in the nest next to Rose to lay...

My Oyster Strong System eggs are as strong as my new mama bird's love for her new chick! :-)

Thanks so much! That seems doable. I really want to keep them with the flock . It's our first time hatching eggs and it's nerve wracking!!

If someone has any feedback on my question above, I'd appreciate it. Want to know how long we should confine mama bird and baby/babies to their temporary dog carrier home before they can venture out to the larger coop

Well, we have one chick from our girl who was sitting on 3 eggs. Day 21 will come for the others tomorrow. I went to check on her before we locked everyone up and was checking the eggs and I had a baby looking back! So excited! We have a pet carrier set up for her now and it's set against the...

We are positive on the due date, but will wait and see what happens. If nothing happens on Sunday, I'll leave them for a few extra days, just in case. I don't have any other chicks to give her if they're duds. The birds are limited, for the most part, to their coop and run. We let them out to...

We have a Buff Orpington who is on Day 18 of sitting on 3 eggs. We haven't candled them as I don't want to bother her too much (when you come near her, she pecks you like crazy. It doesn't hurt, but she seems bothered and I don't want to stress her out). She got up this morning when I came out...

Some of our Oyster Strong eggs! The blue one is from one of our newer layers- they all love the feed!

This is one of our about-to-be-laying Easter Eggers, Daisy! She, along with our other 8 ladies, LOVES the Purina Oyster Strong feed!