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Tetracycline is for eye infections I believe. You should try Tylan 50 or Duramycin for respiratory illness. However, make sure you follow directions with dosage and also DO NOT harvest eggs for 30 days after starting.

Makes perfect sense - thank you!

I have 24 hens and they eat a 40lb sack of food every week. Does that seem right? They didn't go through this way food in the summer, fall, and early winter.

It's not letting me upload pics - not sure why?

Mine are exactly like this. I tried to feed them all types of lettuce/spinach but they refuse to eat it. However, the entire flock will destroy a head of cabbage in a day or two when I hang it in their run.

Another question - lol. How do they know to eat it?

What type of container do you guys use to give oyster shells/grit to your flock? I need some ideas to offer these without the chickens scratching and spreading all over the coop.

Not sure if this is the right thread but I was wondering if it's alright to let chickens mate who are siblings? I mean, I'm not letting them but they run free and I'm sure will keep breeding. If not, what should I do to make them stop? Trap and cull?

Just wondering, where do you get enough dragonflies to feed lol

She is a Black Breasted OEGB and the rooster is a Golden Grey Duckwing. No other hens live in her coop so the eggs were all hers.

My Old English Game Bantam laid 18 eggs and finally set on them a couple weeks ago. The hatch date was supposed to be 8/17 but they've been hatching the past couple days with a few more pipped and on the way. My understanding is that they were all supposed to hatch together. Now I'm confused...

Mine hatched 9 out her 18 eggs yesterday. So should I remove the chicks to a brooder and let her hatch the rest? If I do that, will she accept the chicks if they're out of her sight for a week or so? I don't want her to peck them when returned after the remaining eggs are hatched.

I have eggs that hatched a week earlier than what I thought because the hen didn't start going broody until two weeks ago. However, when I went to check on her in the morning as I usually do, there were a few chicks hatched. When I returned from work today, there was a total of seven chicks...

I just grabbed a few and brought them home to release them in my backyard. My original plan was to build a pen along my back fence but I read that they'll survive on their own. Maybe next summer I will build that pen. It's got trees that are big enough for roosting spot but small enough to...

Cuckoo Marans

I've checked her, the coop, and nest box. Her tail is perked up like the rest of the girls. Is it because she's looking for a place to lay or could it be something bad?

Please help, my hen walks around and squawks all day. Not like a rooster but like she's angry and irritated. Not sure why she doing it because none of the other birds are doing it.

Thank you! I will look for a thread on candling

One of my hens just went broody. She has laid an egg a day for the last 17 days. Her and my rooster are especially close but I've never seen him mount her. Although they are good friends and I've seen him try, there hasn't been one instance where he was successful. However, I usually work...

Had my first real hawk alarm today. It is definitely an unmistakable sound that'll get your attention every time. Usually my rooster make a sound when crows fly overhead but today there was a actual hawk above. My hens ran into their coop faster than I've ever seen them and would not come...