I have heard that you shouldn't eat eggs from hens being treated with antibiotics. Mine were on Duramycin 10 from Durvet. It's a tetracycline Hydrochloride so I am assuming the rules holds for them also. I have continued to collect the eggs, but am keeping them separate. I am terrible frugal and...
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I stopped the antibiotics two days ago, it didn't seem to be helping much. I have been giving them plain cooked oatmeal with cod liver oil, eggs, and yogurt. Boy do they chow down. I been giving it to them a little on the warm side since we have had freezing weather the last couple of...
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Thanks FS, and "howdie" from an other Washingtonian: originally from Seattle but up in Skagit county now--couldn't handle the traffic!
I would have put it in the metal one had you not given me a heads up.
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Whoa! I had no idea there was such a range of "normal" chicken doocoo. LOL I never thought I would be studying chicken poop, but I love my girls and anything in the line of duty.
I checked them this morning and it looks like only one has loose stools, the hen with the faded looking...
I recently took in 2 BC marans and a wheaton maran from a local chicken owner along with a buff Orpington. They were all hatched this year. I have quarantined them for a couple of months now. They eat and drink fine, scratch around, preen, lay, basically act fairly normal.
There are a few...
Hello all,
Just picked up my half dozen 2 month old pullets (I hope) from a local breeder so I am now an official backyard chicken wrangler. We opted for one of each: white Brahma, Blue Cochin, Golden lace white Cochin, Silver Lace Ameraucuna, an Aracuna (sp), and a Rhode Island Red (nod to...