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Hey, folks. Thanks in advance for any experience you can share with this. We have one of our feral peas indoors recovering from frostbite. These are stray birds that took up residence on our Minnesota farm, so I am not at fault for the frostbite, but I still feel responsible for caring for...

Hello peafolks, Once again, I'm embroiled in the drama of our local feral peafowl. A stray peahen laid eggs on our farm, right where our solar array was being installed in June. I rescued the eggs from the wheels of the Bobcat and incubated them thinking the hen might come back around (she...

Hi friends, We've got a year-old Ancona duck female who we've been treating for mild bumblefoot for 5 days. We're doing Epsom salts and Tricide Neo soaks twice daily. The bumbles never got huge or nasty, so we didn't debride them. This morning, the bumbles look better BUT her right leg has no...

Is something miserable just getting started in our flock, friends? We've got 8-week old Buckeyes, on grass, organic grower rations. Vaccinated for Marek's. Three days ago, we found a bird paralyzed, legs and one wing. One leg tended to stretch out, and the toes of the other curled, so we...

Argh, friends...I'm mostly looking for sympathy. We performed a very successful (but stressful) surgery on our year-old barred rock to clear an impacted mess of grass out of her crop. She recovered beautifully and was inside with us for three weeks post-surgery because we had that wicked cold...

Hi friends, Our bird, Spunky, has been sick since July and we've been trying to figure out what's going on. I posted a couple months back and folks thought maybe MG, maybe coryza. We've been trying to address some of the possibilities. She's had supportive care the whole time and has neither...

Greetings, Chicken Oracles, We have this ongoing thing with a poorly hen and can't figure what's going on. Grateful, as always, for any insight and guidance. 1) What type of bird , age and weight (does the chicken seem or feel lighter or thinner than the others.) Buckeye hen, 5 months...

Hey folks, Our whole flock is plagued by low-grade respiratory crud (maybe CRD) and I'm thinking of giving them neem tea. There's a gouldian finch breeder out there on the internet who swears by it. If you have any experience with neem given in water or food I'd be grateful for your wisdom...

We haven't see our three remaining ferals in a few days. I think that having our dogs out with us in the orchards maybe drove them off. I'm so sad -- I put so much effort into keeping them alive through the winter and spend so many hours worrying about them, and now that it's the spring season...

Hey folks, Any advice welcome!! A feral peahen raised a brood on our farm this summer and the Minnesota winter has been hard on the three 6-month-old chicks. We have a house flock of chickens, but know nothing about peafowl. Yesterday, I found one of the male chicks with a badly broken foot...

Hey folks, Any advice welcome!! A feral peahen raised a brood on our farm this summer and the Minnesota winter has been hard on the three 6-month-old chicks. We have a house flock of chickens, but know nothing about peafowl. Yesterday, I found one of the male chicks with a badly broken foot...

Hello friends, This summer, a peahen showed up on our fruit farm. She's hatched a clutch and we see her in the seaberries and vineyards with her 4 chicks. She's noisy but we enjoy her company. We don't really know what to expect. Will she and all the chicks likely stick around our farm...

Hi folks, We found two stray hens. After 6 weeks of quarantine, one started limping with flaccid paralysis in one foot. She seemed to plateau and showed no other signs. Figured it was an injury. Integrated them into the flock. All other birds are fine. They've been together for three weeks...

Hi all, Hen with sour crop. Got the 7-day generic cream with miconazole nitrate and have given her two doses of about 3 ccs each. Then I read a posting from a few years back that says the cream is toxic. Ingredients of the cream I bought are here: Active Ingredients: Miconazole Nitrate...

Hi all, We've got a giant avocado tree, and probably shouldn't even have chickens because of the trouble the avocado causes them. One of our girls ate a fair amount of a fruit yesterday before we caught it. Today, she's listless, fluffed up, and eyes closed. Anyone have ideas for any...

Hi folks, We took in a stray hen in bad shape. Nursed her and her buddy to good health, then three weeks ago this one hen developed a serious limp - what I'm describing as flaccid paralysis of her foot/leg. So, three weeks have passed and she's eating well, looking bright, but still...

Hello from Oakland, Chicken Keepers, Here's the story: Two sad, sad hens appeared on our city block about four weeks ago. They were underweight and in full molt (their first, I think). We've isolated and fed them well and got them looking perky. They even started to lay daily. Then, last...

Hello friends, Some weeks back I posted about two pullets that got dumped off on our dead-end block in Oakland. We've had them in quarantine in our garage and they were doing quite well. Their feathers filled in, they looked perky and they even started to lay. Today, one of them has started...

Hello friends, We're in East Oakland, CA, and have a backyard flock of our own. A few days ago, every one of the neighbors on our block came ringing our doorbell to ask if we'd lost chickens (we hadn't). Finally, after dark, tearful older lady came and said that the two stray hens were...

Hi all, Please help if you can. I have two malingering hens who are off their feed. I isolate them, they recover and turn fiesty, I put them back, they get sick again. Rest of the flock is fine so far. This has been going on for 2 months. Maran hen, 1.5 years old. Only eats treats when I...