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Hi, I wonder if anyone here is knowledgeable about fowlpox? I have a cockerel who has it, we actually took him to a vet to get it confirmed and she prescribed antibiotics and a cream for his comb (expensive!). Since then I have kept him seperate and so far, fingers crossed, none of the other 4...

Hi, this is a picture of my pekin hens foot. I've treated her recently for bumblefoot, not severe and it's almost healed. She also had scaly leg mite which I managed to shift with vaseline. But I'm sure her legs useful to be black. Can someone advise if there's something else wrong here? Thanks...

Hi I have a few free range birds, two of them are polands. The problem is the keep getting diarrhoea. I have wormed them, that worked for a bit, then it comes back within a few days. If I keep them in a small cage with just pellets the diarrhoea stops too. It seems to be related to eating too...

Hi, Another quick question: I have read numerous reports of treating sour crop using monostat cream but that is only available in America. The main ingredient is miconazole nitrate. I'm getting together a chicken first aid kit so I have what I need on hand but I don't want to poison my chickens...

Hi everyone, I let the chickens out this morning, (they free range in the garden) and my pekin hen was huddled. I felt her crop and there was a hard ball of corn. I gave her some scrambled egg with oil and massaged the crop which broke up the ball of food. However she has still not pooped (other...

I want to train my pigeons to come in and out of the loft and all the necessary things of course. I was just wondering though out of interest if anyone had trained pigeons in the same way (some) people train parrots eg. to step up onto your hand, fly to you, sit on your shoulder when you're out...

I was thinking of archangel pigeons or white fantails or any of those fancy breeds? Do they tend to spend most of the time in the loft or on the ground? Thanks

I just got a young pekin and was wondering if they tend to stay on the floor? It doesn't look very aerodynamic. Thanks

Hi, Can anyone help? I have a young sebright, not started laying yet. A few days ago a rat got into the roosting shed and nested under the trays. In the morning she was doing this weird gasping thing of taking long breaths. It appeared to me to be some sort of stress behaviour. I put her in a...

Hi, I wrote a post a while back about my rescue squab. He's now still making peeping noises but looks like a full grown pigeon almost. At the moment he lives in the house and sits in the open windows watching and listening, sometimes he flies out but we have to watch him as there are so many...

Please can anyone advise? I recently added a couple of sebrights to the flock which we raised indoors from day old, so they had been quarantined. Stupid mistake, I put them all on the same perch with the other birds. I noticed one of the hens (Popcorn), who always goes next to them had lost...

I've got up this morning and a hen and a cockerel both drank gallons. The hen wasn't looking too good but she seems ok now but the sebright cockerel, who is about 4 months old is not good. He's drinking loads but then the liquid started to come out of his crop, I held him upside down and let it...

I have a squab which my partner found in a multistorey car park being attacked by magpies, it was about 12 days old but is now coming up to 16 days and looking good. I've been bottle feeding it. We love it already. However we want to be fair to it, is it right to keep one pigeon as a pet in the...

We have two welsummers which started out when we first got them laying light brown speckled eggs but when our silkie started laying, their eggs started to be white. They are so white they are difficult to identify next to the silkie's, you can only tell them apart through the shape. (We only...

I was wondering if anyone can tell me at what age chicks start to make adult noises? This is the age the chicks can start free ranging as we found with the last lot the cats lose interest when they stop the baby noises. Thanks so much.

Hi, I have a beloved silkie who can't open her eye, it looks nasty with a white crust sticking it together. Can I use human eye ointments on her? I washed it with saline solution to unstick the eyelids but she still won't open it, it does look sore. I noticed her eye was a bit gacky yesterday...

Hi, I was just wondering if anyone had experience of this? I have two welsummer hens and the biggest one, Popcorn, who is the most dominant hen rolls the other hens eggs out of the nest. This happens regardless of whether Popcorn wants to lay in that nest or not, she will simply roll the other...

My silkie cockerel jumped up startled and banged his head on a bench, he flailed on the floor for a minute and since then (over an hour) has been unconscious but as if he is fast asleep roosting. His head is upright, his feathers are fluffed like he's on his perch and he snuffles his beak like...

Hi chicken lovers, I just hope to get some advice from your bank of knowledge on bantam breeds. I'm a new chicken keeper, I had chickens as a kid but not for nearly 30 years! I have 2 silkie hens and a silkie rooster right now, all 18 weeks and I got them at a day old so they are very settled...

Hi, I thought I would post this for information for anyone else dealing with wry neck. I have a 5 week old silkie which I noticed for a few days was sitting crouched low but I thought maybe it was just because she had reduced sight due to the beard which had just come. Then she suddenly was...