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Quote: hello. nice to hear you are from around here. i dont think the egg was from any other hen because it was blue and she's my only EE. i have one white leghorn that's not laying yet but would be white eggs, and a barred rock that lays small brown eggs, and a silkie that lays small cream...

Quote: well her neck was normal when i found her. it was hanging forward slightly because it was limp but it wasn't twisted backwards or anything. her feet had hardened in a pretty normal position. they were pretty close to each other similar to how they would be positioned when she's lying in...

Please Help me understand why my hen is dead. I'm quite worried that it was some kind of disease or something. I had a beautiful easter egger hen named Hemera that was getting to be about one years old soon. she was probably around 8~9 months or so. I had personally hand raised her from a...

Quote: thank you very much. that helps a lot. which one do you think would be safer to use around the eyes?

Quote: favus seems similiar but the lesions dont seem simliar at all. mine are yellow and huge lumps unlike the fine spread favus. thanks for the info though. anybody know of any otc antifungals i can also use on chickens?

Quote: sorry my camera is on the fritz. and phone camera cannot get a picture close enough. however i'm pretty sure its fungal. its not scabs because it is too big and numerous. the lesions stick out too much. plus they would've healed by now its been almost two weeks. and fowl pox probably...

Quote: the fungus is on her face and comb so i'm afraid it'll go in her eyes....

one of my chickens has spots on her comb that looks a lot like fungus. i could sort of scrape it off. i've had her on a antibiotic for a while but its not helping and the lumps are getting bigger and burrowing into the skin. i need an antifungal but i can't get nystatin since its prescription...

note to self add one more to list of things dangerous to my babies... HAIR

Quote: paint silkies? really?

i just use one of those gallon plastic waterers with the red bottoms. they are set upon 2 bricks and its just at the height of the quail's heads so they dont spill any nor drown. they also dont kick any bedding in so the water is kept extremely clean. i dont have to replace it very often. but...

i would love to buy a good quality patridge hen especially blue patridge for pickup somewhere south california if anybody has some. if not even patridge chicks would be wonderful.

anybody know what this is yet? about 5 weeks old... ignore the wet looking dad he just got a bath i'm thinking cockerel because of the way he stands....

argh stupid hatchery... hahaha.. oh welpz i guess i have a pair...

They look like wet laundry...hahaaha.. sooo the weather is too hot and the silkies are panting and dirty... time for a mass silkie bath time! i just washed them one by one and lined them up as i did... and they just SAT there until they were dry. they are the funniest things. i washed the...

i have two 9 weeks black australops that i ordered from a hatchery.... however they differ in size and one has a redder comb than another. i was wondering if one of these was a cockerel oh yea the other is not a turken it was just horribly pecked by the others

omg this is making me drool that looks amazing and your daugther is very beautiful

i have the same problem i can't tell if they are production red or RIR can someone mention some difference?

Quote: i think i remember learning about this disorder sometime during my college career (i have a b.s in clinical psychology). i dont know why i have never thought about it... but i also have diagonsed insomnia that my doctor gives me trazodone for. but doesn't really work that well. now that...