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so, yesterday I HB some eggs and left them on the counter over night. Do I need to toss them? ☹️

I know there is so much info out here on worming...almost too much to sift through. My friend's chickens have round worms. I know she can treat with wazine...but I'd rather her use safe-guard 10% goat suspension or even valbezen. Because her chickens aren't used to being handled, can she...

I have 2 broody chickens. The first one went broody 3 weeks ago and she has been in her own coop that is 8x10 with an enclosed outside pen for a couple months now because we were trying to integrate her (and her man) with the main flock--then she when broody. This coop is attached to my main...

We are kind of new to quail. I have 4 females and I think one male (although he makes no noise yet and he is plenty old enuff) in a brooder pen,; in another pen I have 20 younger quail (about 3 weeks younger) various sexes (at least 4 males, they are making male calls). I'd like to combine...

Hi, I'm new to qual, but have lots of chickens.  My husband and I purchased a dozen Courtnix the other day. They  are almost 3 weeks old.  We have them outside in a large breeder pen. Construction wire bottom, and solid rooftop. 3 sides of the pen are chicken wire, one wall (the inner wall) is...

We had floods here in SW Alabama the other day and my coop has a dirt floor but took on a lot of water and debris..there were about two feet of oak leaves and sticks and sandy dirt in the coop. I have hauled all the debris out and am back down to the damp earth. No standing water, just damp...

I posted yesterday that I had a couple 6 week old chicks w cocci. I have the main population on corrid as well as the two isolated chicks. After 3 full days on corrid they are so much better. Eating and drinking and chirping away. The main population appears to be fine, no new illnesses. All...

I have a couple chicks with cocci. This is the second day they have been on corrid and appear to be doing better. They are drinking water, chirping much more and even eating ocassionally, but their poop is thick and congealed like jelly and bloody. Yesterday it was more mucus-like, and not as...

I have a broody Cochin. As I realized that she was broody I put several eggs under her--she has been on them for 2 days. This morning she was off the nest and in another box--sitting on another egg. I felt the eggs and most were cool. I removed the ones that I hadn't marked and put in a...

2 days ago I lost a few chickens. I noticed that several of them had puffy crops like water balloons. I was able to drain them and they had lots of cracked corn and fluid in there and it was smelly. I have put them on a diet of hard boiled eggs, olive oil, and Stoney field organic yogurt...

i have several chickens that have developed respitory symptoms right now. Last year I vacinnated my hatch for Newcastle-bronchitis and in doing so many of them developed symptoms and died. They shared that with my existing flock and I am still dealing with it. Periodically they get the runny...

What do you get when you cross a barred rock rooster with NH red hens? I thought it would create a Delaware. After all, that is how the Delaware breed came about, isn't it? And, would this BR Roo/ NH red mix be sex-linked like it is in the reverse? Go easy on me, I'm not a scientist and...

My friend killed 60 of his rabbits one time cuz he fed them cabbage. Apparently they don't have the ability to pass gas!! Do I need to worry about this with chickens (and goats if anyone knows)? I have a friend who gave me her leftover cabbages fm her garden.

I am gathering some eggs to incubate...how long can I hold them before I have to incubate them? I turn them everyday and am keeping them in my barn until I get enough to incubate...

Someone told me yesterday not to feed my chickens collards or sweet potatoes because it causes them to stop laying. Had anyone else ever heard of such a thing? My chickens don't get this very often --but I do usually give em most of my kitchen scraps which would include collard stems and sweet...

I haven't had a chicken go broody in over 3 yrs. What's wrong? I used to have 3RIR bantams and they hatched me 4 babies. I decided I wanted to get standard chickens, so I gave my friend the 3 hens and a too. Within a month or so she had a dozen eggs and they all hatched. Since 2009, I have...

I am curious about giving vitamins to my chickens to help maintain their health. Curious what others do/use or even think about the idea. As some of you may have read in another post, I vaccinated my birds and they are taking on the symptoms of what I vaccinated them for. None have died, but...

Good morning" Last week I vaccinated my flock for NC/IB via their water supply. This morning I have found 3 hens and a rooster with symptoms... Watery eyes, sneezing, gurgling.. Is this normal after vaccinating or do I need to separate and start an antibiotic or will work through this?

Looking for breeder in panhandle of Florida or SW Alabama area...

So....we found what appears to be a pullet egg in the hen house...u know, real small like a bantam egg...my chickens are all standard sizes. My youngest chickens are 10 months old--and my oldest are one year 9months. What would cause that small egg now. I routinely collect 24 or more eggs a...