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I am pretty sure I had IB about 4 week ago. Sneezing, rattling breathing noices, a few with symptoms, some without. My rooster was sneezing and wheezing. My hens stopped laying within the week, and now four weeks later, I have one or two out of 8 that are laying. Should I cull them all now...

My flock (one rooster and 8 hens) suffered through a mild virus infection about a week ago. Not all birds showed sign of disease, some were mildly depressed and the rooster had heavy breathing and sneezing. Since the rooster is my pet cuddling rooster, I treated him with antibiotics to prevent...

Did you see difference in wing feathers when they started to come out?

Hello, I seem to have a hen with leg pain too.. did your hen's problem resolve itself? Kind regards, Cat.

That is great news. I still have hope. I have a new hen (loaner hen), and Oskar is all alone with her. In another pen sits a loaner rooster Sune with my 3 other hens. It may have been the problem with the hens not letting the rooster cover them. I saw that with the new rooster, Sune, he would...

Dear Sumi, Thank you for that reply. My mother in Sweden (12 hours car drive away) is going in for surgery (cancer) and I had thought of taking Pip along, so that my mother could enjoy him. I was thinking of just making his carrier box really dark. During these hard times for my family, I find...

I now have a 10 day old little chicken happily sitting in my lap while I am typing. His name is Pip, pronounced in Swedish, Peep. Well, at least that is what he told me. His mother left the eggs, and I hatched him or her out. It is an Ukkelse baardkriel, a small Belgian breed. I am wondering how...

blindness.. could be Marek's disease. http://animalscience.ucdavis.edu/avian/mareks2.pdf Any other signs? Cat.

that is a good thought.. but then they might want to adopt chickens!... and will those chickens all crow? I sometimes wonder if he is more interested in larger hens, as he seemed to fraternize with my large layers, but showed no interest in his small own breed hens. His salvation has been that...

I come back, and again read all these nice comments. I have had a year of adventure. A rooster who did not want to cover his girls. Finding adoptive chicks for the broody hens since they lay on empty eggs. Then finding adoptive eggs. Have had one killed by a ferret, two by Marek's disease. Have...

I have a rooster Oskar that did not seem at all interested in jumping his girls for a whole year. I have now borrowed a second rooster Sune and moved out Oskar to solitary confinement in the hope of getting some chicks. I would still love to have chicks from Oskar, he is an old Flemmish breed...

My Cat Leo caught my little three week old Ida yesterday. Ida is a foster daughter of my Antwerpse baardkriel (small old Belgian breed). Ida is going to be a red layer, if she makes it. I screamed at Leo and he let go of Ida. She had ventured through the fencing to the yard so her mother could...

Hi hoo, I have browsed this site for a while now, and finally got myself registered. I live in Belgium, about 25 km outside Brussels. It is very common to have a few backyard hens in Belgium. I have a few regular red layers, and have also started with some Antwerpse baardkriel. This is an old...