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I have a little silkier Cockrell who tidbitted for the girls at a very young age, but he was also a jerk to them sometimes. He's sticking around long enough to make a pot of soup. If he were a bigger breed, he'd have been gone long ago.

it would be very traumatic for me. She is one of my two original (well, had four, the other two were cockerels) chickens that I raised inside as house chickens, so they are very affectionate and love me in their own little chicken ways. My husband was attached to the cockerel, I don't know why...

just wanted to update in the cockerel that I was suspicious of due to his behavior towards me. He started abusing the two dominant girls because they were "mine" and he didn't like it so took it out on them. I started to notice eggs with a thick band around them (indicating a fracture that was...

You should be able to see the gapeworm, if it is a gape worm, right? You can also use Ivermectin against gapworms, I thought? It would be easier for me to find locally then valbazen. Don't you have to order that online?

When was the last time you wormed your flock?

nipple waterers are a God send! The horizontal ones don't leak really at all! The normal type of waterer just smells horrible after sitting out for just a couple hours.

I'm pretty sure this incident was just foreshadowing that he was feeling ill. Illness can put an animal on a hair trigger.

I believe most of that influence came from elsewhere and one individual that said they tried to beat up their cock but it didn't work.

don't cease the antibiotics before you complete a full course. Can you look inside his throat and see if anything is in there?

I would treat with corid and valbazen for this guy. You say his but looks weird? Does it look like vent gleet? A sore, red, feather-picked bum is indicative of mites. You can't always see mites on the bird. I just treated my flock with frontline spray, and everyone is ACTING like they are...

I believe it stems from the arrogance that "we" are "higher" than "animals" whenever all we are is animals who have managed to take over the world at the expense of everything else.

even when positive and constructive words are used...it's better just to avoid it all together..."sorry, I guess I got no advice for ya" type thing.

I have to admit, some people are just super sensitive to criticism so I try not to say the way they are doing it is wrong lol

people hate when I compare my animals to their children.....

I had to read this to my husband...He doesn't understand why I get so upset that he does what he does with rescue dogs....I would say easily 90% of dogs that came into rescue, at least part of it...was "screaming" in the crate. This is when a training tool goes bad in the hands of the novice who...

I think this is just a situation of different people handling animals in different ways. Neither is wrong. And if you two were to switch processes, it probably wouldn't work out at all because it is your processes that work for you and your individual characteristics/beliefs. Its the same with...

Also, keep in mind, each person carries his or herself in a certain way, that's why some things work for other people and not for otgers. Why some people never have a problem and some do. Not to mention the lines. I got some truly terrible birds as hatching eggs the only non-deformed one was...

As for why it seems to be around 2 or 3 years, its because that's when they've got their big boy pants on and finally feel old enough to...DO something about it whether it be take over the flock as alpha cock or make you stop messing with HIS girls. Just my .02 FWIW

I'm sorry that you are feeling so much frustration with this whole experience. That's one thing about such a vast user base. Not everyone would normally be your "friend" in real life, so realistically...this type of undesireable response is not something you would expect to hear in your real...

you can say that again.