Hello everyone! This is a guide about how to save your chickie or duckie from flystrike!
I'm going to put the how to first, just in case you’re in dire need of this information.
At the end of this article I will write about my story and how I came to find this.
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My black copper maran, Griffin, is has lost weight, stopped eating, and her abdomen is swollen. Her comb is droopy. I suspect a broken egg inside of her that got infected, but I’ve had two or three chickens pass from this.
The vet is not an option.
Anyone know the best way to treat this? I...
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I posted yesterday about my chicken being sick and we came to the consensus that she was suffering from ascites. I just performed the liquid withdrawal procedure with a syringe and got 105ml(3.5 fl oz) out of her(well within the safe range). Unfortunately, I had to stick her 3...
please help! We were out of town for two weeks (with a pet sitter in place) and returned to find my six year old orphington to have pasty butt and a sore on her vent after I gently bathed her and washed all her poop away. She’s pretty lethargic, still will eat and drink from a syringe but lays...
I currently have 9 full grown chickens and would love to get more. I plan on getting some more baby chicks soon but I have a few questions.
All 9 currently live in the same cage and when I get more chicks soon, i plan on keeping them separate for atleast 3 months. One of my questions is, what...
Hi all! We've had a rough year with our hens! The most recent issue has been lice (we have begun treatment, rural area), but we've had 3 hens die VERY quickly, and unexpectedly. They are young, not egg bound, nothing visibly wrong with 2 of them, the 3rd had extreme diarrhea and all had been...
I have a 2-1/2 month old silkie and i've started to notice when she jumps or starts moving after she was still she twitches and dips her head often, also when i pick her up her head twists 180 degrees. When i put her down her head goes back straight but then dips it a bit then shes back to...
I have two hens with vent gleet. I have been using anti fungal cream; getting gloves on and smearing some around their vents. It helps, but as soon as I stop (putting the anti fungal cream on them), the vent fleet comes right back! Who knows about a more efficient treatment?
I appreciate your...
My week old pastel call pullet and my four day old blue fawn call drakelet have clogged nostrils and are breathing only through their bills. The four day old black east indies pullet that is being raised with them has shown no signs of these symptoms. They have access 24/7 to clean water in...
About 6 weeks ago, our relatively young Crested Cream Legbar (old enough for the coop but not laying yet) looked like she had an injured wing. She was dragging it on the ground and didn't seem to be able to move it. We tried wrapping it, but she kept managing to get it undone.
About a week...
So I just have to share this new product I got in my chicken subscription box. (See photo) I noticed one of my Turken hens had a big gash on the skin on her head from where she was getting picked on by the flock. All bloody, raw and pretty deep. I dabbed some of that Red-Kote on and let her back...
Hello. Recently, our chicken which we got around 5 years ago has been visibly ill. The thing is, we have no idea what is causing this illness or how to cure it. For the past two weeks, she has been having Diarrhoea/ a very watery substance, rarely solid at all. This lead to her having very mucky...
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I'm new to this forum but have been checking out Backyard chickens for a while. I have had chickens for over 35 years (mostly banties) and haven't had too many health problems but I recently bought some 4 week old mixed breed chicks and have a problem that I don't know how to fix...