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I have a 2.5 year old rooster with a comb that is so large that I had to remove a third of it because it was sitting on his eye. He was shaking his head all the time, and I thought that getting that piece of comb off his eye would put an end to that. That was a couple of years ago, and even...

My two-year-old cream legbar rooster suddenly went pail in the comb and wattles. Checking him, I found he was infested with mites, and began treating him with Ivermectin. A week later, the mites were still persistant, so I began using a spray-on permethrin treatment. The mites seem to be under...

I have an eight-month-old cockerel that has developed an enormous comb. Due to a congenital condition, the comb bends and flops over his left eye. He is constantly trying to get the comb away from the side of his face, and it's evident that it is causing him discomfort. I'm wondering whether if...

I'm looking to adopt or buy a couple of ducks to keep my lonesome Indian runner drake company. Preferably under 5 years of age, any breed - though I'd love some Indian runners or khaki Campbells. :) Am in eastern Massachusetts but can travel a bit to meet up at a drop-off location, etc. Thanks!

My chickens hatched more eggs than I was planning for, this season, and I have about 10 very nice peeps looking for a new home. They range in age from a couple of weeks to a little over a month old. Nearly all are pure-bred, black-tailed white Japanese bantams. There is a good balance of...

I have a couple dozen chicks available at the moment, from a couple weeks old to a month or so old. All are healthy and cute as buttons. Most are purebred black-tailed white Japanese bantams (Chabo). A few are mixed breed but would be great "barnyard bantam" pets. Need to be re-homed as...

In the past month, I have lost three 7- and 8-month-old Belgian D'Anvers cockerels -- two of them within a couple weeks of each other. They were part of a flock of bantam chickens of several breeds. So far, only these D'Anvers birds have sickened and died. They got sick one at a time, not all at...

I have a year-old bantam hen that has never shown any signs of poor health. But about a week ago she started showing signs of lower energy. She has been eating and drinking, but is less active and quieter than normal. Today I saw that her face is blue. It's usually a pale bare skin. Her comb and...

The annual fundraising auction for the Essex Aggie chapter of Future Farmers of America is being held @ noon on Sunday, October 20, at the Poultry Barn of the Topsfield Fairgrounds. It's rain or shine, with seating being set up outdoors if the weather is nice, and in the Poultry Barn if it...

My 2-week-old chicks have been completely healthy until today, when I noticed one chick is unable to stand, and sits back on its hocks. It's feet seem lame and limp though it can run a little before plopping down. The chicks were vaccinated for Marek's at the hatchery, but I swear the symptoms...

Hi! Over the years, people have posted again and again about how wonderful it would be if we could search by state/province in the Buy/Sell/Trade forum (and now in the Animal Re-homing forum as well). It would make searches so much easier for all, and also would help people who have animals or...

I'm looking for one or two females to increase my laying flock. Can pick up in northeastern or central Mass., southern New Hampshire or meet part way if you're farther away. While I'm primarily interested in khaki Campbell and Indian Runner ducks, other standard size breeds are also good...

I'm looking for one or two females to increase my laying flock. Can pick up in northeastern or central Mass., southern New Hampshire or meet part way if you're farther away. While I'm primarily interested in khaki Campbell and Indian Runner ducks, other standard size breeds are also good...

I'm looking for one or two females to increase my laying flock. Can pick up in northeastern or central Mass., southern New Hampshire or meet part way if you're farther away. While I'm primarily interested in khaki Campbell and Indian Runner ducks, other standard size breeds are also good...

I seem to be able to post new threads, but I can't reply to a post (even on my own thread), and there are no "emoticons" or other tools. Whenever I try to submit a post, a note comes up telling me to type some content into the box... even though I DID type content into the box! I can preview a...

It looks like a cancer. The skin around my little rooster's vent area is a black, crusty scabby, thick mass. I don't dare cut it away because there are blood vessels underneath and where a bit of the mass split, there was a little blood. I have put him in "sick bay" in a heated room and am...

The Essex County chapter of Future Farmers of America, based at Essex Agricultural & Technical High School in Hathorne (Danvers), Mass. is having its annual fundraising auction at noon on Sunday, October 14, 2012. The auction is at the Poultry Barn of the Topsfield Fairgrounds, on Rte. 1 in...

I have a 12 year old drake who started getting cloudiness in his right pupil some months ago. Today I could see that the cloudiness has filled that eye and he is blind in it. The other eye seems normal and he can see through that. My "Raising Ducks" book only says that blindness can happen as a...

When I try to write/send a private message, even though I type the message into the window, when I try to send the message a notice pops up saying to "type a message" as though there were nothing there. It thinks the message window is empty and won't send. When I write a post on a thread, I...

I have a 12-year-old African gander that has been in good health since I bought him as a young adult. A few years ago, he developed a case of bumblefoot, with a small "bumble" on the side of an outer toe. It didn't impeded his walking, stayed localized, and I decided then that treating it might...