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I just treated 5 days with corid for cocsi in my entire flock and just yesterday cut down to the mainteance dose of corid for another 7 days just to make sure. At the same time, i have an ongoing feather picking problem and its not just one flock member as everyone is effected. I have already...

While all my chicken care was previously in Central Florida where freezing water is not a thing, I have since moved to Kentucky and have been trying to figure out how to supply water for 50 chickens in the winter without putting out 6 or 8 heated waterers and getting electric to all of them...

I have been here a little over 9 years and all that time with my chickens have been spent in Florida. I have now moved back to Kentucky where it gets cold. Boy its been a long time since i posted. I have a 100 foot garden hose ran to the chicken house so i can clean and refill their waterers...

Seriously, has anyone ever seen anything like this come out of a chicken ? I have no clue what this is but the white rock it came out of is big and healthy but certainly not feeling well right now. After I found this under her this morning, I isolated her and watched her today. I puked her once...

I have a speckled Sussex and a lavender orpington that have sour crop. I have no idea what brought it on or if there is an underlying condition causing it. I have dealt with crop problems many times and they always seem to elude me as far as the correct treatment. I had an older Sussex that I...

I have a cream leg bar that has a history of crop impactions / hard yeast balls. well she went into a molt and developed another one. I have dosed her with two crows spice mix to no avail, vage cream to no avail, mineral oil to not avail, stool softeners to no avail and everything I can think of...

I have a 4 year old speckled sussex hen that had a doughy crop and i treated that and things seem to have gone hill. She does not seem to be recovering so I'm looking for help. I treated the doughy crop with the following spice mix formula and that resolved the dough ball. 1/2tsp ginger 1/2tsp...

I have a 2 year old americana that i found in the hen house a couple months back, laying on her side on the floor with her legs outstretched and stiff. i thought this was going to be a life ending event. we put her in a nesting box and tried to get her legs under her so she would be proped up...

We are on the Space Coast of Florida and have a massive roach problem in the big enclosed outside run and a somewhat big population inside the hen house. We clean the poop boards under the roosts EVERY day without fail. We just cleaned the entire house and put down 4" of new large pine shavings...

I have a silver laced wyandotte thats about 3 years old that has been doing this and i just could never figure out who it was. I finally caught her on video doing it. We do not have any roosters and never have had. I guess we do now. She does this EVERY morning about 6 to 8 times. Anyone ever...

We are located on the east cost of florida near cape canaveral. I put all the girls in their house at 1pm today. the windows are boarded shut. there are vents and fans running but no windows open. it appears that we are going to get slammed until at least monday early evening bu hurricane irma...

I have been reading a lot of discussion of how to feed new additions to the flock that are not of adulthood yet and seem to have no solid answer. We just integrated 6- 1.5 month old chicks into the main flock. In the past we have waited until they were 4 months old to integrate. This integration...

So i have searched a lot and i guess im not using the right key words to find the info im looking for. Here is what i need input on I know its not safe to cook with teflon pans when you have chicks nearby. My question is can you use ceramic pans like the greenware stuff at the walmart or is...

Does anyone have any information on frost white leg bars ? Is this a breed that was just invented? How did they even do that ? It appears that the pullet newborns are $75 each. Im concerned with how this chicken was developed and if its a bad thing. I really like the look of this chicken but i...

Does anyone know where i can buy some lavender Orpingtons that are pullets ? I only need 4 to 6 but must be female. thanks

Im blind or have gone crazy. I have been looking for the list of breeds with their descriptions on the site for over 1/2 hour and cant find it. Has it been deleted or am i just blind or stupid ?

I have a real problem thats developed. See the pic from the camera thats in the run. It was taken last night. I have know i had a problem with a couple of rats but i had no idea it had come to this. I have caught a couple of them with a no kill trap but they have wised up to it and its of no...

we have a 1.25 year old girl that has pressure in the backside and is swollen. we took her to a friend that thought she may have sour crop and maybe a non developed egg inside her because of the swelling in her backside. we gave her a warm bath for 30 to 40 mins then injected 10cc of olive oil...

I currently have a sick chicken that has diarrhea and her bottom is extremely dirty. Is it okay for me to make a tub of lukewarm water and Wash her Bottom in it by setting her in that water and gently trying to get her clean?

Does anyone know what is wrong with this girls eye ? She has been lethargic for the last couple of days. Yesterday i picked her up and saw her eye like this. I made her a scrambled egg with yogurt and meal worms because it seemed that her crop was empty. Today i offered her the same treat but...