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    Genetics question on breeding Cochins

    Hello all I am set up to breed Cochins. I have two roosters, a mottled and a lemon splash. My mottled carries black, some blue somewhere and mottled. My lemon splash carries all sorts of weird colors. He assumably carries buff and blue, but when I bred him to a lemon blue bird from his same...
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    How in the heck do you figure out the dosage for wormer?

    I bought safeguard pellets. Poultry DVM says chickens should have 50mg for 5 days. Well that works out to be .002 of an ounce for each chicken. I have 20 chickens and did the math. That doesn’t make any sense, how can you have 4% of an ounce for all 20 chickens? How in the heck does anyone...
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    What diseases look like Marek’s but aren’t?

    Hello all, Which diseases look like Marek’s but aren’t? I have a chicken that can’t walk and is uncoordinated but all that comes up when I search that is Marek’s. None of the other symptoms match. They also don’t match to New Castles. Maybe something that is genetic or not passed by a virus?
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    Hen tipping over

    I have a hen that keeps tipping over. Only to one side. She can stand and walk some but if she tips over its hard for her to get upright again. It’s sort of like she can’t get her foot up under her. I right away thought the worst and started checking for symptoms of merek’s. She does not have...
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    Questions about coccidiosis (not urgent)

    I posted earlier this weekend about sick chicks... well so far I’ve lost all but one. I’m heartbroken. I got undiluted Corid down him and the other two still remaining but they both died and this little rooster is still going. He’s even standing up and was sitting on top of his water earlier...
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    Birds not responding to corid

    I had 5 chicks hatch May 25 of this year. I have had zero problems with them until yesterday. I believe they have coccidiosis and I will explain why later in this post. When I noticed them acting lethargic I started Corid treatment, mixing it in their water and I left them alone to drink it. I...
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