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 Topic: Can turkeys get colds? |
spicycauldron
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 Forum: Poultry Posted: Tue Jul 31, 12 8:13 am Subject: Can turkeys get colds? |
| All birds, like us and many other animals, are susceptible to a wide variety of colds and influenzas as well as pneumonia. The majority don't cross from species to species and, of course, the flu isn' ... |
| Topic: Found chicks near leeds...broody Rejected them. Please help! |
spicycauldron
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Tue Jul 31, 12 8:06 am Subject: Found chicks near leeds...broody Rejected them. Please help! |
| I was very lucky after my disastrous hatch (three dead in shell, two dead as soon as hatched, one hatched by me *completely* - made no effort itself - but went on to thrive and is a hen I'm keeping). ... |
| Topic: Pekin boys available, Skipton, BD23, North Yorkshire |
spicycauldron
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Tue Jul 31, 12 8:01 am Subject: Pekin boys available, Skipton, BD23, North Yorkshire |
| Well, my last Lemon Millefleur Sabelpoot boy has been reserved but I need to find homes for my beautiful Pekin boys urgently. They're in great health and fine voice. One Cuckoo, one Lemon Cuckoo, one ... |
| Topic: chick with wound - what can I do? |
spicycauldron
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Wed Jul 11, 12 9:40 am Subject: chick with wound - what can I do? |
| I had a quail hen scalped by the male. Separated her out and she's made a full recovery. Cleaned the wound daily by using purple spray. Didn't think she'd make it but those two - the spray and separat ... |
| Topic: Pekins/Sabelpoot boys available, N. Yorkshire |
spicycauldron
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Wed Jul 11, 12 9:35 am Subject: Pekins/Sabelpoot boys available, N. Yorkshire |
Hi all
I've got three Pekin boys available - 2 x b&w cuckoo, 1 x lemon cuckoo - in Skipton, North Yorkshire. I'm left with just one Lemon Millefleur Sabelpoot (aka Booted Bantam) boy. All nine ... |
| Topic: Source for day-old bantams needed in Yorkshire/Lancs |
spicycauldron
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Mon May 21, 12 1:53 pm Subject: Source for day-old bantams needed in Yorkshire/Lancs |
| Thanks. The silkies are due Saturday, isn't that a bit late to be popping her or him under the broody with them? I've got a number of little soft toys and a wooly hat ready for when she/he emerges fro ... |
| Topic: Source for day-old bantams needed in Yorkshire/Lancs |
spicycauldron
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Mon May 21, 12 11:39 am Subject: Source for day-old bantams needed in Yorkshire/Lancs |
Hi all
I've had a disastrous hatch of frizzle chamois Polands (from ebay username 2010berty133) that had four dead in shell after pipping, one dead immediately after hauling itself out of shell and ... |
| Topic: Sterile peritonitis |
spicycauldron
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu Apr 26, 12 2:54 pm Subject: Sterile peritonitis |
| I had a fascinating morning at the vets. I took an ex-battery hen with peritonitis a few weeks back, no egg inside her and so she was put on Baytril and painkillers/anti-inflammatories to see if it go ... |
| Topic: Silkie cockerels: safe around chicks? |
spicycauldron
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu Apr 26, 12 2:45 pm Subject: Silkie cockerels: safe around chicks? |
Thanks Mutton, Woodburner
I think I'll leave him with the hen, then, take the chance and watch him carefully. Nature is amazing - I still marvel every day at the fact that he definitely knows his h ... |
| Topic: Silkie cockerels: safe around chicks? |
spicycauldron
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Tue Apr 24, 12 4:28 pm Subject: Silkie cockerels: safe around chicks? |
| I've heard say, but not from someone with first-hand experience, that Silkie cockerels are okay to keep with a brooding hen and, subsequently, her chicks as well. Is this true? Allegedly, Silkie cocke ... |
| Topic: ?mycoplasmosis |
spicycauldron
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Fri Mar 30, 12 5:33 pm Subject: ?mycoplasmosis |
| Well, mycoplasma is a weird one, being a micro-organism with fungal characteristics and really quite unique. Yes, it's highly infectious but it needn't be a death sentence if treated early enough. As ... |
| Topic: Chickens As Pets ebook |
spicycauldron
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu Mar 22, 12 7:36 am Subject: Chickens As Pets ebook |
| If you would like to put one together, one of us in the 'Publishing' group can add it to the Articles section for you. One of us can format it, or you can do it yourself - it needs to be in basic HTML ... |
| Topic: Chickens As Pets ebook |
spicycauldron
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Sat Mar 17, 12 6:28 am Subject: Chickens As Pets ebook |
I think iBooks is very much part of the future. It's being looked at by various businesses now because of the limitations of .pdf.
Good luck, keep us up to date. 
(We need an article on writi ... |
| Topic: Cough/sneeze and sticky eyes = myco? |
spicycauldron
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu Mar 15, 12 9:04 am Subject: Cough/sneeze and sticky eyes = myco? |
| I've experience of myco and lost a couple of hens to it but it's a garden flock and I didn't want the upset or expense of a cull I couldn't bring myself to do. Replacing my birds in one hit would've c ... |
| Topic: Chickens As Pets ebook |
spicycauldron
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Forum: Poultry Posted: Thu Mar 15, 12 8:46 am Subject: Chickens As Pets ebook |
Neil and colour it green: thank you both! Kindness appreciated.
I'll update when Apple puts the iPad edition up for sale as that's going to be the first-ever interactive touchscreen iBook about ch ... |
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