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    Bites on me from handling chickens?

    Hello-- Not sure if this is the right category for this "problem." Yesterday morning my friend spent about an hour in my henhouse doctoring my rooster who had been attacked by a dog. (The rooster is doing better today, he has a very stiff neck and we were hand feeding him but today he has...
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    My chicken nightmare continues! Now worms!

    Summary (see my earlier post from a couple days ago, it's a long story)...lice, respiratory infection, dog attack...started after bringing 3 new birds into my flock. I have culled 2 symptomatic hens (foul smelling nasal discharge, eyes swollen shut, lethargic) I am currently treating the...
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    Questions about coryza.

    No replies to my original posts but updating anyway. It was a very long day! I removed all the old litter (I have a pretty big henhouse) cleaned out all the nest boxes and then sprayed everything down with bleach solution. I sprinkled DE, then put in all new pine litter. I decided to cull...
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    Questions about coryza.

    Hello-- I had posted earlier that I am currently treating my flock for coryza. I have two Polish hens that have severe symtoms, and have noticed minor symptoms in my 2 roos and one or two other hens. I have close to 30 birds of varying breeds. I do not free range because of heavy predation...
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    which antibiotic???

    I am currently treating my flock for coryza (I have close to 30, with 4 symptomatic). I had them on Terramycin (tetracycline) for 3 days, but switched them to sulfamethoxine today which a friend got from a large animal vet on on the vet's advice. I will be spending today cleaning out and...
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    Coryza (?) Nightmare...hard lesson learned...

    I learned a very hard lesson...I neglected my best judgement and a fundamental rule of chicken keeping and added 3 new silkies I purchased at a fur and feather swap in Sept to my flock without quarantining them first. A week later I found one of the newbies dead under the roost. I didn't think...
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    Rear end coming out of 4 day old chick

    I had this happen early this summer with a 4 week old chick. She had poo all over her and it was really raw. For 3 days I continually washed the area in warm water and chlorhexidine, would apply preH and push it back in. It kept coming back out. One morning I didn't want to deal with it...
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    Update on pet store rescue chicks

    Well, so far so good (for the most part) The 10 chicks with the severe foot problems are all still alive, eating drinking and peeping happily. I have been changing their bedding pine shavings) daily and continuing with the antibiotics in the water. I have noticed that on one or two the foot...
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    Rescued Pet Store Chicks with dead foot/toes!

    Thank you all for the support. The girls at the pet store said a man had incubated them and brought them in at 1 day old. She said she noticed a few days later that some of their toes "looked dead" and some were even bloody, and called him but niether he nor she knew what the problem was (and...
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    Rescued Pet Store Chicks with dead foot/toes!

    Thanks for the help. Fortunately I've raised many a chick. I have an assorted flock of about 40 (Ameracaunas, barred and partridge rock, cuckoo marans, buff orpingtons, Polish, BLR Wyandotte, etc). Wasn't looking for any new babies a the moment though, but I just couldn't leave them there...
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    Rescued Pet Store Chicks with dead foot/toes!

    Hello! Got myself into another situation today. I stopped by the local pet store and found a batch of week old chicks (why, WHY at a pet store?). They were on a pelleted bedding, which was moist and not under any heat source. Upon closer inspection I noted that many of them were hopping...
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