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    Just Dispatched My First Rat Snake of the Year.

    Mine too. They get some eggs so I just have to go out and collect more often. I give the snakes the smallest eggs. No reason to kill the snakes.
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    Battle with a bobcat

    I was a wildlife rehabilitator and treated broken wings in songbirds. We would place the broken wing back into a normal configuration and line up the bones then wrap the wing and wrap it to the body to stabilize it. I hope he recovers to get to this stage.
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    Pullet nasty to chicks

    The reds can be feisty. Most are fine. I agree a good rooster will keep her in line and a home with no chicks. I have production reds and other red breeds and they do squabble more than the others but are nice birds. I don't do chicks and have roos to go with my 60 hens though. They are mostly...
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    Premature chicks

    I was a wildlife rehabber for 25 years and they are right that those are NOT chickens. They are easy to kill at that age if you aren't careful. Heat important.
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    Amoxicillin and chickens

    He's a farm animal vet and seemed to know how to treat a chicken but possible that isn't what he sees normally. We live in rural Afton OK. The prescription he gave me is sulfadimethoxine. It did work but not fast and I had to pull eggs for almost 2 weeks. At least it was winter and there weren't...
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    Amoxicillin and chickens

    Thank you to all of you. Yeah, if I treat a few then someone else gets it and it keeps going on and on in circles. I buy my chickens at a poultry swap and got a few from a different vendor last year. Scott doesn't sell sick chickens so I should have waited until he had the breed I wanted...
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    Amoxicillin and chickens

    Thank you. The guy at the feed store said it covered any respiratory infections his birds got. I was hoping....and will now return the bottle. will order the Tylosin and keep it on hand. I have about 46 chickens. Apparently I got a sick one at some point last fall and it infected my flock. I am...
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    Amoxicillin and chickens

    My hens were diagnosed with mycoplasma awhile back and the vet prescribed a sulfa type drug that didn't work as well as I had hoped and some are getting the respiratory infection again. I got some fishbiotic amoxycillin at the feed store as advised by people. I hope it is better and we don't...
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    Gapeworm and waterbelly

    They had mycoplasmosis and got treated for that. He just threw it out that they should probably be treated for gapeworm since I had never wormed this batch I got at the swap. Former factory layers. I am going to watch and see if any have symptoms then treat those if necessary.
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    Gapeworm and waterbelly

    I have treated them before with other things orally and sprayed each for lice. It is just a pain with so many. I did it the way you say. I used to rehab wild birds for Project Wildlife and am comfortable with the technique, but I sure don't look forward to having to handle every single bird...
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    Gapeworm and waterbelly

    I have about 50. Not easy peasy. lol
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    Deworming with piperazine Dihydrochoride

    I got the safe guard goat dewormer and it only had instructions for goats. How much and how long to treat chickens? I may as well skip the vet and just come here for advice. Much cheaper and you do better than my vet does. Thanks.
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    Deworming with piperazine Dihydrochoride

    I took one in with respiratory infection for diagnosis. They did swabs and diagnosed Mycoplasmosis and he gave me a sulfa drug. It wasn't the one that was recommended online for that, but it seems to have helped some. I still have some coughing and may have to try to get the other drugs...
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    Deworming with piperazine Dihydrochoride

    I didn't see gapeworms listed but thought since he was a vet he should know. So now I have the piperazine and no use for it. I guess I need to go to the feed store next to look. I have about 50 chickens out there and he recommended worming them for gapeworm. I don't see any worms in the feces so...
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    Snow in New Orleans! NEED HELP PLEASE!

    Mine hate snow. lol I did use a space heater in the barn this year because we were fighting mycoplasmosis and they were not in the best condition. It was inside a dog crate off the floor and is the kind that won't cause problems if it had fallen over. They have an electric heated water source...
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