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Well, they just called and said there was inflammation in the trachea consistent with suffocation but there was nothing else obvious. There could have been fungal issues but nothing that was intense enough for an immediate cause of death. Basically a dead end 😭

I think I'm just going to splurge on a bottle of PSP. A lady here sells off vials from her bottle which has helped in the past. I sprayed the coop on my last deep clean as a preventer. The thing is, I've never ever seen a mite on them. But when the vet was ruffling her feathers he showed me a...

Deep cleaned everything and DE on the floors and corners and rubbed into the roosts. Can't use permethrin because of the cats and all the stuff gets stored in the house, not willing to risk it. My cat is my life. I had an elector psp dose that I sprayed everything down with a few months back on...

No movement. They're jelly like consistency. I wormed 4 days ago and 3 days ago with safeguard (.25 ml/lb so 1.6 ml) and then used 4 ivermectin drops from the vet for light mite problem.

It wasn't working, so we went to the vet and she was in an oxygen chamber and still passed away. I was using a warm air humidifier and so maybe that was the problem. I got a nebulizer for it in case I need to miss the other chickens... I sent her in for necropsy

My cuckoo marans has had diarrhea off and on for awhile and of course I didn't poke around in her poo (because that would have been the smart thing) but I wormed them with safeguard for possible gapeworm. (I know, I know .. rare so I didn't think it an issue but I lost my first two chickens ever...

I always keep my coop super clean and I added a hut for my silkie over winter and last week there was an ammonia smell that wouldn't go away so I pulled all the hut out and there was a bunch of poop that stacked up behind there that I didn't know about and was moldy. I cleaned it all out but I'm...

I love the contrast! He's so beautiful. He started crowing at 8 weeks and I'll see how loud it develops but I'd like to keep him. Will that green develop into a more green-green or still be black(ish)? I was kinda bummed to notice it today. At first I thought she was jaundiced and started...

Hi there! I have two nine week old silkies. One male and one female... I'll let you make the assumption on who is who because it's pretty darn obvious. :lol: The male has these beautiful bright blue earlobes and dark comb and the female has kind of a greenish tint to her beak and comb? No...

Thank you! I was a bit worried as I hadn't seen that before!

I noticed my EEs have laid a few orange capped poos. They are 1 year old and have been incredibly healthy but a couple weeks ago, one choked on something and ended up inhaling it fully and was treated with one injection of Baytril from the vet (to prevent aspirational pneumonia) but then...

I cleaned everything out and was waiting to take a picture and it seemed to have resolve itself yesterday!

I have 11, 4 week old chicks. They started spending afternoons outdoors when it's warm. They've been on medicated feed and have not been vaccinated for coccidiosis. Today I'm seeing some loose orange-ish stools with a bit of darker orange and maybe redish tint to it. It's all one piece, no...

I ended up realizing that so I got poultry cell instead. I didn't know they could take human vitamins. I started with 1 cc orally.

Eye looks completely normal. She seems to always sit on her hocks for the last month or so. It's been crazy hot (100+) and they're doing a good job of staying cool but I thought it was additional cooling mechanism. They get some nutri drench in their water in the coop but just fed her a higher...