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    Duramycin 10 ratio for soggy bread

    Old thread, but leaving this here because I just had to dose a single bird that is not eating/drinking on her own. The dose is 10mg/lb daily in divided doses (twice a day is fine). My 5-lb bird needs 50 mg daily. 1/4 tsp. powder is approx 66 mg tetracycline. I mixed 6 ml warm water to 1/4 tsp...
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    Opinions wanted, weird disappearing egg from eggbound?

    Sorry--had another emergency come up but this time with a family member. After further investigation this morning I believe it did drop into the abdomen :( I don't worm with metronidizole. But in cases of anorexic birds with diarrhea, previous fecals have revealed giardia or other micro bugs...
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    Opinions wanted, weird disappearing egg from eggbound?

    I beg to differ: my first internal layer/egg peritonitis was diagnosed at my avian vet, who showed me exactly what to feel for: a hard, 'shelf' that extends for several inches as if many eggs were all slammed together into a tube. What you are describing is also internal laying, but where the...
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    Opinions wanted, weird disappearing egg from eggbound?

    yes, I really felt an egg. By side eggs, I mean how they feel with internal layers---hard shell along the side of the abdomen.
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    Opinions wanted, weird disappearing egg from eggbound?

    Hi! Treated my second eggbound hen yesterday. She was droopy, penguin walking, not interested much in food or water, hiding, hanging back from flock. Found her at first sitting in bottom of coop. When I could get back to her a few hours later, brought her in for an exam. Nothing abnormal...
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    Megabacteria Diagnosis

    Yes, I read that post while looking for info on clearing her crop. She does not have trichomoniasis (canker) which is likely what was being treated with the monistat. I alternated between using olive oil and coconut oil (coconut is antifungal and antibacterial) for the crop massage.. Her crop...
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    Megabacteria Diagnosis

    Well, this is new so I thought I'd share with you all. Violet is an 18 month old hen who has had watery diarrhea for about 5-6 weeks. The first fecal showed no parasites, no protozoa. But the vet said to treat as a bacterial infection because of the extreme watery droppings and the fact her...
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    hen with watery poop, thin shells, and thin, but otherwise healthy

    I had a bird that did this leg lift on and off for years. She came to me with a huge bumblefoot. Even after the bumble was gone she still did the leg lift bit at times.
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    HELP ME - ANYONE HAVE OIL GLAND INFO? ******GRAPHIC*****

    wow, that article is amazing. I changed how I was tending the wound a few days ago--from keeping it tightly covered and full of neosporin to keeping an airy shirt over honey mixed with wound wash. Now she is forming scabs and it is looking better. The other way (really wet) was scary because of...
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    HELP ME - ANYONE HAVE OIL GLAND INFO? ******GRAPHIC*****

    Giving this a bump~
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    Dead Ameraucana ? and other issues! :(

    lol-- meant 'broody' not 'busy'
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    Dead Ameraucana ? and other issues! :(

    This time of the year most hens are stopping laying in preparation for molting. Your broody hens will not lay, not sure when she will resume laying since I've never let a busy raise chicks before myself. Your new hens may take a couple weeks before they settle in and start laying for you. You...
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    HELP ME - ANYONE HAVE OIL GLAND INFO? ******GRAPHIC*****

    Bought some cuticle scissors, tweezers, a cuticle clipper, a child sized t-shirt, small facial brush. Made some saline solution, added chlorhexidine gel wound wash and started to work. Got most of all the gauze out that had embedded, as well as any feathers that started growing in. The couple...
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    HELP ME - ANYONE HAVE OIL GLAND INFO? ******GRAPHIC*****

    no ideas yet? got some bone scrapping to do. The only thing I've come up with is using a dental pick.
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    HELP ME - ANYONE HAVE OIL GLAND INFO? ******GRAPHIC*****

    **WARNING! GRAPHIC PIC** I'm tending a wound from a hawk attack last week, flesh and bone was exposed. I followed the wonderful directions located here by Threehorses. I think the top of her oil glad was sheared off. The skin is trying to scab over the gland (I think) as the oily secretions...
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