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Thank you so much.

Hey guys! Wanted to give an update though it’s sad. We lost Romeo this morning. Got fecal back and its E. coli and another bacteria. This must sound ridiculous, but live in a very rural area and had just expanded our chicken yard to where it now enclosed the septic tank area (though we tried...

Guys, I appreciate your comments so much! Update on my rooster. He is in our bedroom now, he is still just staring with pupils dilated and doesn’t move when someone comes near him, which is very unlike him. Of course, his eyes are mostly closed, but when they are open, their pupils are dilated...

Thank you so much. We had a weird issue, some months back where several of our chickens died. We took in poop samples for each sick chicken and they all came back clear each time. They all died 6-8 weeks apart, and not all in the exact same timeframe. Maybe I should try again.

I live in Texas and I’ve looked into getting a necropsy before. It is quite expensive here. I will go out and smell the feed soon so I can rule that out. We are in all organic farm and we do not use any pesticides or anything of the kind on our grass or weeds. I would think heat stroke could be...

Thanks so much. We formulate our own feed. It is essentially whole oat groats, whole peas, BOSS, sorghum, nutritional yeast, alfalfa or kelp, and some trace minerals added in. We either soak or ferment before feeding.

2 nights ago, hubby locked up our birds and came to me saying a chicken had died. She was a lovely blue Marans named Bedelia. No warning signs or symptoms I had seen beforehand. Today, went out to gather eggs this morning and Rosemary had died sitting in her nesting box. She was a beautiful...

Thank you! Really appreciate your time.

Also, if one hen died 6 weeks ago from this, and another just last week, does that still sound like it could be coccidiosis? The strains of coccidiosis that I was familiar with previously were quick killers if no action was taken. But it just be that this is a strain that kills slowly?

Oh man. Good to know. We are in Texas…

Hi! Thanks a bunch for your reply. I have sent birds in before for necropsies, but here where we live, it is very expensive. Our vet did say they were no worms before when the fecal was examined. Also, we have dealt with coccidiosis in our flock two or three times many years ago, and it always...

Appreciate the dosing info as that can be the hardest part of treating a chicken 😬

Wow. Awesome. I’ll look into that and will prob go ahead and get some. I appreciate this much!

Wow I really appreciate that info. I have given Colloidal Silver and at other times ACV (the good kind) for similar purposes. You think the copper sulphate does something more of different than these other two remedies? Thanks!