Well the silver I believe is helping with keeping away infection. I found a large wound under her wing. The baths and other things probably saved her life. There wasn't any smell or puss I noticed, it looked like it was healing nicely. She still cant walk and is tired a lot but she is eating and...
Thanks for your thoughts Bargain,
By the way, I think the epsom salt baths saved her life. I didn't see the gash for a about 4 days and part of my protocol for her was empsom salt baths and a little to epsom water to drink.in case of poisoning or eggbind, because I didn't know what was wrong...
I am wondering about how long nerve damage takes to heal?
This is her second week in sick bay. Gerdie has a large hole under her wing, no puss, healing well, no bad odor. . I have been bathing her in empsom salt daily, and giving her tumeric in her feed, antibiotic cream, vetrx, antibiotics...
It wasn't easy to find this thread, about colliodal silver as a natural therapy for possible Mereks disease, but I am grateful for hope! Thank you, for sharing your story and photos of how you chickens recovered from paralysis with colloidal silver. This was my last hope for a natural cure as...
Thank you for posting about colliodal silver treatment for possible Mereks.. I am trying this as well as brazil nut, cranberry, turmeric, homepathic St John's wort, diatomecious earth. I appreciate all the advice for natural treatments. I hope and pray Gertie makes it, she is such a sweet girl...
Did worming help with the bark? I have a new barker and I see her stretching her neck so worming medicine will be my first action in case it's gape worm.
This is a photo of the bracket I livke best and the 2x2 inside it holds 9 adults (thats all I have in the hen house) I would put 2 levels. The girls don't use their baby roost anymore to sleep ( 6 inches from the floor) they like the higher one. I just reinstalled it for the photos. The girls...
I have 8 adult chickens that use a rounded closet dowell and plastic bracet that needs the wood screwed in and 2 x 2s (with the smooth edges) my other coop with 8 adults as well you can set a 2x2 into a metal bracket and they stay very well, the rounded ones sometimes fall out.The thing with a...
Oh and also if the water is raised off the ground that helps alleviate some of the contamination issues as well. If it sits to close to ground level debris from the ground can get in.
Also for probiotics in a pinch there is always yogurt, buttermilk or kefit and it can be mixed with a little...
It could be that the water is being contaminated....and it should be changed every day there is also the nipple waterer
And the food cleaned as well any time it gets wet.
I fed mine with the coiccidosis medicated feed and that helped a lot, along with the coop change.
For our coop with run...
I had a 4 month old chicken die recently and I couldn't find her symptoms online. I am hoping to be prepared the next time something like this happens.
I noticed my chicken in a corner with her head down and in a corner so I picked her up and brought her in for observation and she was...
A few questions, I had issues until I fixed my coop...
Is there moisture getting in? If so repair roof or sides so is water tight.
Is the coop easily cleanable? If there are any issues with design that hold poop they should be corrected so no place stores
larger amounts of poop.
Is the...
I have a secured run and I use kombucha vinegar and if I didn't have that I would use a live apple cider vinegar and spray the coop, floor and ground...We make our own kombucha and pear or apple vinegar, it's very easy. Works like a charm. I also use wood chips (from a tree company) for the...