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Today is day 15 for group M. Hmmm yeah interesting. It just seems weird to me also the complete lack of movement in any of them, going from active little guys 3 days ago to this dead stillness that I’ve seen for the last 3 days. But like you say maybe (hopefully haha) that’s for some other...

Is there any chance the two from group M I haven’t cracked open are still viable?

This is the little guy from group G that didn’t hatch

This one had a detached air cell when I candled it, but still had heaps of veins….. also from group M

Also I just did an ectopsy and a couple of these from group M. There are still heaps of veins…..was I wrong to crack them open? (These photos are all the same egg)

There are no veins anymore visible when candling. And I have sat here for so long and there’s no more movement

So, I don’t think anything can be done now, but I’m just curious if anyone has ever heard of this happening, or any comments/ideas of what happened. My story starts with one hen. Licorice is her name. She began to sit and I decided to put some eggs under her. Instead of using my own eggs I...

Thanks for all that info everyone! It’s a relief to hear that it should just run its course and be done. It gave me a bit of a scare reading online “there is no cure” and I think it made me believe that they would be stuck like this for the rest of their lives. I already clean out the waterers...

Yeah I see what you mean about the white chick, but just because I’ve seen the progression of it I believe it is fowl pox. The above image shows what it started out as a couple of weeks ago, and then when this one went down more have come up just as skin coloured growths and then have gone dark...

Huh interesting. All the info that I read about it indicated to me that it’s extremely contagious and needs constant maintenance for the rest of the birds life. I have about 25 birds so I’m worried about the others getting it and it becoming a big issue……..let me take a photo of the other chick...

Hi everybody, I have a suspected case of fowl pox and just wanted some input from you guys I have another chick who has had fowl pox for a week now, I’ve been trying some things to manage the disease, but I’ve decided to make the hard call that for the benefit of the flock it will be better to...

Just wanted to give an update on this: I had a friend come over who is very experienced in chicken care. Since this is my first time with chickens I’m still learning everything. She said they all had a respiratory infection, some particularly bad. The little chick was VERY sick with it. We...

4/9/2023 7am

The antibiotic was called AV-25 and contains penicillin and streptomycin as well as a bunch of vitamins. I don’t really know the dosage, it says that each 100g has 5.000.000 UI of penicillin and 11.890.20 mg of Streptomycin. I put a half teaspoon in their water each day for five days. So I hope...