They can be tested for MG by a vet if you can find one around you. MG is in many flocks, and many people and chickens get past it. They could live normal lives and possibly have flare-ups with it and need treatment again, but otherwise, they should be okay.
If you want more chickens...
I never kept track because I have over a dozen various Govee and other brands. I didn't need to keep track of it, so I didn't bother. Yes, I keep one or two hygrometer/thermometers in each incubator, when they fit.
With the closing of the 2025 hatching season, I have hatched over 500 silkie...
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Are the ones you just brought home your only chickens? If not, I'd keep your other ones away from these.
You can buy antibiotics online without a prescription.
Tylosin an antibiotic helpful with MG (Mycoplasma gallisepticum) /respiratory symptoms. Dosage is...
You can get antibiotics online at several places without a prescription. Here's a few:
Jedds https://jedds.com/collections/poultry
Twin City Poultry https://www.twincitypoultrysupplies.com/
https://thecanaryfinchstore.com
Fish Mox...
We had finches many years ago. We purchased a roll of velcro and took an old curtain that fit around the bottom half and velcro'd it around it. That helped immensely!
You should be able to see the difference in males and females in that the males are the brighter, more colorful ones, and...
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For URI (upper respiratory infections) natural antibiotics like oregano can keep them at bay, but if she's already sick and not beating it, you may want to consider an antibiotic. Please post about her in our Emergency forum. Hopefully, she gets over it...
This was what I shared above, which shows only quarantining has been done.
I'm not a loyal email checker, but just checked and haven't gotten emails about any outbreaks, so hopefully it's winding down.
We had one of our ducks limping so I bought nutritional yeast and daily sprinkled that on their feed, probably a tablespoon to a few cups of crumbles. It took about a week and she started to lose the limp. After two weeks, it was gone. A couple of times a week, I'll do the yeast now.
The tubes of Neosporin or triple antibiotic usually say right on them if they have painkiller. To be sure, look in the ingredients for polymyxin B sulfate or lidocaine, as that's what some use for numbing pain. The E ointment or A+D won't prevent infection, but would perhaps aid in healing her...
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That looks like early bumblefoot, so maybe the honey will work, but I'd get a drawing salve too, like here we have PRID for one kind. I'd put that on and bandage their feet, changing that at least once a day. Soaking in Epsom salts before changing their...
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When you say their crops are full, are they still full in the morning? Most chickens have full crops during the day, and sometimes ours seem to have gorged themselves. Some of ours free-range, so I sometimes wonder what all they found.
If you're thinking sour crop, giving them...
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Sorry about your pullet! Poor thing. Hopefully, it's just a sprain or torn muscles.
Do you have any B-complex? Poultry Cell I know is pricey, but I think you can get cheaper Dumor brand vitamins at TSC. Just be sure it's got B1 and B2 (thiamine and riboflavin) in...
You're right; no witch hunts here, but it's not something we'd need to know anyway.
But now you're done with the three days of amprolium, so I'd just go with either of the feeds you have and water. You can give them vitamins every other day or every few days to help them recoup the B1 they...
The lady farmer across the road told me that the fox coming up through the woods past our breeding pens and crossing the road was going to her barn to kill rats. I never knew a fox would eat a rat, so we put up with the fox traveling to her place via ours for a while. Then rerouted it by...
When the time comes, check with your local Humane Society as they have free barn cats. We got Stella as a barn cat, and she's my little lover cat, but she is quite the hunter, too. When we first got her, I got her on camera following a skunk past our parrot aviary. You just need to keep them...