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    Mottled & Blue Mottled Bantam Cochins - Cozy Cochin Cottage (Rockford, Michigan)

    Cochins available 11/5/16, please see above for more info.
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    Grain Mites in feed

    We have a dehumidifier with an auto pump that runs in our basement and I set it to 45% humidity, so I don't think they could thrive here. A little costly to purchase and run monthly, but I've enjoyed the difference it makes in our basement since we spend a lot of time there. I have extreme mite...
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    Grain Mites in feed

    Yuck, I could not imagine having this problem indoors. I purchased a bag of Purina unmedicated starter feed from the TSC in Cedar Springs and just had this problem for the first time in 8 years of keeping chickens. I wonder if it is the same store? I have another new bag of medicated feed that...
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    Why is my chicken eating mass quantities of sand?

    I have had this chicken for over a year now. I know how grit works, and have seen them picking the right size pebbles and eating them, but this is different. As soon as I opened the coop door this morning, she bolted out like she is starving and starts scooping up big gulps of sand. Her poop is...
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    Cochin Thread!!!

    Food is the easiest way to any chicken's heart. That said, birds that weren't handled as much when they were new chicks are never as comfortable being handled, in my experience. The more time people spend with them, the more comfortable they will be with you if they are used to you being part of...
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    My Cozy "Cochin Cottage" Chicken Coop

    If there was one thing I had to do over again, it would be the fencing. Currently, the fence is set up like this: Made of 8' treated landscaping timbers from Menards Posts set with one bag of quick cement, 2 feet under ground, 6 feet above ground Fence buried about 1 foot Fence material...
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    Please - Desparate for help with sick cochins with poopy bottoms

    I used 1 cc syringe that I just stuck into the end of the safeguard paste. I pressed gently on the paste syringe while drawing it up into the 1 c syringe. Then I poked it into the middle of the bread squares and grabbed one bird at a time and fed it to them outside of the run and stuck them into...
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    Please - Desparate for help with sick cochins with poopy bottoms

    It did not, unfortunately. I took our ailing rooster Orion to a vet (finally found one that would see poultry) after three days of the neomycin and no improvement. The vet found a high number of protozoan activity, and sent me home with five days of Metronidazole. He only made it to day 3 before...
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    Cochin Thread!!!

    Love this photo, you and your chickens both look very happy. :)
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    Please - Desparate for help with sick cochins with poopy bottoms

    I just wanted to add an update to this for anyone finding themselves in a similar predicament. I treated twice with Safeguard, once and then again this past Tuesday which was 10 days after the initial treatment. I used between 0.6-0.7 cc equine paste per bird, given in a piece of bread for the...
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    Cochin Thread!!!

    Both male and female combs will be very tiny at that age, but in my birds anyway the pullets' combs are so small that they are barely visible. Some hatchery strains may have pullets with larger than usual combs though, so it is hard to say if this method will work all the time.
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    Cochin Thread!!!

    With my chicks, from day one comb size is a pretty good indicator. I'm not sure how old the chicks are, but I would compare them all and only take the ones with smaller combs. If they are only a few days old, the pullet combs may be so small you can barely make them out.
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    Cochin Thread!!!

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    Please - Desparate for help with sick cochins with poopy bottoms

    I medicated my thirteen cochins with safeguard equine paste yesterday. One of them pooped when I checked on them this morning, and there were squirming little skinny worms in them. Yuck, but I would rather it be this than some sort of bacterial or viral problem. Definitely the lesser evil. After...
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    Cochin Thread!!!

    I medicated my thirteen cochins with safeguard equine paste yesterday. One of them pooped when I checked on them this morning, and there were squirming little skinny worms in them. Yuck, but I would rather it be this than some sort of bacterial or viral problem. Definitely the lesser evil. After...
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    Please - Desparate for help with sick cochins with poopy bottoms

    I injected each piece of bread with 0.6 cc of paste, and they are all somewhere between 28-38 oz birds, so I think that should be enough. All the hens and pullets wolfed the bread pieces down, but they did not work well for my four boys. They just tidbit the bread for the ladies instead of...
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    Please - Desparate for help with sick cochins with poopy bottoms

    They aren't a farm, or even an avian vet. He didn't refuse to do it, he just told me that since he wouldn't be the vet for my chickens, he would prefer I find a vet and do the testing through them. I see where he is coming from, but now looking back, I wish I'd just been stubborn and told him I...
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    Please - Desparate for help with sick cochins with poopy bottoms

    I was under the impression that if they had worms, I would at least occasionally see some in their poop. Should I use the Safeguard paste now, or use Wazine in their water first?
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    Please - Desparate for help with sick cochins with poopy bottoms

    Why specifically do you think it is worms, since I have not seen any?
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    Cochin Thread!!!

    I am getting desperate to help my flock of cochins with constant diarrhea and other symptoms. Please take a moment to read through my thread here if you can possibly help: https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/879115/please-desparate-for-help-with-sick-cochins-with-poopy-bottoms Today I bawled my...
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