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  1. Christina99

    Suprelorin implant (Virbac) stops hens with egg peritonitis laying anymore

    Hiya About your question about Superlorin side effects. I have had 2 chickens implanted because of EYP (and also drained every month by the vet-amazing difference the draining makes!0 It gave them both an extra year of happy life and the only side effect was they weren't quite so interested in...
  2. Christina99

    Help! Prolapse,purse suture,implant......ideas please

    Hello. I do hope you can help me My chicken (4 yrs old) prolapsed in the autumn. I managed to push it back,then a week of little daylight and a wheat maintenance diet stopped her laying cycle. She was happy as a lark all winter,then 2 weeks ago she started laying again and prolapsed and it...
  3. Christina99

    Advice needed-heartbreak-mine and chicken's

    Thanks again everyone and schnebbles -gosh I really know that awful feeling of dread everytime you open the coop door in the morning-it all feels more pain than pleasure sometimes. I haven't experienced Marek's,but at one point suspected it,and I have to say the advice and experiences here on...
  4. Christina99

    Advice needed-heartbreak-mine and chicken's

    hi yakima-too late-afraid we've had ducks for years. But the hen knows never to get too near the drake (and she can fly higher than he can!!!). Also,it only seems a problem in Spring and Summer,thankfully
  5. Christina99

    Advice needed-heartbreak-mine and chicken's

    Oh, I can't address this to individual people any more because there are too many of you who have been so kind I can't tell all of you how much i appreciate your support and your personal experiences of this We took Robert(and his hen for company) to the vet yesterday-my favourite,caring...
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    Advice needed-heartbreak-mine and chicken's

    dear seminolewind yes it definitely resembles Mareks, in some ways,but I am surprised that could affect an older(6 years) bird that has not come into contact with any outside chickens or new introductions into the flock in recent years. His brother (then aged 3) had very similar symptoms a few...
  7. Christina99

    Advice needed-heartbreak-mine and chicken's

    Thank you 10 chicks, Didnt notice much difference on metacam-but it was when the diarrhoea started so I took him off it (on vet's advice) No injury-I got him indoors before the storm really struck.wings seem fine.No leg swelling or bumblefoot. Beak normal. His crop goes from half-full (when I...
  8. Christina99

    Advice needed-heartbreak-mine and chicken's

    10 chicks-6 roos-you must be an expert !!! Can I,as a last resort,list his symptoms just in case anything comes to your mind: Had tiny limp for ages,gradually got less aggressive and sight deteriorated a bit-he was fine otherwise, so thought it was aging. Unfortunately had to bring them both...
  9. Christina99

    Advice needed-heartbreak-mine and chicken's

    Hello everyone Well,the problem with tube feeding is you don't want to stress a bird who is going to die anyway (I feel I kept one of my birds alive too long with this method) That being said,I took your advice 10chicks and tube fed him half a cropful before bed.I am also syringe-feeding him...
  10. Christina99

    Advice needed-heartbreak-mine and chicken's

    Well,things not looking too good for Robert. I think the next day or two might be the end. Every morning he is a little bit weaker. It is strange-it is the same symptoms as his brother had 3 years ago,and umpteen visits to the avian vet never discovered what that was. It was a bit like Marek's...
  11. Christina99

    Advice needed-heartbreak-mine and chicken's

    Suzie-our garden is nothing like your 20 acres. And we don't have barbed wire-just stone walls. But a year ago Robert the cockerel managed to get himself entangled in the one remaining bit of fencing wire(2 foot long) and was near death when we found him,hanging upside down. It was just pure...
  12. Christina99

    Advice needed-heartbreak-mine and chicken's

    You're right about ducks. We have had 2 for the same time (6 years) as the chickens and not one single thing ever wrong with them The drake is a bit of a sex fiend and every Spring falls in love with my foot (though he has his own mate) and I basically have to limp around the garden with a...
  13. Christina99

    Advice needed-heartbreak-mine and chicken's

    ten chicks-thank you for your kind words. Good news is the vet visited this morning-I was thinking Robert had had a stroke and that he would say it was only kind to euthanase him. But vet said he suspected some kind of poison and that the leg problem wasnt part of a stroke but arthritis and...
  14. Christina99

    Advice needed-heartbreak-mine and chicken's

    Thank you Waterfowl But over the past 6 years I have had 6 chickens and have lost 4 of them. 2 to chronic peritonitis,1 to cancer and one due to an accident. I try my very best for them and they go to the avian vets at the very slightest symptom,and have every treatment possible,no matter...
  15. Christina99

    Advice needed-heartbreak-mine and chicken's

    I have a bantam and a rooster. The wonderful rooster is 6 and very ill so I am having to take him to the vet to be euthanised (altho I am trying to get them to do it at home) My problem is the bantam,who is 2. How will she cope with being alone? I do not want to get more chickens yet,as I...
  16. Christina99

    EYP Peritonitis questions-rather urgent

    I went in to see her at 3am and she was alive. When I went in at 6 she had died. I don't know why,but no animal's death has made me feel so sad. She never felt like a pet,just another creature like me that I was privileged to share this planet with. I don't know if I can keep chickens...
  17. Christina99

    EYP Peritonitis questions-rather urgent

    Hello everyone and many thanks for your help Betty feels a bit weaker today. Definitely has EYP (poos are typical and vet confirmed it) but I guess the sterile kind since she has had it for more than a fortnight now. I am still syringe-feeding her-oats n water and live yoghurt pureed plus a...
  18. Christina99

    EYP Peritonitis questions-rather urgent

    Dear tiki and bakerjw, Many Thanks for your very useful and fast replies I am a bit desperate,since like everyone here,I absolutely adore my chooks My hen was bloated but the swelling has now gone. But she doesn't seem to be any better. She is hardly eating and generally looking a bit...
  19. Christina99

    EYP Peritonitis questions-rather urgent

    Hello My chook has EYP. She has been twice to the avian vet. The first time he gave her antibiotics (don't know what and she improved very slightly and started sitting more (previously she stood all the time) but still unwell and not eating much. The second time he has put her on Baytril...
  20. Christina99

    Hello from Cornwall!

    Hello-I'm Christina and I have 5 gorgeous chooks,including a feisty cockerel. I originally had 7 birds,but have lost 2 over the past 2 years (one to mycoplasma and one to cancer). I feel a little embarassed by how wonderful I think chickens are, as out there in the big world some people tend to...
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