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  1. Dukecitychicks Chicken Coop

    Dukecitychicks Chicken Coop

    The 5-sheets-of-plywood, shed-roof coop! This is clearly a coop built by a new homeowner with no scrapwood pile... but them's the breaks and I wanted a coop! Here's what I bought: 12 cinderblocks 4 pressure-treated 2x4x8's 20 regular 2x4x8's 1 4x8 sheet 3/4" plywood and 4 sheets 1/2" plywood...
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    Pre-prolapse treatment?

    My Ameraucana hen is having laying issues and I'm not sure what the best course of action is, I hope someone here has some input. A day or two ago I noticed a soft-shelled egg wreck in the nest box, but didn't think much of it since I'd never seen anything like it before. This morning...
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    M. Gallisepticum in my flock. Safest way to repopulate?

    PING! I want to hear the answer to this because I think I'm in the same boat. My original "flock" (=4 hens) got a whole bunch of things including coryza due to my poor biosecurity. One Ameracauna survived, kept laying, and never had any symptoms of anything. I know that she is probably a...
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    help - Buff Orp with leg mites - update - just died!

    Well, she just died. It was weird - I heard flapping so I ran in and I guess it was her final twitch. It looked like she was vomiting - there was water coming out of her mouth. I held her upside-down so that the water would run out instead of choking her, but it didn't matter. She expelled...
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    help - Buff Orp with leg mites - update - just died!

    I think she just hasn't eaten/drunk in a while - isn't yellow poop indicative of dehydration? She doesn't have grit with her now, but their run is basically sand, so she shouldn't have a problem with that. She's a little over a year old. No breathing noises, no discharge. She does smell...
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    help - Buff Orp with leg mites - update - just died!

    OK, she just pooped a tiny bit of yellow diarrhea with what looks like some white sand in it. What does that mean? At this point I'm more worried about her "state" than her mites - she has barely opened her eyes all day and hasn't eaten or drank anything. She just kind of rocks back and forth...
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    help - Buff Orp with leg mites - update - just died!

    Well, I'd say the stuff I dipped her legs in was about 1% tea tree oil, so hopefully that's not horrible. She has not laid in months - I think at first it was daylight (I never did put a light on them) and then she molted. She had one poop in the crate yesterday, which looked like milky...
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    help - Buff Orp with leg mites - update - just died!

    My Buff Orp was fine, as far as I could tell, till at least 2 days ago. Yesterday I came home to find her sitting by the edge of the water dish, tail down, eyes closed. I walked right up and picked her up, which is not normal! As soon as I saw her legs I thought uh-oh, leg mites - the scales...
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    Sex-link with Coryza (update) - how long for Tylan to work?

    Just thought I'd post the outcome for the sake of others: We gave her 1cc of Tylan-50 sub-cutaneously in the breast each morning for a week and a half. We also did the 6:1 Tylan-50 and water nasal flush, and we gave her ~40-50 cc's of water with tetracycline orally each day. We were giving...
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    Closed, red swollen eye - please look

    Just make sure there's no awful smell associated with the discharge - if it's putrid, that's a sign of coryza. We're dealing with this right now. Is she breathing OK? Eating? Be aware that water-soluble Tylan may not work if she's not drinking. We've been using the injectable Tylan-50...
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    Sex-link with Coryza (update) - how long for Tylan to work?

    Thanks - we just did a Tylan nasal flush for her following those directions. Kind of like a chicken neti pot! I also looked at the back of her throat and it actually looks clear - there was a little flake of yellow gunk on the side, but nothing huge. She was pretty worked up by that point so...
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    Sex-link with Coryza (update) - how long for Tylan to work?

    Sonoran Silkies - do I use the Tylan injectable solution to flush her nostrils? And do I go outside -> in? I don't think I'm going to be able to clean out her nose/mouth - she is super squirrelly. I've been trying to wipe the outsides of her nares with a Q-tip and some days she'll barely let...
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    Sex-link with Coryza (update) - how long for Tylan to work?

    How long will it take to see improvement from the Tylan-50? After the first shot I thought she got a lot better (her breathing sounded better) but since then she started rattling again and has pretty much stayed the same. She'll eat a tiny bit of scratch, but nothing else, and won't take...
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    Sex-link with Coryza (update) - how long for Tylan to work?

    Okay, I got up super early to give her shot #2 with help from husband before he left for work. It might just be because she was asleep and relaxed, but her breathing sounds better this morning. We got some more water down her throat, and she ate a tiny bit of bread with olive oil. I also gave...
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    Sex-link with Coryza (update) - how long for Tylan to work?

    I found Tylan-50 and just gave her the first shot. I kind of wrapped her up in a towel on her side and used one arm to hold her down and the other hand to swab her and stick her. Eek! I've never given a shot before, and I myself absolutely hate getting stuck with needles! Maybe this will...
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    Sex-link with Coryza (update) - how long for Tylan to work?

    Thanks, Malcolm. So I can vaccinate adults? I wasn't sure if the vaccines are just for chicks. I'm still waiting for feed stores to open here, but if I can find Tylan I'll give it a shot. (No pun intended.) They're not exactly pets, but given that it will take me a while to get up the...
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    Sex-link with Coryza (update) - how long for Tylan to work?

    My understanding is that it cannot be "cured"- Tylan might knock it back to a dormant state but my chicken would always be able to spread it to other chickens. I've read that Baytril (?) will actually kill all the bacteria in the bird's system, meaning that she would NOT be a carrier, but it...
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    Sex-link with Coryza (update) - how long for Tylan to work?

    I'm pretty sure it's Coryza, based on the awful smell. I'm going to try to find the Tylan 50 injectable tomorrow and give her 1/2 cc/day for 3 days. Anyone know the dosage if I find another Tylan version? Should I give it to the other 3 hens just to be safe, or should I wait and see if any...
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    Sex-link with Coryza (update) - how long for Tylan to work?

    Can I ask what you have treated your flock with? Being Sunday, the only thing we could find was some Duramycin-10 at Clark's. I just gave her 1/8 tsp dissolved in 1 Tbs or so of water, squirted down her throat. I'm going to look for some injectable Tylan tomorrow. Does that sound reasonable...
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    Sex-link with Coryza (update) - how long for Tylan to work?

    I did a very bad thing and am now experiencing some consequences. We left our 4 hens with some friends (also chicken owners) who had an empty chicken tractor, while we were gone for the holidays for 2 weeks. I KNOW you're never supposed to do that, I didn't want to, it was the only option we...
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