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  1. smallflock3

    De-worming and Wazine Concern

    Not to bust in on this thread, but I'm just wondering which do you all think is better to worm the birds with, the Valbazen or the Safegard? That is for someone that can orally dose them.
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    New pullet dies, trying to figure out what may have caused it

    Thank you both for the good information, I am trying to see what I can find out through a Vet for the sister bird that's still living as far as what a blood test would possibly be able to find and also a necropsy for the one that passed.
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    New pullet dies, trying to figure out what may have caused it

    I wasn't going to post this but then the more I thought about it, the more it bothered me. I bought 2 new polish pullets from a large poultry sale as I had planned to introduce them to my polish cockerel after a quarantine period and then some. The owner was not there and someone else sold...
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    Post egg bound chicken not doing well

    I had changed mine to the Grower Finisher feed trying to find a commercial feed that didn't have really high calcium, protein, and fat as most my hens were 2 and older and a few displaying reproductive problems (lost 2 golden comets last summer within 2 months of each other). I took the advice...
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    Post egg bound chicken not doing well

    Hi, I have been having problems with one of my Buff Orpington hens displaying egg bound symptoms also, with the dragging bottom and barely walking, hardly eating. I did some research and found a product called Calciboost which is Liquid Calcium, Magnesium, and Vitamin D3. It's supposed to help...
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    Egg Yolk Peritonitis Prevention or Management

    Emilysteng, Can I ask how Casino is doing? Betty is not so well today and I'm thinking about the Lupron.
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    Third time treating sour crop!

    I've been going through the same thing with an older hen but she has something going on internally that is making it hard for her to keep an empty crop (something made her organs or should I say gizzard shift), maybe egg mass or tumor. She had been ill before this started happening to her. I had...
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    Egg Yolk Peritonitis Prevention or Management

    That's wonderful Mitfordsmom that you got got more Ex Battery girls! I always tell my birds when I get them that I'm taking them to a better life. And in your case, that's definitely true. Emilysteng, I know, it's confusing to me now what to feed my hens, I've talked to different people and...
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    Egg Yolk Peritonitis Prevention or Management

    I have all the hens buried by each other too. You are great for taking on ex battery hens, just think how much better you made their lives! The price I was just quoted by a vet's office for the Lupron was $169.00 an injection and they said, like you, every two weeks at the beginning. I...
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    Egg Yolk Peritonitis Prevention or Management

    I'm so sorry! I'm sitting here at my desk at work all teared up for your little hen. I'm glad you had her somewhere she was happy. My Betty is not happy in the house! And I keep debating. God bless your Debbo, and at least she won't suffer anymore. I know they hide it a lot so who knows...
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    Egg Yolk Peritonitis Prevention or Management

    I don't know if I should call it a patch, for some reason I did, but what they were going to use was called a hormone implant, I think they called it DESLORELIN. I guess it works like birth control. For some reason I want to say it would last up to 6 months, not sure, and who knows the cost...
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    Egg Yolk Peritonitis Prevention or Management

    Emilysteng, How many injections of Lupron has Casino had so far? I wonder how they judge if they are a candidate for this? Or maybe a trial like my hen with the Prednisone? She had a spell recently that made me think she was laying internally and she is passing the watery poo in the morning...
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    Egg Yolk Peritonitis Prevention or Management

    I had one of the Vets that checked my hen that had a hysterectomy, tell me anytime you see yellow in the hens' urine/poop it's either their liver or egg. This hen ended up having masses equivalent to 20 rotten eggs in her. She survived the removal of the egg debry and oviduct but ended up...
  14. smallflock3

    Egg Yolk Peritonitis Prevention or Management

    We tried to find a commercial feed that didn't have really high calcium, protein, and fat. I ended up getting the Dumour Grower/Finisher from Tractor Supply, not that it's the best feed but the only one I could find that wouldn't overload them. I couldn't afford to give all my birds the...
  15. smallflock3

    Egg Yolk Peritonitis Prevention or Management

    Hi Ladies, The Polish hen is not panting anymore but she's hardly eating and is molting, so is my ISA Brown hen. I know the Polish hen stopped eating her last molt and I had to find stuff to trigger her appetite. She's being pretty quiet too but like I said she is now acting like she did the...
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    Egg Yolk Peritonitis Prevention or Management

    My Polish hen is panting less, but still some. Glad to see it slow down! She didn't eat alot this morning, so I'm just holding my breath. She seemed to do better outside in her pen but then she may be hiding it because she knows she's outside and has to be on the defense. I just don't know...
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    Egg Yolk Peritonitis Prevention or Management

    I found a Vet not too far from us that could do an ultrasound. He said when he first examined her that there was something in her abdomen that wasn't right. He did the ultrasound on her abdomen and said it was a large tumor near her liver but I know they really can't tell the point of origin...
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