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Wow this week is not my week! I have been having ankle pain and turns out i have a high ankle sprain! Bummer.. I have to wear a boot and be on crutches. How am I supposed to treat my birds now, and in the pouring rain no less! Not that I am complaining because we needs this rain, but gees...at...

Wow thanks for all the links and info. I will check her and see if she is egg bound when I get home. I wonder if she hurt herself laying huge eggs. A couple weeks ago we were getting double-yolkers almost every other day but couldn't tell who was laying them. If so coild be a hernia from...

Well, hasn't been a good week for my birds :( While treating with Tylan 50 last night for respiratory illness, I noticed my barred rock hen has a softball size mass under her skin on her lower abdomen between her breastbone and vent. It is kind of soft. I haven't gotten any puctures yet. She is...

Chicks seem to be doing better already. I hope just a nutritional thing with the legs.

K so some necropsy images of the little broiler chick. I am no expert on chicken guts, I am really learning a lot myself. I hope it gets easier for me to recognize what is/is not normal the more I do this. But really it also sucks because chickens have to die first. Still, with my...

Any help? I went ahead and bought what Tractor Supply had in stock, a combination vitamin/mineral/probiotic top-dress for feed. Maybe it will help, maybe not.

Haha, I guess it is my morbid curiosity too that keeps me looking at dead chicken innards. Lol. I will post some necropsy pics later, I am on my phone. It sure is weird how we both seem to be dealing with similar issues. I too have been bad at quarantining new birds and with biosecurity. I keep...

Sorry about using the M-words lol. I thought maybe Mycoplasma was a culprit because of the similar symptoms with the turkeys and the swollen joints. And they are so prevalent in the environment. Though necropsy has not revealed any gross synovial fluid, it's hard for me to tell on chicks, and I...

Thanks for the bump!

I have raised broilers before but this is the first year I have ever had a batch of sick babies. I only had 4 of them, 2 conish x broilers and two red broilers. Two days ago I lost one of the red broilers. On necropsy I found it had some sort of bacterial infection (I think) in its intestines...

Wow, that looks exactly like what the little silkie is doing. Only one that does it too, and seems fine otherwise. I am sure the silkies didn't get vaccinated for Mareck's since they came from a breeder. Maybe that's one of the things I am dealing with. Or something else. And only after it...

Another thing the chicks have been doing is shivering though their brooder is 95 on the warm end. And one silkie had been moving its head back and forth but in a strange way i haven't seen before. I will try to get a video. It has only down this twice. Made me think something was stuck in its...

Sick broiler chicks, first one is the one with a distended abdomen The one with the distended abdomen that looks purple. Notice the red swollen joints This one had a pasty butt but that healed, The leg joints look swollen and red on the other one as well. The other red broiler is in the...

I didn't make it by the lab today as I forgot the dead chick at home. I will call them tomorrow and see what they say. This is all new to me, I have had so many chickens (usually 5 or less though, though now we have 19) through the years and never had any get sick like this. Well now that I...

Oh boy..So Sumo stopped her wheezing but she is still coughing/sneezing. Now she has a runny nose, but has been drinking and eating today, which she didn't do yesterday. She had jumped out of the tub and laid an egg on the floor of the bathroom then ate it. Another broiler chick has taken a turn...

Well Tractor supply was out of Tylan50. Bummer.

So far yes, it does seem to be just the broilers. Except last week I had a bantam EE die. She was the first one to get sick. And her symptoms were very odd. I thought at first she was eggbound, then I thought maybe she had a blocked or sour crop. She was gasp for air and lost the use of her...

I lost the sickest baby about 2 hours ago, one of the red broilers. Went in to check on them- they are in the laundry room at one end of the house, and it had passed. The body was still warm so I put it in a baggie and now it's in the fridge. The number to the lab in Austin is also disconnected...

That Austin lab number is no longer working. :/

Thanks so much. I figure Austin is the closest so I'll start there. Thanks again!