Yikes! Poor Hennie, but she does keep coming right back, doesn't she? No idea whether to keep going on the wormer or not. I mean, is it like antibiotics where once you start them the best thing is to finish them?
Well, I too will keep my fingers crossed for Hennie. In a way, she seems kind of tough to have made it this long so I hope she can continue.
Yes, the worming is very confusing, each brand has different directions, different ingredients, different percentages. I just try to follow whatever...
I am not finding what the difference is between piperazine as citrate and the wazine 17/piperazine 17 so I don't know what to say.
Wazine 17 (not the citrate kind, as far as i can tell) is usually one ounce per gallon of water for a flock, large or small. I couldn't find anything on treating...
Garlic and cayenne are great against worms and parasite but your eggs might pick up the garlic taste.
I'm sorry about the importing thing - I wondered if it would be a problem.
Where did you get your chickens? If you bought them from a feed store, you could ask them to recommend you a wormer...
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They have a toll free phone number, too 1-866-942-0042
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Another thought - perhaps you don't want to worm her right now because she is not at her full strength yet. I think you might want her to get a little bit stronger because I think worming is a little hard on them. It's fine for a healthy bird but maybe be cautious with one who is getting over...
Worming - do you have a local feed store where you get your chicken feed? They can help you with worming products. Basically you feed them the product and I think with some of the products you have to throw the eggs away for about two weeks, fourteen days. Do not eat them or let anyone or...
To me, the more contrast between the inner feather, and the laced part of the feather - the more I tend to like it.
My preference as well for all laced birds.
Boy, that's a lot of roos to go through to finally get one! But, I'm learning - stuff happens!
Seeing your pics, Chickee, your hens do have a better body type than mine does, mine is not quite so puffy in the front like yours and I understand that is the correct body type for the W's, that...
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Pictures of your Blue Wyandottes? I'd like to compare them to mine
I really have to get a camera, don't even have one on my cell phone so I don't have any good pics of them. And the poor roo died early this morning, just buried him. Sad, I really liked him after being so sure that I...
Did you check around this site for crop problems? I know some people massage their crops gently to get them going and my local chicken person told me to put just a pinch of cornmeal in their regular food to get their digestion going.
My rooster died early this morning, unfortunately.
Interesting! All of mine are from Privett's also.
I will add, I don't think mine have good type, the blues, again, seem a little worse than the golden and silver laced. But I really love my blue rooster and hope I can get him on his feet again. Mind you, I love them all and was not looking...
Does anyone with experience with wyandottes know if the blue wyandottes are less healthy or harder to keep healthy than other wyandottes. I'm talking about the blue/black/splash wyandottes not the blue laced reds. I had three of them, one hen dropped dead for no apparent reason about 3 months...
I just gave him some more electrolyte water, when i put him back down in the "chicken hospital" he stood up and remained standing, he seems a little more alert. Before when I put him down he would just lay down immediately. So maybe it is helping him.
It's just after 8 pm here so I hate to...
No, he is a wyandotte and they have pea or rose type combs that are normally just kind of squished down on top of their heads. So they don't have a comb that would be able to flop over. But it does look wrongly colored to me, it's too dark of a shade of red and that is not it's usual color. i...
I am having a similar problem with my 7 month old rooster so I'll be waiting on an answer - i have tried giving him electrolytes, thinking he was dehydrated although it is cooler here than it has been for al ittle bit. He doesn't have a mushy or hard crop but the rest sound similar, he has been...
Are you talking about them going into the coop to sleep at night?
You didn't say much about how your chickens are supposed to get up into the coop. Sometimes ramps can be too steep for them to feel comfortable using them.
One thing to try -- pick them up and put them in the coop in the...