Thanks y'all... it's been a rough night, I haven't slept... I guess I need to suck it up and realize that's farm life... but it hurts a lot
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Yes, I know, wolfpacker, and knowing it wasn't anything that could be amputated and hopefully cured in that way, I knew I had to put him...
I put him down tonight before I saw the posts here about not using tobacco, we dipped him... started pouring as soon as we got him dipped, once it stopped pouring I went back out to check him over, clean him up, pick off the maggots... he was in a lot of pain, wouldn't let me touch his back...
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I don't know what betadyne is, I'll look it up though.... bf's old German method for killing fleas is to boil tobacco into a "tea" solution, strain it, and spray/pour it on the animal... sounds sorta like what you're talking about, but with tobacco instead... do you think this would...
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I bet... seeing that yesterday was the nastiest thing I've ever seen... I don't have that much of a weak stomach, but it really grossed me out. bf was questioning my wanting to go into raising poultry and having a hatchery because of how grossed out I was and the fact that you have...
We checked him over today, the Sevin killed a lot of them, he looks much better, we mixed up peroxide and water and put that on him... and I don't know how good this is, but sprayed flying insect spray on him to keep the flies away, did that last night because we couldn't clean him up last...
Ok, not a chicken problem, but... I got this turkey from my neighbor, I didn't check him over when I got him... he acted healthy, his feathers were a bit ragged at the ends, but they were kept in a coop with no outside run, I figured he'd look healthier after free-ranging for awhile... also it...