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  1. Meara

    FOLLOW-UP to water poisoning, 1st one down, dead, in minutes

    I think we are "out of the woods" here and there have been no more deaths. I administered an Epsom salt flush to each bird which took about five hours total. I began with the smallest individuals that I considered to be at the greatest risk. I read many conflicting accounts on how much of the...
  2. Meara

    FOLLOW-UP to water poisoning, 1st one down, dead, in minutes

    Thank you everyone for your quick help! Yes, the links were very helpful and it was good to not have to spend a bunch of time searching the web. I ran to the store and bought epsom salts and am administering a flush to each bird. I mixed 3 teaspoons of the salts into 1.5 cups water as the one...
  3. Meara

    FOLLOW-UP to water poisoning, 1st one down, dead, in minutes

    I misspoke. It has been frozen all winter but its thawed now. It was actually 70 degrees here today, warm spring day. The "pond" water smells really bad like decaying plants, like a stagnant swamp smell.
  4. Meara

    FOLLOW-UP to water poisoning, 1st one down, dead, in minutes

    It's a tiny in-ground plastic lined "pond", maybe five gallons, for a little water garden and after the winter there's no telling what might be accumulated in there, but it is full of leaves and pond water. It does have decaying water plants from last year in it so it could also be botulism.
  5. Meara

    FOLLOW-UP to water poisoning, 1st one down, dead, in minutes

    not yet, they all look ok so far, but the little one went fast, she was a japanese bantam so very small i just fed them some bread to help slow down absorption and i'm going to try a flush with Epsom salts, i'm just guessing here
  6. Meara

    FOLLOW-UP to water poisoning, 1st one down, dead, in minutes

    ALGAE POISONING!!! is there any way to save the rest of m y flock??? help!!!!!
  7. Meara

    FOLLOW-UP to water poisoning, 1st one down, dead, in minutes

    My bantam flock drank about an hour ago from a tiny yard pond that was defrosting and it was full of gunk, dead leaves and debris. All of a sudden found smallest hen limp on floor of coop. Picked her up and she seized and died. She was fine 20 minutes ago. HELP me please! What do I do to...
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