2014 breeding season begins, post your results

[DylansMom]

I have safeguard and I know how to use it. I gave Jadea safeguard when she got egg bound and it helps if they swallow it and not hold it in their beak and then open the mouth and shake their head shooting it everywhere.

I have offered in a pm to send birdrain a syringe with an extension tube on it so he can correctly administer the safeguard without having to worry about the bird shaking it's head and shooting the medicine back out of it's mouth. All he needs to do is pm me a mailing address and I will do this free of charge I just bought 30 of them.......Words of encouragement folks!

 

[casportpony]

 
I have safeguard and I know how to use it. I gave Jadea safeguard when she got egg bound and it helps if they swallow it and not hold it in their beak and then open the mouth and shake their head shooting it everywhere.  

I have offered in a pm to send birdrain a syringe with an extension tube on it so he can correctly administer the safeguard without having to worry about the bird shaking it's head and shooting the medicine back out of it's mouth. All he needs to do is pm me a mailing address and I will do this free of charge I just bought 30 of them.......Words of encouragement folks!

I'm sorry, I don't mean to sound so negative, and I know all too well that "stuff" happens even to those that are prepared. Like you, I will mail supplies, medicine included, to anyone that needs it. I can also provide pictures of how I would give liquid, paste or pills.

-Kathy

 

[Birdrain92]

I'm using the paste. Since I give 1 cc to Thora and Jadea is twice her size and weight I gave 2 cc and tried it for 4 days and she would shake it right out.

 

[Birdrain92]

13 chickens. Sorry that wasn't expecting a bird to die because she ate an earthworm that carried two parasites. When you read about birds and watch them they eat worms didn't expect one to be fatal to a bird.

 

[casportpony]

If Cobalt were mine and weighed about 6kg he would get 3ml of Safeguard for 5 days in a row *and* a metronidazole tablet twice a day. Birdbrain, my offer still stands, I'll mail it to you if you PM me your address. Talk to your parents first, of course, and have them call me first if they want to. You have my number.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

I'm using the paste. Since I give 1 cc to Thora and Jadea is twice her size and weight I gave 2 cc and tried it for 4 days and she would shake it right out.

I will take some pictures that show how to do it, then you can practice on the chickens, lol.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

13 chickens. Sorry that wasn't expecting a bird to die because she ate an earthworm that carried two parasites. When you read about birds and watch them they eat worms didn't expect one to be fatal to a bird.

Safeguard alone will not treat blackhead, you also need metronidazole. I have tons of earthworms here, so it's something I treat for several times a year.

-Kathy

 

[DylansMom]

I'm sorry, I don't mean to sound so negative, and I know all too well that "stuff" happens even to those that are prepared. Like you, I will mail supplies, medicine included, to anyone that needs it. I can also provide pictures of how I would give liquid, paste or pills.

-Kathy

I meant we should encourage him to accept my offer, NOT that you weren't being encouraging. I know how stubborn he can be. We all know you go above and beyond Kathy. By the way Turtee was running today

, I do believe she is feeling pretty good.

 

[margaret8]

Not sure what your question is. Do you maybe give the liquid wormer in the drinking water, and are not sure how to do it any other way? I have often dosed the liquid medicine straight down the throat, but it does work much better with 2 people. One to hold the bird and one to use the syringe. Once you know what the inside of the mouth and throat look like and where the esophagus is located it is pretty fast and easy. Pills can pretty much be dropped down the throat as well, they don't tend to cough them back out like cats and dogs will. My peacocks are very easy to medicate, my guineas on the other hand are biters, so they are harder to deal with. We recently had a Barred Rock hen adopt us and our barn, she is my neighbors chicken but has decided she likes our place better, she is in my barn 24/7 and she had the nastiest case of diarrhea you'd ever want to see. We dosed her for 5 days with liquid safeguard for worms, general cure(metro) for blackhead, and bird sulfa pills (smz/tmp) for e-coli and any number of other secondary infections just to try and make sure she didn't infect our other birds with anything. The diarrhea is much improved and medicating was not hard at all.

The liquid is no problem I put in there water!i'm talking about pills or does it all come in liquid form? My peafowl are like my guineas! To say the least they are not sweet and Gental !

 

[DylansMom]

The liquid is no problem I put in there water!i'm talking about pills or does it all come in liquid form? My peafowl are like my guineas! To say the least they are not sweet and Gental !

My peafowl are not sweet and gentle either, but unlike guineas my peas generally freeze and become pretty docile once they know they are caught and cannot get away. I've never been pecked by a peacock that I was holding or carrying and they could have if they wanted because I don't hold their neck to keep their head away. Guineas on the other hand give me blood blisters everytime. If you pry open the mouth and drop the pill down the throat past the windpipe they will just swallow it, I've never seen one be able to spit it back out once it's past the mouth.