ALABAMA!!

I had my first chickie casualty
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Everyone seems healthy and they are at the end of a Corid treatment.
Oh no, so sorry.
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I'm sure you are ready for this to be over with too. So much work and so hard on the chickies. How old are they and how long on Corid? Were they hatched with broody Mom outside?

I still have 2 of 13 that are just back and forth. I still have to dip their beaks in water, they are so exhausted/dehydrated. They just turned 4 weeks old. That cocci just ulcerates their stomach/intestines.

They finished up their 5 day treatment on Corid last Friday.
Followed that with now their 4th day of electrolytes/probiotic powders mixed together in water for the day time hydration. Then with plain water at night. Meanwhile, post Corid, I have been feeding them with 1/2 regular chick starter and 1/2 medicated chick starter mixed together. I'll probably keep that going until they are about 6 weeks, then see. Might go to plain chick starter at that point. Just going to watch/wait/see.
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Just still not comfortable with their recovery yet. I will probably let all but the 2 go back in the outside nursery pen/coop. (not pictured) Those 2 I'll watch a few days longer.

Please keep us posted.
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Chirpingcricket, I really like your coops and pens! They are very neat! I love the fact that the air can go right thru in the summer to keep them cool.
Thanks so much Chicka! A little embarassed 'cause they are homemade/handmaid, but they really are nice to have here on the coast. Oh, the chickens love it since they can see and sorta be a part of the yard with protection. Prevents boredom and fighting. In fact when they are ranging, sometimes they will just go right back inside and hang out, less stress for them I guess.
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Thanks so much Chicka! A little embarassed 'cause they are homemade/handmaid, but they really are nice to have here on the coast. Oh, the chickens love it since they can see and sorta be a part of the yard with protection. Prevents boredom and fighting. In fact when they are ranging, sometimes they will just go right back inside and hang out, less stress for them I guess.
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No please don't be embarrassed! I showed my DH and he and I love them! Infact we have built doors on 2 sides of our coop and added windows on the other two sides. So that we could get some cross breeze going thru it and when I saw yours I told my DH we should just make screen doors for now and later on when it gets cool to cover the doors with something that will keep them warm! He likes the idea and we have several rolls of screen in the shed already. Our coop is homemade and it is our first with out any experience we don't know how it will work... We are going to learn from it though!
 
Jeanna Marie,
Exactly!! That's why I think this thread is really important! Especially for newcomers to chickens in the south. We have different issues, same problems, but the approach needs to be altered from the standard that even mosts books on poultry don't recognize or differentiate. Heat and humidity, polar opposites of cold and snow. Survival of our flocks, nutrition, health, egg production, worming, etc., have to be addressed based on our weather and conditions.

I must admit though, when we built the 3rd pen, a little bigger to hold more hens, I felt a little vunerable for the birds. Soooo, I'll be adding more hardware cloth, just hate those nasty coons!
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I'll feel a little better once the run is added to it. Hopefully soon. . .
 
Jeanna Marie,
Exactly!!  That's why I think this thread is really important!  Especially for newcomers to chickens in the south.  We have different issues, same problems, but the approach needs to be altered from the standard that even mosts books on poultry don't recognize or differentiate.  Heat and humidity, polar opposites of cold and snow.  Survival of our flocks, nutrition, health, egg production, worming, etc., have to be addressed based on our weather and conditions.

I must admit though, when we built the 3rd pen, a little bigger to hold more hens, I felt a little vunerable for the birds.  Soooo, I'll be adding more hardware cloth, just hate those nasty coons!   :barnie   I'll feel a little better once the run is added to it.  Hopefully soon. . .


I built one of those solid off the ground log cabin looking coops with external nest boxes... lots of time and effort. They use it at night right now but I cleaned it today and its like an oven in there. Plenty of ventilation and alight cooored rubberized roof to cut down on heat but stil very hot. If I were to put the door on the front like the plans call for they really roast in there. I don't worry so much about them not going in it when its hot but it rains a lot in alabama sometimes and stays hot while it does. And water runs under it so they get wet under there. And how are they gonna lay eggs in an oven?
 

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