- Nov 30, 2011
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Right now I have 3 chickens in the house.
1. Brigid the Wonder Chicken has a respiratory infection if unknown origin and is being treat w/antibiotics, anti-fungals, and anti-vi rials. She has 1 more week of treatment.
2. Molly has a prolapsed vent (All better yea!) and now has a secondary bacterial respiratory infection. She is on antibiotics. She is also being kept in the dark, more or less, to discourage egg production until her vent heals.
3. The Friends who gave us Brigid have now given us our newest girl, Fiona.
I don't want them to be lonely, but I also don't want any diseases spread back and forth either way. I am also waiting on a worm analysis from Molly's poop.
SO here is the question:
How close together can I put these girls? I would especially like to keep Molly (Prolapse) and Fiona (new) in the same room, in their own cages, so they can at least talk to each other.
I don't worry so much about Brigid, because she hangs out in the main part of the house with the cats and us, and does not stay caged during the day.
All advice is definitely appreciated. No one around here quarantines, and I didn't want to ask the people who gave me Fiona, because I didn't want to imply their chickens were unclean Ir whatever.
1. Brigid the Wonder Chicken has a respiratory infection if unknown origin and is being treat w/antibiotics, anti-fungals, and anti-vi rials. She has 1 more week of treatment.
2. Molly has a prolapsed vent (All better yea!) and now has a secondary bacterial respiratory infection. She is on antibiotics. She is also being kept in the dark, more or less, to discourage egg production until her vent heals.
3. The Friends who gave us Brigid have now given us our newest girl, Fiona.
I don't want them to be lonely, but I also don't want any diseases spread back and forth either way. I am also waiting on a worm analysis from Molly's poop.
SO here is the question:
How close together can I put these girls? I would especially like to keep Molly (Prolapse) and Fiona (new) in the same room, in their own cages, so they can at least talk to each other.
I don't worry so much about Brigid, because she hangs out in the main part of the house with the cats and us, and does not stay caged during the day.
All advice is definitely appreciated. No one around here quarantines, and I didn't want to ask the people who gave me Fiona, because I didn't want to imply their chickens were unclean Ir whatever.