do you have a neighbor who is caring for your feathered friends?Will we do have each other!
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do you have a neighbor who is caring for your feathered friends?Will we do have each other!
We've been so busy the past few days, I had quite a few pages to catch up on! I am really hoping some rain moves in soon, the heat is unbearable.
@igorsMistress I'm so sorry to hear about the loss of your blue girls. They were some of the prettiest chickens I have ever seen.@meetthebubus I stopped doing the toe dips sometime last week because I ran out of the Tricide neo. It worked for some, but not all. I read somewhere here on BYC that a lot of people don't do the surgery unless it is a later stage, because sometimes the early stage bumblefoot doesn't progress and the chicken's immune system fights it off naturally. So as for now I am doing the wait and watch approach. It's the white leghorn and Wyandotte that I am most concerned about. I have mixed feelings on Tricide neo- it did work on a few of them but it was very time consuming and expensive. Next step is surgery if that's what's needed! I am also using Veterycin on a few who still have light scabs. Seems to help a bit. It is also expensive though.
My barnevelder is STILL BROODY!!!She is so, so very stubborn. We are going on almost a month of her being a broody girl, and the cool soaks aren't helping her. She comes out in the late afternoon to eat and drink, and I take any eggs out and put her in the run everytime I go out there, but she's always back in the box! Luckily no one else has decided to go broody in this heat.
@meetthebubus & @FeatherPugs when you use PRID, do you wrap the foot?
No my daughter is going to check on them and feed them and our other animals.do you have a neighbor who is caring for your feathered friends?
Me too. I’m on amazon looking at chicken stuff or googling chicken stuff. I’m going away for a week and really dreading leaving my chickens. Do you think we need a support group?
@meetthebubus thanks for the tipsHow does the wrap hold up if they are doing toe dips in the water dish, or mud? I have the stretchy colored vet wrap stuff but I don't know how water proof it is. I think I will also just focus on the worst ones for now. Poor lady the leghorn is now holding up her foot from time to time so I will be working on her in the next few days. Just need to get some antibacterial ointment because my neosporin has the pain killer in it and that's bad for them.