Arizona Chickens

[igorsMistress]

sending support and recognizing courage

Thank you

How is your hen doing? Any improvement?

 

[starri33]

@igorsMistress , how are the new babies doing? I'm wondering are they outside where the others were? I'd be worried about them being somewhere where my culled flock had been

 

[igorsMistress]

@igorsMistress , how are the new babies doing? I'm wondering are they outside where the others were? I'd be worried about them being somewhere where my culled flock had been

Yes they are outside. There's not much I can do now but give them the best possible care, change my coop a bit and breed for resistance. The chicks are almost 5 weeks old and have been outside since they were just a few days old.

My plan is to use Virkon S to clean the coop and nest boxes, feeders and waterers. Whitewash the coop interior. I'm removing the pdz from the poop boards and will reuse feed bags or newspaper...the point is to rotate out the whole bit and not harbor dander in the pdz. I'm leaving the coop floor bare but may put in some wood chips to improve the soil and reduce dust. No hay or straw in any yard ever again.

I'll add sanitizing the nest boxes biannually with the Virkon to my routine and change hay/rinse and sun dry weekly. I'll definitely be sanitizing the coop twice a year and I'm looking to buy a shop vac just for the coop this weekend.

In the mean time, I'm researching herbs I can grow in the garden that will provide immune system support to my flock.

When I got my first chicks, one died a few days later but had made the rest of them sick with a respiratory illness before it did. The rest pulled through but I'd read they would be prone to other illnesses. I'm hoping these chicks are tough enough. Their parents were bred for resistance.

 

[Hamburg]

Thank you. There are so many people that say but you could have....no, I couldn't have because it could spread or make it all much worse. At least you guys get it.

Quick decision and swift action to save the rest of the flock, and keep it from spreading to neighboring flocks, anyone can second guess after it is done. I understand, you did the right thing.

 

[Geranium]

One of my Muscovy eggs hatched but I found the duckling half under my broody, cold and with an injury to the side of her head. The duckling was still moving so I have her inside under my brooder plate to warm up. I dipped her beak in Sav-A-Chick and i'm letting her warm. She's moving but not peeping yet. It looks like she's trying to peep. I put some Veterycin on her head. Poor baby. I feel awful.

 

[FeatherPugs]

I know nothing of ducks but it seems you are doing the right things. Hope everything works out okay.

 

[igorsMistress]

Awe, poor little thing. Good luck @Geranium

 

[Geranium]

It's frustrating. I had two eggs under her - different eggs than the original two, because those ones were really early in development. One quit at some point because it was at least a week ahead of this one that hatched, and it hasn't hatched yet. Then I have this poor baby. And i have a broody still brooding. And maybe no ducks st the end of all this.

 

[starri33]

Yes they are outside. There's not much I can do now but give them the best possible care, change my coop a bit and breed for resistance. The chicks are almost 5 weeks old and have been outside since they were just a few days old.

My plan is to use Virkon S to clean the coop and nest boxes, feeders and waterers. Whitewash the coop interior. I'm removing the pdz from the poop boards and will reuse feed bags or newspaper...the point is to rotate out the whole bit and not harbor dander in the pdz. I'm leaving the coop floor bare but may put in some wood chips to improve the soil and reduce dust. No hay or straw in any yard ever again.

I'll add sanitizing the nest boxes biannually with the Virkon to my routine and change hay/rinse and sun dry weekly. I'll definitely be sanitizing the coop twice a year and I'm looking to buy a shop vac just for the coop this weekend.

In the mean time, I'm researching herbs I can grow in the garden that will provide immune system support to my flock.

When I got my first chicks, one died a few days later but had made the rest of them sick with a respiratory illness before it did. The rest pulled through but I'd read they would be prone to other illnesses. I'm hoping these chicks are tough enough. Their parents were bred for resistance.

How would you know if they were resistant short of exposing them to something? or is it from breeding stock that the parents have already been exposed? lol, had chickens 3 years and still new to all this.
I'd love to know what you find as far as herbs to boost their immune systems.. I would definitely grow some of that..

 

[Hamburg]

There is a story at Sand Hills Preservation Center. He tells it in his Sussex for sale, portion of his online catalog. He lost a flock of Sussex, by someone that through sick Chickens over the fence into his flock. In the end he made lemon aid out of the lemons by adding some Dorking blood into a flock of his sussex to give them better resistance. I found it interesting reading.