Arizona Chickens

[tball chicky]

I just went home to get a few things & I, of course, checked on my chickens. My Serama rooster was laying on his side with one foot curled & the other foot up in the air. I grabbed him up, grabbed ornacycline, stuck him in the truck & hauled butt back into town. Got to the office & checked him out - this is what I found: breathing difficult, goopy eye, runny nose, missing feather on the outer most of his wings, under side of one wing is raw & a bit bloody. So, I gave him a bath, & blow-dryed him. Gave him some oatmeal, kefir, & medicine water. Then I wrapped him up & brought him to sit with me. THEN...I see a bug on the sheet he's wrapped in. I don't know what kind of bug it is tho...it has a head part & a body part with 6 or 8 legs (can't tell cuz it's tiny), it light on the outer edges & darker in the middle.

I don't know what kind of bug this is. I've never had any bugs on my chickens & I don't know what to do for him. I bathed him & dried him, tried to feed him & give him medicine water. I keep wiping his nose so it doesn't get clogged up.

What else can I do? There aren't any vets here that see chickens.

 

[Arizonachicken]

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Love them! Ok, so now names and breeds are needed please.

Ok! On the right is Penny, a Buff Orpington, behind her is Blackie, a French Black Copper Marans, then we have Lucy, a Production Red, and the clean faced Wheaten Ameraucana, and two other Wheaten Ameraucanas. They don't have names yet since I can't tell the two with muffs apart. I told my kids they can name the girls, and they came up with the other names, but nothing for these 3.

I am still waiting for my first egg from the Ameraucanas and the Marans. Only the PR and BO are laying. One of the WA was in the nesting box today, but no egg. They are 27 weeks now.

 

[tightwad]

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Oh my! I'm so sorry about your Serama. Could the bug have crawled on him after he was already down?

 

[Mahonri]

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WOW! Those chickens area absolutely GORGEOUS!

 

[tball chicky]

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Oh my! I'm so sorry about your Serama. Could the bug have crawled on him after he was already down?

I don't know

I've checked him over & I don't see any other bugs on him...maybe I'm missing them?

 

[tball chicky]

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Oh my! I'm so sorry about your Serama. Could the bug have crawled on him after he was already down?

I don't know

I've checked him over & I don't see any other bugs on him...maybe I'm missing them?

Hubby just got here & I had him help me...there are bugs on my poor Serama. How do I get rid of these things??? Some are like I described earlier & some are a tanish color. DE? Sevin?

 

[Beckyhsinglsc]

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I don't know

I've checked him over & I don't see any other bugs on him...maybe I'm missing them?

Hubby just got here & I had him help me...there are bugs on my poor Serama. How do I get rid of these things??? Some are like I described earlier & some are a tanish color. DE? Sevin?

I have no idea but you might want to post in Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures.

 

[Beckyhsinglsc]

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Hubby just got here & I had him help me...there are bugs on my poor Serama. How do I get rid of these things??? Some are like I described earlier & some are a tanish color. DE? Sevin?

I have no idea but you might want to post in Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures.

Oh nevermind. I just saw that you did.

 

[tball chicky]

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Hubby just got here & I had him help me...there are bugs on my poor Serama. How do I get rid of these things??? Some are like I described earlier & some are a tanish color. DE? Sevin?

I have no idea but you might want to post in Emergencies / Diseases / Injuries and Cures.

I did...it's poultry lice! How the heck do they get them? Wild birds? Wild field mice creatures?

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Mikey D,

That is, hands down, the coolest feeder I've ever seen.

Thanks for the AZ thread Cliff Notes, I haven't been keeping up either.

tball chicky, yep, sounds like lice. Have you had new chickens come into the flock? If not, they probably came in on wild birds. I think you have to dust with Sevin.

mclevinson, It's nice to see you back!

Arizonachicken, such beautiful birds!

They really do look amazing. Most of my flock is molting right now and look pathetic in comparison.

Mealworms: In the 25 years that I've raised mealworms, I've never had an escape and I've never seen a T. molitor fly. There are lots of different species of darkling beetles beetles though and I wouldn't be surprised if some fly. Individual lines of T. molitor can also differ widely in a lot of ways; who knows, maybe there are some rare and odd lineages that fly as well.