Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[Fancychooklady]

Hi to everyone that welcomed me to the group, I'm learning so much on here just reading through everyone's comments!

A massive thank you to Fancychooklady with a huge sigh of relief

My girl is showing signs of coming good again after 2 days on Marmite (I looked at Vegemite but that didn't have B12 where the Marmite did) she's started foraging up on her legs again, the shaking seems to be easing and she loves it!!

I'm so much more at ease now

Glad to hear that you are seeing improvement . Vegemite does contain thiamine at least that s what it says on the label. Don't believe everything you see online. However the salt reduced would probably be a better source. Vegemite is quite high in sodium/salt so it really is just a short term thing, still best to get some poultry multi vitamins to add to the water.

https://www.vegemite.com.au/media/~...f/Reduced-Salt-VEGEMITE-Media-Release_PDF.pdf

 

[Fancychooklady]

Good morning folks 

mooandmcgee that was sweet of your hubby.

Remember how I said that the snap trap had been triggered, bait gone but no rat?  Yesterday I decided to relocate the decorative bridge which is in our garden.  The snap trap was set near the bridge the night before.

I found the rat, dead under the bridge.  I confess to not examining him very closely because it was creeping me out, but there were no obvious wounds.

I find that a bit weird.  Hubby reckons the snap trap would have killed him but if he was not caught in it, how would it have killed him?  He reckons the snap could have given him a fatal blow on the way down but I am thinking those things are fast and if it touched him it would have trapped him?

I also found a half eaten gecko on the pavers, next to the chicken’s outside water container.

All very strange.

Very curious, one would think there would be hair in the trap if he was in it. Your neighbor may have laid baits which makes them very thirsty and he came to your pond to quench his thirst. That still doesn't explain why the trap went off.

 

[User395221]

Have you got pussy cats or other 'critters' around? Somebody else could have killed the rat and the gecko and set off the trap.

 

[devinandfeather]

Guys I need help my young old English bantam rooster is acting very wierd yesterday when we went to feed them he was being very aggressive then 3 hours later his comb went purple so I moved him with a hen he has been with for is whole life but she had chicks so I moved her so anyway normally when you would put a rooster in the world go after the hen but he just stood there for 10 minutes with his tail low and just having body shocks it was very wierd overnight he ended up on the perch to me finding him this morning on the floor in the nestbox I am getting worried the others he was with are very healthy its wierd because his dad died like this but I thought it was a one off turns out not I need help here are some photos of him and also I was wondering the young pair on the photo is a blue gold duckwing pair please help

 

[Fancychooklady]

Guys I need help my young old English bantam rooster is acting very wierd yesterday when we went to feed them he was being very aggressive then 3 hours later his comb went purple so I moved him with a hen he has been with for is whole life but she had chicks so I moved her so anyway normally when you would put a rooster in the world go after the hen but he just stood there for 10 minutes with his tail low and just having body shocks it was very wierd overnight he ended up on the perch to me finding him this morning on the floor in the nestbox I am getting worried the others he was with are very healthy its wierd because his dad died like this but I thought it was a one off turns out not I need help here are some photos of him and also I was wondering the young pair on the photo is a blue gold duckwing pair please help

The purple comb would indicate a lack of circulation. I would check him over for lice / mites get some electrolyte in his water and check the calendar for when you last wormed him.
If it's a heart condition there isn't a lot you can do, I lost 3x of my prized light Sussex at 12 months to a suspected heart condition. I had to remove the line from my flock.

 

[User395221]

So I'm officially crazy chook lady paranoid....

I opened the nest box door to see whether there was an egg, because Grace had come to the door and given her "performance" that she was the cleverest chook in all of chookdom and had given her loyal followers another egg.

There was Flossie, sitting inside. Immediate thought "oh no! She's gone broody!" because she wasn't making any noises or anything that looked like egg-laying. Later, found 2 eggs, she was obviously just "doing her thing" in there. Seriously, I shouldn't spend so much time on the forum.

 

[appps]

@Fancychooklady have you ever treated a chicken with parafin? Saw it mentioned by a chicken vet for clearing up blockages from eating too much grit and sour crop but not sure how much you would give or where you get it?

 

[User395221]

where you get it?

You can buy it at the chemist.

 

[Fancychooklady]

@Fancychooklady have you ever treated a chicken with parafin? Saw it mentioned by a chicken vet for clearing up blockages from eating too much grit and sour crop but not sure how much you would give or where you get it?

I prefer to use vegetable oil, the paraffin is said to strip the lining of the stomach and will generally leave an animal in a pretty bad way. They still use it when they drench horses that have colicked, but I keep 4 liters of vegetable oil on hand for emergencies.

 

[Anniebee]

The baits interfere with the bodies vit K and prevent the blood clotting, the rodent generally die from a massive internal bleed.
Warfarin itself is tasteless but it's the flavour additives that can make these baits attractive to your dog or cat.

http://www.vetwest.com.au/pet-library/rat-bait-toxicity-poisoning

And this, Fancy, is precisely why I will not have any form of bait anywhere near or in my home. As most homes in our area do not have fences, we have to be sure Ruby doesn't sniff out a nice bit of snail ( metaldehyde ) bait to have a taste of when out walking ( while we are perhaps talking to an acquaintance from our little village or whatever ). Gotta be vigiliant - and that is not paranoia.

Just common sense.

Poisons of any form are OUT.... Some manufacturers of rodent and snail bait, have added a substance that is supposed to stop dogs eating it. The jury is still out on that one.

thanks for the info .... and incidentally, new born ( human ) babies are given Vitamin K injections ( even these days ) to prevent a bleeding disorder that can occur. ( haemorrhagic disease of the new born ). So for all ( except me ) - anti-coagulants are a no-no. I have a blood clotting disorder myself, called "Activated Protein C Resistance Factor V Leiden" ... which causes the blood to actually clot much more than is normal ... which results in DVT's, and on one occasion ( before it was discovered ) had me with a pulmonary embolism which I managed to survive. It is an inherited condition and thank God my 3 grown children who had to be checked by blood tests, have not inherited it from me.

So I inject myself every two days with Clexane / enoxaparin ( similar but better than heparin, and certainly waaay better than Warfarin ). I am not permitted to go anywhere near Warfarin, which is commonly used by doctors for DVT's and is the cheapest of all anti-coagulants. The reason being, another medical condition and I get the dearer stuff ... !!

So extreme is the effect of Warfarin, ( too long a time to reverse the effects of it ), that people who are unfortunately on the stuff, have to carry an anti-coagulant alert card ( and / or wear a medi-bracelet denoting Warfarin use ) with them wherever they go, in the case of say - an accident that causes profuse bleeding. It is the least susceptible anti-coagulant to being reversed. I wear a medi-bracelet, to be on the safe side, especially for medications and the injections I have to have.

Grand stuff eh ? .......

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