Chat room for non religious poultry keepers! :D

[fluffycrow]

Here the irony



My malay mixed boys? Never had that.



The walking cottons balls? "THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE!!"



They're the walking definition of cute but deadly

 

[miss heny]

Chilling in the garden now. The black one with the butchered crest is a rooster, and the lighter splash is the other rooster. No names yet for the cotton balls.

 

[fluffycrow]

yeah, the black one was always kinda fuzzy like your image

It is really fuzzy! Ugh you've given me silkie nostalgia, my silkies very recently passed

 

[miss heny]

Mr. Instigator here. Lowkey considering naming him Blitzo.

 

[miss heny]

Everyone sorta chillaxing here. Poor black rooster half his crest is gone and he got a slight head ticking going on may put some corid in their water just to be safe.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

It is really fuzzy! Ugh you've given me silkie nostalgia, my silkies very recently passed

Sorry to hear you lost them!

Everyone sorta chillaxing here. Poor black rooster half his crest is gone and he got a slight head ticking going on may put some corid in their water just to be safe.
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Did the other cockerel pluck him in their fight? Poor guy. Corid only treats coccidiosis, and I've never heard of a head tic being associated with that... A vitamin mix might be more useful to treat his tic as muscle spasms are often associated with deficiencies and Silkies seem to be more sensitive to them.

 

[miss heny]

Sorry to hear you lost them!




Did the other cockerel pluck him in their fight? Poor guy. Corid only treats coccidiosis, and I've never heard of a head tic being associated with that... A vitamin mix might be more useful to treat his tic as muscle spasms are often associated with deficiencies and Silkies seem to be more sensitive to them.

Yeah he did.

That true, also was going to be safe than sorry because youngins and things warming up meaning more likely for cocci to strike. Gonna have to find a vitamin mix to give.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Definitely understand that concern! Here, once they're on the ground for a few weeks they're usually pretty safe from coccidiosis, but if it's a particularly wet spring then I sometimes have to treat my chicks. That, and different strains in different areas being more or less aggressive makes it hard to make any kind of blanket statement regarding what people should do for coccidiosis prevention.

For the record, if you're treating with Corid, it's best not to put them on a vitamin mix at the same time. Corid's active ingredient is amprolium, which kills off coccidia basically by mimicking thiamine, a B vitamin, so that the coccidia absorb the amprolium and are blocked from picking up the thiamine they need. This is also why you don't want to leave birds on a Corid treatment or feed medicated with amprolium for too long, as the birds, themselves, will also be absorbing amprolium instead of thiamine and become deficient after a while. By supplementing a vitamin mix with thiamine in it at the same time as treatment, however, you're giving the coccidia in their guts the opportunity to pick up thiamine instead of amprolium and continue to live, if that makes sense. So do one or the other, not both at the same time!

 

[miss heny]

Yee for sure. I need to update my poultry kit anyway, we have really no vets that treat birds so everything we do it's on our own

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Same here. The vet my cat goes to, there was a vet tech that used to work there that they called the 'chicken lady' and we were recommended to her for something years ago, but in that one visit she said enough to tell me that she didn't really know all that much about poultry after all, at least from a veterinary standpoint. I'm actually not sure if she still works there or not... but regardless, she wasn't all that much help. So, we're on our own here as well unless we want to drive a few hours out. The majority of my area seems to see chickens as expendable livestock, one dies and you just spend a few bucks to replace it, no big deal. It's a real shame.