Chicken Diarrhea

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I don't have any advice for you with the sick birds, but I'm sorry to hear what you have gone though.

But I would like to share a story though it is off topic a bit so I apologize. Once years ago we had a backyard pig farm. One time we got wiener pigs from this one breeder that were quite sickly. It involved diarrhea and worse, I won't go into detail, the breeder was blaming me for them getting sick. I'd been raising hogs for 20+ years and knew what I was doing. I spend an ungodly amount of time and money on these hogs. A few years latter due to a decline in breeders in the area we had to use her for two other sets of winner pigs with similar results. Except the last round. 1/2 of them ended up dying. I drove 75 miles for medication for these guys, took tons of time off work to try to find out what was wrong, vets ect. After that last round, and with no other breeders in the area, that ended up being my retirement from backyard pigs. I feel for you with what it is like when one of your animals looses the battle.

Rob

I'm really sorry :/ That sounds extremly stressful

 

[sirrobyn0]

I'm really sorry :/ That sounds extremly stressful

It was at the time for sure, but as they say one door closes another one opens. Though I did know it at the time. We always had the chickens, but a few years after our last batch of pigs, we got into ducks and geese. Though most of the buildings that were the pig houses have been converted into various other uses such as storage, when I tore the fences down all of the posts were reused for the duck enclosure. The buildings that were no longer useable for anything other than hogs were torn down and the wood reused for various things including the duck houses. I re-built the roof on one of the chicken coop, by using 100% materials that came off of the one of the pig houses we had to take down. Plus when the chickens are out they LOVE getting into the area where the pig pens use to be, I'd image that soil is quite rich with bugs and worms. It was also getting harder and harder to find someone to come out and do the butchering, because that's not something I'm into doing myself. Plus the Ducks, Geese and Chickens are so much easier to care for. Though it was hard at the time, I don't really miss it at all now.