Chickens are easy/hard/fun/frustrating!

[RedDrgn]

the Tricid Neo.did not help with the bumblefoot.i have started with epsom salt soaks.again this week,the next step is borax acid salve.

Did you use distilled water? Supposedly, anything but distilled will render it virtually ineffective.

 

[canesisters]

She needs some shoes to protect her delicate little tootsies

 

[RedDrgn]

Holy mackerel, that's impressive!

What did you put in there for the padding? Could she still get on the roost? I know someone around here used to make toed chicken shoes, but they apparently aren't doing so any more. You're quite right that some kind of shoe would sure help keep her feet clean until they were all healed up.

 

[canesisters]

Oh I WISH I had thought up the idea, but I just found the pict.

Here's the link that goes with it. Maybe whoever it belongs to can help with the details.
http://flyingcritters.com/zoo2/zoo2.html

 

[RedDrgn]

Very interesting; I'll see what I scratch up (if I can) about them.

 

[bucky52]

i used distilled water.

 

[bucky52]

thats so cute .thats what my chicken( floopy) needs.i don't see her scratching like she use to.her foot seems to stay sore.

 

[flewdacoop]

COOL

 

[dreamcatcherarabians]

What starts them down the "bully road", though? I mean, our BR always has been at the top of the pecking order, but she was never mean. Last night, I got home early and let them out in the yard and watched as our BR continually hunted down and pecked our BA (if the BA didn't see her coming and run away first). ............
I'm starting to wonder if the laying issues are partly the result of the BR. Talking to my DH last night after watching her antics, I really think she's going to be heading for freezer camp Saturday morning. ...........


Sometimes I think the Bullying becomes a habit. When the BA was sore, the BR did what came naturally and decided she liked it. Now it's the BA, then starting on the Wellie, then.....who's next? And there will be a next. I blamed my EE roo for my Polak roo's bald head, then another bird got a bald butt and another Polak got a bald head......The kicker was, I had the EE locked up in the garage...soooo OOOOPS he wasn't the suspect. So I started watching the girls and one of the EE girls turned out to be the beastie and she started in on 2 or 3 more every time I'd move one victim out away from her not so tender ministrations. Once I was convinced she was going to become a serial killer, I offered her free to good home with only a couple other birds. I understand because of the illness you can't let your BR go off the property, so I would go ahead and Freezer Camp her. Once they get set in their ways, that pretty much seems to be the way they go from then on. AND, then 2nd in line could learn to take it up, and then it's a real mess. Once your culprit is gone I bet your egg laying goes up.