Cochin Thread!!!

[makluvsanimals]

no you did not offend me i was just wondering if there were any more
but as you aid this is the best advice so i know what im doing this week
chickens baths
thank you for your help

 

[joanie_maine]

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[aceschix]

Quote: Very good advice!

 

[makluvsanimals]

thank you so much

 

[Black Cochin Bantams]

any other ideas

You have been given good advice. DE is touted for many things. I have never found results for DE that are verified under anything approaching clinical or scientific methodology. I believe it will not hurt a bird but that any dust bath is good for helping keep parasite numbers down.

If you can not wash the bird today then dust it heavily getting it to the skin. Wash it soon using a quality Flea shampoo and check the rest of the birds now and again in a few weeks. Egg production will be affected while any bird recovers from mite infestation.

Good luck and don't wait.

Craig

 

[makluvsanimals]

i will heavily dust all birds then i will get to bath giving this weekend

 

[lilcrow]

no you did not offend me i was just wondering if there were any more
but as you aid this is the best advice so i know what im doing this week
chickens baths
thank you for your help

"i know what im doing this week chickens baths" - and don't forget treating them with Frontline, the bath alone won't do it, it only gives temporary albeit immediate relief.
And you're very welcome, that is why we are here, I'm only giving you what was given to me.

 

[makluvsanimals]

thank you so much i will post a pic of my happy lil mite free bantam cochin

 

[ChickenCrazy123]

cocchins1088

My Cochin that I just got was covered in lice and i gave her a bath right away the next day we went and got a dust for her and it killed off the lice but you said they needed to be dusted 3 times to get them all can you tell use how far between dusting before we should do it again.

 

[ki4got]

not the greatest pic, but if you'd seen her when I got (rescued more like) this girl...
please ignore the mud on her back too. LOL the rooster doesn't know to wipe his feet first.


her story is, that I found her at a swap early last month. she was dirty, had turd-balls clinging to her belly, scaly feet AND face, etc.
there was a tag on her cage that said simply $5. but she's a cochin, #1, and even under all that gunk, missing feathers and scaly leg, she had something to her that told me she'd be worth the effort... so I handed over my $5 and immediately put her in a cardboard box, told the guy parked next to me (I was also selling at the swap that day) that i'd be right back, and went in and washed my hands and arms thoroughly. I could practically feel those bugs crawling on me, though I couldn't see anything.

Once home, and everyone else was back where they belonged (those few who actually CAME home), she was treated with ivermectin injectable (orally) and subjected to a long hot soaking bubble bath (ok dish liquid, but it bubbles). she didn't need to speak English for me to understand her sigh when I put her down into the water.

I let her soak there for a bit (more like 20 minutes) while she fell asleep with her head propped up on a container at chin-height (her head kept falling forward into bubbles, I was afraid she'd drown LOL).

once the bath was over and she was rinsed well, vinegar water rinse after, then wrapped in a towel and finally blow dried, did she get to meet her new home. a whole 24 x 48 space that was all hers! I don't think she knew what to do with it. she was talking excitedly by now, 'oh look! food! and WATER! hey! is that a clean roost?'

that was about 6 weeks ago, and she's been out of quarantine for 2... rather than subject her to the ravages of eager juvenile roosters (and some not so juvenile), I decided she would do best playing second fiddle to my bantam blrw rooster's girl. (who by this time was quite weary of him i'm sure...)

so now the old crusty scales have fallen off her legs and they're looking healthy again, her face looks normal, and her feathers are growing back in. her head and neck feathers have filled in and her cushion's trying to (no thanks to S'mee and our neverending MUD).

so over all, I won't say she's the greatest example of a partridge cochin, one wing hangs low, and her cushion... well it'll grow back. but she's sweet and i'd say worth the effort.

now if we could just stop the incessant rain that's washing everything but the mud away...