Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[Toast n Jelly]

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I wonder if you can bring your own eggs into Canada, ya know....say...for eating purposes?

I'm not sure that I can since food is not allowed.

But really I'm okay...just being dramatic is all.

 

[chicksooner]

I think thats telling you the sex. But thats a guess

Doug-Just warning you...this cold that is heading your way sucks! We went from 86 yesterday to our high today of 45 and that was like at 10am.

Sally I need a frozen smilie!

I HATE the cold.

 

[Toast n Jelly]

Picked up my Heritage Dellies from the USPS this morning. All 26 alive and running around like crazy. No paste butt or anything. The 2 week old GLW's don't know what to think of them. The bigger birds running for there life.

Tried to put the Wyandottes outside yesterday with the 2-3 month olds. But that didn't work very well. Maybe if I left them there longer they would have gotten better. But decide to take them back in.

Finally!! Yay!

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I never have used medicated and do keep a bottle of corid . I will treat as needed. Medicated feed isn't really medicine, it's a thiamine blocker.

 

[PrnzsButtrcluck]

I guess you guys are as strict as us. Meh! I'm just always looking for an excuse to break rules is all.

 

[Doug Hodges]

Quote: Thank God you didnt. Ive been buying the ones with the dark colors to them. They are real pretty.

Quote: Thats what I hear. My garden died from the last cold spell. Im going to put out some tomato plants when it warms back up and should have my pen ready for all those chicks. Ive gotta get them out of the garage because round two is going to start happening next week and I need the Brooders emptied.

 

[rbaker0345]

here is a pic of my favorite chicks - and young roo.

taken during my hawaii 5-0 b'day in Nov

Your kids are beautiful. I have two little half-Asian kids, a boy and a girl, 22mo apart (my daughter is older also) my husband is Korean (he really does look like that guy with the "I need a new chick" sign). Other white people who see me with my kids assume that I've adopted them, Asian women look at me like I've stolen something from them and Asian men look at me like they've never seen a white girl who fell in love with an Asian man before. I live in Countrysville, End-of-the-Earth, North Carolina, so you can imagine how our neighbors stare.

Beautiful family, really.

 

[rbaker0345]

I use feed with amprolium. Think about it from an immunology aspect. If the amprolium weakens the coccidia, its like giving a live, attenuated vaccine. It weakens the coccidia so that the chicks own immune system can fight it off and gain an immunity. It doesn't weaken the chick and its a lot easier on the organ system than sulfa drugs can be.

However, when the coccidia becomes really bad, I keep a bottle of Albon on hand and I gavage them with it so that I know that they're getting an exact dosage.

ACV probably helps because it has live cultures in it (the good stuff does, anyway). This is like giving them probiotics. I top-dress my chicks and chickens feed (for adults with crop issues) with a supplement called G.U.T. Its made for horses, but it works really well for chickens.

When they have coccidia, the lining of their intestines starts sloughing and hemorrhaging. G.U.T. not only has probiotics in it, it also has something called L. glutamine which is an essential amino acid that aids in the repair of mucous membranes (Its also really good for people with ulcers, collitis and crohns disease), an antacid and a number of other nutrients which will give the immune system a boost. My horse had a perforated stomach, gas from her stomach was leaking into her thoracic cavity and retracting her lungs, the ulcers were so bad. I treated her with omeprazole and then gut and she has made a full recovery.

I recently had an outbreak of coccidia in one of my brooders and I gavaged with Albon and gut dissolved in water and they all went from varying degrees of diarrhea and partially digested bloody poop to solid poop in, literally a day.

I also had a hen with a really bad, chronic sour crop. I started her on this and she has the best feeling crop out of all of my birds now. She has started laying reliably again. Things are going well. I highly recommend this supplement. (Its highly palatable too, if I'm hungry when I'm feeding, I just want to gobble it).

 

[Sally Sunshine]

Quote: oh this is great for making acv!!! we discussed homemande acv recipes not too long ago! http://silvalab.fsnhp.msstate.edu//vinegar_lactic.pdf

 

[Gardeningmama]

Brooding Turkeys

If you’re planning to raise 10 or more poults, buy a 100-pound bag of turkey starter that contains
medication to prevent coccidiosis, a common intestinal disease. Turkeys should develop immunity to
coccidiosis while eating medicated starter feed.

from http://extension.unh.edu/resources/representation/Resource000475_Rep497.pdf

Thought I'd jump in here, as the irony of the situation is driving me nuts. I have 4, 12 week old BLRW's. Penned separately from everyone, Thank God! Since hatch day they have been on Purina Med Chick Starter. They have developed the nastiest case of Cocci in spite of the feed. Only 2 weeks ago I started putting them out in their own chick "play pen"on nice days. I saw 1 bloody stool last week. I ignored it

. Yesterday went to put them back out in the play pen, and their pen had bloody stool everywhere. It was horrible. So, I just started them & their neighbor chicks on Corid. But, seriously, I can't figure this one out!

apple cider vinegar, and I am not sure its a cure or preventative for cocc, I would have to research unless Tony has the info already.

TONY assignment! Study cocc and ACV and MED feed and see what you come up with! We want facts please!! No seriously I would love to have the facts and know for sure!

I keep reading the ACV is a preventative. Gonna do it once the meds are done.

Quote: These are some of the most beautiful, and vibrant chicks I've ever seen. I love the contrast of color!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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