Eastern Tennessee Thread

[bairo]

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Rickets....wow
What are you feeding? Are they getting enough sunlight to activate the vit. D
If your mixing your own feed..keep an eye on the vit D and phosphorous levels to make sure they meet the minimum. A lot of people think it is a calcium problem, it is mostly a vit. D problem. Increase the Calcium too much over about 4% and it will cause more serious problems. So never overload them with calcium

 

[tennesseeckn]

Vitamin D is what finally pulled her through, PolyViSol, specifically. I'm pretty sure it started with something she picked up in the litter, whether it was botulism or something else that was toxic. Whatever it was caused her body to stop absorbing calcium. I was sure it was just botulism until I noticed how soft the bones in her toes were.

I was mixing their feed at the time and believe me I beat myself up thinking I had caused it. I've absolved myself of some of the guilt because I never had an issue with any of the others and I always used Nutri-Balancer which should have more than covered their needs for nutrients and trace minerals even if my seed and grains didn't. This was before the great fox attack, so they also free ranged all day, every day. My girls were laying great and just about everything I incubated hatched. I'd heard that those were the first to go when something is missing in their diets.

This is the part where someone jumps in and says, "Of COURSE it wasn't your feed!"

Now I use Countryside layer mash because I couldn't keep up the fatties with my little hand grinder.

I have to say, I developed some impressive guns doing that. Schwarzenegger would have been jealous.

I remember the rooster you were advising the lady about. I don't know why I assumed the sick one was yours.

So, are you going to form a vaccination co-op, too?

 

[NellaBean]

http://knoxville.craigslist.org/grd/2755566951.html

 

[bairo]

lol

I guess I could if you all want to vaccinate.

Oh yea... "It was not your feed nor your fault"

I was wandering why your right arm was bigger than the left last time I saw you. I thought it was some sort of birth defect

 

[bairo]

daph...see Nella above

Looks like you getting a puppy if we have anything to do with it. Remember we have the google queen on our side, LOL

 

[tennesseeckn]

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Oooh! Those are so cute! Now you're taking away my excuses not to get one. I'll have to cling to my, "I don't have time to train a dog right now" and see if that works.

 

[tennesseeckn]

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You're just jealous! You know I could beat you at arm wrestling.

I sense a calling for you... poultry supply distributor! We could use one, ya know!

 

[bairo]

I have got to stop stalking the recent post section.

This person with nearly 7000 posts on BYC. She has some sort of shelter with completely open sides for a coop. It has been raining for 4 days straight and everything and everybody (it sounds like) is soaked. gets down to 30 degrees and she wakes up to find dead chicken in the frost. She wants to know why? After all everyone elses chickens survive cold temps.

Hmmm. let me think?
does everyone else spray them down with water and open the sides of the coop so it can get nice and drafty before it hits 30?
I better end it there before I really speak my mind

 

[tennesseeckn]

OK, here's a head-scratcher for you House, MD-types.

I happened upon a thread where the poster has a pullet that has weak legs and wings, green poop, and no other symptoms. She doesn't free range and her feed is all dry. She's not egg bound and doesn't seem to be impacted.

Owner just wormed her today and has been giving her vitamins in her water since Sunday. I suggested dosing her with vitamins directly and hand feeding her because of the green poop, but beyond that I am lost.

Any other ideas?

 

[tennesseeckn]

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I admire your restraint. I would have been hard pressed to not suggest that she expose herself to similar circumstances to better understand what could have happened.