EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[duluthralphie]

OK, I don't enough to say!

The jury is still out with me. I have not decided whether it is for me or not.

 

[minihorse927]

Okay, so help a dyslexic person with that math. If I buy OTC asprin tablets, how many do I need to crunch up and put in her sweet-feed tea that the vet's having me give her. lol

how many mg are the pills you are going to use?

 

[chicken hawk 33]

The eggs i collected so far.

 

[DwayneNLiz]

The eggs i collected so far.

Great!! make sure you turn them just like they were in the incubator

 

[minihorse927]

Most aspirin are 325mg. I'll go with that size. If you buy different let me know. If you go for the highest dose, you need 191.5 pills of 325mg aspirin. Going for the lowest dose you need 95.7 pills of 325mg aspirin

 

[DwayneNLiz]

Most aspirin are 325mg. I'll go with that size. If you buy different let me know. If you go for the highest dose, you need 191.5 pills of 325mg aspirin. Going for the lowest dose you need 95.7 pills of 325mg aspirin

holy cow, thats a lot of aspirin!

 

[kajira]

how many mg are the pills you are going to use?

325mg - from the math/research I did, it looks like I'd need to use 47 for a daily dose to keep her up and moving.

It might be easier to get the horse aspirin powder, shipped out to me over night and use that, since it's cheaper to buy the horse stuff and the dose is a lot smaller.

I just need to buy her some time to get weight back on her, while we figure out the best pain management system, and get bute around to have for her as needed.

She's up and moving today, and she takes the bute pills no problem - she eats them like candy. We gave her a half-dose of the bute this morning, to save the second one for tomorrow to make it last. We did a big dose last night (full sized dose for a 1000lbs horse.) and it got her energy up enough to eat/drink. I just need to maintain that while she puts weight back on, and figure out if she needs it occasionally, daily, or just in the winter when it gets cold or she has a rough day.

The vet's coming back thursday to check on her again.... so i'm trying to figure out what my options are long-term. Our vet that we use, isn't licensed for prescriptions until march.... so I need to buy my horse enough time until she can handle *100%* of her care.

All the other equined vets are 2-3 hours away, and making my horse travel for a bute prescription seems tantamount to torture for her.

Edited : When we got her, they had to pay a vet to come out and heavily sedate her, because she wouldn't load in the trailer with out fighting them because she was in pain.... and it was hard on her. She limped/wouldn't move much for the first week or two we had her, because of that little "trip."

So in her current condition, I don't want to do that to her again, plus I don't have sedation for her if she were to need it to travel, or the pain meds to make the trip less traumatic/painless.

I'm trying to reach out to the people who had her before, to get their vet's information who had her on file, to see if s/he would fill a bute prescription for her, until march just to buy us some time.

 

[minihorse927]

325mg - from the math/research I did, it looks like I'd need to use 47 for a daily dose to keep her up and moving.

It might be easier to get the horse aspirin powder, shipped out to me over night and use that, since it's cheaper to buy the horse stuff and the dose is a lot smaller.

I just need to buy her some time to get weight back on her, while we figure out the best pain management system, and get bute around to have for her as needed.

She's up and moving today, and she takes the bute pills no problem - she eats them like candy. We gave her a half-dose of the bute this morning, to save the second one for tomorrow to make it last. We did a big dose last night (full sized dose for a 1000lbs horse.) and it got her energy up enough to eat/drink. I just need to maintain that while she puts weight back on, and figure out if she needs it occasionally, daily, or just in the winter when it gets cold or she has a rough day.

The vet's coming back thursday to check on her again.... so i'm trying to figure out what my options are long-term. Our vet that we use, isn't licensed for prescriptions until march.... so I need to buy my horse enough time until she can handle *100%* of her care.

All the other equined vets are 2-3 hours away, and making my horse travel for a bute prescription seems tantamount to torture for her.

do you have a decent relationship with any of these other vets? Maybe call them, explain the situation and they would prescribe what you need.

I would try giving her the one bolus dose, which is around 47 pills. If she acts good then I would keep her there till you get something else worked out. If it isn't enough try upping the dose.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Quote: Benny it is a very common practice and is not associated with infection or disfigurement - nor pain.

- Ant Farm
OK, I don't enough to say!

I would have totally thought the same thing you did (re: infection). But experience with the procedure just doesn't show that. Not sure why - perhaps it's a blood flow thing, or that baby chicks raised in brooders don't have enough flora in their poop yet. Actually, watching my own recently hatched babies, I did note hat no one pooped for about 24 hours (because there wasn't anything to poop yet, as the first "meal" was making its way through). Could be that they actually AREN'T stepping in poop until after it has mostly healed.

But for whatever reason, breeders use this on really valuable chicks, and I have never heard of losses. Mainly the down side is that the hole closes, or occasionally if the hole is punched too close to the edge, the title bridge of flesh breaks and there's just a gap (that is harder to see and identify).

- Ant Farm

 

[chicken hawk 33]

I only PM on special occasions but im here almost everyday.

pic of your eggs