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

[daxigait]

For our web lovers, I can't imagine wanting to swim by the caves at 21° and windy, but they seem to be very happy. I am just sorry my cell can't zoom better.

 

[fire370]

What injectables do you need a script for?

It's not only injectables but also feed meds and a slug of others. Remember, I have about 400 head of cattle, 50+ hogs (add 100 when feeding out), around 40 goats, about 40 lambs and a couple hundred chickens so the med fridge has a supply of what maybe needed.

http://msue.anr.msu.edu/news/dont_wait_be_ready_new_antibiotic_rules_for_2017

For instance, Bo-Se is a drug we are using hot and heavy right now since it is baby season for the cows, goats and sheep. It is a Vit E/Sellinium injection for deficiency.(White muscle disease).

 

[daxigait]

Like you, I'm wanting to do my own turners in cabinets. However, since I tend to overthink things, I want to have a couple different controls in the same incubator for staggered hatches so I can turn more frequently the first 15 days than later.

I'm buying one for myself to wear to my chicken classes next month. I think it explains the issue better than the spoken word.

Or when you do your personal property tax form and it wants to know who your contractor is because you have more twenty chickens

 

[casportpony]

Quote: As I understood it, injectables were not on the list? Of course stuff like Baytril 100 is Rx, but it always has been. I think one can still get LA200, LA300, injectable DiMethox, and injectable neomycin for piglets?

This is from the link you posted:
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[daxigait]

@casportpony would you PM me the solutions thing you posted,? My phone is not cooperating. Thanks.

 

[duluthralphie]

As I understood it, injectables were not on the list? Of course stuff like Baytril 100 is Rx, but it always has been. I think one can still get LA200, LA300, injectable DiMethox, and injectable neomycin for piglets?

This is from the link you posted:

I am not sure, but I think some "stores" are with holding a bunch of things the could sell out of an abundance of caution. No one wants to end up being fined for selling a drug illegally..

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I am not sure, but I think some "stores" are with holding a bunch of things the could sell out of an abundance of caution. No one wants to end up being fined for selling a drug illegally..

The Farm&Home near me across the river sold all the restricted meds at much reduced cost the last couple months of 2016 in preparation. As they explained it to me, very few meds they always carried were affected.

 

[casportpony]

@casportpony would you PM me the solutions thing you posted,? My phone is not cooperating. Thanks.

Sent!

 

[Akrnaf2]

Very adorable! Wish I could have some, but I am SOOOO allergic to rabbits and all other rodents! It would be straight to the emergency room for me!

A rabbit isn't a rodent. I was given a lecture by several last year.

Well, whatever it is, I am VERY allergic to it, and hamster, guinea pigs, hedgehogs, mice...the list goes on and on...

I need some advice, folks. Monkey has a bit of a limp today. He is such a sweet good tempered boy, and while he didn't jump into my arms, it wasn't that much of a fight to get hold of him, and he was calm in my arms and let me mess around looking at his feet. First, I think he might maybe have beginning bumble foot - this is a first for me. Here's a photo - sorry, ti was close and I had a hard time focusing. But that patch isn't poop, it's sort of a smooth patch/scab. There is no "stuff underneath - I think this is very early. Can anyone remind me of the non surgical approaches? (I think someone posted that here - I'm going to try to look, but it's hard to find stuff sometimes on here.) But, while examining his feet, I was sort of taken aback by the way the spots where his feathers come out looked. I'm new to birds with feathered feet - is this normal? (He has muddy poopy feet in this photo, sorry - that's not blood.) For what it's worth, the limp seems to support the "beginning bumble foot" side being the problem, not the "crazy gross looking" feather foot side... - Ant Farm

That is a havy infection of scaley mite! It could be the reason! Ivermectin is an option AND soak its legs in oil and put a nice coat of vaselin on them. Do it every 3 days for 4 times

Thanks! I got that diagnosis on another thread earlier tonight - I had no idea, felt very dumb and very guilty for missing it, and being lax for checking my birds (who I need to start doing more careful health checks on). I read a LOT of different cures/advice, etc., and have been discussing with Beekissed on the Breeding for Production thread tonight. I pulled him off the roost tonight for the first foot soak (he was sweet), and coated legs with castor oil (following Beekissed's recommendation from her experience). I'm going to also check and treat everyone else while I'm at it, starting with the four other birds with feathered legs... I'm going to do it every night for about a week and see how it's going - I didn't have things set up well tonight (I'm doing this alone) so the oil application wasn't as thorough as it should have/could have been. I'll be better prepared tomorrow. - Ant Farm

Yup, that's immediately what I thought, too! My Australorp gets them REALLY easy, I tried the whole Vaseline thing, and castor oil, and soap and water, and a combination, the only thing that eventually worked was two doses of Ivermectin a few weeks apart. She is finally regrowing scales back. I was dosing the whole flock for lice and mites, anyway, so it worked out.

The problem now is if you can eat the eggs.......

 

[fire370]

As I understood it, injectables were not on the list? Of course stuff like Baytril 100 is Rx, but it always has been. I think one can still get LA200, LA300, injectable DiMethox, and injectable neomycin for piglets?

This is from the link you posted:

You are correct. For most people this would not bother. Those of us that doctor lots of animals with specialty items, yes it is a bunch of red tape.