Faverolles Thread

[Leo1]

This was the best I could get with just two hands. I didn't get to this girl until today so this is before the scabs came off. She's all bandaged up now and I have to change the other girls bandages so hopefully her feet will look OK.
Thanks so much guys!

 

[Fancy Favie]

Fancy Fave are you showing at the show this weekend in Michigan?

Yes I am showing at the FowlFest it will be my first show ever so I'm really excited to be going my Daughter and Neice will be bringing there own birds as well.

 

[n8ivetxn]

This was the best I could get with just two hands. I didn't get to this girl until today so this is before the scabs came off. She's all bandaged up now and I have to change the other girls bandages so hopefully her feet will look OK.
Thanks so much guys!

Now I want to go out and look at mine! - I have no idea

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Yay I just received my stickers in the mail, thank you!

 

[comerspoultry]

Now I want to go out and look at mine! - I have no idea

It is from moisture in the pens.

 

[Leo1]

It is from moisture in the pens.

It's been raining a LOT the last couple weeks and the run is a bit soggy, could it happen that quickly? Is there a name for this? Any thoughts on how to keep it from happening again? I was thinking of putting wood chips in their run, but now I'm thinking that will hurt their feet. I tried using aspen shavings for bedding in their coop when they were younger and they ate them, so that's out. It's usually not this wet, but on occasion with the weather lately. Their coop is nice and dry, though
THANKS!

 

[n8ivetxn]

- I don't think it's bad for them to nibble on the pine shavings, I wouldn't worry about that.... I see mine do it sometimes and they even free range across the farm daily (go figure!)

Moisture.... I'll buy that. I guess I haven't seen it because I have a coop big enough to accommodate the birds, plus they like to hang out in the barn when it's open

(love those bales of hay!)

We're expecting the rain to start in the next 24 hours, so tonight I'm going to the box store and getting a roll of 6mil clear plastic to roll across the top of the runs. I had planned on purchasing clear poly sheets to line the runs, but the roll stuff will suffice for now....

 

[n8ivetxn]

I wanted to go to the show in Salem this weekend, but I have to work

- It happened that way last year too....Hmmm, sounds like a conspiracy to keep me from buying more birds!

 

[mame1616]

Not sure if this would help in this case, but usually if I have an animal with an infection that is not open or obvious to the outside, I will put black salve on it. It will draw anything to the surface and you can see what is going on. If you can't find black salve just mix any base salve with charcoal powder and use it. Just an idea, I used it on my dog with an abscess, a quail with sore feet and myself when I had a nasty spider bite and it always works great, not sure if it would work in this case though. Can you post a pic of their feet?

Snozzle, what is black salve?

 

[Snozzle]

Snozzle, what is black salve?

It's a drawing salve, it can have various ingredients in it depending on which recipe you use, but it usually has charcoal in it. If I remember right in my last batch I had shea butter, cocoa butter, coconut oil, bees wax, charcoal, calendula leafs and rosemary oil(as an antiseptic, antifungal and antibacterial agent). You melt the base ingredients at a low temperature and let it cool a little and then add the charcoal, oils, herbs and whatever else you put in it. There are a bunch of recipes online. I have heard of someone making it with tar in it, but the charcoal makes more sense to me. The charcoal pulls and absorbs toxins, that's why it is given internally when something toxic has been ingested too, it has a similar effect externally.
I had been battling a nasty spider bite for 2 months, was in a lot of pain(couldn't lean back in a chair or lay on my back) and began having streaks running from the bite despite keeping antibiotic ointment on it. I was going to go to the doctor, but with my fear of doctors I decided to make some black salve as a last resort. I applied it 3 times a day with a bandage over it and after a day of doing so, the pain eased, the streaks and redness went away and within a week all the necrotic tissue fell off and other then a big hole in my back, it was all back to normal. It also works wonders for diabetics that have scrapes or sores that don't want to heal. It is great stuff and my secret weapon