Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[BY Bob]

Can chickens take capsules? I cannot find anything online. All your experts know the answer?

Yesterday night we were gonna give her a capsule of Amox, but started to think maybe we need to take the powder out of the capsule for her digestion. So I have the powder mixed with coconut oil, which were put in the freezer.

This morning, it was a big failure to give her the frozen coconut ball (too big). She somehow still have lots of energy to fight it.

When we came back from work this afternoon, we popped the whole capsule into her beak, so she got her first dose, assuming the capsule can properly dissolve.

She is clearly not improving on her own. She hasn't eaten food in 3 days. According to the best I can find, I am going to give her 250mg of Amox every 8 hours.

Last time I gave amoxicillin I dissolved it and syringed it into Patsy. The amoxicillin dose I use is 200 mg/kg orally, twice per day. You should give electrolytes or provide gatorade with Amoxicillin as it can lower potassium levels.

 

[bgmathteach]

A failed lesson for the teacher and the children.

Even failures such as that CAN be a lesson - IF anyone bothers to follow through on it. A very hard learning experience for all, especially the chicks...but that horrible experience SHOULD be used as a learning one so it doesn't happen again and so children become more aware of different social/non-social animals and the impact it has on their ability to thrive. I have to say, that is the teacher in me coming out - if we don't learn from our failures, we are doomed to repeat them. That said, my personal reaction to that story was both:

 

[bgmathteach]

I will need to google this I guess.

I would think a normal glass thermometer, with the protective sleeves and lube, should do just fine for chicken...but I'm a bit old school. A digital 'scanning' one would be less intrusive.

Hmmm, now that I think about it, with my eyes starting to go bad...a digital one would be far easier to read than those glass mercurial ones!!! And the chickens would, I'm sure, much appreciate my not fussing around with their vent any more than needed!

 

[bgmathteach]

73F 23C and not a cloud in the sky.

Weather tax from last week and a 2fer
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I see that the Queen and the 'aspiring to be queen' are both on the throne - high above the underlings!

 

[GregnLety]

Allergy testing is done and Rosie is home and first thing she did was run to grab her clariton. She is allergic to dust, some molds but the biggest ones are Trees. Highly reactive to 7 trees which are in full bloom at the moment and we are surrounded by. Negative on animals, grasses, and weeds.

Rosie has my sympathy. I'm allergic to several trees which are pollinating now. I use Flonase, Texas Clear tablets and a homeopathic liquid allergy medicine before I go out cutting the weeds. Mine got worse with age. Hope that doesn't happen with Rosie.

 

[featherhead007]

I must be allergic to allergies because I cough and sneeze all the time. I’m taking two medicines and an inhaler every day

 

[featherhead007]

I brought my emotional support rooster inside just now, so he can get some food and rest.

 

[bgmathteach]

Can chickens take capsules? I cannot find anything online. All your experts know the answer?

Yesterday night we were gonna give her a capsule of Amox, but started to think maybe we need to take the powder out of the capsule for her digestion. So I have the powder mixed with coconut oil, which were put in the freezer.

This morning, it was a big failure to give her the frozen coconut ball (too big). She somehow still have lots of energy to fight it.

When we came back from work this afternoon, we popped the whole capsule into her beak, so she got her first dose, assuming the capsule can properly dissolve.

She is clearly not improving on her own. She hasn't eaten food in 3 days. According to the best I can find, I am going to give her 250mg of Amox every 8 hours.

So, you can break the coconut oil (frozen or room tempt) into smaller bits and feed it that way. I do not know if the capsule dissolves quickly enough in a chicken's digestive system or not; maybe @BY Bob or @RoyalChick would know that.

When I gave my girl antibiotics, the capsule was dosed for humans, so I opened the capsule, mixed it with some H20, and syringed it into her. (I mixed it with water to help being able to meter out the correct dose, and it wasn't much, so I could easily give it a drop at a time onto the tongue and she swallowed it on her own. If you don't have a needle-less syringe, Walmart's pharmacy will give them out for free (cheap disposable plastic ones, but I keep, sanitize & reuse) Just tell them you have liquid medicine you need to dispense - they will ask the volume (cc s) and will give you an appropriate sized syringe.

 

[Ponypoor]

Allergy testing is done and Rosie is home and first thing she did was run to grab her clariton. She is allergic to dust, some molds but the biggest ones are Trees. Highly reactive to 7 trees which are in full bloom at the moment and we are surrounded by. Negative on animals, grasses, and weeds.

Can they do some desensitizing for her allergies? My cousins son was highly allergic to horses he would break out in hives and wheeze up a storm when he came here.

My cousin took him to an allergist and they did some desensitizing and he was much better.

Allergy tax
I am allergic to cold weather, but I am suffering out here sitting, for my kiddos sake.

 

[Kris5902]

Ok good to know, so September/ October for the Roos, I will likely know if they are Roos by then.

I just book the last date available at my processor, and then hope for the best, everyone is usually an ok size by then, if anyone is late (squeak…) they end up staying through winter, and then usually until my first processing the next year of meat birds. I book some extra spots for my cockerels with each batch but the abattoir is really flexible for me.