Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

That's what most of mine did last year. This year, started in September and drop feathers like crazy. My hard moulter, Nellie, didn't really moult until October. She's actually closer to 2/3 done at the moment.

I noticed my hard molting ladies were putting out good feather growth, the silkies are doing a partial feather growth their old feathers mixed with new pin feathers coming in. Even my 14 week old chicks are doing their first chick molt, poor babies - and having to handle everyone for checking on the lice situation is just painful.

The ivermectin isn’t working on the lice, I have seen round worms dead in the poop so at least it getting rid of that. But Ravens and Mr P needed to be treated with the equine fly spray I had been using for spraying down the roost ledges after cleaning.

I had initially sprayed only the Azurs, but when I checked Raven and they hadn’t died on her I sprayed her, and then tonight at evening check I was able to check over Mr P and he too was just loaded, so I sprayed him down.

Today I am making a run to the feedmill to get some more spray, and I will just go ahead and spray everyone. I am not going to bother with a repeat of the ivermectin for the lice, they were wormed and that’s fine get rid of the ascarid and any other icky parasites in their gut. I wish I could do round worms but I am not sure I can get just praziquantel for them, and don’t know a dosage at any rate.

Ok well here is a few more mugs

The 14 week olds

Cash

Ruth the little pecker

Are they starting to get red?

 

[Ponypoor]

Oh yes, both my kids decorate him all the time. He just rolls with it. Tango defies his breeds stereotype and really is the sweetest, smartest dog I have ever had the pleasure of owning. Couldn’t ask for a kinder hearted creature ❤.

Kids and dogs - so much fun to be had

It amazing how they enjoy their little Hoomans

 

[RoyalChick]

Well I've got Baytril and it being the weekend and not hearing back from the vets and then finding the bubbles and all, I went ahead and started treatment, .06 2x/day. I figure the Terramycin oitment might help, but that the eyes issue could be mycoplasma conjunctivitis, because how dark they look, she's like a barred owl.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/th...es-stories-of-our-flock.1286630/post-27211746
"Gave her .06 ml of 10% Baytril, she's .583 kg, so .1ml Baytril per kg = .0583 ml, I gave her .06 ml. "

Sorry. I spaced on you trearing with Baytril.
I didn’t think of Baytril as the go-to antibiotic for mycoplasma, but I looked it up and it should be active.
As for treating the others I would not. If it is mycoplasma it comes and goes and doesn’t always need treatment, and you don’t have a confirmed diagnosis.
Treating Anna makes sense because she is so sick. But I personally wouldn’t treat blind in a chicken that is otherwise well.
I am upset the vet didn’t call you back.

 

[Ponypoor]

Thank you for your perspective and experience!

It was six days on Corid water with basically no improvement and eyes looking worse. I haven’t read anywhere that birds with coccidiosis don’t change for the better during treatment and that you have to wait 21 days for the damage to heal and sometime in there the birds start acting better? That doesn’t seem to be the usual course, just the sense I get in reading here on BYC. Or is it and I’ve missed that?

She had seemed a bit perkier when the vet saw her last Monday, then got worse and stayed at that lower level for the rest of the week. I think my attentions to her with water & food helped, but the eyes got worse. And I never got an answer on the eyes from the vet except she wants to hide and have darkness cause she doesn’t feel good. If blindness is really an outcome surviving extended illness with mycoplasma, then I wanted to head that off and not wait.

Peanut had bubbles in her eyes last November and treated for suspected mycoplasma. It was after exposure to the Buckeyes (and their run areas) at six weeks old or so, that now Anna is visibly sick.

I would have not waited more than a couple days with no improvement, you can treat with a sulfa antibiotic and have a poo sample sent to a lab for testing.

Baytril is not effective for coccidiosis but it’s the right choice if she does have mycoplasma I am so glad you put her on the antibiotics there are monthly treatments you can give positive birds to control any further outbreaks.

You can ask your Vet about using Sulfadimethoxine, if indeed it is coccidiosis. Or Terramicine

And I came across this study showing have removal of ascarid through use of ivermectin increased risk of coccidia infection!

https://royalsocietypublishing.org/...nfection, but,and not within-host replication.

I will be keeping an eye on my chooks now

 

[Ponypoor]

Sorry. I spaced on you trearing with Baytril.
I didn’t think of Baytril as the go-to antibiotic for mycoplasma, but I looked it up and it should be active.
As for treating the others I would not. If it is mycoplasma it comes and goes and doesn’t always need treatment, and you don’t have a confirmed diagnosis.
Treating Anna makes sense because she is so sick. But I personally wouldn’t treat blind in a chicken that is otherwise well.
I am upset the vet didn’t call you back.

I wonder if the Vet just doesn’t know and figures it’s just a chicken or she could have just been extremely busy with emergencies.

I came across an article stating Baytril was highly effective against mycoplasma in poultry.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18679898/

Who knew chickens could be so stressful at times and other times so much fun

 

[RoyalChick]

I wonder if the Vet just doesn’t know and figures it’s just a chicken or she could have just been extremely busy with emergencies.

I came across an article stating Baytril was highly effective against mycoplasma in poultry.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18679898/

Who knew chickens could be so stressful at times and other times so much fun

Yes. I found the same article and a couple of others and felt relieved!
I get it on the vet being busy, but still there is probably a receptionist who could have called. Not that would have helped, but I don’t see how you can leave a distressed customer and their pet totally unsupported.

 

[Ponypoor]

Yes. I found the same article and a couple of others and felt relieved!
I get it on the vet being busy, but still there is probably a receptionist who could have called. Not that would have helped, but I don’t see how you can leave a distressed customer and their pet totally unsupported.

Yes it is poor customer service, but we don’t know what went on there, they could have missed the message. I try to look at possibilities so I don’t get all furious and tear a strip off people. Hard to do sometimes, but I am so happy she put the wee gal on the antibiotics; hope for good news today.

 

[Ponypoor]

Mugs Monday

My three black pullets

Tippy and her wattles - if she is laying I don’t know where. I think she is 23 weeks

Elli-too starting to get wattles but no real comb, I think she might be Tippy’s full sister, a Sophia egg baby. I think 20 weeks

And Petunia with her fun muffs and beard (a beard full of nits; if you get lice check your chooks beards). Same age as Eli-too.

And the old ladies, they are 5 years old.

Larry and Sharpie

A Barred Rock with wattles, Larry

 

[BY Bob]

Well, would you like something that constantly 'ruffled your feathers'????

I see what you did there.

 

[Ponypoor]

I see what you did there.

Is that like wind blowing up your kilt ?