Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Ponypoor]

Maybe….I’ll check but here it is something like $140 base charge for the visit, non-emergency, before time and tests. That’s if I bring the hens there. $250-$500 was most visits? I’d have to check my bills. And I don’t know that any final outcome was different, but the draining, X-rays and euthanasia were something I would not have tried or could do on my own. I was happy to find a vet that would see chickens. I did buy a microscope to do fecal float tests. That should pay for itself over time.

I can send out to the lab here for fecal, which is fine with me.

Most things I can do myself, but the egg bound thing had me freaked out.

Now Sharpie had that soft egg break in her yesterday, and today she is not feeling well - I popped some amoxicillin and 1/2 an aspirin in her at around 4pm as she just didn’t seem right. I’ll go out now in another hr and check her.

Tomorrow I think I will check her out internally to see what’s in there still.

 

[BeastBaby]

Just to underscore the point. Maggie laid three lash eggs in her first episode.
I took her to a generalist vet who offered to euthanize her on the spot.
I declined and took her home. Some months later she laid a normal egg.
Two years later she laid another lash egg, was never ‘sick’ but died a couple of months later.

I still miss her and don’t regret taking her back home from the vet. Here she is on safari - hunting bugs in the long grass.

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Oh, interesting. Besides laying the lash eggs then, she wasn’t actually sick? No other symptoms?

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

I saw the rat snake that Bolt was standing on again…

 

[CCsGarden]

I saw the rat snake that Bolt was standing on again… View attachment 3786734

Make sure you get all your eggs!

 

[SimpleJenn]

I want a rat snake as a pet. I had a corn snake who was the absolute sweetest boy ever, sadly he got bone cancer. I miss Stig.

And back on topic, my chickens charmed even more family today! morinth and Shep really pulling their weight as ambassadors for backyard hens!

 

[BeastBaby]

@BeastBaby, my Pip laid has been dealing with salpingitis. I have a thread about it:
https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/soft-egg-shell-stuck-in-vent.1611362/

Oh no Pip, you and Becky both
I just read the thread. You have some very helpful participants. It seems like the most difficult part of treating is when they’re actually not feeling well, lost their appetite, and won’t even take “treats”.

Well that, and sourcing the antibiotics. You said Fish mox? Nothing came up when I did a quick search for that. Just some erythromycin options. Is it something you would find at a petsmart?

 

[featherhead007]

Oh no Pip, you and Becky both
I just read the thread. You have some very helpful participants. It seems like the most difficult part of treating is when they’re actually not feeling well, lost their appetite, and won’t even take “treats”.

Well that, and sourcing the antibiotics. You said Fish mox? Nothing came up when I did a quick search for that. Just some erythromycin options. Is it something you would find at a petsmart?

Fish mox:

 

[RoyalChick]

Oh, interesting. Besides laying the lash eggs then, she wasn’t actually sick? No other symptoms?

Nope. Not until very near the end.

She was a very opinionated hen and she loved to go deep into the long grass to find things. The way I see it, she got two more summers of safari in the long grass.

I did some excavation in my email in box and I found a receipt for enrofloxacin dated a day or so after Maggie's vet appointment where I took her back home and rejected the offer of euthanasia. So I think it is likely that I did treat her the first time with Baytril (=Enrofloxacin).

I had also forgotten Maggie had hardware disease as a complicating factor. She had eaten a couple of screws and a washer!

 

[CCsGarden]

I want a rat snake as a pet. I had a corn snake who was the absolute sweetest boy ever, sadly he got bone cancer. I miss Stig.
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And back on topic, my chickens charmed even more family today! morinth and Shep really pulling their weight as ambassadors for backyard hens!
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such a cute snake!

 

[featherhead007]

such a cute snake!

That’s what I said about my X wife when I met her! She snaked me out of 2.1 million dollars and my children
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