That's average normal Silkie price here for a DNA-sexed Silkie (available thru private breeders). They're only around $7 to $10 for straight run at our local feed store but only in White color. These little Munchkins are so popular w/private breeders for making money ~ Silkies in multiple colors (also a most popular business are colored egg layers like Marans or EE's/OE's).
Looks like the perfect safe chicken haven to me
It's amazing how fast chicks grow up ~ yours were all babies just yesterday... to me
You speak truth!
Well thank you so much, RC, for finding the studies, and thanks for the hug. I’ve been working, but checking on Hazel periodically and she’s appearing okay. Hmm,your last sentence too is reassuring, to not be alone in what I thought.According to PoultryDVM (not necessarily the most scientifically rigorous source) the dose of aspirin for chickens is 5mg/kg given three times a day. So an individual dose of 15mg is probably right giving a total daily does of 45mg.
So yes, she got too much. Not quite double the correct (per PoultryDVM) dose.
However, she will likely be fine.
I found two relevant studies.
- One gave 10mg/kg every day for many days and monitored blood for adverse signs. They started seeing adverse (not fatal) signs on day 3. You only gave it once.
- Another study was looking at aspirin as a feed additive. It is a badly written paper which claims they gave 100mg/kg of aspirin (along with vitamin C) but it may be that they gave 100mg/chicken. Either way it is more than you gave her and their results concluded that all that aspirin boosted growth (it was a broiler study).
So, I think she will be fine. But if you are fretting you could try giving her some activated charcoal which is the treatment for aspirin overdose.
I am glad you prompted me to look it up because in my head I assumed a whole baby aspirin was the right dose!
