Help! Help! Dying Chickens !!!! - UPDATE - BOUNCING BACK !!!

[jerseygirl1]

Could they have gotten into something poisonous? Just a thought, I can't remember without reading back all the posts on this

 

[JulieZ]

Nope ... nothing new has changed except we cleared out more brush to the right of their coop for future expansions; nothing but small branches. No berries, no poison like leaves, nothing. We DO think poison, as do the vets, but in the forms of a human predator. If another should die, there will be an autopsy performed by our vet.
I had posted a thread in the predator section about thinking it was a human that did this. At the time we also had no lock on the door & we are about to buy motion sensors to set off alarms if a tall enough predator walks up to the coop.

 

[disneygirl]

Thank you for your kind words and help with my Chicken Dilema, It sure is heart wrenching

Good luck to you and your babies.

 

[SkyWarrior]

Glad to hear they are on the mend (knock wood!). Keep us informed!

 

[msteresaann]

I would want to know what killed them for my peace of mind. It would be hard to know if it was the corrid, amoxicillin or the flush that helped. I hope all your survivors get well soon. I am sending you WELL wishes.

 

[JulieZ]

I can not say thank you enough to everyone's well wishes, thoughts & advice. Slowly but surely they ARE on the mend !! I'm very happy to say that it doesn't look like an autopsy will be performed. It would have been nice but ... !! now I wonder if my birds will bounce back & start to lay again? Either way ... we are now in the works of fixing other things to help aid us in prevention of any issues that could arise. For example ... fixing the coop up tight, having a first aid chicken bin readily available & even expanding the coop (which I think is a habit about to form more then it is towards prevention).

I hope this to be my last post on this specific thread. I hope everyone understands.

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