- Mar 31, 2013
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about 2 months ago I bought 10 chickens from a lady in cleveland , three -year old americanas two- 6 month old buff orpingtons two- two month old orpingtons and three- two month old barred plymoth rocks , they all seem healthy to me at the time , because i didnt know anything about chickens when I ask she said they where all already wormed and they where all certified and ready to go so i was glade to here that. One of the baby orpingtons was a sickly lil sweet thing so from the start I wasnt sure she would make it and I was right about 4 weeks ago she died but i figured she just had something from birth wrong with her . then my big orpingtons got cold symptoms so i gave then chicken vitamens and electrolights and they recoverd well then 2 days ago my big baby rock was fine the day before and then she had conjestion so bad i could hear the rails when she breathed so i called a local vet that told me not to bring her there but to call a different vet so... i called the vet suggested by the other vet and they said well we dont see many chickens but i'm sure we can do something . so i take her there hopefull to find out what is bothering my chickens "I also said on the phone when I called this vet that I wanted to test her to see what she had they said sure" so i get there and go back the doc comes in sees the chicken and kid you not looks terrified ? goes back out and I hear them talking chicken he comes back in and circles the chicken in a cage on the table then listens to her breath tells me she has conggestion ... yeah.. and then says she feel skinny so i feel her and she does but i just thought maybe young chickens did. he eyes me for a sec gives her antibiotics and a wormer and send me home with 7 more days of this injectable antibiotic and tells me to see if my other chickens are skinny too so i do and They are? and then two other start breathing raspy so i am giveing them all a treatment of tetracycline antibiotics "14 day treatment with a withdrawl of 21 days" ,but the skinniness what is up she said she wormed em but it just dont seem like it ,so i went looking for a broad spectrum wormmer found on here valbazen so i ordered some because the feed stores don carry any thing they should they do have wazine though but it only covers large round worms so i figured if i do it i might as well get rid of all the parisites , now that being said i dont see any in their poo but they eat like horses and are skinny. worms is the only thing i could think of and yesterday my big orpington was laying around and wouldnt eat so i sepperated her ,checked her crop ,it felt empty i felt her belly i didnt feel anything hard like a bound egg she was breathing like she was hot but no congestion so i wet my hands and pet her a lil to cool her off and then she ate two june bugs and ten mealworms drank some water and seem to be doing better but today she was dead .so i am wondering now if i should go ahead and worm them with wazine monday while i am waiting for the valbazen to come in sorry for the long story but i find it easier to figure things out when have a better back story
