I think my chicken is sick... Help! New to chickens!

[Mouzekin]

Update: so I called the state agricultural department and it would cost $30 to get A bird tested and they are an hour each way. So needless to say I can't afford that. I called te local coop and am waiting to hear back from a person. The woman i spoke to was going to email a contact she knows. I was advised by someone on BYC facebook to search out the local NPIP association and see if they will test for me but I haven't been able to find one and the vets here want anywhere from 70-150 to test.

So basically I am waiting to hear back from the coop. Good news is one of RIR layer their first egg so we have an egg finally from them! Bad news I started their Tylan treatment this afternoon so anything from here on out is chicken feed. still debating on culling or keeping.

 

[Mouzekin]

Update 2:

I got a call back from the person at the coop and she said that since MG is a reportable disease I will probably have someone come out to my home and test my chickens and quarantine them until testing is back. I'm glad at least I'm getting some results from the varrious departments here.

If they do test positive they will be going to contact the guy I got them from. I am going to feel really horrible if he tests positive too. From what I was told he said he had a large flock that he was selling on a regular basis. But I'd rather be though of as a jerk than have other peoples chickens in danger if they buy from him like I did.

 

[chickenzoo]

You are doing the right thing. I'm glad you are getting some help. I am very sorry your intro to chickens is such an ordeal... It should be a happy, fun time for you and your kids. Are they the ones in your avatar pic...?

 

[Mouzekin]

You are doing the right thing. I'm glad you are getting some help. I am very sorry your intro to chickens is such an ordeal... It should be a happy, fun time for you and your kids. Are they the ones in your avatar pic...?

Thank you, I'm gld you think so. I hope I'm doing the right thing instead of just culling them and be done with it. As Was suggested that I should have done in the first place in another thread I posted about it in.


Yes it's the one in my avatar. She and her sister( for all intensive purposes) are such calm sweet birds. That is why this is so hard. If the chickens were mean I'm sure I'd have no problem. I'm seriously reconsidering chickens all together. This and I am such a mess! I just want to cry and have. What a nightmare!

 

[chickenzoo]

The testing will let you know exactly what you are dealing with.... And then you will know how to handle it. Putting them down right now would give you no answers, at least testing will give you something. She looks like a cute girl.....

 

[Mouzekin]

The testing will let you know exactly what you are dealing with.... And then you will know how to handle it. Putting them down right now would give you no answers, at least testing will give you something. She looks like a cute girl.....

I think she is

Love your fuzzy too! What Kind is it? Amd what part of Florida are you in if you don't mind me asking? We are military, but originally from Gulf Breeze/ Pensacola Fl( in the panhandle).

 

[chickenzoo]

That was my Beloved Sophie puff, my house Silkie, I lost her in Jan to an unknown illness before I could get her to the vet. She was quite special to me. I'm in Northeast Fl, about an hour from Jacksonville. Hubby was in Pensecola for a bit after the Hurricane went through....

 

[Mouzekin]

That was my Beloved Sophie puff, my house Silkie, I lost her in Jan to an unknown illness before I could get her to the vet. She was quite special to me. I'm in Northeast Fl, about an hour from Jacksonville. Hubby was in Pensecola for a bit after the Hurricane went through....

Aww my daughters name is Sophie! house silkie! LOL HOW FUN IS THAT!! Did you ever breed her? Maybe have some of her chicks?

Ah yes hurricanes... what memories!

 

[chickenzoo]

Sadly no..... She was six years old when she passed and haven't laid an egg in four of those years. She also didn't care for the boys, she always beat the tar out of them... Lol ....she was defiantly mommys bird. She would follow me around in her diaper, have a fit if I picked up my keys and didn't take her with me.... Hubby would call and tell me, lol. She comforted me through many of his deployments and transfers.... Loved to sit in my lap while I worked... A special chicken.

 

[Mouzekin]

Sadly no..... She was six years old when she passed and haven't laid an egg in four of those years. She also didn't care for the boys, she always beat the tar out of them... Lol ....she was defiantly mommys bird. She would follow me around in her diaper, have a fit if I picked up my keys and didn't take her with me.... Hubby would call and tell me, lol. She comforted me through many of his deployments and transfers.... Loved to sit in my lap while I worked... A special chicken.

aww too bad! I'm sorry, it must be hard, but at least you have some great memories and pictures!.