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[Chaos18]

Good morning everyone! Coffee and sunshine, what more could I ask for.

Morning. Beautiful view.

 

[casportpony]

 
You make good points.
IMHO, fresh air is more important than food and water. Big ventilation makes healthy chickens. Fumes are a no-no. Being in the house and then the garage could have contributed.
The antibiotics surely ruined the gut flora. I recommend Gro2Max powder for probiotics but until you can procure some, plain yogurt or kefir with active cultures can help.
If he had worms, confirmed by a fecal test, he likely came with them. He wouldn't have gotten them in the house or garage and likely hasn't been outside long enough to get a heavy load of parasites.
Where was the DE from?
You're feeding layer feed to even the rooster? Are the hens actively laying?
Roosters (or any bird not actively building egg shells) shouldn't be eating 4% calcium in their diet. Too hard on the kidneys.

The hen was laying until about a week ago, She sorta stopped after I moved her outside. I didn't know that about roos and layer food, my other rooster is on layer feed and is doing okay. I gave yogurt yesterday and a yogurt, mealworm, egg, and fruit treat today. The boy is eating it so he still has somewhat of an appetite despite being so skinny, I plan on getting ACV and keep feeding them scrambled eggs and stuff. 

I will look into replacing their food, the only other thing I have besides the layer pellets is medicated start and grow feed. Should I switch to that or would that be bad because I'm using sulmet to treat for possible coccidiosis?

Can you get a poop sample to a vet or lab and have it checked for coccidia, worm eggs, bacteria and yeast?

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

Good morning @Sally Sunshine and everyone else!

-Kathy

 

[Chaos18]

Morning Kathy

 

[ChickenCanoe]

The hen was laying until about a week ago, She sorta stopped after I moved her outside. I didn't know that about roos and layer food, my other rooster is on layer feed and is doing okay. I gave yogurt yesterday and a yogurt, mealworm, egg, and fruit treat today. The boy is eating it so he still has somewhat of an appetite despite being so skinny, I plan on getting ACV and keep feeding them scrambled eggs and stuff.

I will look into replacing their food, the only other thing I have besides the layer pellets is medicated start and grow feed. Should I switch to that or would that be bad because I'm using sulmet to treat for possible coccidiosis?

Instructions on bags of medicated feed say not to use it if also giving another thiamin blocker like Corid.
I use grower or all flock feed for all birds and make sure each flock has at least one container of oyster shell for those laying.
On broiler breeder farms, males die at 4 times the rate of hens due to urolithiasis and gout.
Some breeder farms use special feeders that prevent hens from eating the rooster food and vice versa.

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/2337/urolithiasis-in-male-broiler-breeders/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10780656

Once you get some grower or unmedicated feed, I'd stick with that and no treats/scratch for a while. That way, you'll know their nutrition is complete.

Have you had any abnormal die-offs in your bees, like I hear so much about? The media keeps talking about the population decline in the wild, but we seem to have as many as ever here; I'm forever swatting them out of my face, even through a cloud of tobacco smoke from the pipe. Last Fall, before the cold ran them off, I even had 15-20 of them helping themselves to the chicken feed in m PVC feeder. I called a bee / chicken man up the road, 'cause I wasn't sure they wouldn't sting the chickens, but he said not to worry, so I didn't. He tells me one of his hives is actually in his chicken run.

I've been raising bees since 2009 and it seems to get more difficult every year. There was no such thing as small hive beetles when I started. Now I have switched to fully screened bottom boards with beetle traps. Varroa and trachea mites are a big problem, as are wax moths and at least here, ants are a headache.
Then there is the colony collapse disorder. We attribute it to genetically modified crops and rampant use of pesticides and herbicides.
I lost 2 hives before the end of summer last year so I only had one hive entering winter. Thanks in large part to the mild winter and my feeding, they've come through strongly. They're building brood now and very active. This may be the earliest I've ever put honey supers on the hive.
The stronger the hive and prolific the queen, the easier they can handle all these pests.
1 year I had 3 nice hives on a stand one day. The next day all the bees in one hive were dead on the ground. Probably from getting into a honey flow that had been sprayed with insecticides.

I dont think I can reach them. When I locked them down they were alive. Should I open incubator and candle them if I keep the humidity high?

At 22 days, it's too late to make changes so I'd just be patient.

 

[campingshaws]

I snuck up on them a few minutes after fresh food and water. Can't remember who asked, but the roo is helping. Then he caught me watching them and gave me this look:

 

[Saris]

Can you get a poop sample to a vet or lab and have it checked for coccidia, worm eggs, bacteria and yeast?

-Kathy

I can call and see how much the test is.

 

[casportpony]

@ChickenCanoe , @Saris and anyone else interested in gout. Here is a link that I found interesting:
http://www.thepoultrysite.com/publications/6/diseases-of-poultry/232/gout/

Warning, contains necropsy pictures

-Kathy

 

[kwhites634]

Instructions on bags of medicated feed say not to use it if also giving another thiamin blocker like Corid.
I use grower or all flock feed for all birds and make sure each flock has at least one container of oyster shell for those laying.
On broiler breeder farms, males die at 4 times the rate of hens due to urolithiasis and gout.
Some breeder farms use special feeders that prevent hens from eating the rooster food and vice versa.

http://www.thepoultrysite.com/articles/2337/urolithiasis-in-male-broiler-breeders/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10780656

Once you get some grower or unmedicated feed, I'd stick with that and no treats/scratch for a while. That way, you'll know their nutrition is complete.




I've been raising bees since 2009 and it seems to get more difficult every year. There was no such thing as small hive beetles when I started. Now I have switched to fully screened bottom boards with beetle traps. Varroa and trachea mites are a big problem, as are wax moths and at least here, ants are a headache.
Then there is the colony collapse disorder. We attribute it to genetically modified crops and rampant use of pesticides and herbicides.
I lost 2 hives before the end of summer last year so I only had one hive entering winter. Thanks in large part to the mild winter and my feeding, they've come through strongly. They're building brood now and very active. This may be the earliest I've ever put honey supers on the hive.
The stronger the hive and prolific the queen, the easier they can handle all these pests.
1 year I had 3 nice hives on a stand one day. The next day all the bees in one hive were dead on the ground. Probably from getting into a honey flow that had been sprayed with insecticides.

At 22 days, it's too late to make changes so I'd just be patient.

Just a thought on your ant problem: Have you considered putting your hives on legs and setting the legs in buckets of water so the ants can't get to anything they can climb on? I know absolutely zip about bee keeping, so raising hives on legs may not even be feasible,but I read about Oz's ant problems on his diary thread, and it worked for him @ozexpat

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Have you had any abnormal die-offs in your bees, like I hear so much about? The media keeps talking about the population decline in the wild, but we seem to have as many as ever here; I'm forever swatting them out of my face, even through a cloud of tobacco smoke from the pipe. Last Fall, before the cold ran them off, I even had 15-20 of them helping themselves to the chicken feed in m PVC feeder. I called a bee / chicken man up the road, 'cause I wasn't sure they wouldn't sting the chickens, but he said not to worry, so I didn't. He tells me one of his hives is actually in his chicken run.

Production declines every year. The US now imports 65% of our honey. Honeybee populations in Iowa are down 70% and California production is half of what it was 6 years ago.

It is a global problem that affects agriculture worldwide.
http://sos-bees.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/BeesInDecline.pdf

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