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[rIrs roost]

Did I run everyone off?

 

[kwhites634]

Gone

 

[Pensmaster]

Gone

 

[casportpony]

Or maybe wildlife rescue can help catch it if you can't or aren't comfortable doing so. Those beaks and talons are sharp and I bet it's scared...

- Ant Farm

You guys are right, it's probable something that wildlife rescue should do, it's just that I know how they are, and they probably won't want to send someone out until tomorrow, and the way I am, I wouldn't sleep knowing that it was vulnerable on the ground, so of course I would catch it and stick it in a dog crate, but I have welding gloves, a big net and I'm used to handling unruly critters.

@h2oratt , if wildlife rescue can't catch it, call animal control and they probably will come tonight.

-Kathy

 

[Pensmaster]

I went to check my chicks that are between 6 to 12 weeks old. I found 3 or 4 like this.

I am guessing mites. Sevin? Or something like that...what's the name of the dust I need to use? I tossed one into another pen, but didn't notice the feather loss until after I let go. I need to treat ALL of my pens, correct?

Hi jessimom hard to tell from the pics at least on the iPad. They do molt several times on their way to adults. Do you see the mites?

 

[casportpony]

So I had been wondering recently about how Denegard (tiamulin hydrogen fumarate) kills Mycoplasma bacterium.

I did a little digging and saw they can become suspectible to lysis by osmotic shock. That basically means the tri-layered cell membrane (not wall, Mycoplasma lack cell walls) shatters when weakened by high concentrations of salts, etc. It also slows transport of things into the cell, shocking it. Or, at low concentrations, water enters the membrane and bursts it.


Do I have this correct? And so, if this is so, the tiamulin surrounds the Mycoplasma cell and dehydrates it? Thanks.

Interesting... I should read up on it.

-Kathy

 

[casportpony]

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[casportpony]

@runt325 , just to make you feel better I put some Corid in one of my waterers.

-Kathy

 

[Jessimom]

Hi jessimom hard to tell from the pics at least on the iPad. They do molt several times on their way to adults. Do you see the mites?

No, I saw no bugs, but it felt sandy or crumbly like. I've never seen that much feather loss before.

 

[casportpony]

Look at that, four from the west coast, one in Israel.

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-Kathy