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[raisinemright]

My eggs that I got from kabhyper1 are going into lockdown tonight!!! I'll be off of work for them to hatch also! 18 eggs I think I'm tossing 3 of them tonight so we will see what comes of 15 awesomely awesome eggs! Thanks Kab! Hope Guss is doing ok!

 

[kabhyper1]

Maybe a good warm epson salt leg soak. If it is hot it might be infected. Wouldnt hurt to maybe put her on antibiotics for a few days. Durymicin or something like that. It sounds like it may have something to do with her frostbite, or she got a splinter somewhere that festered.

 

[ellymayRans]

Maybe a good warm epson salt leg soak. If it is hot it might be infected. Wouldnt hurt to maybe put her on antibiotics for a few days. Durymicin or something like that. It sounds like it may have something to do with her frostbite, or she got a splinter somewhere that festered. 

Thanks.

 

[kabhyper1]

Einstein is a girl, and will keep her name. She makes me laugh with her crazy crest!

 

[ellymayRans]

Sharing some more beauty..can't help myself! He seems smitten!

 

[Mother2Hens]

Ok I have a issue I'm hoping someone can lend a knowledgeable helping hand!! My small Egyptian fayoumi pullet has a very swollen foot! I started looking it over trying to find a place as described for bumblefoot but can't! The swelling is moving up her leg. I feel sooo bad because it's obviously been going on awhile. . She lost some toenails on that foot the end of the cold weather and her limping I associated with that. It is warm to the touch so I know it's infected but I can't get myself to lance it! I'm a very shaky person DH gives the vaccine shots while I *try* to hold them still because my shaking is so bad... but I know he will not go for what I think needs done.

Recommendations? Please advise. ..thoughts? I will try to get pics too.

Here's the site with lots of foot info for chickens and chicks: Poultry Podiatry - PoultryPedia - Google Sites

This info below is from my "Chicken Health for Dummies" book.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Ok I have a issue I'm hoping someone can lend a knowledgeable helping hand!! My small Egyptian fayoumi pullet has a very swollen foot! I started looking it over trying to find a place as described for bumblefoot but can't! The swelling is moving up her leg. I feel sooo bad because it's obviously been going on awhile. . She lost some toenails on that foot the end of the cold weather and her limping I associated with that. It is warm to the touch so I know it's infected but I can't get myself to lance it! I'm a very shaky person DH gives the vaccine shots while I *try* to hold them still because my shaking is so bad... but I know he will not go for what I think needs done.

Recommendations? Please advise. ..thoughts? I will try to get pics too.

I vote for meds, what ever is the penicillin of the chicken world.
The bath might help with the pain but I don't think it will get rid of the infection. I have heard that cayenne pepper has healing properties if you are considering only the more natural methods. Garlic is another healing herb.

 

[ellymayRans]

[COLOR=8B4513]Here's the site with lots of foot info for chickens and chicks:[/COLOR] Poultry Podiatry - PoultryPedia - Google Sites [COLOR=8B4513]This info below is from my "Chicken Health for Dummies" book.[/COLOR]

I have tetracycline and I've separated her. Getting ready to start her on it now. Thanks!

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Who wouldnt want to pet their chickens??

Me, I guess, although if it means I won't be harassed every time I go out in the chicken yard, I'm good with that. I have plenty of hens that beg to be held, anyway. I don't need to coddle a rooster for the same effect.

I agree completely that Cochin boys must be the best roosters ever. I read about another Cochin boy who unfortunately died of Marek's disease, but he was such a wonderful guy that he inspired me to try raising roosters again after everything I had experienced with them, and that's how I ended up with my Cochin boy, Po. I read everything I could after ordering him, and a large amount of things I read said, bottom line, roosters are not pets and should not be treated as such. There are so many people saying this whose points of view I respect so much, and my experience has agreed with their statements. And some of them, even though they didn't handle their boys more than they absolutely had to as chicks, ended up with perfectly docile roosters that could be handled without issue as adults anyway! I also do walk through him rather than around him, and I knock him off the girls when he mounts them in my presence, though he just doesn't do that anymore so I must have done something right.

I guess what I'm stuck on is that everything you keep saying about holding them to make them submissive backfired on me with every boy I tried it with. Why would I want to go through that effort if it doesn't work reliably? I suppose I could have been exceptionally unlucky and gotten a whole lot of boys whose personality types simply wouldn't allow for them to be raised this way, but then that doesn't explain why Po has done so well when using the no-handling method. Po is respectful, calm, gentle, and even though I can't handle him a whole lot except for after dark, I don't have to fear him. And in the end, that is what was most important to me when I decided to put a rooster into my flock.


Sorry if I sound like I'm trying to be argumentative, because I really am not. I just want to make sure that my point of view on the topic is out there and not just being brushed off (which was... kind of how it seemed there). I've never written anything here on BYC with the intent of purposefully insulting someone and I definitely don't plan to. I like you guys too much.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Lily is so much better today! She got bored so I found her a friend. She sat like this for about an hour.

Aww, that's just how Margie was when she was in quarantine! I could tell she was bored and lonely because she would just sit in a corner of her quarantine pen until I came into the garage, and then she would perk right up! Poor baby! I never thought to put a mirror in with her, though! I ended up putting an Easter-egger cockerel in there in a separate pen, although that was largely as part of my quarantining method. And Marge ended up beating the tar out of him the one time I let the two of them in the same pen. Because Marge just doesn't like young men getting fresh with her, I guess.