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previously jwehl // dogs & cats & squirrels oh my!
Not an emergency so idk if this is the appropriate place, just hoping if it isnt normal to treat whatever it is while the birds still appear healthy.
Peachicks, 1 male, 1 female. Not sure who or if both pooped it. I got them on July 31st as wee little things (pic attached bc I'm not sure how many weeks) so they're probably 4 months old. 500g. They have been separated from the other peafowl and chickens in a pen that has been used by all before and were purchased from some random breeder out in rural GA who had them in a mesh-floor brooder. Their pen here is dirt / pine straw floor (previously a raised mesh-floor brooder and before that a styrofoam brooder in my kitchen lol).
I had 4. One died of histomoniasis - necropsy confirmed. Another died a couple days later. I wormed these two once I got the necropsy results and they pooped out a disgusting amount of worms (Wazine in water). I started them on Ronidazol (powder in water) to be safe. Oct 12 was when I shipped off the dead bird and this all happened in the following days. They were on Ronidazol for longer than I expected - it was a dose in water for as long as it took them to drink it.
Anywho, these two never showed lethargy and have been fine, except for pooping out a zillion worms. Today their poops are just a little mushy so I'm being preemptive.
I'm sure theres information I missed but thats the gist of it.
Edit: I feed them medicated chick starter and dried meal worms.
Edit #2: I know their poops are generally nasty, but this just seems a little thinner than I'd expect & I'm paranoid because this season has been unkind to me.
Peachicks, 1 male, 1 female. Not sure who or if both pooped it. I got them on July 31st as wee little things (pic attached bc I'm not sure how many weeks) so they're probably 4 months old. 500g. They have been separated from the other peafowl and chickens in a pen that has been used by all before and were purchased from some random breeder out in rural GA who had them in a mesh-floor brooder. Their pen here is dirt / pine straw floor (previously a raised mesh-floor brooder and before that a styrofoam brooder in my kitchen lol).
I had 4. One died of histomoniasis - necropsy confirmed. Another died a couple days later. I wormed these two once I got the necropsy results and they pooped out a disgusting amount of worms (Wazine in water). I started them on Ronidazol (powder in water) to be safe. Oct 12 was when I shipped off the dead bird and this all happened in the following days. They were on Ronidazol for longer than I expected - it was a dose in water for as long as it took them to drink it.
Anywho, these two never showed lethargy and have been fine, except for pooping out a zillion worms. Today their poops are just a little mushy so I'm being preemptive.
I'm sure theres information I missed but thats the gist of it.
Edit: I feed them medicated chick starter and dried meal worms.
Edit #2: I know their poops are generally nasty, but this just seems a little thinner than I'd expect & I'm paranoid because this season has been unkind to me.
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