"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[Garilyn Bardash]

Praying and hope for the best. That is just awful he had to suffer like that.

hi my friends, we are finally back home from the hospital! hubby is still real sore, but is happy to be back asleep in our own bed where he can rest without someone coming in to check on him every half hour. yesterday, they took him down to xray while i was visiting with my family. transport left him in xray and someone forgot to go and get him. he sat alone for over an hour! he started having trouble breathing and was in terrible pain. finally someone realized that he was there and rushed him back upstairs to his room. the RN had to give him two doses of morphine, put oxygen on him and watch him very closely for quite a while afterwards. I was so mad that they made him hurt even more than he already was! I will never leave him alone in a hospital again. other than that episode, we got very good care! they gave him pain meds. regularly and sent him home with prescriptions. thank you for all the prayers, in about another month he will be able to go and have the lung cancer removed.

 

[PrimroseMom1]

Thank you PrimroseMom1. The pea girls that you see in the pic are from Terri's group.
I just love my peas.

The boys still have more to go as far as their tails growing. I hope within the next year, they will have their full tails. I can't wait.

I can't wait to see the pics!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Looks like at least 3 turkey hens are using that nest, too!       Now, Kuntrygirl, What would you ever do, with all that time, if everything got caught up???!!! 

Yea, I thought the exact same thing.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Okay, guys...I am SUFFERING! My main flock is kept in one large run with an enclosed coop--these are my egg birds. I had not had one problem out of their health. I had added some newbies back in October. No problems. Then just over two weeks ago, two of the newer little guys died. I assumed it was the cold snap and they were small with no meat on them. I decided to worm them all just in case. I did follow my usual routine of cleaning the coop daily. The following week--FOUR of my grown birds died within two days. That was when I saw the pattern--the droopy feathering and the lethargy I had assumed was from the cold before, but was now warm. I started the Corid certain that I was now dealing with cocci even though I'd seen no bloody stool. From the time they began to look like they were moving a little too slow to death has been less than 48 hours. I took a fecal sample to Dr. Brandon in Leesville and, sure enough, it was cocci.

As of this past Saturday, they had been on the Corid for the 5 day run. All the birds looked fine. I had since cleaned all the litter out of the coop, put in fresh, kept raking it out daily, and made sure the Sweet PDZ in the poop hammock was kept clean. Sterilized the feeder and waterers. Thought I had made it over the hump. Then we get the rain and the cold. I go out this morning--and ANOTHER of the young newer ones is lethargic and pale. I made another corid solution for her and fed it to her with a syringe--she does not look like she'll make it through the day. I do not know what to do here! I'm afraid to move them near any other birds since they've all been exposed, and I have the state coming Monday for my NPIP. I'm thinking they all now need a good system flush to push out any cocci that may still be building up. I read in one university study posted somewhere on BYC to mix their feed with yogurt, small amount of milk, and vitamins to make a mash and that should help flush them out. I give them yogurt weekly. I also give the apple cider vinegar once weekly, but haven't in the past few since I've been giving the Corid. Any other suggestions here? I don't think I can stand to lose any more of those birds in that run.

Anyone here thinking with me that the newer birds may have brought it in? They had spent 30 days in quarantine, then put in the main coop. The first ones to die from the cocci did well for over a month in the coop. Ideas anyone? Should I just keep them all together and relocate them to another coop, but still away from others? Or do I leave them there hoping the ones surviving will have immunity built up?!?!?!

I've never dealt w/Cocci (knocking on wood) but I would definitely start them on some avian vitamins, & separate them. Hope Jeff or Julie will weigh in on this - they are more experienced then I am dealing w/diseases.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

Good chilly morning here! We had two tornadoes touch down when the storm front pushed through - it was kinda scary for a few minutes there---I got our emergency kit together & leashed the dogs & headed for the hall -- we could hear one of them very clearly - both passed to the sides of our area so we skated, we were very very lucky. Must've been a slow news day as a friend in Chicago heard it on her news & also my MIL in Wisconsin. Today's paper had a lot of pics of damaged homes but fortunately no lives lost.

Garilyn so glad your husband's back home safe! that is so awful about leaving him in the Xray - somebody sure dropped the ball on that one.

Julie your peas are so pretty! love the blue on the boys' necks!

Well guess I'd better get back to work - we're "closed to the public" so we can do some house-cleaning & general clean-up today. We're in our jeans & sneakers & best of all, we're going out to lunch & NOT have to hurry back! Being smart ladies, we decided last week instead of fighting the Christmas crowds & having to rush, we'd just wait until today for our annual "Christmas luncheon"!

 

[kuntrygirl]

Good chilly morning here! We had two tornadoes touch down when the storm front pushed through - it was kinda scary for a few minutes there---I got our emergency kit together & leashed the dogs & headed for the hall -- we could hear one of them very clearly - both passed to the sides of our area so we skated, we were very very lucky.  Must've been a slow news day as a friend in Chicago heard it on her news & also my MIL in Wisconsin. Today's paper had a lot of pics of damaged homes but fortunately no lives lost.

Garilyn so glad your husband's back home safe! that is so awful about leaving him in the Xray - somebody sure dropped the ball on that one.

Julie your peas are so pretty! love the blue on the boys' necks!

Well guess I'd better get back to work - we're "closed to the public" so we can do some house-cleaning & general clean-up today. We're in our jeans & sneakers & best of all, we're going out to lunch & NOT have to hurry back! Being smart ladies, we decided last week instead of fighting the Christmas crowds & having to rush, we'd just wait until today for our annual "Christmas luncheon"!

Oh Terri, that is scary. Glad that you all are safe.

Good idea about the Christmas luncheon. Enjoy!

 

[Garilyn Bardash]

Oh Terri, that is scary. Glad that you all are safe.
Good idea about the Christmas luncheon. Enjoy!

glad that ya'll are safe and sound today, enjoy your time together, it doesn't matter what date the calendar says!

 

[luvmychicken]

Terri. I don't really know you but I have been following this thread. Glad to hear everything turned out ok from the storms.

Garilyn. Glad your hubby is home and doing better

As for me. No excitement around here. Pretty boring. Y'all are the highlight of my day.

 

[chickenbelle]

I've never dealt w/Cocci (knocking on wood) but I would definitely start them on some avian vitamins, & separate them. Hope Jeff or Julie will weigh in on this - they are more experienced then I am dealing w/diseases.

All of these birds are separated but they are in an immovable coop. I'm wondering if my other coops need to be farther away than 30 yards or so to keep safe. I think I'm dealing with more than cocci. I've used the vitamin water, too. I have done everything I can imagine. If I look up the symptoms online I get those for at least ten different problems--ranging from worms to pollorum to typhoid...who knows what the problem here is. Since I didn't get anything from the vet except the cocci diagnosis, I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing until Monday when the NPIP man comes. If something serious shows up in the bloodwork, I'll have an answer for sure! I just hope I don't have to cull all of them in that coop. In the meantime, all other birds are staying around 30 yards away and I'm going to continue to work with these birds the best I can.

So far in the past month, they have had ACV, yogurt/probiotics, vitamin water, corid, epsom salts, and today I dusted them all for mites just in case. This is in addition to DAILY cleaning of that coop. I'm trying hard not to get discouraged, but it is difficult at this point.

I also posted all of this in the Injury/Illness section...getting a few responses there, but nothing I haven't thought of already.

Garilynn--glad your husband is now safe. and Terri--happy that all is safe and sound with the weather.

 

[catdaddyfro]

All of these birds are separated but they are in an immovable coop. I'm wondering if my other coops need to be farther away than 30 yards or so to keep safe. I think I'm dealing with more than cocci. I've used the vitamin water, too. I have done everything I can imagine. If I look up the symptoms online I get those for at least ten different problems--ranging from worms to pollorum to typhoid...who knows what the problem here is. Since I didn't get anything from the vet except the cocci diagnosis, I'm going to keep doing what I'm doing until Monday when the NPIP man comes. If something serious shows up in the bloodwork, I'll have an answer for sure! I just hope I don't have to cull all of them in that coop. In the meantime, all other birds are staying around 30 yards away and I'm going to continue to work with these birds the best I can.

So far in the past month, they have had ACV, yogurt/probiotics, vitamin water, corid, epsom salts, and today I dusted them all for mites just in case. This is in addition to DAILY cleaning of that coop. I'm trying hard not to get discouraged, but it is difficult at this point.

I also posted all of this in the Injury/Illness section...getting a few responses there, but nothing I haven't thought of already.

Garilynn--glad your husband is now safe. and Terri--happy that all is safe and sound with the weather.

Sandy, I really can't tell you either as you stated you find more than one possible answer when you ask and as I had told primrosemom earlier chicken stuffs are hard to diagnose over the web. Had a cousin go by Red and White (feedstore) today and ask for Sulmet, they were sold out as it is every year this time, lots of diseases floating around. I have 4 of her banties here in isolation/hospital treating them for a respiratory illness, looks to be(smells) like Coryza if so they will always be carriers I have explained this to them too. If you are not getting results you may want to switch to a different antibiotic (terramayacin,agri-myacin) they have this at Red and White or Hernandez.

I hope you get it figured out and too on the adding vitamin water along with some things as Sulmet (for sure) and Corrid(maybe too), is they are vitamin B blockers(niacin, I believe it is, its not fresh in my memory right now) but anyway you fight a double step when using both so while treating them drop putting the vitamins in the water and resume them after the treatments are complete (hopefully), you can add a little Karo or sugar for some extra energy tho.

'bout all I got for now I hate having to deal with an unhealthy flock issues but it happens to all ever so often, its in the air, soil and wild critters too.

Jeff