Michigan

[SillyChicken]

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How sweet! My DB just got 3 bottle babies the other day.. I threatend to take a little black one he has home with me. The other bottle baby that's since weened, heard me talking and came running out of the barn to see me.. she was so cute.

 

[SillyChicken]

So....... my day started at 1:30am this morning, I hate waking up before the alarm on these days. I had to get up at 2:30 to come in to work early today. It looks like the weather will be crappy all week, but the weekend might be decent at least. I'm looking forward to getting the garden planted. I hope the cold weather is behind us now after this week.

Vicki - PHEW~ that was a close one, glad you didn't lose anything to the darn yotes. Something got a wild duck (malard I think) in my yard the other day. Either a Hawk got her, or I have a preditor that is getting way too comfortable in my yard!

Opa, did you ever find a home for that nice glass entry way?

 

[briana1975]

Good afternoon everyone. No power here. Thank goodness my husband was able to come home on his lunch to start the generator. We have 14 turkey eggs in the incubator. Either need the generator or can use the power pack my husband keeps on hand too.

To the ones with the sick chickens did you seperate them right away? I hope you can figure out what it might be.

We have so many outside projects to get done and this weather stinks. My step-son graduates this year. Right about now I am beginning to think the late July date for his party is a great idea since it seems to rain every weekend.

 

[mamdoe]

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I saw it listed on Ann Arbor craigslist. It's at the Wayne County Fairgrounds , I think!?

 

[SillyChicken]

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Welcome to the MI thread!

I hadn't heard about the one in Belleville... I'm saving up for the Chicken Stock that alot of the members will be attending. It's up in Lansing on June 12th.

 

[wyliefarms]

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Sarah I went back several pages to see where you talked about the chickens being sick. I saw that a bantam that went to a show in Ohio passed away, butI didnt know you had another die. What are the symptoms? I have sick chickens right now too. I called the vet and they wanted $64 just to see one chicken. I have opted to give the tetracyclin (SPELLING?) from TSC for the 7-14 days first. I have never had a sick chicken and am kind of freaking out. I had a home for all the girls if the Twp forced it. But now there is no way I can pass on a sick flock to someone. Someone at TSC said he would uthanize the birds for me if it came down to it. I hope it does not.

The symptoms my girls have is cough/sneezing. Some have swollen vents and dirty butts. One has a small cut on her face where the beak meets the feathers. Maybe a 1/4 inch. Her eye on that side is swollen, as well as her ear bud and neck. She extends her head and keeps her mouth open. She has a yellow scab on her swollen vent about the size of a dime. Her bottom is constanly caked with poo. I have bathed her 3 times in three days. She spent two days in the coop. I crated her and gave her poulty drench last night. Today I put her out with the flock and started everyone on meds. She along with everyone else still has a wonderful appitete. Inhale treats, and are drinking as usual. There is no snotty noses. Color of combs is pretty dark pink. No one has hard bellies or full hard crops. No one is standing like a penguin. Some of them do have some loser stools than normal. No one has ever passed a wormAnd egg production has really dropped off. After we got those cochins in March they went into a hard molt then my 8 went into I think a light molt. Started losing a few feathers around their vents. Anyway out of 16 layers I averaged 6 to 9 eggs. The last few days were 4-8-3-10. I am so worried. My worst fear is what you said. They will never be better and all have to be killed.

I hope someone can give me some hope. Thank You

Is it true that you cannot eat the eggs while they are being treated or 5 days after?

My birds just have a drunkenness to them, but since going on the antiboditics that has cleared up. The sick ones are standing hunched up like they don't feel well. Combs are not normal, but improving with the antiboditics. Did lose 2 hens (one bantam and one LF) 12 hours after showing symptoms. My daughter purchased 2 OEG pullets at that show and they started feeling bad last week. But I didn't do anything about it. Their symptoms are different too- swollen eyes, which some of our chickens had during the winter months. But I didn't think it would affect our birds since they had it this winter.
But now that so many are sick now(just huntched over and tails down), we started antiboditics on Saturday. 2 teaspoons per gallon. The avian vet at MSU said to double the dosage and I should see improvement in 48 hours.

I haven't lost any more chickens, but I do have to find out what they had, since we do show our chickens. I don't want to be exposing chickens to this disease if my birds are carriers of it. I do know that I don't plan on going back to Ohio to show.

This is the first time in 15 years that I have treated sick birds with antiboditics. I am on the mind set the strong will survive, but if we have this one disease, antiboditics are the only way to go, and they will still be carriers of the disease for life. But with 100 birds at our place, I didn't want to have the finanical disaster to replace everyone.

Good luck on your sick birds. Call Dr Futon at MSU and he is great at diagonsising over the phone:517-353-1683

Sarah

 

[wyliefarms]

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I feel for you!!! Our 25 meat chickens are in the feed trailer in a makeshift pen due to their pen blowing away on Saturday morning to the other side of the yard. Glad I left them in due to this weather!!!! But not moving them on fresh grass everyday is stinking up my feed trailer to where I can smell it before I get to it!!!!

Sarah

 

[wyliefarms]

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Glad you found us!!!

 

[Zookeeper9000]

Well just stopping in to say Hi. Sorry that you all have wet weather, I will trade ya I have snow flakes falling as we speak not many but enough to know you have to wear a coat. Not sure when it will end but farmers almanac said last frost day for us is May 11 2010 so I guess they still know their stuff.

I have to say those baby lambs sure are too cute but are ya really going to be able to eat them LOL. I would love to hear the story of how and why you got into Yak's, and are they good eating? We have a couple family's that raise elk up here they got in it for the meat and something to do with antlers and market for them.

For all those with eggs in the bator sure hope all is going well and that we all have great hatches soon, yes I too am hatching had a friend from VA send me a dozen hatching eggs so fired up the bator and to fill it up I got some of my own in there (sure can't have a empty spot in a bator that would be horriable LOL) I hope to see veins in my dorking eggs so I can send some to sevenchickens.

Still not sure if I will make it to chicken stock but sure hope I can. Might not even know till I am on the road and on my way, but what the heck what kind of fun would life be if we knew it all ahead of time LOL. If I do make it down there I will be trying to find joe's gisards as I seen it on Dinners, drive ins and dives and have always wanted to go there. Nothing better than hot grease unless it is hot grease and sugar LOL. Ask my thighs they will tell ya.

 

[tiffinimarie]

Did anyone happen to find the laws in Grand Blanc for me? I did a search in the forum for them, I couldn't find anything. Surely there is someone that lives around here too? Or am I alllll alone? LOL!