Michigan

[chicken grandma]

I have seen great photos that were taken with a Canon Powershot recently. I think they are reasonable and small to carry also!

 

[chicken grandma]

Belle looks like she's going to be my next casualty. I noticed her off last night, but no pasty butt, no swollen eyes, breathing sounded fine. I figured maybe egg bound. I found her this morning, off the roost, under a table. I think she fell off and broke herself. They roost on a cabinet that's about 6 feet tall. So upsetting...

Nova, did you ever find out the type of worm that the chickens had and treat for it?
Do your chickens have full access to your neighbors chickens? Have they had any casualties lately?

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Belle looks like she's going to be my next casualty. I noticed her off last night, but no pasty butt, no swollen eyes, breathing sounded fine. I figured maybe egg bound. I found her this morning, off the roost, under a table. I think she fell off and broke herself. They roost on a cabinet that's about 6 feet tall. So upsetting...

Did you worm the whole flock? I am going to go against the flow, and suggest you get yourself some equimax horse paste wormer ASAP. If i remember correct it had ivermectin in it, it will kill all kinds of worms and should kill any lice or mites as well, which your neighbor's chickens may have come home from the auction with.

Worming individuals "as needed" may be optimal, but unless you have the $$$ to get them all tested, you will not know their exact worm load. Different hens may react to worms different, but they have all been exposed. Some worms will take all the nutrition and they will starve to death, some suck blood and make them anemic, some are so tiny they can swim in the capillaries and shut off blood flow! I have seen people advised to do the "regular" wormer first in the case of a severe case, so the worms don't all die at once and clog the hen up.

PM me if you want. I wish i could come over! Definitely give her some of the showbird, if you still have some. I would only feed her that until she perks up, at least a day or two. Or get some liquid vitamins.

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Hi CG. Thinking along the same line?

 

[chicken grandma]

I think we are........Nova has lost a few birds to something mysterious.......
I know she has a good vet there too, Dr. Bader and it helps to pinpoint what is going on if you can.

 

[Juise]

Hello to everyone, I miss having the time to read and chat with you guys. Things are still insane here, still waiting to see how everything will come out. Top of the list is whether we will have our mortgage adjustment approved, or we will be foreclosed on. I realize these things take time, but uuuggghhhh. Waiting sucks. Sure makes it hard to keep putting work into this house and property in the meantime.

Anyway, I'm almost 1000 posts behind, so there is no way I can catch up, I just read the last page. Nova, if you decide to go with Ivermectin, I just bought a bottle a few weeks ago and could give you some. It would take all eternity to use up on our little flock.

Hope everyone is well. We did get our first blue egg, the girls were ballistically excited.

 

[swampducks]

I forgot to mention, all 9 duck eggs hatched and I have 9 fluffy muscovies. Looks like 5 will be white and 4 will be black and white. Maybe I can bring some to the northern Chicken Stock if anyone wants any, they'll be 2 months old by then and I think I should be able to tell male from female.

 

[normanack]

[COLOR=800080]I forgot to mention, all 9 duck eggs hatched and I have 9 fluffy muscovies. Looks like 5 will be white and 4 will be black and white. Maybe I can bring some to the northern Chicken Stock if anyone wants any, they'll be 2 months old by then and I think I should be able to tell male from female.[/COLOR]

Um, what's Chickenstock?

 

[NovaAman]

I do not think it was anything mysterious in Belles case. That was the first thing I thought of though. Oh poop! What if she's got what killed my other two... But when I checked her over, she had nothing going on in that regard yet. I do not know why she fell off the roost, but she broke. I guess if I fell 6 feet in the dark, and landed on cement, I might break too. Even checking her after she's passed, her feathers around her eyes, nostrils, and vent were clean of illness. The reason I as thinking egg bound is she was walking kinda funny last night, like how Buffy would get when she was egg bound. Buffy was Belle Mai's biological mother... So, thinking she may have had the same problem... Well anyway, since both Vanna and the other un named pullet passed, there has been no illnesses.

 

[gladahmae]

Um, what's Chickenstock?

It's like a meet 'n greet of us MI BYC folks! A chance to put a face to the screen names. Apparently there's one in the beginning of summer, generally hosted in the Lansing area. Potluck lunch, fowl swap, etc. One is in the organizational phase for this fall in a more northerly location.....possibly the Grayling area? Someone has links to it in their sig. otherwise you can search the chickenstock/meetup subforum.