New to chickens, most died. Input, please?

[ChickenCanoe]

Plain yogurt or kefir with live cultures is a good start for probiotics and may be all that's available there. Or some kind of fermented food.

 

[Chans Farm]

Plain yogurt or kefir with live cultures is a good start for probiotics and may be all that's available there. Or some kind of fermented food.

LOL. Yogurt? For chickens? Okay. I have it regularly, myself. I love yogurt.

They have other meds here that I have found. But, again, the communication issue is a major problem here. Here are some images I took of some maintenance / meds available:











Enro products, apparently, are made (or at least packaged?) in Phnom Penh, the Capital here. It's about 7 hours away from where I live. I have been thinking of going down and talking with them direct. I would imagine that, someone in the company would have to speak English.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Daughter's going to Siem Reap in a few days.

Yes, yogurt for chickens. Wrap your head around it.

 

[hungnguyen]

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When you said your chicken and neighbor's died quickly, I can easily think of another case of bird flu which happens and spread in SE Asia right now. You need to take a sample for the lab to analyze so appropriate actions can be taken to prevent more poultry death and even human. This may not be the right time to get more chicks home. Also, chick with Marek or nerve disease normally cannot get up, they walk on the knee... so if this is the case, I would buy any even when they're free. Good luck

 

[Chans Farm]

Daughter's going to Siem Reap in a few days.

Yes, yogurt for chickens. Wrap your head around it.

My wife and I live about four hours (on the opposite side of Tonle Sap Lake) from Siem Reap. We plan on going there (first time for me) sometime in April.

Okay, yogurt it will be! Thanks for all your help, truly.

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Thanks for the input. But, and going solely from my (lack of) knowledge about bird flu here, I would think that it would have spread to all the birds, including the ducks, would it not? They are still fine, the ducks. Not to mention, two of the chicks survived, while the rest of the flock - the entire flock, perished. Also, many other chicks and chickens in the area are fine. No symptoms, none dying, no problems.

I was going to get a sample, thinking they would not have burned and buried the birds so quickly. For once, Khmers actually did something fast - and unfortunately before I could get a sample to get analyzed.

Here, people do not keep chickens as pets, with the exception of fighting cocks. Most keep them for survival, to eat or to have egg production for other food. So, I cannot wait too long here, as a significant portion of my wife's family will be doing without part of their daily intake, until we have chickens large enough to start producing again.

With that said, we have two homes here, the farm (30 km outside of town) and an apartment here in Battambang. We have a small patch of vacant land adjacent to our (rear most) apartment - about 30 m2.

I think I will build a brooder? to put some chicks in, and start raising them here. Hopefully, by the time they are large enough to transfer to the farm, any issues regarding this disease that killed the birds will be gone.

They will be housed in a different location this time, as well. That is the plan, anyway.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

My daughter got to Siem Reap today after a 19 hour bus ride from Laos. (5 hours longer than it was supposed to be). I'll find out where she's going next.

In your climate, the chicks probably won't need to be in the brooder long.
There's a guy on this forum in the Phillipines that has imported a lot of American, English and Continental class breeds and he's constantly hatching. I know that's pretty far from you but something to consider.

 

[Chans Farm]

My daughter got to Siem Reap today after a 19 hour bus ride from Laos. (5 hours longer than it was supposed to be). I'll find out where she's going next.

One thing I like here, better than my eleven plus years in the Philippines, is I can go from country to country, easily, by land. At our farm, we are only 80 Km from the Thai border. I hope she enjoys her stay in Cambodia.

In your climate, the chicks probably won't need to be in the brooder long.
There's a guy on this forum in the Phillipines that has imported a lot of American, English and Continental class breeds and he's constantly hatching. I know that's pretty far from you but something to consider.

If you know of his username, please let me know. Of course, I need to work on keeping local breeds alive before I start getting too far into raising chickens.

I would not be above importing them. I didn't really think of it. Would they be live chicks, or eggs to import? It does sound interesting, for ideas a bit down the road.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

His user name is OzExpat. He's sometimes on this thread.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/693812/the-old-folks-home/12910#post_12912308

My daughter is having so much fun in Siem Reap, she stayed a couple extra days. She's heading your way next - the city of Battambang.

 

[Chans Farm]

His user name is OzExpat. He's sometimes on this thread.

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Thank you, so very much! I will look him up.

My daughter is having so much fun in Siem Reap, she stayed a couple extra days. She's heading your way next - the city of Battambang.

If she needs anything at all while she is in Battambang, have her contact us and Chan and I will help her any way she needs.

088-382-4501 Paul
088-309-0436 Chan

She may not like it as much here as Siem Reap. But, that is only from what I have heard of SR. We will not visit there until April.