NY chicken lover!!!!

[Henicillin]

Aww - so sweet!

 

[Breella]

I made some coop progress today. I need to stop at Home Depot tomorrow and pick up some L brackets to finish up the divider wall. Then it's figuring out where I want food/water nest boxes and roosts. THEN I can work on the run! I wanted to get the coop finished so I can at least move the big ones outside in the next few weeks.

 

[rancher hicks]

Ranch.


I'm just lapping up all the baby pictures.

Some beautiful chicks, everyone -- and some very nice photography work! Thanks for sharing.


Cooped Up Chick,

Hi there. Thanks for the suggestion...... a couple of nights ago I actually posted on here that I was considering chicken wire as a "ceiling" option, as I thought it would allow for circulation of air but keep the hens off the rafters. It was mentioned that the wire grid gets lots of cobwebs and debris stuck in it.

TOB

If I remember I'll take pics of the ceiling. It could also be the way I put it up. I had some old stuff given to me by a friend and I never considered stretching it across the rafters. Which I also had to put up.

 

[rancher hicks]

No such thing as "too much wood" only "too few chickens".

I'd like to say that is true, but we both know it isn't. Chicken feed used to mean cheap but it's not and quite frankly I've maxed out. Now if I got more money for my eggs and sold more then it might be worth it.

I'm nearing 50 total. That includes roosters. I guess I shouldn't count Buckwheat and Frenchy since they're pets mostly and don't lay anymore. Just a couple of little frizzles. AND that doesn't include all new chicks.

Anyhow you gotta figure on how much energy it takes to care for them too. Some mornings I'm draggin. I don't want to get to the point where I'm not doing a good job of caring for them all. That's why I advocate making things as easy as possible.

No one will pay for chicks or at least not much and they are easy to hatch with a bator or broody. I nearly pulled the plug on these eggs and I probably should.

I honestly think many impulse buy from TSC and CM.

I must be careful not to overcrowd.

Well take care,

Rancher

 

[Gramma Chick]

Quote:
I tried this ...It does not seem to help ..Maybe Im not doing it right ?
How did you do it ?
Ivermectin kills scaley leg mites.

To Clarify : LOL : I tried the VetRX for my chicken with the cold ..Maybe I am not doing it strong enough .
I have started her on some fish Penicillin . My Vet doesnt know anything about treating her ..if I could figure out a dosage I think he would sell me some Meds .
I did find this .
Birds - Amoxicillin


For susceptible infections:

1. For most species: 150-175 mg/kg PO once to twice daily (using 50 mg/ml suspension) <----this looks like a shot to me or in a liquid ? the rest is Greek to me

2. 100 mg/kg q8h PO

3. 100 mg/kg q8h, IM, SC, PO

4. Ratites: 15-22 mg/kg PO twice daily; in drinking water: 250 mg/gallon for 3-5 days

 

[Henicillin]

To Clarify : LOL : I tried the VetRX for my chicken with the cold ..Maybe I am not doing it strong enough .
I have started her on some fish Penicillin . My Vet doesnt know anything about treating her ..if I could figure out a dosage I think he would sell me some Meds .
I did find this .
Birds - Amoxicillin


For susceptible infections:

1. For most species: 150-175 mg/kg PO once to twice daily (using 50 mg/ml suspension) <----this looks like a shot to me or in a liquid ? the rest is Greek to me

2. 100 mg/kg q8h PO

3. 100 mg/kg q8h, IM, SC, PO

4. Ratites: 15-22 mg/kg PO twice daily; in drinking water: 250 mg/gallon for 3-5 days

*points to screen name and custom title* You're speaking the language of My People. It's actually Latin, not Greek. I'll translate.

PO means by mouth. IM is intramuscular, an injection into a large muscle, and SC is an injection under the skin. Ignore IM and SC - they'd be really fiddly. Go with oral. Q8H is shorthand for "every 8 hours"

Amoxicillin is an antibiotic closely related to penicillin. The 50 mg/mL suspension is the pink, bubble-gum-smelling med kids are given all the time. It's Rx-only, though. However, as you've found, veterinary penicillin is readily available. As the two drugs are very closely related and have similar pharmacology, you can do a milligram-to-milligram conversion of these directions substituting penicillin for the amox. Never mind the ratite directions - that's for birds like emus and ostriches.

An average chicken is probably 2.5 kilos, so in the ballpark of six pounds. That makes dosing pretty easy. You can't OD on penicillin anyway, as the body can only take up so much, and then the rest gets excreted. Crush up a 250 mg tablet (or half of a 500 mg depending on what you have), mix it with a couple milliliters of liquid or very soft food like yogurt, suck the mixture up in an oral syringe, then give it to her. You'll probably end up wearing quite a bit of it, but at least she'd get some of it. A good way to crush a tablet is to put it in the bowl of one spoon, put another spoon on top of it (in the, well, spooning position), and rub the two spoons together. It reduces the tablet to a nice, fine powder within seconds. I recommend this to my patients instead of using pill crushers, as it's effective and everybody has spoons on hand. If she's laying eggs, you'll need a withdrawal period - just throw them out while she's on it and for maybe a week afterward.

Henicillin (when I'm not shoveling chicken poop or chasing ducks, I'm a registered pharmacist)

Speaking of dosing, this chart rocks. https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/medicine-chart

 

[JLaw]

*points to screen name and custom title* You're speaking the language of My People. It's actually Latin, not Greek. I'll translate.

PO means by mouth. IM is intramuscular, an injection into a large muscle, and SC is an injection under the skin. Ignore IM and SC - they'd be really fiddly. Go with oral. Q8H is shorthand for "every 8 hours"

Amoxicillin is an antibiotic closely related to penicillin. The 50 mg/mL suspension is the pink, bubble-gum-smelling med kids are given all the time. It's Rx-only, though. However, as you've found, veterinary penicillin is readily available. As the two drugs are very closely related and have similar pharmacology, you can do a milligram-to-milligram conversion of these directions substituting penicillin for the amox. Never mind the ratite directions - that's for birds like emus and ostriches.

An average chicken is probably 2.5 kilos, so in the ballpark of six pounds. That makes dosing pretty easy. You can't OD on penicillin anyway, as the body can only take up so much, and then the rest gets excreted. Crush up a 250 mg tablet (or half of a 500 mg depending on what you have), mix it with a couple milliliters of liquid or very soft food like yogurt, suck the mixture up in an oral syringe, then give it to her. You'll probably end up wearing quite a bit of it, but at least she'd get some of it. A good way to crush a tablet is to put it in the bowl of one spoon, put another spoon on top of it (in the, well, spooning position), and rub the two spoons together. It reduces the tablet to a nice, fine powder within seconds. I recommend this to my patients instead of using pill crushers, as it's effective and everybody has spoons on hand. If she's laying eggs, you'll need a withdrawal period - just throw them out while she's on it and for maybe a week afterward.

Henicillin (when I'm not shoveling chicken poop or chasing ducks, I'm a registered pharmacist)

Speaking of dosing, this chart rocks. https://sites.google.com/a/poultrypedia.com/poultrypedia/medicine-chart

*** is a spoon only knives and forks here. : ) very nice info btw thanks for shareing.

I'd like to say that is true, but we both know it isn't. Chicken feed used to mean cheap but it's not and quite frankly I've maxed out. Now if I got more money for my eggs and sold more then it might be worth it.

I'm nearing 50 total. That includes roosters. I guess I shouldn't count Buckwheat and Frenchy since they're pets mostly and don't lay anymore. Just a couple of little frizzles. AND that doesn't include all new chicks.

Anyhow you gotta figure on how much energy it takes to care for them too. Some mornings I'm draggin. I don't want to get to the point where I'm not doing a good job of caring for them all. That's why I advocate making things as easy as possible.

No one will pay for chicks or at least not much and they are easy to hatch with a bator or broody. I nearly pulled the plug on these eggs and I probably should.

I honestly think many impulse buy from TSC and CM.

I must be careful not to overcrowd.

Well take care,

Rancher

I impulse buy from ts. I admit i'm a fiend. but i'll come buy some from you rancher just let me know when your ready for me to come up. sent ya a pm. I can see 50 birds being a lot. I want a max of like 35 birds. Right now I have 22 birds and i'm worried about 2 bantams making it.

I have to say since getting chickens I've cut back on video game playing and drinking. I think chickens are healthy for any addict except it seems i'm now addicted to getting more chicks but at least I can set my limit and if I need more in a few years can eat some to get back to the number I wanted lol.

 

[featherz]

Well, I've got my first broody this year! A buff orp. This will be her first time, so we'll see how she does. I've ordered some salmon faverolles eggs for her to have if she's serious, since I love the breed and it'll be very easy for me to ID and sell the boys early on. I got NAILED when I reached in to take eggs - I didn't notice she was in there at first. Yowch!

I now have TWO broodies. I'm already overrun with chickens so not sure if I will give them eggs or not. Torn if I should beg County boy to sell me more eggs, give them mutt eggs, or get another breed of eggs. I think I may have three broodies soon - my super broody Princess is already looking a bit like she's thinking about it.

 

[Cass]

I now have TWO broodies. I'm already overrun with chickens so not sure if I will give them eggs or not. Torn if I should beg County boy to sell me more eggs, give them mutt eggs, or get another breed of eggs. I think I may have three broodies soon - my super broody Princess is already looking a bit like she's thinking about it.

Same down here....I think the broody bug is more contagious than the bird flu. I have 2 sitting on eggs, 2 trying to steal the first two's nesting spot and sit on their eggs and 2 that have found their own spots and I have to keep throwing them out of that spot. Now if I didn't have 96 eggs out at grade schools I would let them all sit. BUT, I do, so no more broody butts for me this year. And yes, featherz, one of the wannabes is your wonderful hen.

 

[featherz]

Same down here....I think the broody bug is more contagious than the bird flu. I have 2 sitting on eggs, 2 trying to steal the first two's nesting spot and sit on their eggs and 2 that have found their own spots and I have to keep throwing them out of that spot. Now if I didn't have 96 eggs out at grade schools I would let them all sit. BUT, I do, so no more broody butts for me this year. And yes, featherz, one of the wannabes is your wonderful hen.

LOL! Good going Ms. Hen! No more eggs for cass, just chicks. Must have babies!