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[Sachasmom]

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Rene, Our two white chicks we purchased from you are doing fine. What else do you have
...clearance sale? Aria

I'm glad that they're doing well!!

I have lavender & split Orps and lav & split ameraucanas.

Are you going to the Bath auction next week? I could use a dozen Ameraucanas...

 

[rancher hicks]

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Try not to feel to bad. These things happen. I lost another Barred Rock chick last night. Don't know what's wrong something in the genes with this line.

Take care

Rancher

Came home and pushed the vent back in. she of course had laid another big brown egg(with blood spotted on it). When I go in she sings to me. My husband brought home some watermelon an strawberries for her. She is acting ok otherwise. How long should I keep trying?

Sorry to hear about your barred rock. I know these things happen, but I don't have to like it!!!!
Again, thanks for your support,
Ginny

I would just keep trying til you decide it's not going to work.

Hope it's soon

Rancher

 

[rancher hicks]

This is the response I got from Claudia. I did get the Manna Pro as suggested. I've never lost chicks before and never had to do anything special, so these must be high maintenance birds. YUK! I do have vitamins and will dose the water. Still I just don't get it. In three years I've lost one chick shortly after birth why these guys?

Don' t forget to read about the trio for $150.

Oh and forgot I lost another chick. #$%%^! And the new Practical Poultry is out.




Inbreeding for the most part will cause infertility, not what you are describing.

You have a vitamin deficiency... read more here at this web sight and begin with this chart, but continue over and you can read more on each vitamin.
http://poultrydiseases.net/online/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=52


I will recommend this feed, it is a high protein with added vitamins and the yeast probiotics:
http://www.mannapro.com/products/poultry/gamebirdshowbird/ (you can usually get it at your local feed stores, and don’t fuss about the price!)

I no longer loose chicks to what you are describing....ever!!!

If you can’t find this feed locally then purchase some parrot vitamins that you drop in the water. I can find them at my local Wal-Mart. Not as good as the Manna-Pro, but better than nothing.

That is why your friend is not loosing them, and....Kathy is right about the higher protein in chicks I’ve done the same experiment. But, drop the protein levels down to below 22 percent by age 8 weeks or you could see angel wing develop!!!!


Don’t delay the feed.


Oh, almost forgot. You mean this Barred Rock???? (see attachment) James Blum from Pensicola FL is the breeder, and he gets 150.00 a trio. I doubt you could get eggs from him. LOVE the guy and he is suppose to be bringing me a trio. [email protected] or let me know and if you’d rather have a phone number for him.

 

[Cass]

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Is the poo red tinged? They probably have Coccidia, I think I had to use medicated feed on all the silkie chicks I bought from a local breeder last year.

I do believe that Coccidia will make an animals poo stink, I have zero sense of smell, so if it smelled different I would not be able to tell. Coccidia also destroys the lining of the intestine, which is why you sometimes get red poo and why they eat so much, they are not digesting all that they need out of their feed.

The down side of medicated feed is you have to be super careful what you do with those shavings! I always dump out mine in the compost pile and the chickens pick thru it, Last year I killed one duck and had another limp for a long time! Plus the eggs from the chickens made my hubby sick! I'm going to just medicate the water this year I think if I purchase chicks, I'm using Baycox this year, it kills the both the parasite and the ovacyst, while most Coccidiastats only inhibit the levels of the parasite. Not sure what Coccidiastat is in medicated feed though?

I have wondered though how do chicks GET it? Are they infected in the egg or do they infect themselves once they hatch?

Anyone going to the Bath auction next week?

THere is no blood in their poo....and I have them on medicated feed and yogurt....so I am stumped as to why they are eating so much and poo is runny. One came to me with the fullest crop I have ever seen in my life...hung almost to his knees. (his crop, folks...get your mind outta the gutter)

As far as composting medicated shavings my chickens don't go that far from their coop...the compost pile is 1/2 an acre from the coop. But thanks for the "heads up".

 

[rancher hicks]

Cass did you check the poo page? The yogurt could be the cause of runny poo and nothing to be alarmed about.


Rancher

 

[marquisella]

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Is the poo red tinged? They probably have Coccidia, I think I had to use medicated feed on all the silkie chicks I bought from a local breeder last year.

I do believe that Coccidia will make an animals poo stink, I have zero sense of smell, so if it smelled different I would not be able to tell. Coccidia also destroys the lining of the intestine, which is why you sometimes get red poo and why they eat so much, they are not digesting all that they need out of their feed.

The down side of medicated feed is you have to be super careful what you do with those shavings! I always dump out mine in the compost pile and the chickens pick thru it, Last year I killed one duck and had another limp for a long time! Plus the eggs from the chickens made my hubby sick! I'm going to just medicate the water this year I think if I purchase chicks, I'm using Baycox this year, it kills the both the parasite and the ovacyst, while most Coccidiastats only inhibit the levels of the parasite. Not sure what Coccidiastat is in medicated feed though?

I have wondered though how do chicks GET it? Are they infected in the egg or do they infect themselves once they hatch?

Anyone going to the Bath auction next week?

Chicks can only get coccidia from the ground/floor where adults chickens have been before them. It is impossible to remove it from dirt. If you raise chicks on wire, they will not get it.

Amprol is what is in medicated chick food, and its not a fool proof system.

Once a chick gets coccidia, you have to treat with usually Corid, which is liquid Amprol, or Sulmet, which is stronger and more upsetting to the chicks system.

Usually once a chicks becomes an adult, its system has become used to coccidia and it doesn't affect them like it does a chick.

Usualy symptoms of a coccidia infestation are listness, runny/bloody poop, loss of weight and they stop eatng and stand around by themselves all puffed up, eyes closed.
When you pick one up, its like it weights nothing. By the time it has all of these symptoms it usually dies.

 

[tgrlily]

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I'm glad that they're doing well!!

I have lavender & split Orps and lav & split ameraucanas.

Are you going to the Bath auction next week? I could use a dozen Ameraucanas...

I hadn't planned on it. You're in Western NY? We're driving to Buffalo friday morning. Would that help?

 

[chicken stalker]

For those of you that are going down to the PA chickenstock. Here is what I plan to bring....unless you claim it before then

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=449333&p=22

 

[vmdanielsen]

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Came home and pushed the vent back in. she of course had laid another big brown egg(with blood spotted on it). When I go in she sings to me. My husband brought home some watermelon an strawberries for her. She is acting ok otherwise. How long should I keep trying?

Sorry to hear about your barred rock. I know these things happen, but I don't have to like it!!!!
Again, thanks for your support,
Ginny

I would just keep trying til you decide it's not going to work.

Hope it's soon

Rancher

vent still in this morning. Still in at 5 pm. she is acting fine....no egg today!! good! Will keep her in for a while, but if it happens again I think she will be culled. I am happy that I didn't get her for breeding being that she is my husbands favorite.
Have a great weekend!
Ginny

 

[Cass]

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Is the poo red tinged? They probably have Coccidia, I think I had to use medicated feed on all the silkie chicks I bought from a local breeder last year.

I do believe that Coccidia will make an animals poo stink, I have zero sense of smell, so if it smelled different I would not be able to tell. Coccidia also destroys the lining of the intestine, which is why you sometimes get red poo and why they eat so much, they are not digesting all that they need out of their feed.

The down side of medicated feed is you have to be super careful what you do with those shavings! I always dump out mine in the compost pile and the chickens pick thru it, Last year I killed one duck and had another limp for a long time! Plus the eggs from the chickens made my hubby sick! I'm going to just medicate the water this year I think if I purchase chicks, I'm using Baycox this year, it kills the both the parasite and the ovacyst, while most Coccidiastats only inhibit the levels of the parasite. Not sure what Coccidiastat is in medicated feed though?

I have wondered though how do chicks GET it? Are they infected in the egg or do they infect themselves once they hatch?

Anyone going to the Bath auction next week?

Chicks can only get coccidia from the ground/floor where adults chickens have been before them. It is impossible to remove it from dirt. If you raise chicks on wire, they will not get it.

Amprol is what is in medicated chick food, and its not a fool proof system.

Once a chick gets coccidia, you have to treat with usually Corid, which is liquid Amprol, or Sulmet, which is stronger and more upsetting to the chicks system.

Usually once a chicks becomes an adult, its system has become used to coccidia and it doesn't affect them like it does a chick.

Usualy symptoms of a coccidia infestation are listness, runny/bloody poop, loss of weight and they stop eatng and stand around by themselves all puffed up, eyes closed.
When you pick one up, its like it weights nothing. By the time it has all of these symptoms it usually dies.

Thanks Sue.
These chicks came to me with runny poop. I don't know the circumstances they lived in before I bought them. I am NOT going to do THAT again; buy chicks without seeing their living conditions and/or asking a LOT more questions. I added the medicated food and yogurt after I noticed the smell and, upon investigation, runny poop.

They are anything but listless. They run around like there is a cat in the cage after them. Here at my house they live in a brand spanky new brooder. And they are eating everything in sight. No problem getting yougurt into these silkies. (My original 4 want nothing to do with yogurt and are not having poo problems either)

Since they don't have any real symptoms other than stinky runny poo, I am hoping it is just an adjustment to my well water that goes through a water softner. Time will tell.

Thanks for everyone's input. I'll let you know how it goes with the new 5. The first 4 are growing and eating and just being wonderful. (unless I turn the light off, then one of them whines like I took her blankie away)