NY chicken lover!!!!

[vmdanielsen]

Ginny, so sorry to hear about Betty White, I was pulling for her.
Cass, good luck making the coon and his friends and family disappear permanently.
It's tough chicken days. I have one in isolation. Her eggs have been weird for months, and sometimes she has shell-less eggs, and her poops are weird too. She was pale and slow and not eating. I treated her with eprinex, as well as the 19 week olds and the rest of Kinky's crew who are about 13 or 14 months old. Kinky's color is better, and she was just singing an egg song from the basement, but her poops are still mostly clear...
I put all the info about Kinky in case anyone has experience and could guide me. I've read of similar symptoms with a sad outcome.
How does one keep the worms expelled by the eprinex from reinfecting the chickens and the dog, and everyone else? I've been picking up what I can, but that will get old fast.

Thanks everybody for your support and condolences.

Cass, I heard you in West Lebanon. I have been in my yard yelling for my husband for help(loose chickens, loose horses etc) and he doesn't hear a thing.

Glass. I recently found round worms in chicken poop, hence they all getting wormed with eprinex, Sunday AM. During my research I found that round worms are species specific(My equine round worms will not infect my horses and vice versa.). Ivermectin (eprinex) will not kill all stages of development, hence chickens will need to treated again in 2-3 weeks. Earth worms are carriers of round worms that infect chickens. The first things that my chickens do when free ranging is head for the garden which is loaded with, you guessed it! Earthworms!!

As for keeping the birds from reinfecting themselves, you must clean everything to remove the round worm eggs that will be found in the infected bird's fecal matter.

Since I will be treating the flock Sunday AM, I will move the fence and coop Saturday evening at dusk, so all old fecal matter will be left behind. Hot, dry weather will help sanitize the area that has been vacated by the birds. I will put in newly cleaned feeders and waterers. If you do not have spares, soak yours in bleach for a bit then let them sit in the sun. Sun kills lots of bad stuff.

Sunday, I will clean out all bedding, spray the walls with bleach solution and scrub poop board and roosts with bleach water.

Then in 2 weeks, I will do it all again!! YYEEEE HAAAA!!

The worms expelled after using eprinex are dead(I think).

Other thoughts? Anyboby?

 

[Glasshen]

Thank you, Ginny! It is good to know that the roundworms are species specific, I wonder if the other microscopic things are. I just scrubbed the floor last week, so guess I can do it again. Don't you just love the smell of chlorox on a hot day?

I am using apple cider vinegar in the water right now too.

 

[rancher hicks]

Are all men this dumb? Ray comes in the house, after walking through the yard around the chicken coop and says "they are all singing the chicken song". So I figure oh oh ,an egg and put on my coop shoes and go down there. And EVERY SINGLE CHICKEN in the yard is singing the egg song. Even the chicks were trying to. I get to the coop and there is a racoon chewing on the head of my broody D'uccle. NOW, if he had stopped at the coop on his way by to find out what the noise was all about he could have gotten his gun and shot the darn thing. Noooooooooooo, he goes in the house, goes upstairs to change and doesn't come out for 15 minutes ....the whole 15 minutes I had been screaming my head off for him to bring a gun. "Oh, I didn't hear you" OMG the air traffic controllers in Albany heard me, cuz they were rerouting planes away from my yard. (anyone who knows me, knows I am NOT a quiet person and when I want to be I can be VERY loud)

Now this broody is one DETERMINED momma. There are feathers from the attack in THREE places and she STILL got back to the nest and her (now smashed) eggs. She is VERY traumatized and will probably lose the sight in one eye, if she survives. Personally, I hope she doesn't make it, cuz she will be picked on by the other chickens, but if she does she will have her own nest box in the small coop, where the roosters can't get to her for a loooong time. For now she is locked in her broody cage so NOTHING can get to her. Poor baby.

And I am not destined to hatch ANY of the breed of chicks I want. She was sitting on 2 of my ameruacana eggs. They were smashed and the third one (a mutt egg) she has rolled out of the nest and is just sitting there on the shavings. (Right now I don't care about the eggs, but this is a heck of a way to break a hen of broodiness)

Edited to add: All the sumantras fled the area and have not been seen since. I swear if that coon goes after those birds tonight it is going to die a slow and painful death. (And mostly I think coons are cute, but this one is on my last nerve)

Try not to be too hard on him. I had the same thing happen one day. The BR's were all screaming and I at first did not think anything of it but went back and here is everyone in the run which is open since it's so hot in the hoop coop. (today 100* or more) Anyhow I hear a hen squawking in the woods but I'm not good with which direction it is and go calling. The rooster had attacked me numerous times and would not stop so I knew something had happened. Well the hen was silent so I figured a fox got her and dragged her off. I was really bummed and got everyone in the run and closed the door even though it was still hot.
A little while later I see something crossing the yard and there she was headed for the run. I was relieved to say the least. These are Kathy's BR's and not easy to get.

However one day they were going off and it was just the neighbors cats crossing the yard. I guess the moral is better to check than not.

 

[rancher hicks]

Amy, I did get eprinex at TSC. Paid a lot more for it than when I purchased from you. I should have bought more when I got it from you. Oh well. Saturday afterwork I will be moving pen and pasture and Sunday early I will be treating everyone in that pen with the eprinex, then cleaning the coop. What Fun!! Gotta' be done.

On a sad note, we had to dispatch a hen from the first group of hens that started this whole chicken adventure. This was her second time with prolapsed vent. It would not stay in. Poor girl. She was a giant white from Mc Murry. She was named Betty White. Hatching is such fun, but this dispatching, is not.

Try not to feel to bad. Prolapse is hard to fix and rarely is it successful.

 

[vmdanielsen]

Try not to feel to bad. Prolapse is hard to fix and rarely is it successful.

Thanks Rancher. She prolapsed last year and With prep H and betadine baths it went back in and stayed for another year. But this year it was......well very yucky, but I tried anyway. It is all we can do.

 

[featherz]

I mentioned this the other day - my hubby wakes me up at midnight with "honey I think the chickens are screaming".. I'm like uhhh WHY AREN'T YOU OUTSIDE!!!?!?!?

Plus he takes like 5 minutes to putter around looking for shoes and a flashlight while I am running around outside with a nightshirt and socks and no flashlight (we have automatic floodlights everywhere). Thank Goddess everyone was ok but if there had been a critter out there attacking my DH would have been the last one out there.

 

[Sachasmom]

Ya got antibiotics for that Hen Cass? I had one survive a Coon attack and die about five days later from a possible internal infection I guess? I wish I had thought to give her a shot right away, but she was fine and laid a couple eggs even. Stupid Coons. My husband did not hear me outside shooting the gun at a Coon (and I shot it like six times) and he hasn't heard me shoot stuff right outside the bedroom window even!

 

[stonykill]

Ya got antibiotics for that Hen Cass? I had one survive a Coon attack and die about five days later from a possible internal infection I guess? I wish I had thought to give her a shot right away, but she was fine and laid a couple eggs even. Stupid Coons. My husband did not hear me outside shooting the gun at a Coon (and I shot it like six times) and he hasn't heard me shoot stuff right outside the bedroom window even!

if it makes all of you feel any better my wife never hears me yell for her or shoot. How can you not hear a 16 gauge shot right in the front yard? Or better yet, when she hears me having a hard time catching a loose chick (roadrunner) she waits for me to come to the house to ask her for help. So it goes both ways.........

 

[Glasshen]

I am cautiously optimistic about Kinky. This afternoon she has some very small but normal looking poops, and she is reacting normally. And she has started bock bocking. Much more normal. Still not eating much, but eating a little.

So, perhaps heat, stress and worms?

Tomorrow some coop scrubbing before it gets too hot.

 

[pharmchickrnmom]

Evening all. I will be doing my own worming on sunday. Mean Marge isnt acting her usual mean self and her comb is flopped over. I find her laying down in different places in the yard while out freeranging. I am hoping that maybe its the heat and maybe worms. Anyways, Everyone gets dosed on sunday.. Maybe sat as I just realized I am not working.

Dh dug post holes today and got 4 posts in for the permanent run. Mind you, the holes were 2 foot deep and the posts are the pine trees we cut down last year. They are 8 foot tall, soaked in used motor oil. The terrorists busily watched him all day long as he was working around the coop. The boys kazooed a few times at him. Dh also is busy putting the nest box doors on. One of the barred rocks kept sticking her head through the small hole they ripped in the cardboard covering the nest boxes to see what he was doing. Nosey girl!

I hope everyones cheeps recover from whatever is bothering them.