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staceyj said:
Thursday while I was working in my veggie garden and the girls were out and about nearby something BIG flew right over my head and swooped upward right over the coop and snatched a pretty big baby squirrel right out of its nest.
The baby was screaming, the momma was screeching and fussing, my birds were alerting.... but none of them were moving.
It was a loud hot mess.
The hawk took it too high up in a pine tree for me to do anything about it. I can’t throw anything that high!

I shepherded my birds into their closed run and had to go inside for a while.

The sounds were too sad.

I get that it’s nature and the hawks have to eat too but I wish they’d do it in someone else’s yard.

As far as my girls are concerned, how heavy a weight can a hawk carry?
I realize the impact alone can kill or mortally wound a chicken, but I’m not joking my girls are beasts .

I’m so angry that my crazy next door neighbor :he had all her trees cut down because it has really decreased the number of ravens and crows on my end of the street. :barnie:mad:
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The next is super high! I can only think of Katniss w/ a bow and fire. But that would burn down the entire front woods.
We occasionally see bunnies and I have no idea how they made it with cats, dogs, foxes, coyotes, owls, possums, eagles and hawks.

I hate hearing the hawks when they start teaching the babies! They are a little interesting to watch.
 
Sassysouth said:
Yes, normal, but not what I want to see after a couple weeks of bloody poop.

I had the chickens out and a crow alerted us to the sneaky hawk. I really need to find a way to destroy the hawk nest in the front yard.
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It does not look like blood in the poo. It looks like maybe more intestinal shedding. Blood looks different in poo. That does look like coccidiosis still though.
 
ronott1 said:
It does not look like blood in the poo. It looks like maybe more intestinal shedding. Blood looks different in poo. That does look like coccidiosis still though.
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drumstick diva said:
I believe ron
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So, I have already done a Corid treatment and the vet didn’t see any prior to tx. What do you suggest?
 
Sassysouth said:
So, I have already done a Corid treatment and the vet didn’t see any prior to tx. What do you suggest?
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I would do a full strength corid for three days and repeat monthly for several months.

She will build up enough resistance to get rid of them soon. I did this with my flock about 4 years ago and it helped them a lot.

Older pullets and hens do not usually die of it but it does make them less healthy. Like someone posted on here, the slide could have been mounted wrong on the sample for the microscope and the cysts pushed off to the side.

You can send a sample off to a lab and not rely on the local vet that likely does not normally tread chickens

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/necropsy-and-disease-testing-lab-info.1236884/

fecal float test: https://www.statelinetack.com/item/...epperjam&publisherId=21181&clickId=2464987830
 
Here it is!

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Pardon the messy yard. :p
I will be straightening that tomorrow.
 
Chickassan said:
Nice Henny! You should get a ton of veggies this year.:)
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I hope so!
I pulled my herb bed out of that area and found the wood rotted beyond hope. I am going to put a new one together on the right side of the greenhouse.

I should be able to grow veggies in pots in the greenhouse too.

I am excited to get to using it.
 

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