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[upcdayz]

http://www.myvetonline.com/VeterinaryCorner/general-information.html



Thank you! I called and they will see her today.

 

[Kassaundra]

http://www.myvetonline.com/VeterinaryCorner/general-information.html



Thank you! I called and they will see her today.

 

[Oceanseve]

try some PB Blaster,

What's that? I haven't had the chance to do anything more to it. My dad decided this was the perfect weekend to finish our floors, so my husband and him have kicked me and the kids out of the house. I'm hoping I can get my husband to take the drive shaft off tonight so I can take it to my grandfather to look at it tomorrow.

I must say this is the first time I have seen this at our TSC. The store just opened last fall. Every other time I have gone in there the chicks looked healthy. The cages are always clean too. I don't know that they were not being taken care of, or if they just got a bad batch. Either way they should not have been out on the sale floor. The medicine should not have been left open there either. Some weren't moving at all, but it is hard to tell without touching them if they are alive or dead. I don't mean to bad mouth a store, but I know what I saw.

I've seen bins like that before. I hate it

Have many of you here raised Dark Brahma chicks? My 5 are just 4 days old now and they're so calm. They just hang there in your hand staring at you when you pick them up, they're awesome. They're not sick, as soon as you put them down with their buddies they run all over the place eating and playing.
I love this calmness. Is it a Dark Brahma thing? Are Buff and Light Brahmas calm, too?
Oh, and MJ-I'm so sorry about your hen. I don't trust any of my dogs for a split second.

Both times I've raised light brahmas, they've been wonderful. This batch started kind of finicky, but have warmed up.

Late yesterday afternoon I noticed that Bunny, my silkied Serama hen, was acting funny - isolating herself, crouching and just not acting like herself. I didn't think too much of it until about 2:30 this morning. I woke up in a panic remembering that she hadn't laid an egg today. I went to check on her and found her away from all the other birds, sitting on some straw. I think she was trying to lay an egg today and it's now stuck. I immediately put her in a warm, 30 minute bath, blow dried her and put some vaseline in and around her vent. I can feel an egg in there. Now she's in the living room, in a box with a heating pad in it, with towels over the heating pad. Water and food (with oyster shell) is in there with her. I hope she passes the egg. She's got to be hurting. She keeps contracting like she's trying to pass it, but so far no egg. Will check her in the morning.

Good luck at the vet, I hope they can help her!

Well. I walked in the barn and had a big surprise this morning! Never knew my Pumpkin was ready to kid thought it would be a few more days. And now we have the cutest baby doeling running around.

How cute!!! I want one! No where to put one, but that is so blasted cute!

 

[Elwood Lightfoot]

Monty or Carah, I have a 5gal cooler I made tea in for POOPS last year I can bring it again just let me know if you want it full or not, I'm unloading the 4th load of flooring looks like two more loads and I will never want to see another piece of the stuff again LOL I sure am enjoying the weather though couldn't ask for better for being out in it I just wish I was doing something other than messing with this flooring...

I solved my problem with the two broody hens playing musical nest boxes and killing all the eggs, I banished each one to a cage of their own with fewer options LOL One nest box one nest full of eggs I moved them last night and they weren't too happy about it but did take to the eggs after a few minutes of complaint so now I need to candle the eggs I moved under one of them just to make sure and the other will be a full 3 weeks since she had just killed a nest full yesterday she gets to start all over, The eggs she abandoned last week I had put in the incubator were all no good I wasn't sure how long it had been and turns out it was too long. I was going to turn the old pigeon coop I put them in into a coop for a trio or grow out pen but I think I will just keep it open for just such a fix as I needed in this case...

 

[mefordz]

I should have the Tshirt post up soon~ Looks like the colors will be independence Red & Caribbean blue. Hopefully everyone will like that. Previews soon as I get them.

Monty, I would love to be getting a sore back instead of a sore butt from sitting here.

nah, i better not. i live way to close to her!

 

[artsyrobin]

a no go- they ignored the vet wrap and began picking above it! geeze girls!!

 

[jcatblum]

a no go- they ignored the vet wrap and began picking above it! geeze girls!!
Have you tried the blue wound spray? I get it from Atwoods. It stains EVERYTHING -- wear gloves when using it. Never had a bird peck after using the spray on a wound or feathers.

 

[upcdayz]

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http://www.myvetonline.com/VeterinaryCorner/general-information.html



Thank you! I called and they will see her today.


Update:The Dr. removed a rather large soft shelled egg from Bunny and gave her two shots with steroids, an antibiotic and calcium. He said she should start to feel better in a few hours but cautioned that she still may not make it. He discovered some gurgling in her left lung and said that her muscles were spongy, and thinks that she may have a hormonal imbalance which would be fatal if that's the case. If she's not better by Wednesday, he wants to see her again. He seemed like a nice man. I will use him again if need be. I sure hope Bunny pulls through this. She's such a sweetheart, and is one of my favorite chickens.

 

[Kassaundra]

Today I got some of my "fancy" seeds I am going to try this year. Like tomato seeds from Iraq, and cukes from India, and tatume squash, and rattail radish, should be an interesting, international garden this year.

 

[Poco Pollo]

a no go- they ignored the vet wrap and began picking above it! geeze girls!!

Robin - I moved your eggs to the hatcher today. 9 are in lockdown!