***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[Poco Pollo]

Evening : )

Listen to Kass about the fermented grain. I'm just a copy cat. I've got oats and corn in my barrel right now. I'm thinking about adding a bag of rice.

Kass - Is Sunday good for a C meeting at your place? DH says it's a good day for me to do chicken stuff because he's already got something on the calendar that day.

 

[Kassaundra]

Evening : )

Listen to Kass about the fermented grain. I'm just a copy cat. I've got oats and corn in my barrel right now. I'm thinking about adding a bag of rice.

Kass - Is Sunday good for a C meeting at your place? DH says it's a good day for me to do chicken stuff because he's already got something on the calendar that day.

I think so, I was waiting on one thing before I responded and commited to it. I'll let you know if it won't work.

 

[CindyMichelle3]

Thank you Kassaundra! Right now our silkies are just meant to be "pets" but if down the road we ever let a hen go broody on some eggs, I would hate to be irresponsible about it and end up with a bunch of wonky toed babies!

 

[prairiehen74301]

is there any solids in her droppings? how does her crop feel?

no solids,crop empty the reason this is frustrating. you can tell she feels bad by the way she moves around apparently too weak to get on the roost.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

no solids,crop empty the reason this is frustrating. you can tell she feels bad by the way she moves around apparently too weak to get on the roost.

They can't heal with no nutrients... try tempting her with mealworms, scrambled egg, or if all else fails you could syringe some vitamin/electrolyte water down her to force her body to fight whatever is wrong. Is she wheezing, coughing, sneezing, limping, anything else obvious?

 

[Kassaundra]

no solids,crop empty the reason this is frustrating. you can tell she feels bad by the way she moves around apparently too weak to get on the roost.

How long has this been going on?

Any other symptoms, cough, wheeze, nasal discharge, smells, raw vent, hard stomach????

How old is she?


Is she laying? if not did she stop or had she never started?

Any color changes to her face?

 

[artsyrobin]

i'd get her into isolation first- she is weak, electrolytes, or even sugar water, get an eye dropper and drop drops on her beak, she will instinctively drink them- offer her dampened feed, sometimes they will eat that- look her over for mites, put your ear to her crop see if you hear anything-

 

[prairiehen74301]

i'd get her into isolation first- she is weak, electrolytes, or even sugar water, get an eye dropper and drop drops on her beak, she will instinctively drink them- offer her dampened feed, sometimes they will eat that- look her over for mites, put your ear to her crop see if you hear anything-

Thanks for the suggestions never had one sick like this she does not appear to have a cold . I'll try the scrambled eggs tomorrow.

 

[countryhen]

named my rooster Henry cause thought he was a hen.


my buff orp rooster has been sick also, he is still eating & stays with others but he has been sleeping on the floor of coop won't get on roost? has paleness in his face & comb??

 

[Ksane]

Theses illnesses sound pretty typical to what kills mine. Every fall on the list this seems to happen. I think it's *something (or several 'somethings') they're exposed to from migrating birds, but that's just my opinion. When I see one getting shoved around all of a sudden I keep an eye on them and inevitably it's one that seems just a bit under the weather. But since chickens don't normally show illness until they're close to dying....I steel myself to lose that one in the next week, and do. Mine are dewormed, debugged, etc on a regular basis so I'm pretty sure it's not worms. I tried and tried to save so many and it never did any good, I might have prolonged their suffering but that's about it. I've come to accept I'm going to lose some every fall-lost a Sebright yesterday to the same symtoms. My most favorite birds are under roofs in sealed pens, I just hope for the best. Mice can carry all these diseases to our birds, too, so in the end we just hope and pray their immune systems are strong enough to keep them healthy.
On another note......
Has anyone found the birds hatched from their own eggs are healthier than birds hatched from eggs bought elsewhere? My mixed breed birds and the ones I hatched from unrelated parents have been exposed to all the different yards & some ran loose all summer. My 14 mo old Cochin/Ameraucana boy is in the layer's yard-that yard's what I call Typhoid Mary, it's been exposed to every chicken that's gone thru here. I waited til he was over 6 months old before taking him from his hatchmates and putting him in the layer's yard-but he's been super healthy in there! It's so puzzling how some can stay so healthy and others die at the drop of a hat. And I wonder if it has to do with their parents being related. I've got a few eggs incubating from the layer's yard, I'm anxious to see how healthy they turn out to be since he's their daddy and the hens in that yard obviously also have tough immune systems.