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[greenbeetle]

Received my shipped eggs yesterday, all very well packed and none broken. They will have been resting/sitting for 24 hours tonight to let the air cell settle. Going to put them in the incubator tonight. I am so excited, however very scared, this will be my first attempt at hatching eggs...yikes.

Wish me luck.

 

[bardies]

Good luck Greenbeetle!

Question for y'all....

I have a few birds that I am treating for a resp infection - they are on the front porch. Treating with cephalexin and ciproflaxin.
Back up a few weeks ago... Have been bringing in my breeding pen silkies to the garage in this windy sub freezing temp roller coaster. They've been in a few times so far over the last few months. - so completely separate from the porch birds, but their breeding pens are located inside the yard where the other birds free range.

Last week - two of the silkies (in the garage then) have a cough (every once in a while) but one evening were breathing so loudly - not in their chest - but in their throats...it is like they were moaning with everybreath!
So, wisked them out of there - dosed with cephalexin - they were perfectly fine the next day and have been since then.... (feel kind of stupid for possibly over reacting...but still)

So, now to the point (well, almost)... There has been a silkie rooster that was in the garage the first go around, but a few days after they went back outside - he appeared sick. Pulled him - had sour crop...he actually went into the vets and had to have a surgery to his crop to empty out the crap (sticks and stuff) that was in there. Dumb bird. He has been recovering in the garage all this time - not in contact with my 'snowbirds' but in the same room.

He is doing fine - about two and half weeks post surgery - but now over the last two days has had a runny nose and a mild sneeze. Question - do I dose now with the heavy duty antibiotics...or go a more mellow homeopathic route? He was NOT on antibiotics post surgery...so that's good. He has been on a diet of soften monkey biscuits. Poops are good. And lots of money spent already on him. I like the hit hard, hit fast, hit often theory...but as good as he acts, I am concerned too that he is not as robust as he seems.

 

[TRUE5]

Received my shipped eggs yesterday, all very well packed and none broken. They will have been resting/sitting for 24 hours tonight to let the air cell settle. Going to put them in the incubator tonight. I am so excited, however very scared, this will be my first attempt at hatching eggs...yikes.

Wish me luck.

My first time was like that. I had no idea what I was doing. Still don't but I feel I am much more patient and not wanting to candle every 5 min lol. I still go and check the temp every so often though. I guess that's only because I don't trust these incubators. Infact we were just talking about those in previous posts. So anyway have fun with this! Take a deep breath! Your going to do fine and your going to LOVE the experience. Then you will feel like those are YOUR babies Lol. Just a warning. Its very addictive!!!

 

[artsyrobin]

Good luck Greenbeetle!

Question for y'all....

I have a few birds that I am treating for a resp infection - they are on the front porch. Treating with cephalexin and ciproflaxin.
Back up a few weeks ago... Have been bringing in my breeding pen silkies to the garage in this windy sub freezing temp roller coaster. They've been in a few times so far over the last few months. - so completely separate from the porch birds, but their breeding pens are located inside the yard where the other birds free range.

I would use either tylan or duramycin with respiratory unless you have gallimycin or denagard- i believe nana was pointing out the gallimycin works real well, the other thing is shifting them back and forth probably stress them out too- i've resigned myself to quite a few winter refugees in te house

 

[Kyzmette]

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I found vitamin B complex in drops at my wal-mart. They aren't even carrying the liquid E, so the B should be pretty easy to find. My wal-mart is always out of everything.

 

[artsyrobin]

i just get the super b complex i take and run it through the grinder-

 

[bardies]

Another question...what would come to mind for a very stinky bird. She's fine (the front part of her), actually - it is her poop. It is a nasty diarrhea baby poop smell that makes you have to turn your head. I've had her on amoxicillian for a bit for it (bacterial infection) (so the antibiotics are the treatment, not the cause), am done with that and have had her drink some acv tinted water and will do youghurt today. Her vent doesn't look too bad (except for the stuck poop, etc) so I don't think gleet...plus it is not a yeasty smell. Whatever it is, the stink is the clue. So, any ideas on what it might be?

 

[LKHudd]

I'm an Okie from Tulsa but live in Berryville, AR (near Eureka Springs). I enjoy hearing from Okies and Arkies!

We have 15 birds, one is a rooster. He's a Black Copper Maran, or some mutation of that. He has off-white instead of copper feathers. He was supposed to be a hen. When he kept getting bigger and bigger, we named him Sophie (like from Two Broke Girls) and later, we were thinking....ahhhhhhhh Sophie looks like a rooster. Ha! Sure enough, wasn't long before she started crowing. lololol We kept the name, though.

We have a black maran rooster, Shadow. Another supposed to be hen. And, three other marans..only one looks like the copper maran. Two are laying giant chocolate brown eggs. I'm thinking one of the other hens is laying and laying light brown eggs...so not sure what she is.

I'd like to point out at this time - it pays to buy from reputable breeders.

We also have a red cochin hen, Henny Penny. We have two Rhode Island red hens, Lucy and Grace. We have two barred rock hens, Pearl and Jewel. We have one red sex-linked hen, Lacy. We have four young Olive Eggers - un named at this point. They're from babies we just decided to keep so we've not named them.

We have 8 Olive Egger roosters. Free to good homes.

The Olive Eggers were from our daughter's high school science project. She teachs live science at Jenks High School in the Tulsa area. They have a project every year where they hatch eggs and track the babies' growth and changes on a daily basis for a couple of weeks.

I work at home. My husband is disabled. We live on the side of a mountain facing town (what a view!) and keep our chickens in our backyard with our dogs.

I used to raise parrots and still have several pet parrots. Lots of folks know me from PeeWee's Playpen - one of the regions largest parrot toy stores in our day!!!

 

[Kyzmette]

@LKHudd welcome to Chickens Anonymous!

 

[Kyzmette]

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The first thing that comes to mind is that her digestive tract is messed up and she needs probiotics. Does she have vent gleet? Next is that she's possibly eggbound, and she has egg remnants up inside of her that are a possible source of infection.