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[artsyrobin]

My wheezing hen is neither improving or getting worse. I wormed her with safeguard maybe 5 days ago. I thought I felt a hard knot in her throat, gave her some EVOO and massaged it a bit, she didn't like that very much. She seemed stressed in the garage so put her back in the coop.. Caught her eating feed this evening. I hate to prolong the inevitable if she's suffering but also hate to not give her a chance, ugh.

in 5 days try worming her with zemectrin gold, it will get what safeguard has missed- there are some tapes that safeguard wound get- found that out recently- can you get a flashlight and look down her throat? am wondering if she may have canker??

 

[SharkmanDan]

It's been a while, since I've posted, but I need to ask you fine folks an etiquette question.

I live in a very rural area, but do have a very few neighbors close by. The three closest neighbors have poultry also, and two of them free-range their birds, but I'm pretty certain that they coop their birds at night. There are also several other neighbors, much farther away, who completely free range their birds, and they simply roam the area.

At first, I thought that it was cute, that someone's birds were coming into my front yard, in their search for food. Since my yard is two hundred yards from my coops, I never really thought much more about it. In the last week, 3 GORGEOUS birds, have been making their way to my back yard, eating the food I have out, for my birds. 1, is a Spanish Marraduna Basque, somewhat lighter in color, than my three hens, of that breed. The others are a beautiful orange/red, that looks much like a RIR, but much more orange than red. Almost a copper color. I doubt that they are diseased, but I'd rather not take chances.

A friend keeps telling me, to capture them, and add to my flock, since I'm feeding them anyway. I'm not wanting to be a bad neighbor, but, geez, they are eating my birds' food.

I think I want to take photos, and go talk to the neighbors where I believe they may belong. But, I don't want to seem like a whiny complainer. That's not my point. I simply want to take reasonable precautions. But, if they don't actually "belong" to any neighbors, and are "feral" birds, would it be wrong of me to catch them, quarantine them, for an appropriate time, then add them to the flock? I don't guess that this will be the case. But, given how most of the folks in these parts just let their birds roam, and roam, without ever seeing a coop, I figure I'd be doing the birds a favor.

Ideas, please?

 

[ashtree]

@ashtree what happened to your porcelain roo? I also thought you had a splash or something. I would love some silkie eggs if you could get me some!

I'll ask my sizzle lady if her girls are laying and I actually think my sizzle rooster is a hen! Either that or a very very slow to mature rooster. Either way he has no interest in the ladies. The porcelain actually got hurt a few weeks ago and just kept looking worse. So we culled him today he was beautiful. And he had just started to try and mate the girls.

 

[Kassaundra]

Did You have Rudy babies?

No no Rudy chicks, I will have to AI for that. I won't set those until spring. But my flock can make more naked chicks.

 

[kaiwan]

This could be a real problem. You have no idea what conditions these birds are in, whether the flock is diseased, has parasites, etc. Especially, problematic if your flock is NPIP.
If you know who owns the birds, just pay them a friendly visit and let them know your concerns. If nothing changes, then quarentine the birds and see if the owner comes to find them. If it continues to happen after that, send the delinquent birds to freezer camp and hide the evidence!

 

[Tony O]

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My wheezing hen is neither improving or getting worse. I wormed her with safeguard maybe 5 days ago. I thought I felt a hard knot in her throat, gave her some EVOO and massaged it a bit, she didn't like that very much. She seemed stressed in the garage so put her back in the coop.. Caught her eating feed this evening. I hate to prolong the inevitable if she's suffering but also hate to not give her a chance, ugh.

Check for Gape worm.

 

[Ksane]

It's been a while, since I've posted, but I need to ask you fine folks an etiquette question.

I live in a very rural area, but do have a very few neighbors close by. The three closest neighbors have poultry also, and two of them free-range their birds, but I'm pretty certain that they coop their birds at night. There are also several other neighbors, much farther away, who completely free range their birds, and they simply roam the area.

At first, I thought that it was cute, that someone's birds were coming into my front yard, in their search for food. Since my yard is two hundred yards from my coops, I never really thought much more about it. In the last week, 3 GORGEOUS birds, have been making their way to my back yard, eating the food I have out, for my birds. 1, is a Spanish Marraduna Basque, somewhat lighter in color, than my three hens, of that breed. The others are a beautiful orange/red, that looks much like a RIR, but much more orange than red. Almost a copper color. I doubt that they are diseased, but I'd rather not take chances.

A friend keeps telling me, to capture them, and add to my flock, since I'm feeding them anyway. I'm not wanting to be a bad neighbor, but, geez, they are eating my birds' food.

I think I want to take photos, and go talk to the neighbors where I believe they may belong. But, I don't want to seem like a whiny complainer. That's not my point. I simply want to take reasonable precautions. But, if they don't actually "belong" to any neighbors, and are "feral" birds, would it be wrong of me to catch them, quarantine them, for an appropriate time, then add them to the flock? I don't guess that this will be the case. But, given how most of the folks in these parts just let their birds roam, and roam, without ever seeing a coop, I figure I'd be doing the birds a favor.

Ideas, please?

If they're just roaming around loose like that I can't imagine the owners care *that much for them. Even my roosters that are loose in the back are fenced in. They've got probably.....an acre total fenced that they could run around in. (Yet where are they? No more than 10' from the house 24/7). Chickens don't leave a home where they're being fed and the humans care about them. I'd feel fine about quarantining them, worming and treating for mites and putting them with yours. NPIP only checks for a couple of practically non-existing diseases so I wouldn't worry about if they were NPIP as someone mentioned. I like to pick my battles. And the feelings of someone who allows their birds to roam free in search of food would not be one of those battles.

 

[TipihlowLadies]

It's been a while, since I've posted, but I need to ask you fine folks an etiquette question.

I live in a very rural area, but do have a very few neighbors close by. The three closest neighbors have poultry also, and two of them free-range their birds, but I'm pretty certain that they coop their birds at night. There are also several other neighbors, much farther away, who completely free range their birds, and they simply roam the area.

At first, I thought that it was cute, that someone's birds were coming into my front yard, in their search for food. Since my yard is two hundred yards from my coops, I never really thought much more about it. In the last week, 3 GORGEOUS birds, have been making their way to my back yard, eating the food I have out, for my birds. 1, is a Spanish Marraduna Basque, somewhat lighter in color, than my three hens, of that breed. The others are a beautiful orange/red, that looks much like a RIR, but much more orange than red. Almost a copper color. I doubt that they are diseased, but I'd rather not take chances.

A friend keeps telling me, to capture them, and add to my flock, since I'm feeding them anyway. I'm not wanting to be a bad neighbor, but, geez, they are eating my birds' food.

I think I want to take photos, and go talk to the neighbors where I believe they may belong. But, I don't want to seem like a whiny complainer. That's not my point. I simply want to take reasonable precautions. But, if they don't actually "belong" to any neighbors, and are "feral" birds, would it be wrong of me to catch them, quarantine them, for an appropriate time, then add them to the flock? I don't guess that this will be the case. But, given how most of the folks in these parts just let their birds roam, and roam, without ever seeing a coop, I figure I'd be doing the birds a favor.

Ideas, please?

It's been a while, since I've posted, but I need to ask you fine folks an etiquette question.

I live in a very rural area, but do have a very few neighbors close by. The three closest neighbors have poultry also, and two of them free-range their birds, but I'm pretty certain that they coop their birds at night. There are also several other neighbors, much farther away, who completely free range their birds, and they simply roam the area.

At first, I thought that it was cute, that someone's birds were coming into my front yard, in their search for food. Since my yard is two hundred yards from my coops, I never really thought much more about it. In the last week, 3 GORGEOUS birds, have been making their way to my back yard, eating the food I have out, for my birds. 1, is a Spanish Marraduna Basque, somewhat lighter in color, than my three hens, of that breed. The others are a beautiful orange/red, that looks much like a RIR, but much more orange than red. Almost a copper color. I doubt that they are diseased, but I'd rather not take chances.

A friend keeps telling me, to capture them, and add to my flock, since I'm feeding them anyway. I'm not wanting to be a bad neighbor, but, geez, they are eating my birds' food.

I think I want to take photos, and go talk to the neighbors where I believe they may belong. But, I don't want to seem like a whiny complainer. That's not my point. I simply want to take reasonable precautions. But, if they don't actually "belong" to any neighbors, and are "feral" birds, would it be wrong of me to catch them, quarantine them, for an appropriate time, then add them to the flock? I don't guess that this will be the case. But, given how most of the folks in these parts just let their birds roam, and roam, without ever seeing a coop, I figure I'd be doing the birds a favor.

Ideas, please?

I would ask all the neighbors and find out if they know the birds and there owner they May give you a easy answer neighbors usually know what goes on around them .

 

[Kassaundra]

I personally feel it isn't your responsibility to take your time, energy and gas to track down the chicken owners. If it were me I would quarantine and add to the flock if I wanted them. I would only quarantine them in case the owners came to me in a reasonable time to find them, it is their responsibility to keep track of their birds and track them down if they want them and keep them from getting out if they want to keep them. The quarantine in this case would just be to keep them separate in case the owners came back b/c if I understand correctly they have already been exposed to your birds.

 

[kaiwan]

Yes, the NPIP blood test only screens for two diseases. But if your flock is NPIP, you are not allowed to obtain birds from a non-NPIP flock. That was my point.