***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[sjarvis00]

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If you don't have yogurt, try a little buttermilk. Both have good bacteria for the gut. A little honey, water, crumbles mashed together with a little cooked egg. Make little 1/2 pea sized pellets and drop them one at a time into the baby's mouth. You are getting both food and moisture into it's crop.

With your fingertip, you can slide a drop of water on the side of the baby's beak and it should swallow it.

If you get yogurt at the store...a single serving of "no flavor" yogurt is best. You will use a tsp each time you make a batch of food for the baby.

And you will feed several times during the day. If your last big feeding is around midnight, you can feed again around 6 am. Babies under a broody hen don't eat thru the night, but your baby will need the little extra for strength.

Thanks NanaKat. I'll go to the store in a bit to get some yogurt and try your suggestions. She may just be stressing from the move from her old house to the new one. I don't want to panic, just help her along.

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sjarvis00- I appreciate the offer. Let's see how she turns out. I don't blame you at all, though, so please don't think that. She may just snap out of her funk soon.

I didn't think you were blaming us for anything but the offer stands if something happens to her I do have a few that will available to you no charge your pick.

 

[Sooner]

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Things are great here. Tired today after all the cooking. DH picked today to haul in fill dirt for us to spread so I have had my workout & I'm ready for bed! How are you guys?

We have been so busy accomplishing nearly nothing it has been close to unbearable. I am glad teh kids are back in school it has helped slow things a bit, but it will be Nov. by th etime we catch up on everything we didn't do in the heat.

I can relate to being behind. After building the house I figured I would have all summer & fall to take care of all the outside stuff but with 112 + I didn't really get alot done. We are just now getting back to it again. Hopefully I can get alot done by winter.

 

[okiegirl]

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Ill be at the swap meet with some hen's sat going tonight an picking thim up from a lady at ft,cobb lake she has all kind's....lot's of GREEN eggers she said an all have ben running out,,

this Saturday? What swap meet? I've been to one POOP swap, but that was last fall.
I'd like more info on the swap please

 

[GracefulBantams]

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Okay so the Newcastle show is October 15. Great

Is anyone on here able to transport a bird from here (Durant) to that show? It is one hen that I am selling, and the buyer would like her delivered there, but I will not be making the trip since I am not showing now.

Bob Cook go's to Durant auction every week i could ask him to bring it to me an i could drop it of at modern man's if you cant find any one els coming this way ill look again on Oklahoma auction's an swap's i mite have ben looking on the wrong one...

Okay, thanks!

That may work, but I will let you know closer to time since Bob Cook would not have to pick the hen up until October.

 

[artsyrobin]

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here is a booster that might help-

one chick
2 tsp of dry crumble feed
3 tsp of milk
1 tsp of yoguart
and cut a 400 mg vitE capsule and put it in the wet mash
do this twice a week for her or them
this will help her to get some help in the body dept

another suggestion would be to make a broth of starter and eggyolk - make it real thin and drip it on her beak, she will instinctively drink it

here is nnbreeders(Les) recipe for sickly ones -



To help a bird recover from illness, they need extra protein.. this formula really helps them with thier recovery

My Treatment is this

“” This amount feeds one bird””

Feed the birds three times a day for three days a mixture of

This mixture is what you will need for the entire three feeds…. It is not 3 egg yolks and 3 teaspoons of honey etc…. divide the contents into three

½ to 1 x egg yolk….. give the whites to the other hens mixed into their seed or pellets (depends a lot on the size of the egg yolk)

1 teaspoon honey…. .given for energy

2 x tablespoons yoghurt…. Given for calcium and also to make the bowel go back into normal production after this upset
Only use the plain yoghurt never the one with fruit or extra sugar in it, not good for the bird

¼ teaspoon calcium powder (if you can’t get the yoghurt)

3 to 4 tablespoons rolled oats…. To give substance to the feed, or use chicken crumbles or layer pellets but soften them with some boiling water first

Sprinkle of multi vitamin powder (only if you are not already giving it to them in their drinking water, don’t overdose) just a few grains will usually be enough for this size mixture

2 to 4 table spoons of apple sauce or grated apple, it must be grated not chopped up for ease of digestion

Mix to make a crumble mixture not runny

If the bird is not eating you will have to force feed... roll into small pellets the same size as a layer pellet.... and force feed, and then massage the neck in a downward motion to get it down into the bired crop, make sure your keep the neck straight, its really hard getting someting down a neck that is bent or curved, the bird may be too weak to eat or have lost the desire to eat…. Don’t hold back…. The longer it goes without this the worse it will get

If you must give it something to drink – only give drops onto the beak or use the crop tube to get fluids down the throat, don’t try and pour any fluid down a chickens throat, it will more than likely go into the air passage and into the lungs and end up drowning the bird


This will give the bird a large dose of Vitamin D, C and A

After 3 days cut back to once a day for 2 weeks, you should notice the difference in 3 or 4 days

Give other food also, chick crumbles, grower crumbles or layer pellets depending on the age of the bird etc
Also have fresh water at all times for the birds to drink in easy reach, remember it is not well so it may not go looking for the food and water, so put it just about under its nose so it can’t miss it​

 

[artsyrobin]

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Ill be at the swap meet with some hen's sat going tonight an picking thim up from a lady at ft,cobb lake she has all kind's....lot's of GREEN eggers she said an all have ben running out,,

this Saturday? What swap meet? I've been to one POOP swap, but that was not last spring but the one before.
I'd like more info on the swap please

I thought i recognized you! i got the crippled hen from you- she recovered and is doing great....

 

[michaeldaugherty]

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Ill be at the swap meet with some hen's sat going tonight an picking thim up from a lady at ft,cobb lake she has all kind's....lot's of GREEN eggers she said an all have ben running out,,

this Saturday? What swap meet? I've been to one POOP swap, but that was not last spring but the one before.
I'd like more info on the swap please

N.E 23 an Midwest BLV Marry's old time swap meet...Yes this sat

 

[Elwood Lightfoot]

I had to try and put some of those bits of wisdom to use today (failed some of them I'm sure)

I had another dog attack and lost 5 more of my BO hens, funny thing is 4 are just missing and feathers all over the place in and out of the pen, One dog had the misfortune to find out the hard way that gluttony is a deadly sin.. I went straight over to the owners house and let them know but I'm pretty sure he already knew that his dogs had killed them he had put one of them up in his house that one had probably carried the missing 4 into his yard he says he knows that dog didn't bother the chickens but the last time I lost 5 like that she was dragging them around in his yard and he had put them in his burn barrel and then didn't tell me for 2 days..

I'm gonna put a hot wire fence between us even though he said a long time ago he really didn't want electric fence around any of his place but if he won't control his dogs I already know I have every right to do it for him, I just hate to be that way to anyone and other than the loss of a couple hundred dollars worth of chickens at the hand of their dogs they are good neighbors.

I only have one dog now since Dutchess died but neither of my dogs nor my cat even will bother anything in the yard they hardly left the place and were boundary trained on their own but never did bother anyone’s livestock I didn't have to beat that into them or chain or cage them either I honestly just told them my expectations and they never questioned or tested boundaries like that, Or maybe on some level they knew I would never keep an animal that caused harm to mine or my neighbors animals.

 

[michaeldaugherty]

old*cowboy :

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I did ok..But i had bot alot of stuff cheap out wer i live an sold it cheap..It's hard to sale much an get anything for it now at Marry's swap unles you have something some one is looking for...Just common bird's are every wer i seen some one post in june wen they went up ther wasnt much stuff .. It was packed with bird's yesterday Never seen so manny peep saling ...A guy came in with a load of polish all color's 15 a pr an call duck 10 each i bot 4 small hen duck's from him..One guy had a trailer full of white pigeun's an breeding cage's for sale..Seen alot of BYCer's ther some stayed an talked for a long time..Sold Buckguy a hen an could have sold he 20 time's ...Had a guy buy some pfowl an payd down on thim i didnt think he was coming back i had loaded up an was ready to go he came pulling in an payd for the rest of thim..
Ben out cleaningall the bird's water bowl's an got rested up after a long weekin ,,

What kind of white pigeons, were they homers or meat birds. I would like to get some more of the big breeds in white, either more mondains, or utility kings etc.​

They wer homer's he didnt sale manny but they lookd ok ..He was asking 15 a pr an 50 on his 4hole pen's ...

 

[michaeldaugherty]

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Sorry to hear that about your bird's out hear i dont even waist my time saying any thing to any one ..Iv went to some of ther house's an told thim an most say it's not my dog.
Your alot nice'er guy than me....