June, you've just got to be on Cloud 9! That's just wonderful, you've worked so hard.
I am rethinking the craigslist thing, now, lol. I sold alot last week but wanted to sell these others without having to haul birds to auction. Guess I will just take what doesn't sell this week to Newcastle.
Poop is normal now, was loose but they also had a lot of cow manure all over them. I'm pretty sure they were raised with a broody out somewhere which would explain a lot. And they could've been exposed to any number of a thousand things. It seems if chickens are going to make it, they're going to make and if they're not they won't. What I hate is when they're sick for months dragging it out then they finally die. I don't usually have the heart to put them out of their misery but lots of times that's what needs done, it's selfish of me to be so gutless. These 3 have been isolated from all the others, I was really surprised they made it til the next day the night I got them. They were/are in rough shape.
Try B-12 vitamins from walmart for e-coli. We had a rooster down with it he was way off his feed and wobbled like he was drunk. We gave him B-12 drops in his water and in his beak several times a day. It was probably 2 weeks before he was back to being on his feet good and then we kept him in quarentine another 3 weeks to let him get his strength back.One of my husband's 6 debeaked red stars we got at Mary's Swap last year died. He just loves those girls. The way her stomach was swelled up right before she died my guess would be internal laying. They weren't young chickens but they're sure sweet.
I am rethinking the craigslist thing, now, lol. I sold alot last week but wanted to sell these others without having to haul birds to auction. Guess I will just take what doesn't sell this week to Newcastle.
mitzi, on the spitz, what is the poop like? have they been wormed? sounds alot like what i had going on a month or so ago- the only one that survived i put on penicillian-
Poop is normal now, was loose but they also had a lot of cow manure all over them. I'm pretty sure they were raised with a broody out somewhere which would explain a lot. And they could've been exposed to any number of a thousand things. It seems if chickens are going to make it, they're going to make and if they're not they won't. What I hate is when they're sick for months dragging it out then they finally die. I don't usually have the heart to put them out of their misery but lots of times that's what needs done, it's selfish of me to be so gutless. These 3 have been isolated from all the others, I was really surprised they made it til the next day the night I got them. They were/are in rough shape.