Pennsylvania!! Unite!!

[jmayday]

We recently treated 2 hens for this... both were bathed (in kitchen sink) with warm, soapy water to flush out the wound and then rinsed with warm water, feathers around the edges were cut off at their base if they laid into the wound and potentially would cause 'pulling' on it.  We put Neosporin around the edges (without the analgesic, which is dangerous to chickens) and sprayed the wound with Blu-kot and kept them in the 'hospital ward' with one other friend from the coop until the wound was scabbed over and beginning to heal, then they went back out to the coop with a hen apron on to provide protection until it finished healing. 
We reapplied the Neosporin and blu-kot as needed, but usually only takes a few days to notice a real difference....


Neither hen showed signs of infection around the wound so no further antibiotics were used.  Both fully recovered and are laying and behaving normally...

Thanks for the info but what antibiotic? Just in case?

 

[chiques chicks]

I went to a training class with blarney and msladyhawk about a year ago....that was one part of it....then a second class that was more involved..(including drawing blood)...I think the ag office also comes and inspects your 'set up'......

Not sure it is possible to get NPIP with open top runs and birds that have a habit of getting out to free range. (Oddly only a couple, always the same ones)

 

[fisherlady]

Thanks for the info but what antibiotic? Just in case?

Sorry, will have to bow out to others on that one... I don't use anything besides the topical treatments, so can't offer advice on systemic antibiotic treatments.

 

[troyer]

Is this Henbit or Gill over the ground? I've seen this before, but I can't remember the name.

I don't know what it's called. I just know that in the garden it's a weed, but in the neighbors hayfield it's pretty.

No. They are orpingtons. I'm mixing colors, but all Orpington. Intentional mix.

@troyer this is the result of what you and I discussed when we meet the other year. This is generation 2. Just getting started, but getting distracted by that other thing going on in the flock.

Well I think it's very interesting to see this happening. I too am wondering how or if they will survive long term. It could become the next "hot" chicken color on the market, if it would ever reach the market.

 

[Chaos18]

Sssoooo.....I want to be an enabler. Does anybody in western PA want to get there chick fix? I would be willing to provide the chicks and pay a room and board fee.

 

[chippysmom327]

Heat lamp would be better for the albino imo... I found mine just stumbled around the brooder until they finally found the ecoglow... Plus, the red light would camoflauge their red eyes. My "normal" babies pecked the CRAP out of the albinos eyes for the first week, it was so sad.

Sounds like a catch 22 as it would disguise the red eyes, but possibly injure them as they are more sensitive too. perhaps it'll be okay since you said it was better after a few weeks?

Hmmm... I don't know if it'd hurt them. I have an EcoGlow, so I never tried it. The only thing I reeeally wanted for Christmas was an EcoGlow, and I'm just so glad I got it in case having a heat lamp would have hurt their eyes.

 

[winc564]

Last year I drove to Kittaning bought 8 chicks ...5 copper Marans and 3 wheaten, over the winter a few got sick and died , 1 just disappeared , this spring my only rooster out of the bunch decided to stand up to the bigger roo and was injured and died, leaving me with 1 copper hen, 1 wheaten hen, and the moment I saw this in the coop it was worth the long wait.. .

Beautiful!

 

[winc564]

FYI: TSC in Elm Grove, WV has a new shipment of assorted Bantams. They also have some ducks that are growing rather large. The man says they are "gonna have to go". Right now they are 2/$5. Look a little like mallards, but I don't know much about ducks.

 

[ChcknNurse]

not too obvious yet. I'm very hands off. They are in another room, I only check a few times a day because the brooder is sitting beside the hatcher with a hatch going. That one is Swedish flower hens. I have hatched almost every weekend of something. Three hatchers and an incubator that holds 120 helps.

Wow... how fun to hatch on a continuous basis!

 

[ChcknNurse]

Hmmm... I don't know if it'd hurt them. I have an EcoGlow, so I never tried it. The only thing I reeeally wanted for Christmas was an EcoGlow, and I'm just so glad I got it in case having a heat lamp would have hurt their eyes.

Just a guess, based on the sensitivity of albinism ( is there an "o" in that?). But, nothing to back that up and really you all are figuring things out here and have made it further than anyone else.