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SilkieSensation said:
Quote: you know SS this is a good point when we stop to think about it! We worry about diseases and illness with our birds, I never even thought of that!

I recently read that MEAL WORMS carry the MAEREKS disease and giving chickens infected worms can cause it to run your flock. I HAD NEVER KNOWN!

I was reading a Clinical study on the disease and it came up! you know I really need to copy paste info with links so I can grab it, but I would be overwhelmed with even more word files!
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barbiegirl said:
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Found one of my silver laced hens dead this morning
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She was a year old.
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what in the world is going around! I was looking in emergency sections so many east coast birds are dying! wtheck!
 
BirdbyGavin1103 said:
If it got stuck they would definitely come to get it loose, but I'm not sure if they would relocate it. You'd have to check with your local Game Commission office. Mine doesn't do a whole heck of a lot, we've had a black snake in our attic for years now, and he won't come and trap it (or tell me how to). He also won't come trap the black bear that gets into stuff. He doesn't even lend traps for nuisance animals (coons, possoms, feral cats). I know some officers/offices are much better, so I can only speak from experience with mine. Something you might be able to try (again check about the regs) is bird netting, the kind for crops, that is designed to trap the birds but not hurt them, and placing that over the runs. Again if it gets caught they'll have to deal with it. ETA: I did more checking, do not use a gun to scare away protected animals, the owl in this case. Apparently even blanks to scare them off is against the law. I hate how an animal can be so prolific and still be protected....
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Well, if this comtinues I will definitely consider snagging him and requesting the removal of the bird. If game commission doesn't care, maybe there's a wildlife rehab center in the area that would be dedicated enough to do this for me :) As for the snake, It's easy to catch them for me!! I setup a minnow trap on it's side along the side of the room (snakes like to travel right next to the walls). For bait, I'll put a live mouse in the minnow trap. (seems a bit mean, but if you want fast capture, it's the most effective. Especially if you're worried the critter might be venomous) If you don't want to use live, dead mice and eggs work pretty well too! (I have an abundance of dead mice around here, I have a couple pet snakes in the house so they're always in stock). Anyways, when the snake travels into the trap and eats the mouse, he'll be too bloated to get out, and he'll have trouble getting out of the funnel-shape anyways. As long as they're checked frequently, the traps work pretty well!!! Then again, I personally wouldn't mind a slithery guy in my attic, as long as he kills any fuzzy things up there!! :lol:
 
BorderBrigade said:
Have you thought about maybe they are just bored? What about adding a dust box, a babycake, some scratch in their bedding, dig up a large clump of yard and plop it in their area to have some fun with grass dirt and all. I've never had a picker feather vent etc but my birds have 6 acres to roam starting around 1 week of age they free range with hen. Something to try before others.
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Well, three years of raising chicks and this is the first time I've had cannibalistic vent picking. Only thing different this time is they have been sick for over 2 weeks. The vent picking started last week and I have lost 5 birds because of that. I have 5 in the "infirmary" with mild to severe cloaca damage.

I took all my older, better feathered Ameraucana and OEs out of the brooder and put in a pen. Tomorrow we are cleaning out the other coop and putting all the older ones in there. If 100sqft isn't enough for them, then I don't know what to tell them. I am just about to throw my hands in the air in defeat. I have 2 of the original 6 bantam choc Orps left. They seem to be the main targets. And the Ameraucanas...
 
Sally Sunshine said:
Quote: you know SS this is a good point when we stop to think about it! We worry about diseases and illness with our birds, I never even thought of that!

I recently read that MEAL WORMS carry the MAEREKS disease and giving chickens infected worms can cause it to run your flock. I HAD NEVER KNOWN!

I was reading a Clinical study on the disease and it came up! you know I really need to copy paste info with links so I can grab it, but I would be overwhelmed with even more word files!
I actually ran into this problem over the winter. I got a couple bales of bedding hay from my landlord that had been stored in his barn for a year & all of my babies ended up with mites from the hay because I never thought to put ivermectin on them since they hadn't been around any bigger birds. I had been using the hay in the brooder because I ran out of wood chips & had the hay on hand. It didn't affect any of the bigger birds because they had all been treated a week before I put the hay in their pens. I lost a couple babies before I thought to check them closer & found the mites. There's nowhere else they could have come from since they were all hatched in my bator & had never been in contact with any adult birds. I no longer use hay or straw anywhere that has babies or untreated birds. I actually try to use wood chips for everything that I can.

stake said:
Quote: That sounds a bit high for hatchery day olds...
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