1) What type of bird , age and weight.
1 BO, 2 SLW, 1 New Hampshire, 1EE, All these pullets are 3 years -2 Bovine Brown new to flock and aged 12 months
2) What is the behavior, exactly.
5 older birds drinking eating fine, but coughing sneezing shaking heads wet vents and black feathers by vents,
2 younger birds listless and bloody watery diariea, lice
3) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma.
NO
4) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation.
Brought 2 new pullets into closed flock (against my better judgement-regrets)
5) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all.
Eating and drinking normally all birds, homestead layer crumble fresh water daily
E6) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc.
5 older pullets poop looks normal on ground but not on butts black feathers around back feathers, 2 younger pullets water with blood very runny especially one small pullet she seems to be worse than all the rest
7) What has been the treatment you have administered so far?
Treated lice by dusting birds with Insectrin dust, no visable lice currently daily inspection of birds no lice for 2 weeks now, treating with Vet RX in water and spraying on older birds with spray bottle as per directions on bottle
T8 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet?
Treat myself if possible
9) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.
No pics I have dial up internet takes hours to download and upload pics
10) Describe the housing/bedding in use
Bedded on clean pine shavings 2 outside runs only locked in at night because of predators
Asking for advice before administering any drugs, for fear I may make conditions worse. Have read many posts hear on BYC and none really mtching up exactally, I am guessing worms from the lice, maybe cocci??? Not sure at all....have to order all meds for lack of good source for meds as we only have farm and fleet our feed store stopped carring medications, is ony doing feed now. I would be so grateful for any thoughts or where I can go from hear just trying to keep them clean and comfortable for now until I can pinpoint what they may be suffering from. Thank You so much I have lost alot of sleep to say the least...
1 BO, 2 SLW, 1 New Hampshire, 1EE, All these pullets are 3 years -2 Bovine Brown new to flock and aged 12 months
2) What is the behavior, exactly.
5 older birds drinking eating fine, but coughing sneezing shaking heads wet vents and black feathers by vents,
2 younger birds listless and bloody watery diariea, lice
3) Is there any bleeding, injury, broken bones or other sign of trauma.
NO
4) What happened, if anything that you know of, that may have caused the situation.
Brought 2 new pullets into closed flock (against my better judgement-regrets)
5) What has the bird been eating and drinking, if at all.
Eating and drinking normally all birds, homestead layer crumble fresh water daily
E6) How does the poop look? Normal? Bloody? Runny? etc.
5 older pullets poop looks normal on ground but not on butts black feathers around back feathers, 2 younger pullets water with blood very runny especially one small pullet she seems to be worse than all the rest
7) What has been the treatment you have administered so far?
Treated lice by dusting birds with Insectrin dust, no visable lice currently daily inspection of birds no lice for 2 weeks now, treating with Vet RX in water and spraying on older birds with spray bottle as per directions on bottle
T8 ) What is your intent as far as treatment? For example, do you want to treat completely yourself, or do you need help in stabilizing the bird til you can get to a vet?
Treat myself if possible
9) If you have a picture of the wound or condition, please post it. It may help.
No pics I have dial up internet takes hours to download and upload pics
10) Describe the housing/bedding in use
Bedded on clean pine shavings 2 outside runs only locked in at night because of predators
Asking for advice before administering any drugs, for fear I may make conditions worse. Have read many posts hear on BYC and none really mtching up exactally, I am guessing worms from the lice, maybe cocci??? Not sure at all....have to order all meds for lack of good source for meds as we only have farm and fleet our feed store stopped carring medications, is ony doing feed now. I would be so grateful for any thoughts or where I can go from hear just trying to keep them clean and comfortable for now until I can pinpoint what they may be suffering from. Thank You so much I have lost alot of sleep to say the least...
