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Hatching
- Aug 9, 2015
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ok. so i currently have (flock used to be larger) 8 guinea fowl, 2 roos, 6 hens. (please think of them as chickens if you aren't sure about guineas.) a few weeks ago i noticed one started sitting down frequently (when others standing), when she gets up she walks with quick little steps and kind of hunched, not eating. another hen sometimes makes noise when she breathes, and her face inflates/deflates as she breathes, and she stopped eating, too. i tried Duramycin-10 (dosing them directly in their mouths individually)--no effect that i could notice. around the same time i tried some garlic, cayenne, cinnamon, oil (whatever i could think of) with some food (ground to flour & mixed with water) via tube feeding, and tried a litte ACV in the drinking water . . .idk nothing seems to help. then yesterday i found another hen stumbling around like she was drunk, and she didn't eat. and today i found another hen stopped eating. typically, they go outside for a little while in the late morning, spend the day in a modified chain link kennel, and then out a bit before retiring for the night to their little house. the restrictions are primarily due to predators! and my birds sometimes wandering too far. what can i do? in the past, if something goes wrong, i have usually been able to narrow it down and treat them but all these girls getting sick in what looks like different ways at around the same time has me somewhat bewildered. and the task of tube feeding them all (what it looks like i may have to do) is almost too much. what do you think? does anybody know what is happening to my girls? why won't they eat? what should i do about it to help them get better? (sometimes they fake eat, but don't really eat eat) the not eating part is what concerns me the most.
ps - there are ducks in the yard, too. although they don't stay in the same pens in summer, there is some daily overlap of territory and the ducks get the guinea water mucked up every chance they can find. before the others started coming down with things, i was wondering if the first bird (she who keeps sitting down) might have a staph infection?
ps - there are ducks in the yard, too. although they don't stay in the same pens in summer, there is some daily overlap of territory and the ducks get the guinea water mucked up every chance they can find. before the others started coming down with things, i was wondering if the first bird (she who keeps sitting down) might have a staph infection?
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