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Good gravy. Rescue chicken drama!
I've had these ladies for almost a week. They've been on starter mash with oyster shell on the side. I mix a little bit of vitamins in the mash in the mornings. They also have dry starter available for free feeding. I wormed them with SafeGuard (today's the last day of that treatment).
Jessamine (I think she's a Golden Comet) is still waaaay underweight, but gaining slowly. She lays an egg almost every day. But I noticed today that it looks like she has vent gleet. Yay. First, an impacted crop. Then worms. Now gleet. I have a meeting soon, but I'll post pics later.
Jess is also mean. She pecks the heck out of the Australorp, Magnolia. I have had to separate them at night, which is when it's the worst. Magnolia gets the makeshift coop. Jess gets a cat carrier.
Magnolia, on the other hand, came with clear signs of feather picking. Her throat is bare and bright red. A vent check showed her vent is also red, but I see no signs of gleet or mites. I will probably treat them for mites anyway. Her vent does look a little weird to me, but I'm not that experienced with vent problems.
Treating these two rescues has been very time consuming, but I knew it would be. I have to change my clothes and shoes and wash my hands between sets of chickens. I hope to integrate them within a month once all these weird vent/skin/behavior issues clear up.
And then there's Picotee. He went into an early molt because he is indoors now. He lost his pretty sickle feathers and looks like a youngster again. He is super sweet and loves pets and hanging out with us while we watch TV or read. This is a far cry from the little cockerel who would give me the stink eye and flare his neck feathers at me when I'd go into the run to feed the OGs (Original Girls) in the mornings.
I know I said I want to chicken full time, but it's hard to do...
I've had these ladies for almost a week. They've been on starter mash with oyster shell on the side. I mix a little bit of vitamins in the mash in the mornings. They also have dry starter available for free feeding. I wormed them with SafeGuard (today's the last day of that treatment).
Jessamine (I think she's a Golden Comet) is still waaaay underweight, but gaining slowly. She lays an egg almost every day. But I noticed today that it looks like she has vent gleet. Yay. First, an impacted crop. Then worms. Now gleet. I have a meeting soon, but I'll post pics later.
Jess is also mean. She pecks the heck out of the Australorp, Magnolia. I have had to separate them at night, which is when it's the worst. Magnolia gets the makeshift coop. Jess gets a cat carrier.
Magnolia, on the other hand, came with clear signs of feather picking. Her throat is bare and bright red. A vent check showed her vent is also red, but I see no signs of gleet or mites. I will probably treat them for mites anyway. Her vent does look a little weird to me, but I'm not that experienced with vent problems.
Treating these two rescues has been very time consuming, but I knew it would be. I have to change my clothes and shoes and wash my hands between sets of chickens. I hope to integrate them within a month once all these weird vent/skin/behavior issues clear up.
And then there's Picotee. He went into an early molt because he is indoors now. He lost his pretty sickle feathers and looks like a youngster again. He is super sweet and loves pets and hanging out with us while we watch TV or read. This is a far cry from the little cockerel who would give me the stink eye and flare his neck feathers at me when I'd go into the run to feed the OGs (Original Girls) in the mornings.
I know I said I want to chicken full time, but it's hard to do...
