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We are pretty worried about all these chicks too. Hope to hear something from the state vet really soon! I called today, but he had gone out of the office and i missed him. May try again tomorrow.
Some more positive news is the remaining flock seems to be improving some. We stopped the Tylan injectable after 4 days because there was no improvement whatsoever and I put Sulmet in the water to try something else. Kinda treating blindly at this point. They have been on it a bit more than 24 hours and this evening they do seem a bit improved. The girls whose eyes were so swollen and crusty seems to be much better. They can at least see. I let all who wanted out go free range today. Most went out and enjoyed the bit warmer weather. This evening I made scrambled eggs cooked with rice in some vegetable oil and fed it to them. All of them ate some, and some ate lots. I am really happy that at least those who have been so miserable are feeling a bit better. Even DH's EE rooster who I was sure was a goner a few days ago is looking more like his old self.
Anyway, we are waiting for the necropsy results.
Do you guys think we could keep a "sick" chicken coop and build something brand new on the other side of the property for our new chicks? My gut feeling is that we would eventually end up infecting the clean coop, even being careful. We have our labradors and a cat that follow us everywhere when we do chicken chores. we could change our shoes, but I am thinkging that it would be pretty hard to prevent cross contamination.
Anyway, thanks for listening!
Some more positive news is the remaining flock seems to be improving some. We stopped the Tylan injectable after 4 days because there was no improvement whatsoever and I put Sulmet in the water to try something else. Kinda treating blindly at this point. They have been on it a bit more than 24 hours and this evening they do seem a bit improved. The girls whose eyes were so swollen and crusty seems to be much better. They can at least see. I let all who wanted out go free range today. Most went out and enjoyed the bit warmer weather. This evening I made scrambled eggs cooked with rice in some vegetable oil and fed it to them. All of them ate some, and some ate lots. I am really happy that at least those who have been so miserable are feeling a bit better. Even DH's EE rooster who I was sure was a goner a few days ago is looking more like his old self.
Anyway, we are waiting for the necropsy results.
Do you guys think we could keep a "sick" chicken coop and build something brand new on the other side of the property for our new chicks? My gut feeling is that we would eventually end up infecting the clean coop, even being careful. We have our labradors and a cat that follow us everywhere when we do chicken chores. we could change our shoes, but I am thinkging that it would be pretty hard to prevent cross contamination.
Anyway, thanks for listening!