Silkie thread!

[motherofazoo]

Thanks for all the advise, lol @ the diapers! I guess I need to wait till I hear crowing again to figure out my mystery. Is it common for them to try it out, wait a few days before trying again?

 

[katzbantams]

She is probably depressed and will very likely stop laying for a spell. Make sure she's getting food and water. Just keep an eye on her

Thank you im keeping a close eye on her.

When you say severely injured , what were her injuries ? Did they involve her head or neck area ? It would be helpful if you could upload the video.
Did she exhibit any upper respiratory symptoms after the attack ?

Its her sibling that was injured so I thought that she was depressed

today she was laying down with her head twisted around

 

[Fancychooklady]

Thank you im keeping a close eye on her.






Its her sibling that was injured so I thought that she was depressed  today she was laying down with her head twisted around

Oh in that case I would put a poultry multi vitamin in the water. Alternately you could mix it into water and pour it on a mash. The two things might not be related but stress could have triggered these symptoms. If she is off her feed , that too might have left her thiamine deficient.

 

[judy mclean]

I have 3 silkie hen that are on there 2nd batch of babies this year so fare there is 12 babies I'll post pics tomorrow

 

[sparton]

WD40 sounds dangerous. Instead of greasy vaseline or oily vegetable Crisco my vet recommended Vitamin A or E oils on combs for frostbite and on legs for mite prevention -- with the added health benefit of making the skin, legs, toes, comb supple and soft instead of hard and flaky. We massage the oil into the leg feathers also - vet says its good for the feathers too and won't hurt to massage it into the leg feathers. We do it at roost time and the vitamin oils absorb into the skin overnight and there's no greasy mess like vaseline or vegetable oil on the feathers to make dust-bath dirt stick to the feathers! I love the vitamin treatments on our birds once a month - my hands are so soft after giving them massages - we only have 4 birds.

We have been using Advantage Puppy mist. It is $12 a bottle at petsmart and a gentle misting doesn't hurt the birds but the mites are gone in moments and it kills the eggs to.

We bought a couple birds that had mites without us, or the breeder, being aware of it. When we went to get them ready for show we noticed it. After talking to my daughter's 4h leader and finding out he used Frontline I decided to use the Advantage version (they work the same way). It cleared the problem up immediately and outside of my rooster being peeved at me there were no side effects.

 

[Sylvester017]

We have been using Advantage Puppy mist. It is $12 a bottle at petsmart and a gentle misting doesn't hurt the birds but the mites are gone in moments and it kills the eggs to.

We bought a couple birds that had mites without us, or the breeder, being aware of it. When we went to get them ready for show we noticed it. After talking to my daughter's 4h leader and finding out he used Frontline I decided to use the Advantage version (they work the same way). It cleared the problem up immediately and outside of my rooster being peeved at me there were no side effects.

Does Frontline and Advantage absorb into the skin to get into the pet internally? I never used these products because I wasn't sure the stuff went into the blood stream through the skin - sort of the way Ivermectin paste does - and we eat the chicken eggs so I went with the organic Poultry Protector for lice/mites and vitamin A/E oils for leg mite protection.

 

[sparton]

No Advantage/ Frontline is purely topical and there is no waiting period on the eggs to eat. I worked for a vet clinic just after high school (we won't talk about how many moons ago) and the reps explained the formulas this way- it is a chemical designed to attack the flea/lice/tick- aka others in that family and targets their nerve receptors and blocks them.

For our animals it is completely safe which is why you can use it on dogs with newborn puppies and be safe. We had one lady at the clinic who used it on wild birds she rehabbed and raccoons. We eat our eggs too (we treated our eggs birds when we treated the silkies) and there was no problem.

It is a great and cheap solution to mites and since it treats the bedding too we had no re-outbreaks.

 

[Fancychooklady]

No Advantage/ Frontline is purely topical and there is no waiting period on the eggs to eat. I worked for a vet clinic just after high school (we won't talk about how many moons ago) and the reps explained the formulas this way- it is a chemical designed to attack the flea/lice/tick- aka others in that family and targets their nerve receptors and blocks them. 

For our animals it is completely safe which is why you can use it on dogs with newborn puppies and be safe. We had one lady at the clinic who used it on wild birds she rehabbed and raccoons. We eat our eggs too (we treated our eggs birds when we treated the silkies) and there was no problem. 

It is a great and cheap solution to mites and since it treats the bedding too we had no re-outbreaks. 

Advantage, imidacloropid / moxidectin are off label and therefore not approved for use on poultry. Antyhing that comes in contact with the skin is to some extent absorbed . I always find it interesting that vets recomend products off label, but then I guess they aren't eating the eggs from said birds.
Advantage is said to be very effective on fleas and lice but has no efficiency on mites.
Beware what you spray and dip your birds in , ' you are what you eat '.

http://parasitipedia.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2467&Itemid=2735

 

[sparton]

Since I used the puppy mist which is a gentler form there were no complications. As for not being effective on mites- you tell that to the mites. My poor rooster had a pretty good infestation going on. They were gone within an hour. Lots of the local poultry showers here use frontline puppy mist but advantage is basically the same thing and a quarter of the cost. They also like Frontline because unlike ivermectin it doesn't mess with the eggs. We treated our sexlink along with our silkies since they snuggle together and ate her eggs- no funny tastes or issues.

The only side effect we had was a really annoyed rooster (he didn't like being squirted- go figure) Our hens were a bit more dignified about it. This is just my personal experience and the fact it worked so well was worth sharing. Since my daughter shows her silkies we keep a pretty close watch on them- just our boy and one of the hens came from the breeder with some friends- and there were no feather drops, no signs of discomfort- just dead and gone mites with no reoccurances.

Since I hadn't had mites before I was pretty paranoid about them coming back so we kept checking him for about a month solid every morning and night (again angry rooster..) and nothing. Now I just check him about once a week. He is still bug free and we haven't had to retreat.

 

[Fancychooklady]

Since I used the puppy mist which is a gentler form there were no complications. As for not being effective on mites- you tell that to the mites. My poor rooster had a pretty good infestation going on. They were gone within an hour. Lots of the local poultry showers here use frontline puppy mist but advantage is basically the same thing and a quarter of the cost. They also like Frontline because unlike ivermectin it doesn't mess with the eggs. We treated our sexlink along with our silkies since they snuggle together and ate her eggs- no funny tastes or issues. 

The only side effect we had was a really annoyed rooster (he didn't like being squirted- go figure) Our hens were a bit more dignified about it. This is just my personal experience and the fact it worked so well was worth sharing. Since my daughter shows her silkies we keep a pretty close watch on them- just our boy and one of the hens came from the breeder with some friends- and there were no feather drops, no signs of discomfort- just dead and gone mites with no reoccurances. 

Since I hadn't had mites before I was pretty paranoid about them coming back so we kept checking him for about a month solid every morning and night (again angry rooster..) and nothing. Now I just check him about once a week. He is still bug free and we haven't had to retreat. 

People use all kinds of things on their chickens and the fact that the chicken does not keel over and die immediately does not make the product safe. It is a personal choice as to what you treat your birds with ,but comparing puppies to chickens makes no sense. Dogs are not a food source. Best not to make statements about the safety of eating eggs when the science isn't there.