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[Moonchild]

Well Well Well the Chicken World can be drama and love!!!!!

So as I mentioned PumPum(the Polish pullet)(as if you didnt know) wasn't feeling great. So yesterday I came home and she was so lifeless and weak. I Paniced

Grabbed her up to get her out of the heat! Brought her in the house and settled her in to what ever may happen....So as I was thinking of what to do...It finally hit me...Check for worms in her.You Dumb@ss see I'm a Medical Lab Tech and I have microscopes all around me and I have studied parasitology so we'll just have a look see at the poop. So this morning I took a sample to work and checked it.

IT WAS FULL OF EGGS...I mean the WHOLE FIELD was FULL.....So I got some dewormer and came home at lunch(hoping she was still alive) she was!!! but still kind of sad and weak. I dosed her directly into her mouth with also Electrolites and vits. The good news is eight hours later the little PumPum is up and clucking

(well peeping) and eating up a storm she is even walking around and scratching. Although not 100% but a lot better. Plus I think she loves being in the house and away from the other chickes that just leave her out of everything(or she just doesn't see them leave and doesn't follow)(Bless Her)

So one more dose in the morning then she should be good to go, now i need to fatten her up again!!! I will now check all the coops to see if they have worms also, but I will say this I do the Crushed Red Pepper treatment for worms on all my coops, but PumPum will not eat the stuff even cooked in cornbread. All the others eat it straight she doesn't!!! So

, Cause we just signed a two book deal and movie rights for "The Life of a PumPum" so the star has to make it to the palace I'm building and now double timing it!!!

 

[Joycats]

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Oh bless her little heart - I sure do hope she makes a full and speedy recovery. But I don't know how in the world you will ever move her back outside. It will just break her heart.

Moonchild - please let us know how the worm check turns out with your other chickens. I would love to know if the pepper flakes worked on them.

Now I have some news - ya'll remember yesterday I found this little chick in my polish yard and couldn't figure out what kind of chicken it was (I knew it wasn't a duck). I gotta say my polish have earned their keep for life! Turns out this little baby is not a chicken at all (I kept thinking "long legged americauna"?) but tonight it hit me - she's a peachick!!!! I've got another baby peachick and I couldn't be happier!! Don't know how long I'll be able to keep her with the bantam cochins in the brooder box but ..... I'm doing the happy dance!

 

[pinkwindsong]

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omg i was so worried about PumPum wheni first read she ws not feeling good.. she has to relize that she has a fan basis that she mst stay well and healthy for the sake of her fans.. haha

pink

 

[pinkwindsong]

doing the happy dance wsith you

 

[WestKnollAmy]

OMG, you miss a day and you DO miss a lot!

Yancy, I am so glad you figured out what was wrong with Pretty Princess PumPum! I have had a few folks say that the red pepper flakes didn't work for them and i can say it certainly did not work on the coccidiosis but since that isn't a worm I guess I can understand it. You are so darn lucky to have a microscope at your disposal. I wish I still had one. I used to have a decent one here but the family loved playing with it and now it's gone.
Glad she is better though! You definitely need to double time building her palace because she is going to get way too used to AC!

Oh, candled the eggs and only 4 out of 8 are making. Hopefully all 4 will hatch considering I think I have about 6 people that want babies from this cross. I guess I better contact the egg supplier and see if we can do it again. Those birds sounded extremely pretty. I even liked the looks of them. The colors were awesome!


A Peachick!!!!!

How marvelous! I so wish I could have some but I just can't deal with more creatures. I will just drool over yours, Joy!
Babies! I can watch how yours grow up and change and call and walk around looking gorgeous!

 

[ChickyChickyBaby]

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Wonder if I can teach him to spit the seeds?

But he has turned into such a piggie I guess he would just gobble them up.

I think he does eat after the girls, it is just his appetite is bigger than theirs. Or is it because I have different food? Did you feed him the Williams or another kind?

Did you see that Williams is now up to $11.50 a bag??? I can't handle it! I may go back to mixing my own. If I can find enough stuff at a reasonable price but everything has gone up so I doubt it. Thank goodness my meal worm farming is coming on strong. And I turned over the old feed bags from the brooders last night and this morning for a ton of delectable treats for the flock. They totally love that pile of .....uh.....natural food. I have to save on the feed bill somehow.
If I wasn't about to rent out my front pasture I would put in corn myself! I think 3 acres could feed the chickens through the winter. Of course, as soon as I planted we would go into a drought!

I feed him Williams. OMG I KNOW about the price! I went on a Thurs and picked up a LOT feed........went back the next Saturday and it had went up.

At another place I picked up a bag of steamed rolled oats and a bag of barley - one was 15.50 and one was 18.00 ...don't remember which was which though!

 

[RedBugPoultry]

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Moonchild, is there a difference one can see from worm eggs and Cocci eggs? I know both are detected by the mass of eggs. Cocci parasites are a worm also, from what I understand, right? So how do you tell them apart? How good of a microscope does one need to detect the eggs? To what magnification?

 

[Lroach711]

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Moonchild, is there a difference one can see from worm eggs and Cocci eggs? I know both are detected by the mass of eggs. Cocci parasites are a worm also, from what I understand, right? So how do you tell them apart? How good of a microscope does one need to detect the eggs? To what magnification?

here's a pic we took at work of coccidia:

I stole this from the internet but it's a roundworm...

Cocci eggs are much smaller than other intestinal parasites.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Moonchild, is there a difference one can see from worm eggs and Cocci eggs? I know both are detected by the mass of eggs. Cocci parasites are a worm also, from what I understand, right? So how do you tell them apart? How good of a microscope does one need to detect the eggs? To what magnification?

Coccidiosis is not a worm but it is a parasite. Cocci is very small and hard to detect without powerful magnification, though once you know what it is you can easily spot it in a fecal sample. Roundworms are much bigger and easy to see on just the 10X. Parasitology is fascinating! Sometimes gross but much more interesting than blood disorders or organ problems, to me anyhow.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Has anyone ever used Verm-X to deworm their chickens?
I have heard it is a great all natural product.
Quite expensive, imo, but then I have a lot to deworm here.


http://verm-xusa.com/poultrycat_6.html?ccUser=


Here is a link to a site that covers a few of the worms we find in our poultry and want to get rid of. It is brief and a good quick read.

http://poultrykeeper.com/common-articles-to-all-poultry/health/worms-in-chickens-ducks-geese.html