Surviving Minnesota!

[Cluckies]

As requested, First aid kit contents:
Dish pan (for soaking chickens in water / epson salt)
epson salt
scissors
knife
paper towels
towels
Blu-kote
Calcitrate calcium tablets
electrolytes
probiotics
Dulcolax liquid Gels (stimulant free) - used to help treat impacted crop
Self heating pad
poultry protector
Vet RX
Safe-guard
Corid
Vetericyn VF
Babyfood (especially sweet potato) they love sweet potato and will eat it when they won't eat most other things. I'll mix medicine in with it if needed. as they get better, I wet their crumble and mix in in there.
or canned sweet potato (less expensive)
flashlight/headlamp
Syringes (many sizes)
tubing (in case you need to tube feed)
Bulb syringe (think baby)
Vinyl gloves
Vaseline
Pinless peepers
Personal lubricant
hemroid cream
Garden and poultry dust (Permethren) I don't think I paid this much, just wanted the photo.
Bacitracin
small feeder and waterer for large wire dog kennel "hospital"
small dog crate inside the hospital for a nesting box if needed
I'm going to get some of that stretchy bandaid stuff as well probably get some more monostat, I used that to treat a sour crop last fall.

 

[holm25]

Rhetts I think the guy u got them from was mistaken... But u will have babies sooner!!



Ralph maybe Bert is just shy... Did u have thr "talk" with him? I think its time if u have not I think its time...

 

[Rhetts]

Thank you @Cluckies !!! You have some really great info there in your posts!!

 

[Rhetts]

So is there any way of knowing a generic time frame with first time calvers?? Or am I on 24 hour calf duty for the next who knows how long till baby comes? Reading on line I gathered that the bag filling can be months before in first timers but the vulva swelling is more indicative of a sooner calf. Is that right?

 

[lvie]

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If its in pill form and it gets stuck in his neck then he would have a stiff neck.

 

[duluthralphie]

If its in pill form and it gets stuck in his neck then he would have a stiff neck.

I would be on double secret probation if I hinted this!!!!!

But I liked it..

 

[lvie]

Well I got home from my meeting in Elk River and fed the sick chickies. The one you brought me tonight Ralphie died in my hands. Boy is that a hard one. She drank some water and it formed a bubble on the side of what I think is the crop. So it wasn't swallowed correctly is what I am thinking. She kept drinking from the tube and I thought - she is really thirsty. So I probably over fed her. I feel like a killer. Terrible.

Thanks for the first aid kit list Rhetts. I printed it out.

 

[lvie]

As requested, First aid kit contents:
Dish pan (for soaking chickens in water / epson salt)
epson salt
scissors
knife
paper towels
towels
Blu-kote
Calcitrate calcium tablets
electrolytes
probiotics
Dulcolax liquid Gels (stimulant free) - used to help treat impacted crop
Self heating pad
poultry protector
Vet RX
Safe-guard
Corid
Vetericyn VF
Babyfood (especially sweet potato) they love sweet potato and will eat it when they won't eat most other things. I'll mix medicine in with it if needed. as they get better, I wet their crumble and mix in in there.
or canned sweet potato (less expensive)
flashlight/headlamp
Syringes (many sizes)
tubing (in case you need to tube feed)
Bulb syringe (think baby)
Vinyl gloves
Vaseline
Pinless peepers
Personal lubricant
hemroid cream
Garden and poultry dust (Permethren) I don't think I paid this much, just wanted the photo.
Bacitracin
small feeder and waterer for large wire dog kennel "hospital"
small dog crate inside the hospital for a nesting box if needed
I'm going to get some of that stretchy bandaid stuff as well probably get some more monostat, I used that to treat a sour crop last fall.

SSSSOOOOOOO Sorry Cluckies. I thanked Rhetts for this list and here it was you all the time. I thinking I am tired, a little distraught and its time to sign off. Thanks for this list CLUCKIES. I do appreciate it and have printed it off. Good Night.

 

[duluthralphie]

Well I got home from my meeting in Elk River and fed the sick chickies. The one you brought me tonight Ralphie died in my hands. Boy is that a hard one. She drank some water and it formed a bubble on the side of what I think is the crop. So it wasn't swallowed correctly is what I am thinking. She kept drinking from the tube and I thought - she is really thirsty. So I probably over fed her. I feel like a killer. Terrible.

Thanks for the first aid kit list Rhetts. I printed it out.

Oh no.

Do not feel bad, it was going to happen. When you got them they were circling the drain, really close to the drain even..

I felt like a killer with the two that crawled under the support for the Mama Cave and died. BUT we have to remember they are chicks they die, they seem to like to die. When you think everything is going good. they find reasons to die. Thanks for trying, I really appreciate that.

 

[lvie]

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That wasn't a hint. YOU hinted about giving Bert some help. I just assumed and wanted you to know what would happen if you could not get that pill all the way down his long throat. BIG TROUBLE. LOL.