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At the risk of sounding stupid, is it okay to eat the eggs from my girls since they have fowl pox?
If you are treating with an antibiotic then don't sell or give away. I usually scramble the eggs and give back to the chickens, they love them. I eat them, but I don't sell any eggs during medication periods. I like a clean flock, I have a lot of chickens.
 
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here is my fireplace -- nice huh? Look toward the lower left right above the mantle:



Here is a zoom in jus a bit -- do you see it behind the tall turquoise thingie?



Okay you see it now right? (scream and turn green)



so how did the snake get IN, how long has it been IN and are there more?

Kind of feel like I am under attack. Last night something was thudding against my house. First time thought maybe an owl flew into the house or something...but it kept up. Went out to look and couldn't find anything in the pitch dark. It kept happening and finally I found a giant Bullfrog. The biggest Bullfrog I have ever seen he must have been jumping up and getting insects? Dunno.

Anyone else ever have 1. snakes in the house via an unknown method (no more leaving the doors open that's for sure0 -- and Have you ever had Bullfrogs thumping against your house at 11:00 at night?
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Find that snake and take it far away, it will go to town on under 6 week old chicks. That and waking up with a snake in my bed.....nope. Wooden eggs also deter snakes.
 
Since fowl pox don't affect humans - I wouldn't hesitate to use the eggs, especially if cooked in something like scrambled eggs.  I don't know if I would give away or sell the eggs from the hen.  Dry pox is a real 'no big deal' IMO -- but wet pox can kill.  And dry pox can turn into wet pox as I understand it.  I lost my best little hen this spring when the pox closed off her air passages.  Another one had pox closing off her throat so she couldn't swallow -- or maybe the way they affected her mouth and beak...she couldn't close it -- she was totally 'deformed' and I thougt that she would die -- but she pulled through.  At one point I was putting 'grow gel' in the corner of her beak with a Q-tip so it could drip down her throat and water with vitamins.  The one thing that seemed to really help was to also dab good old fashioned iodine on the pox -- inside her beak.  

Had a rooster who had one eye swollen shut from the pox, then in a day or so his other eye swelled shut -- so basically he was blind.  One thing that really helped him was some good vitamins -- I got that brown bottle 'poultry cell' by rooster booster -- (never see it at TSC any longer...but you can get it on line)....  

Both chickens are as good as new now.  ETA - the rooster looked REALLY good after his convalesence -- the rooster booster made his feathers really really shine. 

Hopefully you will only have dry and it will go away quickly.

So far it's only dry and the ladies are still quite lively so I'm happy for that. They don't care for my "in the beak" inspections but they all are free of wet pox. I even got my 3rd egg today!
If you are treating with an antibiotic then don't sell or give away.  I usually scramble the eggs and give back to the chickens, they love them.  I eat them, but I don't sell any eggs during medication periods.  I like a clean flock, I have a lot of chickens.

They're not being treated with any antibiotics and the eggs are still too new to share with friends lol
I hope they are healing. When my hens had it, a vet told me to give them tomatoes. I can't remember what else.

My girls can't stand tomatoes!! They're enjoying their two grapes and cucumber treats :)
 
sickbyc.gif


here is my fireplace -- nice huh? Look toward the lower left right above the mantle:



Here is a zoom in jus a bit -- do you see it behind the tall turquoise thingie?



Okay you see it now right? (scream and turn green)



so how did the snake get IN, how long has it been IN and are there more?

Kind of feel like I am under attack. Last night something was thudding against my house. First time thought maybe an owl flew into the house or something...but it kept up. Went out to look and couldn't find anything in the pitch dark. It kept happening and finally I found a giant Bullfrog. The biggest Bullfrog I have ever seen he must have been jumping up and getting insects? Dunno.

Anyone else ever have 1. snakes in the house via an unknown method (no more leaving the doors open that's for sure0 -- and Have you ever had Bullfrogs thumping against your house at 11:00 at night?
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OMG!

My mom just text me a picture of a huge rattle snake they just killed on her land in Needville area.
HUGE! Nasty..

How are you going to sleep tonight?
 
OMG!

My mom just text me a picture of a huge rattle snake they just killed on her land in Needville area.
HUGE! Nasty..

How are you going to sleep tonight?




"hey, what's that behind the book shelf mom?"



Apparently, it was a snake.



Since it wasn't poisonous, I told him to just grab it and take it back outside where it belongs. my 5 year old wanted to keep it for a pet. LOL
 
sickbyc.gif


here is my fireplace -- nice huh? Look toward the lower left right above the mantle:



Here is a zoom in jus a bit -- do you see it behind the tall turquoise thingie?



Okay you see it now right? (scream and turn green)



so how did the snake get IN, how long has it been IN and are there more?

Kind of feel like I am under attack. Last night something was thudding against my house. First time thought maybe an owl flew into the house or something...but it kept up. Went out to look and couldn't find anything in the pitch dark. It kept happening and finally I found a giant Bullfrog. The biggest Bullfrog I have ever seen he must have been jumping up and getting insects? Dunno.

Anyone else ever have 1. snakes in the house via an unknown method (no more leaving the doors open that's for sure0 -- and Have you ever had Bullfrogs thumping against your house at 11:00 at night?
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The post above this one - I had a snake in my house too a couple weeks ago.
 


"hey, what's that behind the book shelf mom?"



Apparently, it was a snake.



Since it wasn't poisonous, I told him to just grab it and take it back outside where it belongs. my 5 year old wanted to keep it for a pet. LOL

No way!

I showed my 6 yr old my mom's snake pic..
He wanted to drive over there any get it so we could keep the skin.
LOL
 
The post above this one - I had a snake in my house too a couple weeks ago.
When I was a kid, I was just like that and wanted to have a garter snake for a pet. LOL -- kids are all the same everywhere sometimes.
OMG!

My mom just text me a picture of a huge rattle snake they just killed on her land in Needville area.
HUGE! Nasty..

How are you going to sleep tonight?
Probably I will have snake nightmares.... LOL -- There was this Sherlock Holmes story about a snake called 'the speckled band' that attacksat night. Great thought.
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When I was a kid, I was just like that and wanted to have a garter snake for a pet. LOL -- kids are all the same everywhere sometimes.
Probably I will have snake nightmares.... LOL -- There was this Sherlock Holmes story about a snake called 'the speckled band' that attacksat night. Great thought.
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My daughter has a frog she found, living in her room in a home-made habitat. She also wanted to bring home a turtle she found. LOL
 

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