The Natural Chicken Keeping thread - OTs welcome!

[Leahs Mom]

@JanetMarie

Did you have a fecal sample done before giving corid? Just wondering because giving medications of any kind - including anti-parasitic - can weaken their immune system further and make it harder to recover.

Anyhow...
When they are standing like that it is often an indication of peritonitis or sometimes being egg-bound. How long has she had that stance?

 

[ShrekDawg]

It WAS a lot of stress in a short period of time!  Hopefully she'll settle in and relax in the new order.

Im sure dhe will!

 

[JanetMarie]

Meant to quote.

 

[h2oratt]

I have one broody.  Her eggs are due in 1 1/2 weeks.  She started with 6 eggs, and now has 5.

Juggling chicks, ducklings, and two goslings that we drove an hour away and picked up on Sunday.  The two goslings were in a cage with two older goslings, trampling on them.  One was just hatched that morning.  There was a cage on top of that cage, with chicken chicks, that the sellers tried to cover the bottom of that cage, but chick poop was falling though.  One of my goslings has dried poop on it's neck.  I cut most of off yesterday.  He's not thriving like the other one.

In the barn was a chicken lying in her side.  The owner picked her up and put in a cage, with an empty water dish.  Another cage was in the barn, with chicken chicks, and one gosling the owner said 10 days old.  Had an empty water dish with poop in it.  She put water in the dish after I said something about it, without cleaning the dish.  Everyone was so thirsty.  I wanted to purchase all the goslings, but with an almost dead chicken in the barn, I can't risk bringing disease home.  I purchased the two youngest ones, since they had less time to be contaminated.

I've sent the seller an e-mail, explaining about the poor conditions the poultry are kept in.  Ironically she is heavily involved in a dog rescue!!  I am checking to see if there is anything that can be done by a waterfowl rescue, and will inquire with the Humane Society today.  It may be that their only hope is that people buy them.

Yes you need to alert someone. No telling how the dogs are kept. She sounds like an animal hoarder. She may need help.

 

[JanetMarie]

Yes you need to alert someone. No telling how the dogs are kept. She sounds like an animal hoarder. She may need help.

Yes, after explaining the conditions to the animal control of that county, he asked the address to go there. I don't get to find out what happens though, since they have too many calls to follow up on, and just too busy.

 

[JanetMarie]

Yes you need to alert someone. No telling how the dogs are kept. She sounds like an animal hoarder. She may need help.

The help that she needs is by not having any animals.

 

[JanetMarie]

@JanetMarie

Did you have a fecal sample done before giving corid? Just wondering because giving medications of any kind - including anti-parasitic - can weaken their immune system further and make it harder to recover.

Anyhow...
When they are standing like that it is often an indication of peritonitis or sometimes being egg-bound. How long has she had that stance?

I just gave the Corid. I'm not doing anything else, since she is not acutely ill. Her abdomen seems larger than it should be, and her breast muscles have been shrinking. I didn't know if unlaid eggs that are absorbing could cause some blood in the poop.

She could also have the beginnings of a disease with a very long incubation period, that some other of my hens from the same hatchery had.

 

[curious chickee]

I have some turkey eggs ordered that I will be hatching next month. Any suggestions about raising my poults.

 

[h2oratt]

I have some turkey eggs ordered that I will be hatching next month. Any suggestions about raising my poults.

They eat a lot.

 

[oldhenlikesdogs]

I have some turkey eggs ordered that I will be hatching next month. Any suggestions about raising my poults.

Start them warm, 100-105, they are clumsy and need to initially taught to eat and drink. Use your finger to tap at food and water making whatever peeping noise you like, it will take a few days to a week, do it a couple times a day, make sure they all do it.

Raise them on paper towels for the first week, and put shiny glass rocks in the water and feed. Scatter some feed on the paper towels and and some of those shiny stones.

Turkeys are more interactive than chicks so be prepared for too friendly of birds.

Turkey poults are fragile initially, prone to stumbling and chilling, so put some time in initially and it will pay off. I can proudly say I've never lost a poult.

What kind are you getting, I have six blue slate eggs coming. The 15 adults I have apparently aren't enough. Here's last year's batch, my chicks run in terror from my camera, my poults want to know what it is.