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[CapricornFarm]

Saying goodnight to all here need to turn in

Good night my friend!

 

[CapricornFarm]

Had a bad surprise this morning. Have my 4 7 week olds in the outside grow out pen. Went out this morning and one of the little pullets was dead. Just like that. Examined the others and one was fluffed up and crying. When I picked her up I noticed she is also thin. Doesn't add up to Marek's at this point so must be I hope some other sort of infection. Brought them in. Dosed her with TerraVet and put Corrid in their water. Gave them scrambled egg with rooster booster in it and treated the others with terramycin. Turned on the heat lamp. Now we wait and see. Little fluffed pullet named Jefe gobbled egg so I'll give them more tonight. Hopefully whatever it is she will survive. No other symptoms. No drainage, no swellings, nada so Idunno.

I just hate it when then do this! Dying with symptoms that you can hang your hat on is one thing.But just kicking off and falling over is quite another. Mysteries tend to give me a headache.

It is always something! Sorry for your loss!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

BF just told me about the present he just got me. We have a gimpy chick (remember the terrible hatch I had this year?) that is likely to freeze to death this winter because s/he comes out of the pop door then can't get back in anywhere.
He found plans for a prosthetic and then someone with a 3D printer and had it printed. I do hope it fits.

 

[1muttsfan]

Now that I would really like to see a picture of.

 

[drumstick diva]

Me too, want to be dazzled by high tech stuff

 

[chickadoodles]

Scg I hope it works.

Micro I hope your chicks get well.

 

[microchick]

@superchemical girl, 3D printers are awesome. DH has two and prints everything imaginable on it. He said he would love to see a picture of the finished item.

Woke up this morning and galloped out to the feed room to check on Jefe. She got the name of 'boss' because she was the first hatched and the largest of the chicks and bossed everyone around as they hatched. She was so cute. This morning she is back to 100%. It definitely was a coccidia outbreak. I lay in bed last night tossing and turning trying to figure out where the outbreak came from and in one of those moments where you are more asleep than awake, it dawned on me and woke me up. Without thinking, I had put them in the same pen I put my Egyptian Fayoumi hen in when I was trying to introduce her to the flock after quarantine. She didn't show any signs of coccidia. No loose stools, etc. She was a bit thin but I expected that from the stress of moving into a new flock but looking back that is the only way that pen could have become infested. I've never had an outbreak that was this bad before.

I'm treating everyone, large and small and I'm going to bolus her this morning just to make sure she is cleaned out. I just feel so bad that I didn't catch it before the other little pullet died.

Is there any way to treat the soil that the grow out pen is sitting on? I need to nip this in the bud.

More good news, Our friend in ICU is doing better and off O2 now. The hospital that he is in is one of the high ranking trauma centers in the US and from what I hear they rock when it comes to patient care.

 

[ronott1]

@superchemical girl, 3D printers are awesome. DH has two and prints everything imaginable on it. He said he would love to see a picture of the finished item.

Woke up this morning and galloped out to the feed room to check on Jefe. She got the name of 'boss' because she was the first hatched and the largest of the chicks and bossed everyone around as they hatched. She was so cute. This morning she is back to 100%. It definitely was a coccidia outbreak. I lay in bed last night tossing and turning trying to figure out where the outbreak came from and in one of those moments where you are more asleep than awake, it dawned on me and woke me up. Without thinking, I had put them in the same pen I put my Egyptian Fayoumi hen in when I was trying to introduce her to the flock after quarantine. She didn't show any signs of coccidia. No loose stools, etc. She was a bit thin but I expected that from the stress of moving into a new flock but looking back that is the only way that pen could have become infested. I've never had an outbreak that was this bad before.

I'm treating everyone, large and small and I'm going to bolus her this morning just to make sure she is cleaned out. I just feel so bad that I didn't catch it before the other little pullet died.

Is there any way to treat the soil that the grow out pen is sitting on? I need to nip this in the bud.

More good news, Our friend in ICU is doing better and off O2 now. The hospital that he is in is one of the high ranking trauma centers in the US and from what I hear they rock when it comes to patient care.

coccidiosos often comes from the environment. it has been at your place but the conditions were right for it this year.

I get my little ones onto nipple water fountains within a week

 

[microchick]

That's good to know. I was afraid Farah brought it in.

Anyway to clear the soil?

 

[1muttsfan]

No, since the organism forms resistant cysts that are very persistent. While you can disinfect nonpourous surfaces, it can't be done to soil.