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[ronott1]

By the way, anyone happen to have Marans/Pene egg candling pics from around day 7?

I a couple from light Marans eggs.

They are from wisher!

 

[vehve]

I'm having a hard time getting a decent picture. I guess I will just have to wait and see, the dark spot should grow bigger pretty quickly.

 

[perchie.girl]

I took the fearsome beast puppy to the vet yesterday. It was time for his second set of puppy shots (10 weeks) and I have been concerned that he is not gaining weight like he should. He is long legged and his ribs and hipbones can easily be felt under his fluffy puppy coat. Doc said he is just growing so fast that his eating can't keep up. He estimated the dog will weigh over 100lbs when grown, and to keep shoveling the food to him! Yeah! He really will be a beast then!
The vet also said that he has Demodex mange.

That is the kind that is not contagious to dogs or people, but results when a dog doesn't have the natural ability to fight them off. The lack of the antibodies is hereditary and likely came from his mom. There are several types. Sometimes puppies are slow to build enough of the necessary enzyme to control it but it will clear as the pup matures. Another type is patchy and can be cured with spot treatment and Ivermectin as a preventative. Generalized is the whole body type that must be dipped in Mitaban every week or two and is expensive. I hope and pray that it is the puppy kind, or at least the localized type that can be treated and cured once, and not the generalized kind that covers the body and has to be treated for life. I likely will have to put him down if the treatment is expensive and ongoing. Anyone have experience with managing Demodectic mange?

Ivermectin is great stuff well tolerated..... I used the horse stuff for the goats. it smells like apples and once they tasted it I had a heck of a time keeping them from mugging me. I looked up the dosage on line and dialed it up on the syrringe.... I think a tube costs about six bucks. It keeps well for a second dose too.

Oh and heart guard for dogs has Ivermectin in it.....
deb

 

[casportpony]

Knock on wood, never had to deal with mange. You probably already have read stuff like this, but thought I'd post the link anyway: http://pets.webmd.com/dogs/mange-dogs-canine-scabies?page=2

-Kathy

 

[LindaB220]

Leftover duck is YUMMY in salads.... a nice alternative to bacon.

I'm back, just praying that the computer doesn't go on the fritz again. Yesterday I was able to come by some chickens (one rooster and 8 hens) that are the egg laying stock by Pilgrims Pride. They are the Cobb 500. Escaped during a transition to be processed. These are the egg layers for the grocery store. Jump start my egg business. They are scared but I'm planning on keeping them in the nice sized new coop. They will have about 15 sq ft ea. They look just like the CX's but not as beefy. They don't lay around or anything. Just chickens. But they are just what I need to keep growing. After they are through laying I'll process for chicken pot pie. 14 month old. I am so blessed today.

I don't know what the chicks will turn out to be. Probably the same. Yea eggs!!!

 

[ronott1]

I'm back, just praying that the computer doesn't go on the fritz again. Yesterday I was able to come by some chickens (one rooster and 8 hens) that are the egg laying stock by Pilgrims Pride. They are the Cobb 500. Escaped during a transition to be processed. These are the egg layers for the grocery store. Jump start my egg business. They are scared but I'm planning on keeping them in the nice sized new coop. They will have about 15 sq ft ea. They look just like the CX's but not as beefy. They don't lay around or anything. Just chickens. But they are just what I need to keep growing. After they are through laying I'll process for chicken pot pie. 14 month old. I am so blessed today.

I don't know what the chicks will turn out to be. Probably the same. Yea eggs!!!

Be careful with them--commercial chickens can bring in bad stuff because of the vaccinations they get. Quarantine them and add a couple of sacrifice chickens in with them to see if your flock can take the germs they carry.

I hope they work out!

 

[vehve]

Ron, thanks for the pics by the way. That's sort of what ours look like, but I might get a better idea of what's happening in a week or so. My camera phone didn't pick out any worth wile details from my candling.

 

[ronott1]

Ron, thanks for the pics by the way. That's sort of what ours look like, but I might get a better idea of what's happening in a week or so. My camera phone didn't pick out any worth wile details from my candling.

There is a small window to see the dot\embryo. After 12 days or so you will only see darkness.

 

[Bunnylady]

Quote: I just looked it up - the Cobb 500 is a trademarked broiler breed. They look a lot like the CX's because that's the kind of bird they are.

 

[vehve]

Ron, yeah, I'm going to try after day 10 again, maybe I'll see something. I had trouble with our previous batch of Marans eggs, but these are even darker than they were. I just hope they don't explode in the nest. Anyway, if the dark seems to grow, at least something is happening, right? I haven't had a rotten egg yet, so I don't know how that would look.