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[Alaskan]

Arg!

Kid 3 (asthmatic and allergy kid) is now working at a shop 2 days a week ... I make him take a full on fancy respirator type mask.

Still not sure how often I should change those filters on it.

 

[ronott1]

Arg!

Kid 3 (asthmatic and allergy kid) is now working at a shop 2 days a week ... I make him take a full on fancy respirator type mask.

Still not sure how often I should change those filters on it.

Here there are more heart attacks, strokes and pneumonia from the smoke. There are long term health issues too.

Is there an indicator on the mask for when to change the filters?

 

[microchick]

Well, what does 'bless your heart' mean in Southern culture. It's like this. You can say whatever you want aout somebody as long as you add 'bless (his, her, their, your) heart after it.

For example: "That boy is a worthless idiot that will never amount to a hill of beans, bless his heart"

God I love the southern way of life. LOL. It's like the old joke about the guys sitting around a diner in Tennessee one Monday morning. One of them is reading a newspaper and says "y'all hear where Billy Joe Baker got himself shot dead Saturday night" One of the other men just drinks coffee and casually replies, "yep, he needed killin'.

Okay, serious now guys, I need your chicken sense. I have an under a year old bantam cross hen ( hasn't molted yet) that tonight was lagging outside long after everyone else was in. I caught her in a little shelter I have for them outside with an ardant young cockerel trying to have his way with her. When I picked rescued her and picked her up, I noted she was very thin. But acting normal. Put her inside on the roost, turned around and she was down eating from one of their feeders. I have about 5 feeders out for these little bullies just to make sure everyone has a chance to eat so food is not a problem.

I stood and watched her and she was standing erect like a bird does when they have a crop problem or egg bound. But she kept constantly acting like she was adjusting her crop.

Caught her, no palpable egg, abdomen soft, no fluid, no swelling, just thin. I had a rooster with throat tumors this summer so I checked her neck from beak down to crop. Nada. Her crop had a small amount of food in it, no mushiness, nothing out of the ordinary. When I put her down, she would close her eyes and keep making that crop adjusting maneuver.

I fully expect to find her dead within 48 hours if not sooner but I'm puzzled as to what may be wrong with her. Given that she is so skinny (walking skeleton type of skinny) it's obviouly been going on for awhile and she has been masking whatever is going on but it doesn't seem like a Marek's problem.

Any wild guess?

Sorry about the typos. Fingers aren't working too good tonight.

 

[CapricornFarm]

Well, what does 'bless your heart' mean in Southern culture. It's like this. You can say whatever you want aout somebody as long as you add 'bless (his, her, their, your) heart after it.

For example: "That boy is a worthless idiot that will never amount to a hill of beans, bless his heart"

God I love the southern way of life. LOL. It's like the old joke about the guys sitting around a diner in Tennessee one Monday morning. One of them is reading a newspaper and says "y'all hear where Billy Joe Baker got himself shot dead Saturday night" One of the other men just drinks coffee and casually replies, "yep, he needed killin'.

Okay, serious now guys, I need your chicken sense. I have an under a year old bantam cross hen ( hasn't molted yet) that tonight was lagging outside long after everyone else was in. I caught her in a little shelter I have for them outside with an ardant young cockerel trying to have his way with her. When I picked rescued her and picked her up, I noted she was very thin. But acting normal. Put her inside on the roost, turned around and she was down eating from one of their feeders. I have about 5 feeders out for these little bullies just to make sure everyone has a chance to eat so food is not a problem.

I stood and watched her and she was standing erect like a bird does when they have a crop problem or egg bound. But she kept constantly acting like she was adjusting her crop.

Caught her, no palpable egg, abdomen soft, no fluid, no swelling, just thin. I had a rooster with throat tumors this summer so I checked her neck from beak down to crop. Nada. Her crop had a small amount of food in it, no mushiness, nothing out of the ordinary. When I put her down, she would close her eyes and keep making that crop adjusting maneuver.

I fully expect to find her dead within 48 hours if not sooner but I'm puzzled as to what may be wrong with her. Given that she is so skinny (walking skeleton type of skinny) it's obviouly been going on for awhile and she has been masking whatever is going on but it doesn't seem like a Marek's problem.

Any wild guess?

Sorry about the typos. Fingers aren't working too good tonight.

Parasites or crop fungus of some sort?

 

[ronott1]

Well, what does 'bless your heart' mean in Southern culture. It's like this. You can say whatever you want aout somebody as long as you add 'bless (his, her, their, your) heart after it.

For example: "That boy is a worthless idiot that will never amount to a hill of beans, bless his heart"

God I love the southern way of life. LOL. It's like the old joke about the guys sitting around a diner in Tennessee one Monday morning. One of them is reading a newspaper and says "y'all hear where Billy Joe Baker got himself shot dead Saturday night" One of the other men just drinks coffee and casually replies, "yep, he needed killin'.

Okay, serious now guys, I need your chicken sense. I have an under a year old bantam cross hen ( hasn't molted yet) that tonight was lagging outside long after everyone else was in. I caught her in a little shelter I have for them outside with an ardant young cockerel trying to have his way with her. When I picked rescued her and picked her up, I noted she was very thin. But acting normal. Put her inside on the roost, turned around and she was down eating from one of their feeders. I have about 5 feeders out for these little bullies just to make sure everyone has a chance to eat so food is not a problem.
I stood and watched her and she was standing erect like a bird does when they have a crop problem or egg bound. But she kept constantly acting like she was adjusting her crop.

Caught her, no palpable egg, abdomen soft, no fluid, no swelling, just thin. I had a rooster with throat tumors this summer so I checked her neck from beak down to crop. Nada. Her crop had a small amount of food in it, no mushiness, nothing out of the ordinary. When I put her down, she would close her eyes and keep making that crop adjusting maneuver.

I fully expect to find her dead within 48 hours if not sooner but I'm puzzled as to what may be wrong with her. Given that she is so skinny (walking skeleton type of skinny) it's obviouly been going on for awhile and she has been masking whatever is going on but it doesn't seem like a Marek's problem.

Any wild guess?

Sorry about the typos. Fingers aren't working too good tonight.

Do you have her in the hospital cage? I would give her vitamins and wet grower feed.

Hopefully she has an injury from the cockerel and she will recover quickly

 

[microchick]

I wormed late fall. Could reworm her with SafeGuard. Just did Corid follow up last month and Wazine in Sept.

No, she is with the flock. I'm going to go out shortly and check her and see if I can get some SafeGuard down her.

I've had trouble with fungus infections in some of my original flock (the original Marek's birds) and took some advice from an old Amish man who runs a feed store and added some hog pellets to their feed. The hog food has a higher concentration of copper in it that I've read is beneficial in chickens in preventing fungal infections. I also have liquid copper on hand but she is so thin I don't want to push her over the edge. She's close enough there on her own.

If she is still moping around I can put her in with another hen I have in a pen by herself. But I think I will get the SafeGuard down her tonight and see if that helps.

 

[sourland]

@microchick, I'm wondering if perhaps the horny young cockerels are harassing her to the point that she is not getting to eat. The posture that you cited sounds as if she had eaten too much too fast, and was trying to get it into her crop. My gut says something other than health issues is keeping her from eating and resulting in her being so thin..

 

[pennyJo1960]

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adorable face first snow or is she over a year ?

The fire department and the University are giving us particle masks...Not much of a prize though

have they reopened the college yet?

 

[Alaskan]

Here there are more heart attacks, strokes and pneumonia from the smoke. There are long term health issues too.

Is there an indicator on the mask for when to change the filters?

Nope... no indicators.



Maybe I might just do it once a month... or after any impressive stinky something.

Guess I need to read up on it better.

Poor kid, excellent worker, dependable as the rock of Gibraltar.. no joke... but he is in the "I am immortal " age group, so just doesn't take care of his health as he should

 

[ronott1]

adorable face first snow or is she over a year ?



have they reopened the college yet?

Closed again today. The plan is to open on Monday. I have to wait until Sunday at 5 for the official word.