The road less traveled...back to good health! They have lice, mites, scale mites, worms, anemia, gl

[Miss Lydia]

Tell ya the truth, I don't use that precise solution...as usual, I do it like my mama always made bread. A pinch of this, a cup of that.....

I just ran some hot tap water into an old, but clean, ice cream bucket, squirted some bleach in there, added some sea salt, little dish detergent and set off for the chicken coop.

If I were dressing a wound on a human, it would be a different matter altogether and we usually had our Dakins already prepared for us in a bottle. Since I was merely rinsing a "dirty" area(in the nursing world, the anal opening is considered a site that will never be considered sterile, so one does not have to use sterile technique when giving enemas, suppositories, etc.) that would be getting dirty right quick and in a hurry right after all this was over, I used this solution as a good, disinfecting wash to just kill all the fungus and germs on the surface long enough for me to get a fresh treatment on there.

The reason I asked is I was given a bantam cochin hen that has vent gleet, and I have tried everything I can come up with to treat her, this has been going on since June she is not sick in the least, but just has this goopy butt. I am now using a small needleless syringe and actually putting Vetercyn inside of her vent, desperate here. Do you know of another way to treat this?

 

[Beekissed]

What I'm doing with this hen seems to really be working....within one week of treatment, she is showing remarkable signs of improvement. I'll do another pic next week to show how much it has improved by then.

The NuStock is a powerful antifungal. I think that, combined with her current diet and surroundings has been key in her recovery. I had several hens with gleet when they arrived and she was the only one that didn't receive NS on that first day on the area around the vent. The rest did and now show no signs of gleet at all.

I'd clean her up good and apply some NuStock and see how it all turns out. Wouldn't hurt to work on her immune system as well by using the mother vinegar in the water or starting her on some fermented foods. Good cultures in the bowel flora will soon overpower the bad yeast overgrowth there, so using probios to combat these types of infections is a good start.

 

[Miss Lydia]

What I'm doing with this hen seems to really be working....within one week of treatment, she is showing remarkable signs of improvement. I'll do another pic next week to show how much it has improved by then.

The NuStock is a powerful antifungal. I think that, combined with her current diet and surroundings has been key in her recovery. I had several hens with gleet when they arrived and she was the only one that didn't receive NS on that first day on the area around the vent. The rest did and now show no signs of gleet at all.

I'd clean her up good and apply some NuStock and see how it all turns out. Wouldn't hurt to work on her immune system as well by using the mother vinegar in the water or starting her on some fermented foods. Good cultures in the bowel flora will soon overpower the bad yeast overgrowth there, so using probios to combat these types of infections is a good start.

She is eating the ff along with the rest of my chickens, and I am putting ACV in their water, I was looking at Nustock on Jeffers web site so i'll order some and give it a try. Thanks so much for the info. I really want to get her healed before really cold weather sets in.

 

[Pozees]

Chiming in late on this one.

I think the caption should read: 'Alright. Fess up. Where did you hide my teeth this time?'

PS I like the new feather growth on her nose.

LOL I was thinking, "You kids get off my lawn!"

 

[Beekissed]

Nah...a face like that doesn't exactly HAVE a lawn, so to speak. They may have a weed infested place where they keep the old appliances and junk cars, but not exactly a lawn....

 

[Carebearsmiles]

Subscribing to this thread. Lots of good knowledge here and I'm only about a quarter of the way through. I'll be back.
Thanks!

 

[Pullet Surprise]

That's the only line out of that whole movie that was worth the watching of it!!!! Exactly! You win the caption contest!

But the correct pronunciation is this~ "Sure do gotta purdy mouf"...mouf...it's THAT important to get it right.

Yeah, it's been so long, I sorta forgot the correct pronunciation!

 

[Beekissed]

Every star in the sky out tonight...very beautiful and peaceful on the walk to the coop to check on chickens. They have grown used to me coming up in the middle of the night...I think this is the most I've ever handled a flock in my life!

As I walked I was thanking God for giving me this opportunity to reunite with these members of my flock and to nurture them back to their former state of health. It's like having a second chance and making something right.

Today was an absolutely stunning day from beginning to end...there are no words adequate to describe it. All I can say is it finally felt like home here with the chickens in the fall garden, dog at my feet and leaves raining all around. Blue Grass music spilling from the window like sunshine while I repaired our old wood cart in preparation for the winter. As Fred so eloquently put it, life is good!

 

[binders]

Forgot to add another thing we did tonight...the black star hen is no more. I won't go into details here but during the cull, several things were noted that only reinforced the choice to eliminate this bird. Good cull.

Have you posted the details on another thread? I'm interested to know what you found out during the cull.

 

[7L Farm]

Is that a machine gun in the top picture? What's that middle part with the holes in it for? (Can you tell I don't know guns?)
And are those things rocket launchers in the middle of the room?

All I can say is, wow.

Thats a sig sauer 5.56 nato the holes help keep the barrel cool when firing the end piece on the barrel is a suppresor. Its semi auto so I can kill multiple pigs at a time.