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- Jul 30, 2009
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Update on our ill hens...
We culled one yesterday. She was egg bound something awful.
Sour crop and tape worms on top of everything.
Culled the other two this morning, and one was a barren hen with fluid in the lungs, no worms.
The other was not laying, had lost all her weight, but no other issues.
Seems like all four hens had unrelated issues, and the worms do not seem to be a serious problem.
Regardless, we dosed all of them with 1 ml each of fermented garlic extract, and will feed the paste to them all week long.
I did a little more snooping for mites today, and it seems like those are a very light issue as well.
None of the 4 month olds have mites for that matter.
Still a little too much head shaking for me, but, the garlic may clear that up.
We culled one yesterday. She was egg bound something awful.
Sour crop and tape worms on top of everything.
Culled the other two this morning, and one was a barren hen with fluid in the lungs, no worms.
The other was not laying, had lost all her weight, but no other issues.
Seems like all four hens had unrelated issues, and the worms do not seem to be a serious problem.
Regardless, we dosed all of them with 1 ml each of fermented garlic extract, and will feed the paste to them all week long.
I did a little more snooping for mites today, and it seems like those are a very light issue as well.
None of the 4 month olds have mites for that matter.
Still a little too much head shaking for me, but, the garlic may clear that up.
