Washingtonians Come Together! Washington Peeps

[Nikki99]

Chicken Rustler & nini sorry for your losses.    

I would start cocci treatment right away and run it full course.  

Ditto.  Amprolium worked for me on my chicks... Sorry I didn't catch the ages

Most of them are last springs chicks, so they are almost a year old now. 3 of them hatched this last September.

Bloody poo with no other symptoms. Cocci or worms? How would you treat this?


It actually looks like the last pic under the NORMAL section. Is shedding intestinal lining really normal? Like I said, they have no other symptoms. Everyone is eating, drinking, active etc...http://chat.allotment.org.uk/index.php?topic=17568.0

When Muffet was only a few days old, she had a few poos that made it look like she was just letting go of all of her intestines.  I was freaking out and thinking that I was going to lose her because something had to be hideously wrong.  She acted completely normal and had normal poos after that.

I'm glad to hear little Muffet was ok!! I think sometimes they like to fake us out, make us sweat a little. Lol.

If treatment is what I decide to do, are the meds something you put in their drinking water? Everyone has the same water source (ducks, chickens and goats) will this be a problem?

 

[Nikki99]

Am I really the only one with a very smelly chicken problem?? You guys are always full of ideas for every issue and question... please help a fellow BYCer out!!

My DH recently upgraded our coop and put a poop board with Sweet PDZ on it so I can scoop it like cat litter. That stuff is AWESOME! I heard some people putting it in their runs. It makes the smell disappear! I mix it in with the shavings too. My coop doesn't stink at all!

Thanks chickenmomma. We picked some of that up to use in the coop and some lime to use outside. The smell is gone outside, now we just need to work on the inside!!

 

[WhiskiRanch]

Quote: I used to bring treats, ANY treats that I found they liked and I would scatter it on the ground and then hang out quietly. I found they got used to me and accepted me fairly easily. I always try to just hang out and not always be doing something around them. Some of mine were pretty fighty but did calm down. What breeds do you have?
I have Black Sex Link hens and we think Whiski, our rooster is a Splash Laced Red Wyandotte. All my cockerals and pullets are a cross on my Rooster and hens.

 

[KMHunter]

Quote: I love the stuff!

 

[KMHunter]

Was somebody looking for Barred Rocks? I met a lady from Issaquah that breeds them. She also has RIR's. She has eggs in the incubator right now and some that are 6 weeks old and a some older than that.
I have her name and number if anyone is interested.
PM me.

 

[Hinotori]

Had one of my 8 month brahma pullets acting sluggish yesterday afternoon. I managed to get her to eat some and drink before bed. This morning she wasn't interested in anything and not wanting to move. I brought her in and I couldn't feel anything odd but gave her a warm bath to sit in that she relaxed in. She spent all day on some towels in the bathtub. By this evening she couldn't stand and was having a hard time keeping her head up. When I went to check on her last, and moved her to a move comfortable position and petted her, her comb turned purple and she spasmed and passed. On inspection she was laying internally. It was a mess.

So DH helped me dig a hole out in the garden in the dark. Dang it! She was a very friendly, nosy bird.

 

[Sudsy Chick]

Had one of my 8 month brahma pullets acting sluggish yesterday afternoon. I managed to get her to eat some and drink before bed. This morning she wasn't interested in anything and not wanting to move. I brought her in and I couldn't feel anything odd but gave her a warm bath to sit in that she relaxed in. She spent all day on some towels in the bathtub. By this evening she couldn't stand and was having a hard time keeping her head up. When I went to check on her last, and moved her to a move comfortable position and petted her, her comb turned purple and she spasmed and passed. On inspection she was laying internally. It was a mess.

So DH helped me dig a hole out in the garden in the dark. Dang it! She was a very friendly, nosy bird.

I'm so sorry for your loss

 

[Sudsy Chick]

Quote:
How does this Sweet PDZ stuff work? When I looked it up, it says it eliminates the ammonia smell of horse urine, does it also cover chicken poo smell?

TIA!

 

[KMHunter]

Quote:
How does this Sweet PDZ stuff work? When I looked it up, it says it eliminates the ammonia smell of horse urine, does it also cover chicken poo smell?

TIA!

Yes!!! It does the same thing for chicken poop as it does for horse pee! Lol! Since the urates from chicken are in the poop, it absorbes the amonia smell from them really well.

 

[KMHunter]

Quote: X2!