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[Woods_Woman]

I love polish took a picture of a pair I have today

I also have a tolbunt, but it's not for a breeding program, pet only. This is a pic when it was younger, the baby is now about 4wks.

 

[Chickielady]

OK so today was "foot day" in which once a month I 'do' all the birds' feet wether they need it or not.
DH holds the birds, and I massage the ointment in.
I use a large tub of vaseline, + a large jar of Vick's vapo-rub,+ a plastic bubble pack of permethrin (top spot for dogs) and about 4-5 giant Tablespoons of 'Mela-Fix' (available at Walmart fish dept. or Foster's and Smith.com is tea tree oil, and cheap.
This mixed, I massage back under their scales, and observe any problems.
And today, I discovered the beginnings of a bumblefoot on a Cuckoo hen !

She was not limping, so good I caught it in time.
Hopefully it will heal easily.
So I go about gathering the necessities, and want to know, what do you use to irrigate the foot out with ?
I have alot of betadine..will that work ?

 

[Chickielady]

Ok, did alot of reading, and I am off to get some PenG /Baytril and or Cephalecin broad-spectrum antibiotic that will kill any staph infections.
I have some betadine and epsom salts and my beloved 'mela-fix' so will soak/clean the foot in the epsom/mela-fix bath, clean and open the little black scab and debride and irrigate inside with betadyne solution, and give antibiotics in water, pack wound with oitment and wrap in vetwrap, keep on clean litter isolated with food and water closeby...anything else any of you can recommend ?
Darn it, we are so careful about this nasty problem, and here we have gotten it !

 

[jbear]

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oh oh oh ~~ we just dealt with this, an early bumble, on my lil cochin hen... we actually did not need to lance it in the typical way, but did high dose oral antibiotics (Baytril tablets), foot soaks in dilute nolvasan solution and poultice wraps with nolvasan ointment.... we did lance the foot with a large gauge needle to create some drainage. Sooo.. in saying all that, it was probably the antibiotics that did most of the work, but she did heal up great.

I also kept her off the dirt--first in the sicken kennel inside, then in the tractor on the grass. She was really good about leaving her wrap on overnight...

I think if you search the boards for 'bumble foot' you will also find a lot of flushing ideas....

 

[jbear]

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I just got my bees saturday and checked today to see if they had accepted the Queen. Well they must have because she was gone from the cage and the hive is working.

They are already making honey. I kind of cheated I was given frames that had drawn comb on them so my girls had a bit of a head start.

So awesome!

We will check our new hive this weekend to see how they are doing in the new house..

hey--any head start they can get is great!

 

[Zgoatlady]

Purina Mills Undertakes Limited Recall of Strategy

Horse Feed and Layena

Poultry Feed
Mon, 19 Apr 2010 10:41:00 -0500

Purina Mills, LLC, is voluntarily recalling two specific lots of 50-pound bags of Strategy

Professional Formula GX horse feed and one lot of Layena

SunFresh

Recipe Pellet poultry feed. The recall is being implemented due to the discovery of metal fragments in a limited number of bags from one of the Strategy

product lots.


I dont use this but thought someone here might.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

I fear I may have lost some eggs in the mail!

I won some eggs on auction here, and I was told they were shipped last Thursday, and there was still no sign of them when I collected our mail today.

Please pray they show up quick and are still fertile!!!!!

 

[Illia]

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It's the only feed we have available to purchase, so yeah, I use that stuff. . . Gah.

 

[Zgoatlady]

Illia
Id check in to it more thats for sure and call the feed store and see whats going on. Im sorry to hear that.




WA4-Hpoultrymom
I had a friend who had some eggs lost they found them in the the bio hazard stuff ( the post office found it in there) But 3 weeks later she got them and tried, out of 12 she got 3 chicks. You need to call the post office and see what happend, they might be able to find them, or maybe look around your mail box to see it they just set them out someplace.
Good luck let us all know what happens.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

WA4-Hpoultrymom
I had a friend who had some eggs lost they found them in the the bio hazard stuff ( the post office found it in there) But 3 weeks later she got them and tried, out of 12 she got 3 chicks. You need to call the post office and see what happend, they might be able to find them, or maybe look around your mail box to see it they just set them out someplace. Good luck let us all know what happens.

That's amazing! I emailed the seller to confirm he shipped them when he said he did. If he did, I will be going to the PO if they don't show up in the morning. They know me well as I sold on Ebay for a long time. I just hope they are not lost! I will also try and catch our mail guy in the morning and ask him myself if he's seen them. He's probably wondering what the heck I'm doing now. Instead of ebaying, I have several boxes of hatching eggs coming in every month! LOL!