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[Chickielady]

Poor Redroosterfarms!!!!!!!!!!!
I feel so small and snively with my ill flocks...and to think at least some of mine are doing OK, and all of thiers were killed !!!!!!!!!!
Geeeeeeeeeeeeeze!!! My heart breaks again and again !
I offered the use of our wildview camera, if they PM I will meet up and show them how to use it.
We have 2 bobcats that come through every 2-3 weeks on their routine territorial "walk". and they have feet about 3-4" wide and NO CLAWS show as they are retractible.
On the other hand, I have never seen a BIG dog WANT to kill chickens bad enough to jump...big dogs just do not jump.
They tear a fence down...or go through it, but no jump.
One thing you may need to look into is #1 this happened at night ???
Like Chicken rustler said, watch out for the cougar.
Others have written in that raccons rip heads off and destroy flocks for fun !
Raccons have thumbs and can open doors !
Raccoons can make coffee in your MrCoffee machine !
To update my issue:
I called my """new""" vet and told her staff I was tired of waiting with all due respect (((that she is very busy before opening this morning at 4 AM she was called in with a dog hit by a car or some such))) that I had 4 birds drop dead and for some reason that makes me so mad, people just think OH WELL< THEY ARE JUST CHICKENS>>>> and not as important as dog or cats................and on top of that we have the lovely issue of being a """STATE VET""" and ignoring the very real possibility of an outbreak of serious avian diease...but she did.

If she was decent, she would have told me to take my frozen bird to Puyallup.
I printed out the forms from the WSU link, and hauled buttocks to Puyallup and now we waite.
I also have noticed my Guineas have no symptoms, and Elliot my Blue Splash roo has had this so bad, recovered, got it back, something like 4 times, gurgling airsac...poor baby, he was about stumbling and about to die so last night I filled a syringe with Pen Aquas, and gave him a shot...hard to figure the body weight thing out...and I thought he was going to die anyway but this Sulpha and Tetracycline is not working!!!!!!

Anyway, this morning Elliot is way better!
A small bit of wheezing, but he is eating and drinking and almost acting the rooster he is...
So Penicillen (what would be do without it ???) or synthetics (amoxicillen and the like) work at knocking this down !!!!!!!YIPPEE!
So I gave him another shot tonight of IM Pen.

G'night all, thansk so much for all your love and thoughts!!!
I wanna help Redrooster~~~

 

[TheReidHomestead]

Well, I do not know what is going on with my hen...but she is very sick. She has now had 24 hours of antibiotics. I am having to force feed a high caloric diet and electrolytes to her. She is barely moving and her eyes are closed. I swear she has a fever. She is NOT around my other birds and, in fact, they look fine. I am the only one touching the sick bird (washing hands VERY-VERY WELL) but hubby is doing rest of birds to minimize possible cross-contamination. Sometimes I just wonder if I am delaying the inevitable? We have no clue what is wrong with her, virus or did she get into something? do not know. I feel bad for her.

So sorry to hear this. I was hoping it was a simple bee sting! Hope she makes a turn for the better tonight.

 

[hallerlake]

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My heart breaks for her.

 

[Chickielady]

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Birds are better, ruffled, and the older birds are complaining, you can hear them whining as you know what I mean, old hens complain...but we are better and mainly the birds worse off I have given shots IM of Pen...I have no idea how long the necropsy will take, but we waite.
I also have the inkling that Penicillin WORKS and so have to go that route.
The issue now is what is it and how much damage is it doing to my laying and breeding flocks, and will they carry IT and pass it on ?
Cuz if so, they will all have to be destroyed.
Alot of these viruses eat up the kidneys and other organs, including reproductive organs...so these birds (may)will all have to be
destroyed.
I am glad Monica will be fairing...Do the Puyallup !
I just drove by there and it looks way cool...on another note, the Guineas (6 mo old ) are showing no symptoms and the "Poetry House" coop, way across the yard where we are still under construction, I do not go, DH has the big brooder in there with the RIWs and the floor brooder with Royce's keets which are 3X what they were...beautiful babies !
Anyway, that coop is where we had the lavs, and keep serious biosecurity measures as such.
We waite now.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

Others have written in that raccons rip heads off and destroy flocks for fun !
Raccons have thumbs and can open doors !
Raccoons can make coffee in your MrCoffee machine !

We once had a raccoon take one of our bantam Japanese hens, through the chicken wire, piece by piece.......

The next morning the hen was gone, one tiny hexagon in the fencing was stretched out a little bit, with very few bits and pieces of her scattered around outside her run.

 

[Chickielady]

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You know, I have kept my mouth shut...cuz I do not wanna scare you, but this is exactly how my issue started, with 1 hen who had "a sinus infection" most of you avid posters will remember...she got quiet, held against my cheek she was HOT!
eyes closed, moaning and then a sneeze or gurgling, some do, some do not.
What type of antibiotics are you using ?
Switch to a Penicillen base or synthetic like Amoxicillen, see if that helps, most have to be administered Intra-muscularly by syringe...Penicillen and it's synthetics suffer easily and cannot go the drinking water route that I have seen...Good luck sweetheart !
I wish you the best with your baby!

P.S. I ordered Tylosin from Jeffers.com 2 days ago...it is a great gram positive antibiotic...how can I help you ?

 

[Chickielady]

I also want to highly recommend "Tillamook MUDSLIDE" Ice Cream
When you get to the point that nothing works...this chocolate ice cream ribboned with GOBs of thick chocolate will make you feel alittle better...hey, I am trying to smile !

 

[monicas]

ok. all but one of the 11 chicks made it to the fair. One of the blrw roos whacked his comb hard during his attempt to leave during the ride. He was alone in a cat carrier and ripped his comb on the wire and was bleeding so we held him out.

the others are in and were fine when we left. However. when we got home, we found one of jas's appenzellers sitting on the floor of her run, wheezing.
She wasn't in with anyone who went to the fair but I'm hoping I'm not about to infect the western world with something. I had that hen die a couple weeks ago and still havent' totally resolved what happened.

Chickielady, where are you getting your antibiotics. i don't want to take a chance on losing this hen, she's a darling and if this is something that's doing the rounds, I want to get ahead of it if I can.

You said oral antibiotics didn't work for what you have?

 

[Chickielady]

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I have gotten most from my feed stores, either Montesano Home & Garden or Del's also in Montesano...but they often fail to carry what we need with Chickens so I have gotten my vaccines and the like from Jeffers.com.
Good luck...seems something is amuck.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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I was thinking tequila for this....but Mudslide ice cream will work too.