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[Broodica]

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Friends of ours raise alpacas for their wool and breed them as well. My son works for them during the summer to help out with stall cleaning, feed/water, etc. If you have any specific questions, I would be glad to ask them for you.

 

[cheryl98117]

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Your a terible teas Rustler. I

fresh honey. lol Congrats on your harvest!

 

[Broodica]

That sounds fantastic, Rustler. I've always wanted to have bees, but the people we bought our house from said they had tried, but the bears were very impolite and would take the honey, along with the hives and the bees, without asking.

 

[djackjr]

Need to update my profile, my wife and I have a new addition to the family. His name is whiskers and he is a 2 month old kitten we rescued. He is fixed and will be an indoor cat only. I do not need outdoor cats since my neighbor cats run wild and take care of my mice problem outside

 

[Rainwolf]

Someone has some Silkies for sale in my area if any one is interested.
http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/grd/1962499330.html

do they really get lonely if not with another? can a bantam silkie run with standard chickens? I've been thinking of getting one to be a brooder but dunno anything about silkies.

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Oh and I have some baby Black star chicks if anyone in my area is interested mom wants to sell the babes for $5 each... that's fair right?

 

[Chickielady]

Well, update the sick flock here...the necropsy finalized a few days ago...and at first he said it was MG so I went ape spending $$ on tylan, and in the water AND they were so sick I injected daily...and then ran out of tylan and could find no more and birds were getting worse...
Then the cultures came back and it was e.coli infection in the sinus, not MG !
Meanwhile birds were about to die, gasping and turning gray...so I shot a few up with Pen Aqueous,,
and decided since I had no more antibiotics, to try the chlorinated water...I had ran across this on the web studying colibacillosis~~~~purely by happenstance~~~
It worked !
For 2 days now they have had the formula of water as per WSU...and every bird is excellent.
I cannot hardly believe it, but I know colibacillosis is immune to almost every antibiotic save 3 or 4 we have never seen before not can I find, except gentamicin, and it is so hard to find.
Imagine, 4 dead birds later and $$$ in antibiotics and all the shots and hours spent mixing their water with antibiotics every morning...and a $1.97 bottle of simple hopuse hould bleach did it all.
I think it works so good cuz the birds stick the beak in it to drink, thereby flusing the bacteria with chlorine, and the bacteria cannot develope an immunity to a chemical.
See resistance:
http://www.pjbs.org/ijps/fin666.pdf
and here is the drinking water study:
http://www.westvet.com/collibacilliosis.htm
done by WSU veterinarians, a very interesting study !
We here are on a rain water system, and also haul water that is chlorinated, but evidently not enough.
Anyone having unchlorinated water (such as a well system) can have these same problems.
How it all started I have no idea.
We humans here, and the baby chicks here at the house, have chlorinated and filtered water...but the critters outside and the flock of BBS and Cuckoos and Brahmas have rain water, and apparently any bird flying over, infected with something, can poop on the roof, and it goes right into the water barrel.
I am so glad it was not MG !
I was flipping that their eggs would carry the disease, production would be lessened, kidneys and livers could be scared.. etc.
A leap of faith !
I was terrified that taken off the antibiotics and surely they would die within hours...
Faith and Chlorine.
Not one sneeze, not one cough...they have been 'playing' and rotovating and even flying all over the yard today, bright, upright, alert !
YIPPEE!!!!!!

 

[cheryl98117]

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Oh I am SO glad to hear this!

 

[Chickielady]

OOOOOOh ! Me too, we were getting so tired !
And broke.
Tomorrow and the next day I will probably get 2 or 3 packages in the mail of antibiotics I ordered 2 days ago. and now, no longer need, and no doubt, hopefully will never need !
Faith.
It was hard to NOT give them antibiotics when they were sick...gotta have faith.
I had to believe the article, dump out the medicated water and give them the chlorinated water.
And they love the stuff !
I watched while the birds drank and drank !
Now I can get some ZZZZs~
Keep the recipe guys!!!

 

[hallerlake]

YIPPEE!!

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[Broodica]

So happy for you Chickielady!!!

I have already printed out your formula and added it to my chicken file. We are on a well, no chlorine...so for future reference. It's just too bad we have to learn these lessons from bad experiences. Thanks for passing on what you have learned. Sleep well.