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[WhySayWhat]

Mother nature hates me...I have vinyl tiles down on the coop floor and the palet crates frames sitting on top of them. Now, snow and sub-zero weather for the forseeable future! I wonder if I can fit warm gloves under my work gloves....ugg!

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

Okay: A question being thrown out there to all you pros. I have been hit with Cocci, yet again. I had done a fecal a few months back, they tested positive. I treated. Retested. All good. Now I have a bird who is down and she again tested positive for Cocci. I brought her in the house and was treating with Corid and treating loose birds. Talking with Vet and talking with feed store.....probably need to be proactive on treatments and treat once a month since I seem to keep getting it. My hen house is clean, the only poop is under their roost and when they wake up they go outside....and all of that is frozen. I will be putting sand in the run as was recommended to me. I cleaned out the hen house and sprayed it down with bleach (left door and windows open to let air out during a nice day). Larry at the feed store asked if I had pigeons...nope, but lots of tweety birds. He tells me they could be doing it, suggested I treat regularly until the weather changes and tweety birds can find food elsewhere. My birds' food is outside to make it easier for them to access and to try to keep off the mice, so this of course attracts the tweety birds. Would mice be a carrier? I have noted mouse sounds again. I will be putting up sticky traps today.

Well, the bird that was in the house I was eye dropping her some water/corid for treatment. Giving her some sauce (berry sauce that I picked up in individual packets for the kids)....trying to give her something as she did not seem to be eating. Well, she seemed to have a seizure. Can chickens have seizures? Did I over medicate? I took her back out to the coop, maybe it is depression. She is in one of the "not used" nesting boxes with some feed. I am hoping by seeing her sisters she will get better and perk up.

Help?

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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After she had originally posted this months ago....or I saw it elsewhere....I did this. I only have a hole on one side though, because I kind of lean the bucket forward to make sure my poor little cochin can reach the feed as she has all BR sisters. She has helped to keep the feed where it belongs .... the only spillage is usually from me when I fill. Wish I had seen this before I had spent the money on the store bought feeder. I had also seen a good waterer on here somehwere....will have to back and look for it.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

CL: I had Pmd you about chickens that you said you would have....I now don't remember what they were...but I also don't know what those kind look like...you have to understand how new I am...I need to go to a chicken show. I would love to get a couple from you....

But, as you have read in an earlier post from me I am having a little trouble and I don't want to bring in healthy birds and have them get infected. I need to get on top of this and make sure I am treating and and I am prophylactically taking care of it so it does not happen again.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Oh, I think it is time for you to go to bed....what can I say...um wow.....You must have needed your beauty sleep (brain sleep). Again, wow....

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

ByNatureFarms: It snowed 5 inches in Colville last night. Just sayin' ..... thought I would let you know.

 

[Chickielady]

We thought up a super waterer also..at the last bird show there was a guy selling travel cages, like dog crates, and had food and water dishes that clamp onto the side of the cage ??!!
How nice, I thought, they clamp at head level so the birds cannot kick poop into it and they are square and fit flat against the wall but a bird can get it's head in there but cannot roast on/or poop in, it.
They are 5 inches WIDE and 8 inches LONG and 8 Inches DEEP... like a show box cut in half.
DH put 2 screws in the inside of the coop wall, so the box sits on these 2 screws WAY OFF THE FLOOR>
What a fantatsic idea !!
I check the box is full evey day when I open/close coop doors.
They have never frozen as they are inside, there is no rats or mice can drink or poop in them either, and did I mention they will not freeze ???
I simply carry a milk jug of water with me in the morning when I go out to open coops, and top their water off.
If the water gets dirty or needs washing, I swish it, and hang it back on the wall.
I paid alot for these cage type waterers, but there is plenty of narrow square rubbermaid type plastic containers that would work..even a folger's plastic coffee can would work..wanna see pics I have to out and snap them, I have none on the puter.
I also do not like BIG water fonts as the chlorine evaporates and you can gets rats & nice drinking and poop, chicken & vermin poop, next thing you know the water is teeming with colibacilliosis..exactly what killed alot of my birds last fall.
Small water fonts, change often, and add the Tablespoon of the bleach solution before you give it to your birds is highly recommended by WSU and the SPPA (see the last bulletin: Care tips, by Dr Charles Everett)

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Terrie: Where did you move from? Yep, that is pretty normal for here.....few mild winters....then a crazy applesauce winter or extremely wet spring that send all the new comers packing. Spokane area got the crazy record snow 2 years ago....Our last crazy bad winter (that sticks in my mind) was '96....crazy applesauce winter.

 

[Chickielady]

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Still no PMs...are sure you PM'd me ?

http://www.westvet.com/collibacilliosis.htm
Anyone want the newest issue of the SPPA bulletin, I have it on Adobe and have to send it to your e-mail..so send your e-mail address...
Teresa, making this solution, keep in a water jug, add 1 Tablsespoon to healthy bird water, add 2 Tablspoons to sick bird's water.
OK, got to band various flavors of baby chicks..be back later !

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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My girls are on Corid Tx. The water is dumped and changed every morning. Makes it easy to treat them, because as of lately, the water freezes every night. I dump the ice...they get fresh water with meds. I had been doing the bleach solution and then quit as I thought all was fine. When done with the Corid, maybe I should go back to using the bleach solution all the time.