What did you do with your flock today?

[FBMcrazy8]

Glad you have some developing well

Me too! Just hope I can get them to hatch…

 

[Gammas Bearded Babies]

What kind of antibiotic? Anyone have a suggestion?

Ailment = ___________ Medicine​

THIS is a great article in the making for someone knowledgeable to help all us out!!!
Or is there one out there?!
One place that explains the ailment with its symptoms and best medicine(s) to use for the situation at hand.
Cuz I'm in the dark with most of these adult type issues!

Sure hope Pepper continues to improve!

 

[TropicalBabies]

Hung my flowers. Hubby bought me a plaque for the garden for our anniversary. 31 years now...wow where did the time go? So hung it on the side of one of my little breeding coops in the garden. I should have planned the placement first but happy enough with it. View attachment 3413785
O...that's Saint Fiacre, patron saint of gardening. He's also the patron saint of hemorrhoids btw ...who knew there was one for that?

Both ❤& for you post. Love the flowers and the plaque. Very cool of hubby to buy you a beautiful godly piece of garden art. Sad how the years fly. Life is so amazing.

Patron saint of hemorrhoids... lol. How does that happen?! Wait don't wanna know but there you go @PopoMyers . Hope and additional help for your baby

 

[TropicalBabies]

Oh @PopoMyers . Hoping today is a good day.

 

[TropicalBabies]

@Shetland lover thank you for taking your time to share your wonderful education/experience and for helping us out so much. It is really terrific for us to have our own personal on site vet in training. I learn and get reminded with your every post ♡ your terrific!

 

[TropicalBabies]

@FBMcrazy8 when I hatch my first candle is @ 10 days and my second is b4 lockdown. Anything inbetween is egg harassment and potential disaster. Plus it makes the hatch that much slower. I set my phone, check the water, breathe and be patient ♡♡♡.
Happy almost hatch day!

 

[Farmgirl1878]

Beautiful babies. I sure would not want anything to get a single one of those beauties. Terrific flock. Yep, more net sounds like a great idea! ♡

Yeah, I’m thinking I should just spend the money and add a 10’ by 10’ area onto the back. Really, I could connect it to the main run with a chunnel so I could still wrap the main run in plastic for the winter and leave that area open.

 

[TropicalBabies]

Yeah, I’m thinking I should just spend the money and add a 10’ by 10’ area onto the back. Really, I could connect it to the main run with a chunnel so I could still wrap the main run in plastic for the winter and leave that area open.

Good thinking. It is brutal to lose a pretty young pullet and in all practicality, time and $ expensive. I think that is a wise decision to spend on loss prevention. I like the tunnel idea and that you can still wrap for winter.

 

[Shetland lover]

She has passed poo today, in the bath, and this afternoon. Her abdomen doesn't feel hard. Since laying her egg Tuesday morning, I've kept her in a darkened room, so no more eggs. I've seen and read conflicting information. Hemorrhoid cream seems to be recently not recommended, but hydrocortisone. Bandage it to keep it in, or not. Didn't feel any hard poo in her vent. Read to put honey and sugar on exposed tissue to keep it moist and for healing. Sugar kills germs. Gave her a Tums (calcium citrate antacid) which she ate. She's been clucking a little today. Checking on vets. Local one not available until Sunday, then it's emergency clinic.

The fact she's no longer laying but clucking, eating and passing normal poops are all great signs. Just need her to keep from prolapsing again, now!
Hemorrhoid cream is still the weapon of choice over here for treatment. Mind you, our vets are still recommended to do a purse-string suture if stitches are required. I think the US and Australia recommend an interrupted line suture instead.
The use of sugar does make sense as 50% dextrose solutions are used to lavage a prolapse during surgery. Sugar isessentially the same thing, just applied earlier and not fully internally.
The calcium citrate is a great call as it will help strengthen uterine contractions which will help to keep everything in place.

I've been looking at the mystery 'blob' again -and I stress this is just an idea that's been floating around in my head, definitely NOT a diagnosis - but i think I've seen something superficially similar where the right oviduct (which normally regresses and becomes defunct before egg-laying commences) becomes what is known as 'persistent' and actually grows. They often look like fleshy, fluid filled sacs.

 

[FBMcrazy8]

@FBMcrazy8 when I hatch my first candle is @ 10 days and my second is b4 lockdown. Anything inbetween is egg harassment and potential disaster. Plus it makes the hatch that much slower. I set my phone, check the water, breathe and be patient ♡♡♡.
Happy almost hatch day!

I worry about the egg exploding. I am checking early though right now with these duck eggs because she gave me some that were about 10 days old and I wanted to make sure they even took before letting them set forever in there. After seeing the little ones fall out of the eggs my son dropped, I’m not in a hurry to see an egg that exploded. Maybe it won’t in that short of a time frame but finding this kind of information out there, I haven’t had much luck. I know there is a lot but it is all conflicting and/or very limited information. And with everyone’s incubator being different, as far as humidity and temps go, I am trying to learn by asking you all. Thank you! I do hope that hatch day is soon.