WHAT YA GOT SWAP Chat Thread

[farmerChef]

I have a facebook, but I'm not on it much, I'm almost always on here instead, I'm only 21, my friends are always sending me game requests and posting random stuff about their day shopping or whatever, boring. I use it mostly for posting cake and chicken pictures.

 

[daze333]

Okay, I followed the recent instructions on how to make a swap page, but when I try to enter pics, it says that you can only have 100,000 digits in the post. What in the world does that mean? Are the pics too big?

 

[HenThymes]

CHOCOLATE UPDATE: We just got back from the vet. The chick is currently still alive!

The vet was awesome, so glad to know we have an Aviary vet soo close to home. It was not impacted, there is something going on with it's digestive system?? He took a crop swab then flushed the crop out. Swab shows bacteria, just not sure why yet, parasitic or something else? Have to do fecal on the hatch mates and drop it back off at the vet. Choc is on clavamox 2x a day for the next week. He also gave us some hand feeding formula that we tube feed directly into the crop 5-6x a day. There is also a powdered probiotic to add to the formula that we can also use as a sprinkled topper to all of our other chicks. We have a follow up visit next week if the little one pulls thru. If the chick does not make it he will be sending it to a zoological specialist for a necropsy.

I learned today the benefit to "mother" rearing verses "brooder" rearing - chicks that are with their moms eat and scratch in her poop, thus giving them natural antibodies from her poo to prevent things like cocci and bacterial issues, where chicks raised in brooders do not. Wish I have more room for moms and babies.

**Forgot to add that Mama goat that had the four babies in January, yeah well she is at the vet today as well, still waiting to here her diagnosis.

 

[daze333]

I have heard much of this about brooder vs mom too! To help them build some of the antibodies I give the chicks a handful of dirt from outside. I also feed probiotics and unmedicated feed. I haven't had trouble with coxi in a long time using these methods. I hope your little chickie pulls through!

CHOCOLATE UPDATE: We just got back from the vet. The chick is currently still alive!

The vet was awesome, so glad to know we have an Aviary vet soo close to home. It was not impacted, there is something going on with it's digestive system?? He took a crop swab then flushed the crop out. Swab shows bacteria, just not sure why yet, parasitic or something else? Have to do fecal on the hatch mates and drop it back off at the vet. Choc is on clavamox 2x a day for the next week. He also gave us some hand feeding formula that we tube feed directly into the crop 5-6x a day. There is also a powdered probiotic to add to the formula that we can also use as a sprinkled topper to all of our other chicks. We have a follow up visit next week if the little one pulls thru. If the chick does not make it he will be sending it to a zoological specialist for a necropsy.

I learned today the benefit to "mother" rearing verses "brooder" rearing - chicks that are with their moms eat and scratch in her poop, thus giving them natural antibodies from her poo to prevent things like cocci and bacterial issues, where chicks raised in brooders do not. Wish I have more room for moms and babies.

 

[daze333]

I think I have the picture thing figured out now.

 

[reesepoultry]

Is unmedicated feed better than medicated. I switched from unmedicated to medicated, I thought that it helped a lot. A lot more expensive but. I also have save-a-chick on hand though. That stuff works great. I had a couple chicks that had wings drooped and put that in there water. The next morning I was expecting to find them dead, But to my surprise I couldn't even tell which ones it was anymore.

Hentymes: So sorry for your little chick. I lost a lot of well started birds do to the severe weather changes around here. Being 80 one day and 20 the next.

 

[HenThymes]

Is unmedicated feed better than medicated. I switched from unmedicated to medicated, I thought that it helped a lot. A lot more expensive but. I also have save-a-chick on hand though. That stuff works great. I had a couple chicks that had wings drooped and put that in there water. The next morning I was expecting to find them dead, But to my surprise I couldn't even tell which ones it was anymore.

Hentymes: So sorry for your little chick. I lost a lot of well started birds do to the severe weather changes around here. Being 80 one day and 20 the next.

We did tell him what we are feeding and it is medicated and he didn't say to stop feeding it...

I will tell you my resent experience on that subject. We use a special order "show" medicated feed, start all of our babies on it. Several weeks ago we ran short before our order would be in, well DH pick up a 20# bag of just regular non-medicated. Thought instead of wasting the bag decided to finish it off, BIG mistake.... I ended up with cocci running thru a brooder, lost about 10 babies. On the medicated feed I DO NOT have chicks get cocci, it's when they were on regular feed that it expressed. So lesson learned, don't run out of the medicated feed.

 

[reesepoultry]

We did tell him what we are feeding and it is medicated and he didn't say to stop feeding it...

I will tell you my resent experience on that subject. We use a special order "show" medicated feed, start all of our babies on it. Several weeks ago we ran short before our order would be in, well DH pick up a 20# bag of just regular non-medicated. Thought instead of wasting the bag decided to finish it off, BIG mistake.... I ended up with cocci running thru a brooder, lost about 10 babies. On the medicated feed I DO NOT have chicks get cocci, it's when they were on regular feed that it expressed. So lesson learned, don't run out of the medicated feed.

I agree, I lost a lot more babies when they weren't on Medicated compared to what I loose now with them on medicated. I also have poultry drench on hand to.

 

[anderson8505]

daze: I dunno nothing about the digits post error, but welcome to the swap! There should be a disclaimer on the first page though, that it's ADDICTING.

so BEWARE.

I've never bought medicated feed, but I don't hatch as much as ya'll do, I think. (Although.... )

emvickrey sent me a ton of eggs, all wrapped professionally and not one crack!!! Now, what will I do with all these silkies??

 

[GableBabble]

emvickrey sent me a ton of eggs, all wrapped professionally and not one crack!!! Now, what will I do with all these silkies??

Become addicted to the fuzzy awesomeness that is silkies. Flurry of fuzzy, cuddling, broodiness... just watch were you step. Shelbys are so tame they do not move out from under your feet.


We feed Medicated then switch to flock raiser, then end with a 12 way/ dry cat food/ black oil sunflower/ crumble mix .