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    Bumblefoot Mystery

    (No photos, sorry. I'm not a phone person.) Here's an update regarding treating bumble foot with Mupirocin and a toothbrush. All I do is clean the foot pad, brush a dab of Mupirocin in the scab area for one minute, put a dab of the Mupirocin on gauze and stick it to the scab/pad and vet-wrap...
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    Bumblefoot Mystery

    Oh gosh, I'm afraid I didn't take any but next time we treat them I'll take some. There are 5 of them with varying stages 1 and 2. Maybe 3, I'm not sure how to tell, exactly. But it's working anyway to reduce the scab size and the one who was limping is no longer limping within 3 days. We wanted...
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    Bumblefoot Mystery

    UPDATE: After one treatment using Mupirocin instead of Neosporin (clean the foot off, brush it in for 1 minute, bandage with gauze and bit of Mupirocin and vet rap), their feet already look SO much better. One scab is almost non-existent and the others look like they are literally shrinking and...
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    Bumblefoot Mystery

    Oh, this sounds like a much faster healing than peeling off the scab and digging around and then having to heal an open wound! I'm assuming the scabs just fall off themselves as the staph is eradicated and the new skin forms underneath? Fingers crossed. Thanks so much for responding!
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    Bumblefoot Mystery

    Our vet has seen a couple of our chickens though he doesn't normally have chicken experience (he's very nice). I called him about the bumble foot going on and told him about this and he really liked the toothbrushing idea. I happened to have some Mupirocin ointment and he said that ought to...
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    Another watery poop question.....with a twist

    She did yesterday just once, but we decided it was idiopathic (cause unknown) and put her in the pen next to theirs. last night she slept in the same pen in her cage (she tried to get into the coop to roost with them) and this morning she's free-ranging with them. So we're just letting her get...
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    Another watery poop question.....with a twist

    That's a good question, but it happened to be our cooler days. It was rather cold in the mornings and very nice during the day. There's actual roof over it, not metal. The weather heated up yesterday again but by that time we had decided to move her to the pen next to theirs and she had plenty...
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    Another watery poop question.....with a twist

    Thank you. We'll likely wait until next week, but I feel bad that she's so lonely. :-( And that alone might be causing the daytime diarrhea. I hate to be potentially causing the problem that is solvable if she's not actually ill. Poor dear. She is a very sweet hen. Young-ish. Maybe a year old or...
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    Another watery poop question.....with a twist

    Oh, yes, she started getting grit as soon as she came to us. And the grass has passed, her crop is fine. The grass poos only lasted a couple of days as she passed all she had eaten before she came to us. Then poos were completely normal for two weeks. Just before we were to move her next to the...
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    Another watery poop question.....with a twist

    We were given a lovely mannered rescue hen about 2 1/2 weeks ago. She seemed in very good health but dehydrated. Her poo was just long and full of grass strands as that was all she'd had to eat for many days. She stays outside on the carport during the day so she can walk around. We bring her...
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    How were flocks of poultry maintained hundreds of years ago?

    I also remember chickens being much leaner and capable of flying a lot higher, farther, and better than my fat ladies. :)
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    How were flocks of poultry maintained hundreds of years ago?

    I've recently done quite a bit of research about historical chicken-keeping between from the 18th to 20th century when commercial feeds were produced and sold in the 1940s. I've read a number of chicken and livestock manuals from about 1820-1920s. In the late 1800s to the 1920s, poultry was...
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    Actual Correct Dosage for Safeguard Dewormer for Chickens

    SafeGuard paste for horses.
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    Comment by 'RubyLady' in article 'Techniques in Feeding Your Flock "Off the Grid"'

    This is a wonderful article. It's so good to realize how much variety one can choose from. One thing I har a lot is to make sure old food isn't left for them to eat and it may be moldy or go bad, yet we can feed them from a compost pile. My hens will find the one most decomposed bit of waste...
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    Viable treatment for Marek's Disease.

    Well, you can't kill a virus. It's not a living organism. It's a piece of genetic code. You can deactivate a virus though and it would be nice to see what could deactivate a herpes virus. And yes, viral deactivation/inactivation can be proven or affirmed.
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