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  1. Charlene W

    Premature chicks

    I was a wildlife rehabber for 25 years and they are right that those are NOT chickens. They are easy to kill at that age if you aren't careful. Heat important.
  2. Charlene W

    Amoxicillin and chickens

    He's a farm animal vet and seemed to know how to treat a chicken but possible that isn't what he sees normally. We live in rural Afton OK. The prescription he gave me is sulfadimethoxine. It did work but not fast and I had to pull eggs for almost 2 weeks. At least it was winter and there weren't...
  3. Charlene W

    Amoxicillin and chickens

    Thank you to all of you. Yeah, if I treat a few then someone else gets it and it keeps going on and on in circles. I buy my chickens at a poultry swap and got a few from a different vendor last year. Scott doesn't sell sick chickens so I should have waited until he had the breed I wanted...
  4. Charlene W

    Amoxicillin and chickens

    Thank you. The guy at the feed store said it covered any respiratory infections his birds got. I was hoping....and will now return the bottle. will order the Tylosin and keep it on hand. I have about 46 chickens. Apparently I got a sick one at some point last fall and it infected my flock. I am...
  5. Charlene W

    Amoxicillin and chickens

    My hens were diagnosed with mycoplasma awhile back and the vet prescribed a sulfa type drug that didn't work as well as I had hoped and some are getting the respiratory infection again. I got some fishbiotic amoxycillin at the feed store as advised by people. I hope it is better and we don't...
  6. Charlene W

    Gapeworm and waterbelly

    They had mycoplasmosis and got treated for that. He just threw it out that they should probably be treated for gapeworm since I had never wormed this batch I got at the swap. Former factory layers. I am going to watch and see if any have symptoms then treat those if necessary.
  7. Charlene W

    Gapeworm and waterbelly

    I have treated them before with other things orally and sprayed each for lice. It is just a pain with so many. I did it the way you say. I used to rehab wild birds for Project Wildlife and am comfortable with the technique, but I sure don't look forward to having to handle every single bird...
  8. Charlene W

    Gapeworm and waterbelly

    I have about 50. Not easy peasy. lol
  9. Charlene W

    Deworming with piperazine Dihydrochoride

    I got the safe guard goat dewormer and it only had instructions for goats. How much and how long to treat chickens? I may as well skip the vet and just come here for advice. Much cheaper and you do better than my vet does. Thanks.
  10. Charlene W

    Deworming with piperazine Dihydrochoride

    I took one in with respiratory infection for diagnosis. They did swabs and diagnosed Mycoplasmosis and he gave me a sulfa drug. It wasn't the one that was recommended online for that, but it seems to have helped some. I still have some coughing and may have to try to get the other drugs...
  11. Charlene W

    Deworming with piperazine Dihydrochoride

    I didn't see gapeworms listed but thought since he was a vet he should know. So now I have the piperazine and no use for it. I guess I need to go to the feed store next to look. I have about 50 chickens out there and he recommended worming them for gapeworm. I don't see any worms in the feces so...
  12. Charlene W

    Snow in New Orleans! NEED HELP PLEASE!

    Mine hate snow. lol I did use a space heater in the barn this year because we were fighting mycoplasmosis and they were not in the best condition. It was inside a dog crate off the floor and is the kind that won't cause problems if it had fallen over. They have an electric heated water source...
  13. Charlene W

    Deworming with piperazine Dihydrochoride

    My vet had me buy piperazine for gapeworms. The package directions are a little confusing. I don't have a scale. How do I measure 3 ml to put in a gallon of water. I have the 100 gm package that says each gm contains 360 mg Piperazine Citrate. Sorry if I sound like an idiot. I don't want to...
  14. Charlene W

    Wild hens and roosters, one is laying

    It is normal for a hen to lay and walk away. Breakfast is served. They are yours. If they become broody they will sit on the nest and growl if you get close. Enjoy your new chickens.
  15. Charlene W

    People with multiple roosters, advice needed.

    I have 3 and one is not a great rooster. He is locked up in a large pen when not outside. Beautiful black austrolorp but the the number one Copper Marans and number two Americauna chase him. Would be nice to get him his own group of hens but they all live together and free range. We can't get...
  16. Charlene W

    Sulfadimethoxine use?

    My chicken vet just gave it to me to treat mycoplasmosis and the dosage is pretty high for 6 days. .25 oz per gallon of water. Guess I am going to have to trust him on this since the directions on the package say to add the package to 50 gal of water, not the 15 gal it works out to with this...
  17. Charlene W

    Snow in New Orleans! NEED HELP PLEASE!

    If you are worried, and since it is only two, you could set them up in a room with tarp or something on the floor until it warms up again.
  18. Charlene W

    Is Azure Blue a legitimate breed?

    I have some and they are great. Beautiful eggs and pretty hens. If you want blue eggs, they lay more than Americaunas.
  19. Charlene W

    Chickens with swollen eyes

    I have a flock and was assuming a respiratory infection. They got better and I got some new ones who are now sick. I have lost some to it but most got better. Unfortunately the articles say they will be carriers the rest of their lives so I guess I won't be getting any more birds until these all...
  20. Charlene W

    Two of my girls dead and one hurt badly

    I have a silver laced Wyandotte given to me with a wound larger and deeper than that by her tail, and she healed fine. I just used wound spray and it took some time. Hang in there.
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