Recent content by AbL

When I told the vet I've tried it with Vitamins, he told me sarcastically" So, you intoxicated her!" - fortunately I knew it's not the case, otherwise I might have felt bad...

I have a similar case, but the chick is only for weeks old. Her symptoms getting worse from slightly lame on Sunday to laying on one side and not getting up today. I gave her 400 iE Vitamin E (but I'm not sure how much she really swallowed) and switched to crushed pellets of VitE for my horses...

Went to the vet today, initially for having her euthanized. Although she ate reasonably quantités (noodles, cheese...), she's laying on one side all the time and didn't go up anymore like the days before. But the vet wasn't yet ready to let her go and offered me 5 days of intraabdominal vitamin...

Day three... Yesterday evening she ate a good amount of cooked rice, and a slice of cucumber. Today she's very week again. I have the impression that an hour or two after giving vitamin supplements she get better, to degrade only few hours afterwards again. I tried to find a vet this morning...

Or fatal :lau Initially I was not into "having many chickens"... just 2-3 for the eggs... on the upside, they are easier to keep than my horses ;)

In January I was down to one rooster (the sole survivor since 2021) and 2 hens. You don't find adult Japanese bantams around here, especially in colores not common. So I decided to get fertile eggs from breeders in Germany and France. From 52 eggs finally 9 hatched and are alive. My own couple...

The little cockerels have quite the conquerer posture :D I lost count with the names after the first few who were named and eaten by the fox :idunnoI name those special to me or where I'm sure they stay.

They will be standard conform millefleur, genetically. Yes, it's THE color I wanted first. They will darken a bit and getting a mahogany color with black-whit feathertips I hope. Have to wait 6-8 month before seeing the final color and quality, they will be my reproduction birds.

In between the happy colorful chicks I found my big splash a couple of days ago stumbling and tumbling around. I took her in immediately fearing the worst (Mareks) with a glimpse of hope that it might be a vitamin deficiency instead. She's stumbling and falling over when she's moving too fast...

My last multicolored mottled are 6 weeks now and in top form. I gave away the other not interesting in color and kept these two to see how they turn out. The cockerel is dark blue, not black.

The "kindergarden" has officially breached the frontier to the goat wild open... Little millefleurs exploring outside (or better right in front of the coop)... they are 30 days old and as cute as the first day, I think there are 3 little roo and two pullets.

Not in France apparently :) I was in three Pharmacies, but they only had B12 or Multivitamin. So I ordered online, not sure how to dose the capsules available I opted for the B Complex for animals in liquid. I'll have a look for drops for humans.

The millefleurs have moved to the outdoor chicken coop, a bed of hay, a little rabbit hut to huddle under and sommer temperatures invite to sunbathing. I let them discover the coop when the adults are outside, but for the night they are safely apart. Maybe next week they might found the curage...

I only got a vitamin B complex for rabbits, but I think it does the trick, I giver her every few hours some drops directly to the beak. The vitE she's not fond of , but I manage to get some down mixed in something.

Thank you for your thread, I read part of it this morning. It helps to see there is a light at the end of the tunnel. She seems to respond a bit to the vitamins, so will go from here and see where it leads. I just wasn't't sure of the timeline after treatment, when to throw the towel. For now...