Recent content by Tunie B

Did you ever figure out what was happening with your chick? My tiny Polish chick has these exact symptoms. I treated her pasty butt tonight (just realized that she had it), and very puzzled by her lost voice. Did your baby survive?

Did your baby survive? Today I realized that my tiny Polish chick has the same issue. :( She’s 5 days old.

Thank you—that would be a good thing for me to try in the future. With Tildie, I put her body beneath some fencing and intended to come back later in the day to bury…but her body was gone. I’m guessing a coyote or a fox grabbed it since it was dark when I got home. (Not fabulous, but that day...

Now the Wyandotte did have a history of laying thin-shelled (or completely soft) eggs. I do wonder if one ruptured within and caused an infection. I just didn’t notice anything off about her at all.

Thank you—I did wonder if it is just an unfortunate coincidence. No new chickens, though they could have caught something from wild songbirds. For the first death (Tildie), she had a squishy crop like a water balloon. After the vet told me to tip her upside down, I did so out of desperation...

Hi all—I just had my first chicken with sour crop, I think. She passed yesterday in her sleep, unfortunately. I realized she was sick a little too late—she had liquid coming out of her mouth, was not eating much, and was hunched down. I had Covid last week and the vet wouldn’t see me (even a...

I looked into permethrin, but it is very toxic to cats and I have several that follow me into the barn daily.

Oh my, this is my fear 😫

I should say that I called a local pest control and he told me basically to knock it down at night. I think he either felt it was simple and didn’t want my money (lol) it just didn’t want to bother coming out. Hard to tell here sometimes.

Do you have a favorite brand?

I have a crappy pre-fab coop that is within a cow shed that I have put doors on and renovated. There’s a Yellowjacket nest on the pre-fab—as I discovered when I opened the egg door and got stung on my neck/face/arms. I want to knock the nest down at night and then drag the pre-fab coop out in a...

UPDATE: I found a vet to evaluate and she recommended euthanasia. The vet sent her to the University of Tennessee vet hospital for necropsy. Preliminary results show inflamed sciatica, which *might* be Marek’s, but we’ll know more in a few weeks.

UPDATE: I found a vet to evaluate and we made the decision to humanely euthanize. I hated to do it, but the vet felt that she had a low quality of life (and I agreed).

I ordered two cute Cookies and Cream pullets from Meyer Hatchery for an April 2023 hatch date. They arrived safely and are very sweet and cute. However—Cardi Beak began having mobility issues before she left the brooder (in fact, I posted here about her). Nothing has worked—vitamins, making...