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Post by seminolewind on Oct 5, 2018 10:05:46 GMT -5
My Polish little girl Hannah is staggering. I don't know what's wrong. I treated everyone for cocci a few weeks ago. She's about 8-9 yrs old. Never passed a normal egg. Anything I can do other than antibiotics and a pelvic exam?
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Post by maryellen on Oct 5, 2018 11:46:09 GMT -5
Is her neck turning? Is she thin? You can try feeding her chick food and put her in a cage so she gets food and load her up with poultry cell or poly visol no iron
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Post by dawg53 on Oct 5, 2018 15:53:03 GMT -5
Did she eat any bad feed? Aspergillosis? Stick tight fleas weakening her?
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Post by seminolewind on Oct 6, 2018 2:30:05 GMT -5
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she's the one that had them real bad last year, but she has had none or minimal since then. If I have a styro if she dies i'LL send her.
One thing I noticed a few months ago is that one of her pupils looks like it has "bled" into the surrounding area. Marek's? She's about 9 yrs old. Jim, no bad feed. Aspergillosis, I don't know since she sleeps in a pen. I do wonder if all that bug killer can affect them. Can't wait to move away from this bugvill if so. Since she's always passed she'll less eggs, I did an exam.
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Post by duckrunner on Oct 9, 2018 10:56:26 GMT -5
Possibly marek’s?
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Post by seminolewind on Oct 9, 2018 23:46:26 GMT -5
She's still kind of unstable. I took her out and gave her another thorough exam including her ears. Nothing found. It could be just something I can't help with or yes, Marek's. They always say Marek's affects young birds. But being around 9 yrs old with a "leaky" pupil, I can't discount Marek's.
Hannah was my miracle from the start. She had paralysis at 6 weeks old and ate well and lived in my bedroom for 6 weeks. She was vaccinated at birth. I didn't want to cull her as long as she kept her weight. She napped with me. Some of her hatchmates outside died from necrotic enteritis, a few from some one eye infection. She started walking again and has been here for 9 years. Being a baby sitter for the last years for a few elderly hens. She's very special to hubs and me and it breaks my heart to not be able to help. So I just keep her comfy.
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Post by maryellen on Oct 10, 2018 7:02:34 GMT -5
Is she eating good? Maybe make her a gruel with the poultry cell to see if that works ?
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Post by seminolewind on Oct 10, 2018 8:17:36 GMT -5
Good idea. Gruel is coming up today!
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Post by seminolewind on Oct 25, 2018 12:05:03 GMT -5
Yesterday she ate lots of bread and eggs and potatoes cubes. I know when I started with chickens, My first Jersey was molting and got real thin and wouldn't eat and sat by herself all day. I thought she was dying. She was very skinny. I think it turned out to be a hard molt. Then she snapped out of it and got fat again. I think the same goes for my Houdan recently. Same scenario. Now she's putting on weight again. Now Hannah my most loved Polish. Thin as a rail, losing feathers like crazy. Just starting to eat again I think. She is all pin feathers. She continuously shakes her head but there's nothing there. I think she and a few others have no bug, but the pin feathers must bother them.
I found a new chemical to use called deltathrin. And I never tried Pyrethrum, just permethrin. So I'm getting one of them. Just a few more weeks and the fleas will die die die!
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Post by maryellen on Oct 28, 2018 16:00:53 GMT -5
How is she doing today any better?
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Post by seminolewind on Oct 30, 2018 1:44:12 GMT -5
She is doing well, eating and walking well, but a bit quiet.
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Post by duckrunner on Mar 5, 2019 16:53:59 GMT -5
Is she back to normal now?
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Post by seminolewind on Mar 6, 2019 10:57:28 GMT -5
Is she back to normal now? She died. 8 years old. Treated like a princess. |
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Post by duckrunner on Mar 6, 2019 14:43:35 GMT -5
you've lost so many birds at once. I'm so sorry Is she back to normal now? She died. 8 years old. Treated like a princess. |
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Post by maryellen on Mar 6, 2019 18:40:08 GMT -5
Oh karen im so sorry
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Post by seminolewind on Mar 7, 2019 1:25:04 GMT -5
Thanks, ME. Hannah was vaccinated as a chick for Marek's. But out of 7, she got paralysis in her legs. She just sat there like a little princess and I put her in the garage in a cage because I just couldn't deal with her, and she never stopped eating or drinking. Eventually she lived in my bedroom for 4 weeks because I thought she might be lonely.
Well in 4 weeks time , and 2 weeks in the garage, she started to make motions to walk. Hubs and I would do the toddler thing and make her walk from him to me. When she walked well enough she went in with some silkies.
Being in the house 6 weeks, lucky her she missed the necrotic entiritis which killed 3 of her group. Then 2 more deaths from a one eye-eye infection. Never got sick. A few years later becoming my sitter for a blind old Polish girl that was 10, then the blind girl's sister who is now 11.
She was a gift of 8 eggs of Crele Polish that someone sent me. She sent me her first 8 eggs. Now all gone.
So Hannah was special to hub and me. Boy did I cry buckets when I euthanized her.
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Post by dawg53 on Mar 7, 2019 5:23:29 GMT -5
I'm sorry to hear that Karen, it hurts  |
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Post by boskelli1571 on Mar 7, 2019 11:15:57 GMT -5
Sorry to hear about your special chicken - it always hurts, especially when they become close family.
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Post by duckrunner on Mar 7, 2019 14:22:46 GMT -5
poor little thing |
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