Young Pullet down.
I have a 31/2 month Pullet that has been acting slow lately. She has a full crest and it is not trimmed so I was not to concerned. When I got home today was was under the coop and just laying there...
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That's very likely... I cooled down Slifer when she got really hot by putting a damp cloth on her comb and wattles and on her feet. Or by putting her in a wading pool or dipping her feet in the sink.
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This doesn't sound good at all. What about her crop, do you feel anything there at all? I don't like doing this but I'm going suggest you make a sweet mix of sweet electrolytes. You don't absolutely...
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Boy it looks bad, I just tried to put water from an eye dropper on her feet and she did not respond. She is just so out of it. I keep dripping cool water over her beak like Cindy mentioned once...
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Trish is working tonight. I will try the sugar and I did add a few grains of electrolytes in the water. I have this stuff called Sav a Caf it is Elect. and Probiotics made for calves that and not...
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This is happening too often lately. I don't think feed is the cause any longer, wish I had had these Dutch when that happened, talk about confirmation. Although the birds I had in trouble at that time...
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This poor little girl made it through the night without moving a muscle. I put her down this morning, she was way beyond my ability to help her. I am not really sure it was heat she was very thin and...
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darn...sorry to hear that Jaynie. One thing I noticed all the extension articles saying (dealing with heat stress) is to add a supplement to their feed 9I remember a deficiency where one of the...
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Last night was the hottest one so far this season. This morning when I went out to the chicken pen to feed them, one of them was laying inside the cat carrier they are using for a temporary home. She...
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I am going to make a suggestion because it can't really hurt anything. When a bird is found down like that when our heat and humidity is high put water in a shallow pan, not cold water, tepid. Make...
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Thanks robin416, Too late to try on this poor little bird but I will not fail to try it on any that go down in the future, should the circumstances be similar. And then there were 8, Janice
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