My pullet really seems perkier today -- eating like crazy! yay! I guess the antibiotic has kicked in. whew. Let's hope I can reintroduce this submissive sweet gal back into the flock somehow once she's all recovered from whatever has been ailing her!
Kristen
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, "Kristen Langlais" <laughingcrowfarm@...> wrote:
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> o my gosh, I just typed a whole long thing, pressed enter and it disappeared! here i go again...
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> My pullet seemed better last night. Gave her save a chick and then after dinner she ate a lot of egg and grapes. She seemed lively then but this morning was lethargic and not eating. She's in a cage with a light bulb at night. So I went ahead and gave her tetroxy (the only antibiotic I can find around here). I came across a post that said 1.5 tsp per gallon. I hope that's right. Anyhow, I squirted some in her beak and also some more of the save a chick water. We let her out in the yard for a 1/2 hr and she took a dust bath but didn't really get too active or peck around too much.
> As for the hen, I gave her and several others from the flock some worminator this morning. I'll get the others in the flock later on (that stuff is tricky: you need to carefully watch each hen eat the little peice of bread I put the worminator on and make sure you keep things straight in your head!). She's more active than the pullet but still looks dis-shelved and fluffed up a lot.
> So I guess my choices are to continue w/ the antibiotic for the pullet or scratch that and give her sulmet.
> And should I give sulmet to my whole flock (is that dangerous if they're not sick? ie, is it hard on their systems?) in addition to worming them all. Should I worm the pullets? - 1 drop of worminator instead of 2?
> Thanks so much Cathryn! This pullet is my daughters' favorite. She's the baby of our favorite old hen and the only chick to hatch out when we incubated eggs (the other 3 pullets we have we purchased as week old chicks).
> Kristen
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