i cant understand why sometimes things go great with keeping poultry and other times all hell breaks out , had to let one of my new gold partrige pekin bantams go the other day as she had a really bad case of myco that hit her hard and within 48 hrs so had gone down hill blinking tpyical it was over a bank hoilday when the vets were closed and now although i got the tylan today the cockeral has gone down with it :evil: :evil: :evil: but so far all other birds seem fine but along with that i now have a pekin bantam whos got bumblefoot so now shes being treated and isnt to happy with me , everything has been great for sometime until this weekend really makes me wander why i bother sometimes with keeping birds .but i do know one thing i wont ever be getting birds of this friend of mine again makes me wander why he got rid of them in the first place just got to hope i have caught it in time and also pray nothing goes wrong with my big girls fingers crossed .
feel like its all going wrong
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NEWTODUCKS
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I know what you mean, a couple of years ago I bought 4, one week old chicks from a reputable dealer and when they reached 4 months of age each one went down with something the vet couldn't identify even at post mortem and so lost all 4. It's the knowing it's going to happen and being helpless to prevent it. Other than that I've had no problems in the 5 years I've had poultry, apart from one who prolapsed, as well as the inevitable death through old age.
Hope things improve soon-things will get better!
Hope things improve soon-things will get better!
valeriebutterley
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Hi, these things happen to chickens, for no apparent reason, I'm so sorry for you.
I watched most of my darling girls, get stressed, ill and then die for no seeming reason at the time. I lost loads a couple of years ago, one after the other.
Having replaced my flock of layers with a hybrid and purebred flock to die for, the fox burrowed in and killed all twelve. Heartbreaking.
I decided to start again from scratch - it was merely very expensive, but again, also most enjoyable. Got them all settled and so happy together, totally integrated, and then huge feather pecking problems, and despite beak bits, it is still going on. The determined ones with the taste for it just work round the bit. So is chicken keeping ever perfect?, no.
I'm very ancient now, but I do not think I will ever not want chickens, having come very late in life to chicken keeping!!
I watched most of my darling girls, get stressed, ill and then die for no seeming reason at the time. I lost loads a couple of years ago, one after the other.
Having replaced my flock of layers with a hybrid and purebred flock to die for, the fox burrowed in and killed all twelve. Heartbreaking.
I decided to start again from scratch - it was merely very expensive, but again, also most enjoyable. Got them all settled and so happy together, totally integrated, and then huge feather pecking problems, and despite beak bits, it is still going on. The determined ones with the taste for it just work round the bit. So is chicken keeping ever perfect?, no.
I'm very ancient now, but I do not think I will ever not want chickens, having come very late in life to chicken keeping!!
i speak to people and they say ohh jack it all in its not worth it and the food is getting expensive etc but i have spent so much on the runs etc that i doubt i will quit keeping them unless the plot holders next to me wanted to buy the runs :lol: :lol: which they would do and pay what i ask for them but its not fair on the girls to just say right your going cause its one prob after the other nope you just got to get though it , all the banties are on the tylan now and although it may not be the right choice by some people its the right choice for me besides only cost £7 .
chrismahon
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Hi Karlooben. Yes, sometimes it all seems to be going wrong but it's worth it when it all turns round. The birds are alive thanks to your efforts and you have so much more experience to use on more birds. At some stage you will spot illness so fast you can deal with it without any real fuss. Give them a regular (once a week) treat of finely sliced onions -works wonders, or at least it has with us (thanks Tygrysek)!
darkbrowneggs
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Spring onions or cooking onions? And do they enjoy eating them or do you have to mix them in with other stuff to get them to take them.
chrismahon
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Just a slice of white onion diced to pieces about the size of a small pea. They will eat them just scattered on their own. They now fight over it. Each bird only needs half a dozen bits once a week. Poos and crops on the Orpingtons have improved dramatically -all our birds seem to have good digestion now. So, far fewer runny poos and far more standard ones.
thanlyou for that tip 
will be giving that a go , well the birds are recovering nicley thanks to the tylan it worked really well within 48 hrs sunday i think it was the poor girls who never got a breather the cockeral certainly made up for lost time :lol: :lol: . i did ask my friend at the stables if he was prepared to cul all birds and he was fine and will help me out whenever i need it but now by the looks of things i wont be needing him for some time yet , and a few days back i had an old ex batt go down with sour crop 
shes already stuggling with a full on moult so sourcrop made her look even worse i sectioned her of for a few days to relax a bit but this morning i decided to give her some tylan wether it was right to do so or not she picked right up this afternoon and the sour crop has gone now shes just got to get though this moult . i have been that paranoid i've even ordered some herban something i have never used before but many people swear by it fingers crossed all my girls pick but they have to any wy fresh greens are blooming in the poly tunnel ready for them to eat :lol: whats the most annoying thing is you can go months without any probs then all of a sudden everything hits you at once .
will be giving that a go , well the birds are recovering nicley thanks to the tylan it worked really well within 48 hrs sunday i think it was the poor girls who never got a breather the cockeral certainly made up for lost time :lol: :lol: . i did ask my friend at the stables if he was prepared to cul all birds and he was fine and will help me out whenever i need it but now by the looks of things i wont be needing him for some time yet , and a few days back i had an old ex batt go down with sour crop shes already stuggling with a full on moult so sourcrop made her look even worse i sectioned her of for a few days to relax a bit but this morning i decided to give her some tylan wether it was right to do so or not she picked right up this afternoon and the sour crop has gone now shes just got to get though this moult . i have been that paranoid i've even ordered some herban something i have never used before but many people swear by it fingers crossed all my girls pick but they have to any wy fresh greens are blooming in the poly tunnel ready for them to eat :lol: whats the most annoying thing is you can go months without any probs then all of a sudden everything hits you at once .
I'm glad things seem to be taking a turn for the better for you and your birds. If you can get them through it without any casualties, you will have done well.
