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Hallo grapevine
I am sorry not to have been on lately. Busy with work, animals, garden, wine, fishing etc. I will make an effort to come back as lots of new recipes and things to share since I was here last year.
Anyway, I have a problem and wondered if any of you chook experts can help. I did speak to our vet today but the advice was limited because of our tribe I can't identify which one is laying the soft shelled/sometimes no shell (?) eggs. I asked about antibiotics as last year one of the others suffered from this and was very poorly and died despite antibiotics (a nasty infection set in). Despite my best efforts I don't know which of our ladies is affected and we are reluctant to treat the whole gang with abs as will reduce resistance if needed in future plus no evidence of infection as all birds lively and eating well. The vet said about diet/calcium etc but they are all eating well, fed good quality layers pellets, mixed corn, grit, greens and have poultry spice when moulting/cold/rainy weather.
If you have any advice as to how to identify the poorly bird (I have been oustide for hours checking/inspecting bums but no clues yet) or what I can supplement the diet with to help I would be really grateful.
They are free-range, live rurally and they have lots of space and our wee flock is 3 pedigree, 3 hybrid, a socts grey cockerel and 4 wee call ducks.
Hope you can help me please, thank u
I am sorry not to have been on lately. Busy with work, animals, garden, wine, fishing etc. I will make an effort to come back as lots of new recipes and things to share since I was here last year.
Anyway, I have a problem and wondered if any of you chook experts can help. I did speak to our vet today but the advice was limited because of our tribe I can't identify which one is laying the soft shelled/sometimes no shell (?) eggs. I asked about antibiotics as last year one of the others suffered from this and was very poorly and died despite antibiotics (a nasty infection set in). Despite my best efforts I don't know which of our ladies is affected and we are reluctant to treat the whole gang with abs as will reduce resistance if needed in future plus no evidence of infection as all birds lively and eating well. The vet said about diet/calcium etc but they are all eating well, fed good quality layers pellets, mixed corn, grit, greens and have poultry spice when moulting/cold/rainy weather.
If you have any advice as to how to identify the poorly bird (I have been oustide for hours checking/inspecting bums but no clues yet) or what I can supplement the diet with to help I would be really grateful.
They are free-range, live rurally and they have lots of space and our wee flock is 3 pedigree, 3 hybrid, a socts grey cockerel and 4 wee call ducks.
Hope you can help me please, thank u
( Well, we will keep them going and try the helpful advice, and hopefully I will report with some good progress soon x
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