One of our Scots Grey pullets died last night. I counted all the chickens out when I opened the pophole to the big hen house this morning. The flock was one short. After walking around to the main door, I opened it and looked in.
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Tag Archives: Animal Health
Injured piglet still hanging on
24 March, 2011
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Daphne, one of our two Berkshire sows currently with litters, stepped on a piglet last Friday. The piglet suffered a serious gash where its right rear leg joined its abdomen, but didn’t appear to have more serious internal injuries. I cleaned the wound with iodine spray, injected the piglet with 1ml of Ultrapen LA, and returned it [...]
Read moreDaphne walks on a piglet
18 March, 2011
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Daphne, one of our two Berkshire sows currently with litters, has walked on a piglet. All her piglets were in good condition when I did the midday check but when I went out at 1pm I noticed one holding its left rear leg off the ground. I went back to the feed shed, scooped up [...]
Read moreHens may have mycoplasmosis
26 August, 2010
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We may have a case, possibly two, of mycoplasmosis in our chickens. Earlier today I noticed one of the Scots Grey hens sneezing. I caught her and immediately noticed she was a little less heavy than she should be. The hen also had a slight but noticeable rasp to her breathing, an elevated temperature and [...]
Read moreTreating an infected eye
4 May, 2010
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The Other Half and I were walking past the boar pen where Graham and Doris, two of our Berkshire pigs, were in residence when the OH stopped suddenly. “There’s something wrong with Doris,” she said. I turned and saw what she meant. Doris was walking like a crab and holding her head at an awkward [...]
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