I’ve written before about dealing with egg-bound hens but it’s been drawn to my attention that I’ve not actually detailed how to extract the egg if other methods fail to get it moving. Two people will be needed, one to hold the chicken firmly and keep it as calm as possible, and one to do [...]
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Treating 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 [...]
Read moreOutside at last
16 April, 2010
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Daphne, one of our Berkshire sows, and her three surviving piglets had been growing increasingly agitated by their confinement in isolation in the byre. Normally, they would have been moved to an outdoor pen weeks ago but the mystery illness that resulted in the death of two piglets meant they had to remain quarantined inside. [...]
Read moreThe wait continues
2 April, 2010
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The veterinary laboratory in Edinburgh is still working with the organ samples taken from our dead piglets so we’re unlikely to get results before Monday or Tuesday. We’ve finished the course of antibiotics being administered to Daphne, one of our Berkshire sows, and her three surviving piglets, but we have to keep them in isolation [...]
Read moreLab can’t isolate infective agent
31 March, 2010
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The vet has just phoned with the latest lab results. The SAC lab has been unable to determine the infective agent and is concerned the pericarditis is atypical (no pus, no yellow fibrin) for a bacterial infection. Instead, the piglets had hemorrhagic pericarditis. The most common causes of haemorrhagic pericarditis are tumors or TB, but [...]
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