Chook with bad leg??????

Barry J Scott · « **Reply #15 on:** January 30, 2007, 06:22 »

Mine aren't really hand tame yet but offer them a worm or two and that goes out the window. Now when I dig over the garden, Nancy waits for me at the gate.

Aunt Sally · « **Reply #16 on:** January 30, 2007, 09:27 »

Quote from: "MontyTom"

Be careful with the snails - i read somewhere that they carry some parasite or worm thingy.

Mine love the slugs - better than pellets

You're quite right!

Chickens can pick up Gape Worm from eating slugs, snails and earth worms. The risk is higher the longer the land has been used for poultry but wild birds to carry it too. The worms grow in the trachea and eventually cause suffocation. It is called gape worm because the chooks try to clear their air way by gaping - they stretch their necks and open their beak. It can be prevented by worming your chickens every six months. I use Flubenvet.

I hope that information is useful

muntjac · « **Reply #17 on:** January 30, 2007, 10:24 »

very useful annty sally .good keepers worm there choock every 3 mhs anyways

Aunt Sally · « **Reply #18 on:** January 30, 2007, 10:28 »

Good advice Munty. I'll maybe increase frequency then.

rgp5454 · « **Reply #19 on:** February 02, 2007, 12:06 »

Just to update you about my chooks leg. I isolated her from the rest of the chickens for the day because she looked a bit weak, when I put them away in the evening she had layed an egg on the greenhouse floor and was running around as if nothing was wrong? Was she egg bound?. Since then she has got weaker day by day. I have checked her to see if she is egg bound but I dont really know what I am looking for. Any ideas?

muntjac · « **Reply #20 on:** February 02, 2007, 12:11 »

if she is egg bound you wil not fail to feel the egg in her ducts . i would have her wormed asap and hope .its difficult to say whats wrong as i cannot see the bird .i am just guessing at this point

Aunt Sally · « **Reply #21 on:** February 02, 2007, 13:53 »

I think eggbound hens are quite uncommon. Munty will correct if I am wrong

muntjac · « **Reply #22 on:** February 02, 2007, 15:28 »

yups sally u can always tell aya egg bound chicken , they sit with thier legs splayed n a crosseyed pained look on thier faces :x

rgp5454 · « **Reply #23 on:** February 02, 2007, 17:24 »

I have just gone to put my chickens away for the night and my sick chick was face down in the dirt. When I picked her up she just kept falling forward onto her face, a bit like a weeble, that did fall down. Do you think it is time to give her the good news with a piece of 2x2? :evil:

muntjac · « **Reply #24 on:** February 02, 2007, 19:38 »

yes but why 2x2 ,you may hurt the bird instead of kiling it outright , go to poultry pages and see the post preparing the chicken below

http://www.poultry.allotment-garden.org/Chicken_a/killing-chicken-meat.php

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