The medicating and worming regime

I have got the regime down to a fine art now. Pebbles has her sticky baytril on some seeds in the the cat box twice a day. I am keeping the cat box on top of one of the little coops.

Pebbles has her medicine

She tucks into seeds with baytril

The three little girls perch together on the high perch

Catching a bit of sun

At lunch time the little girls have some seeds coated in a little olive oil then topped with flubinvet worming powder. I gave the bigger girls a dish of mash on the patio and put the little girls and their dish on top of the little coop and guarded them to stop the bigger girls getting up.

Worming the three little girls

The little girls have seeds with flubenvet

Yesterday I gave them the flubenvet on chopped grapes but Pebbles wouldn’t touch the grapes. I then gave her some on chopped melon and she ate that. I hadn’t realised she didn’t like grapes. All the other girls love grapes. Today I thought I would go with the easier option of sunflower hearts. I worry they are getting too many sunflower hearts at the moment but I figure that’s the lesser of two evils.

Freckles on a different high perch with no ladder

This was the first time I had seen freckles on this perch. She is a really good flyer so is probably the only one of the three little girls that can reach a perch this high with no ladder.

Toffee in her usual corner in the afternoon

Toffee now has her own routine of spending her afternoons here. She has the morning treats and has had some pellets and mash. She perches with the rest of the bigger girls in the mornings. After the lunch time offering of apple or pear she settles in the chicken shed and always sits in the same corner .

Her poop has been quite yellow which is a bit of a worry. I think she is suffering from age but the colour of her poop is the most alarming thing to me. I think this indicates that there is something going wrong inside of her.

She is eating and doing all the normal chicken things until lunch time when she goes to perch in the shed. She comes back out for the bedtime corn before returning to the shed. As long as she doesn’t appear to be suffering and she continues to eat I am inclined to just leave her be. I know that there is nothing a vet could do for her and I feel that I will know when she needs help.

Pebbles is still wheezing slightly but I think it is getting better. I think we just need to keep going with everything and wait for improvement. I have done some research and it said that the sooner you catch it the better the outcome and that sometimes it is a case of antibiotic roulette and you need to try a few different ones until you find the one that works.

The encouraging thing is that Pebbles is getting better rather than worse so I am hopeful. She seems fine other than the wheezing and she is eating well. It seems that these things progress slowly and we must just keep on medicating and keep our fingers crossed.