It’s early days yet as it’s the first day on the tylan and the girls drink less this time of year than in summer but as my girls are so small I think that they only need a small amount of the tylan.
I was disappointed that when they came out this morning they had some food and then perched on the ladders without having a drink. In the summer they would all go straight to the water. I knew that they had to drink during the day though so tried not to worry. I didn’t give them their usual fruit at lunch time as I wanted them to get all their moisture from the water.
A little later Dandelion went to the water and then suddenly it was if the word had gone out and all the girls gathered around the water and had a drink. I felt relieved.
Dandelion has white pins on her head instead of her usual ginger feathers
I love seeing Speckles and her girls feeding together
Speckles has taken to standing here and jumping on my back
It’s a funny habit that she has of jumping on my back in summer but not in winter. I have no idea why this is but just recently she has started to jump on me from here.
Emerald is looking good
Freckles is drinking the water before bedtime
She looks okay
Speckles and the rest of the little girls are feeding together in the background. When I gave the girls some spinach on the patio I noticed that Dandelion has a slight wheeze to her breathing too. I am so glad that I am able to treat the whole flock.
I thought I would add a link to my past post about mycoplasma in case it could be of help to new readers. Click on the link below for all the information that I gathered.
http://www.carolschickens.com/blog/?p=22041
I will give a progress report as the week goes on.
Click here to see the history of my flock.
Let us hope they will soon get better. They all look so good.
I hope to be reporting on them being better soon. I will know that when Freckles starts laying again she is fully recovered.
Freckles does look better than on yesterday’s photo – a great relief to see her (as well as all of them) drinking.
I think she does look a bit better. I guess it’s early days yet. I have seen them all drinking again today so that’s good.
Carol! I had no idea you had gone through all of this! I am so sorry- it’s heartbreaking! I just read your post from August- my two senior huskies both were sick and died about that time so I am thinking I wasn’t reading blogs. Thanks for your great info! No telling how many birds you will help save from your experiences. Your girls are looking good and getting the best care! Looking forward to more positive progress!!
I am so sorry that you lost your huskies. Thank you for your kind words. If I can help anyone recognise symptoms in their birds that can only be a good thing. I have learned from this experience that acting fast is the key factor to saving them from this.
It’s a good job you are quick to act with the Tylan. Fingers crossed but I’m sure all will be well.
After we lost Caramel and Pebbles to this, before we knew the signs, we gave the flock the tylan as a protection. Since then, this will be the third time of treating them again. First Freckles showed signs and I treated them then Rusty showed signs after her prolapse but we lost her anyway and now Freckles showing signs again. I am confident that the tylan will do it’s job and accept that this may be something I need to do regularly.