Hi All, Just wondering if anyone has used this for chooks with diarrhea?
One of mine has had a dirty bum for well over a week. But she is still eating and doing her usual thing but is alot slower than the others.
Is there anything else I can try before I resort to chemicals?

Never used it Muschee, I gather you have been feeding them wet feed for the running poo’s? Let it run its course, but it all depends on what your are feed them.

Veg, what is your opinion of this site

I don’t recall Mum using potassium permanganate for the chookies…I don’t recall diarrhea in her chickens at all…I do remember lice infestations used to happen about once every 10 years…it was my job to catch the chooks at sundown so we could dunk their heads in Malathion…and spray the ground where they were shut up as well…for this I got 2 eggs every morning for breakfast, to go with my 3 weetbix…but I digress…

I think I read somewhere that it’s really hard to buy now. Something to do with bomb making????

Dinetta said:

Veg, what is your opinion of this site

I don’t recall Mum using potassium permanganate for the chookies…I don’t recall diarrhea in her chickens at all…I do remember lice infestations used to happen about once every 10 years…it was my job to catch the chooks at sundown so we could dunk their heads in Malathion…and spray the ground where they were shut up as well…for this I got 2 eggs every morning for breakfast, to go with my 3 weetbix…but I digress…

I’ve never used it or had to use it. I don’t know what the birds Main diet is so it could be a wet mash, which makes the Poo’s all runnie.

bubba louie said:

I think I read somewhere that it’s really hard to buy now. Something to do with bomb making????

Probably need to sign a register or something at the pharmacist (just kidding). I know that you can’t buy napthalene flakes at the supermarkets any more: one of the small local grocery stores stocks it, and to buy camphor, you have to ask at the pharmacist. Last time I asked, the pharmacist had to OK it. I think I’ve a bottle of PP somewhere, a few grains spilled about 15 years ago onto the laminate bench top and 10 years later I notice that the stain is gone…:P

Dinetta said:

Veg, what is your opinion of this site

I don’t recall Mum using potassium permanganate for the chookies…I don’t recall diarrhea in her chickens at all…I do remember lice infestations used to happen about once every 10 years…it was my job to catch the chooks at sundown so we could dunk their heads in Malathion…and spray the ground where they were shut up as well…for this I got 2 eggs every morning for breakfast, to go with my 3 weetbix…but I digress…

I feed them crumble which they have access to 24/7. Evenings or when I think about it, I throw in an assortment of grains. On cold mornings they get a warm mash.
I did some research and I’m going with yogurt and wheatgerm at the moment. And there seems to be some improvement in the old girl, she doesn’t look all messed up since I washed all the muck off her,for the second time.
I also got some buttermilk if that didn’t work. I will keep an eye on her. I think the constant rain has not helped, keeping some areas of the pen quite wet and muddy. I will do a lime treatment to sweeten up the soil soon, which I think might also help a little.

Dinetta said:

bubba louie said:

I think I read somewhere that it’s really hard to buy now. Something to do with bomb making????

Probably need to sign a register or something at the pharmacist (just kidding). I know that you can’t buy napthalene flakes at the supermarkets any more: one of the small local grocery stores stocks it, and to buy camphor, you have to ask at the pharmacist. Last time I asked, the pharmacist had to OK it. I think I’ve a bottle of PP somewhere, a few grains spilled about 15 years ago onto the laminate bench top and 10 years later I notice that the stain is gone…:P

We still have a brown medicine bottle with some dregs in the bottom. It came from my parents house so it’s probably 50 or 60 years old. The old Condy’s crystals is always a good standby when all else fails to cure. I’m talking curing humans here not chooks or anything else.