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You should be able to apply for permits in late April! :-)

Hens: 3 New Hampshire Reds 5 RIR 4 Barred Rock 1 Ancona 1 Black Sex Link 1 Speckled Sussex 1 Easter Egger 1 Wyandotte?? Rooster: 1 Black Sex Link Total 18 birds, new total for BYC = 10,953

On a much happier note, we got the window put in the coop this weekend and set up the "nursery" just in time for our one broody hen to start sitting on the nest all day. Woo hoo! We'll have babies soon!

I'm going to have to assume that Oxime is a peroxidase (creates ozone which kills everthing and then dissipates quickly). I have a specific unit in my coop that generates that same situation on a constant low level. I guess I just can't treat the whole outdoors with it . I really found the...

Oops, oh yeah, and on the dragonflies... I checked the worms on my own (I'm a veterinarian) and consulted with other veterinarians on the Veterinary Information Network on the source.

I don't know about tapeworms, but a while back a laboratory did a study on garlic and fleas (which garlic is supposed to prevent). They found the pets fed garlic actually had MORE fleas! The tough part is that no one actually does controlled studies on the natural stuff, we are stuck with...

I am actually going to a shelter veterinarian meeting this fall where the hosting organization is going to teach us clicker training. They told us it is possible to clicker train a chicken. I told them I am bringing my rooster...

No kidding! I guess we all know that good care, good feed, good housing, are all the best ways to have a healthy flock, but dragonflies?! Really?! I can't believe she got tapeworms from dragonflies!

Actually, it takes a lot to do it. You have to get chickens free of pretty much every disease, every parasite; give the drugs at different amounts, by different methods (i.e., oral, injection); collect, ID, and test the eggs at several different stages... and so on, and so forth. However, I...

Okay, finally catching up, been crazy around here. This is the actual warning label on Duramycin: "Warning Do not slaughter birds or swine for food within 4 days of treatment or calves within 5 days of treatment. A withdrawal period has not been established for this product in pre-ruminating...

I see a lot of posts lately with people who have, or are looking to, medicate their chickens. Except for some coccidiostats (get rid of coccidia drugs), there are no approved antibiotics or dewormers for laying hens. The reason is that they don't know how long the chicken can still have that in...

The I-70 Scout (our local paper) carried this story front page. The Reuters story leaves out that Deer Trail thinks it will be a great money maker because they will sell licenses over the internet and will send out a nice certificate that people can frame. They figure if they get 1000 people to...

Have always heard it "Mon-trose". It is overall a pretty rural area. Like most of Colorado that is not mountainous, Montrose is arid so it can be cold in the winter and hot in the summer, but the snow melts quickly when it falls. It is a fairly quick jaunt to Grand Junction if you need "big...

Just don't end up in one of the places they advertise as "45 minutes from Breckenridge". That is South Park. The land is cheap, but the area is flat, windy, very cold in the winter and only fit for cattle ranching unless you erect lots of outbuildings. I just mention it because the people who...

I have noticed our common dual-purpose breed hens do the best - Barred Rocks, New Hampshire Reds, Rhode Island Reds, Black Sex Link. The Anconas seem to hate the heat and have stopped laying, the Speckled Sussex has lost weight with the heat, but the Easter Egger does really well and keeps...

I like it! Very simple, and conjures good feelings.

Quick catch-up and then off to Iowa to see my 99 year old grandmother! 1 - thanks for the advice about the light and the Pullet door. The hubby will be installing it this week while I am gone. 2 - we use a tractor tire as a nest box, the girls picked it out when they just started laying and...

Not from there but spent a lot of time in that area growing up. Thinking of moving?

Going to install our new "Pull-et" Chicken door this week. Anyone else here have one? Hoping it holds up to the wind out here...

Mine never do that, darn it! Both have been perfect gentlemen. You can pick them up, pet them, friends who come out can hold them... I told myself it would be easy. I would keep a rooster for breeding purposes until he became mean and then eat him and get a new one. I finally had to find a new...