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Thank you. That is a good idea, to have it ready and reduce the amount of time i have to spend preparing the eggs for the chickens. I have a Calcium Magnesium with Vitamin D3 pill . I wonder if that will work, I don't want to overdose them. They get a probiotic/vitamin and mineral and...

I still have a few girls dropping egg from the roost at night. I'm going to give this a try or will cull the ones with the issue. Thanks for sharing the recipe. I'm going to try it.

The coup is more than big enough for 9 hens. We had 14 total but reduced flock over 2 months ago to only 9, the largest hens are 2 copper marans and a wyandotte. there is no fighting and they have a large run area. the reason why we had 6 nest boxes still in the coop. I really don't think...

Another thing I've been thinking is predators. We set out traps and have caught racoons, skunks and every once in a while husband has caught opossum. Their roosts are located on the longest walls only one wall has a window (covered with wire cloth). The front door and a large window are...

9 hens and we have 6 nest boxes with curtains on them. Saturday night we were just putting them up and then i look up and the Wyandotte had just dropped an egg, it cracked on the poop board. Sunday morning there was another very thin egg shell cracked on the board, Barnevelder. They started...

They have both oyster and crushed egg shells. I started offering Alfalfa Hay, which someone said it has protein and calcium. They have vitamins/electrolytes/probiotic in the water. (vitamin D and B vitamins) That's what I told my husband, they have until the end of the 14 day egg...

I have 1 year old hens, some have been producing thin shell eggs, some drop the egg at the roost on poop board. Can't be food, calcium because I have other chickens laying very nice eggs and they are pretty consistent. Coop is spacious enough, has very nice air flow, poop boards cleaned...

I thought I wasn't going to have eggs for 1 month! So my 14 day count down begins today.

Valbazen is the only one you have to re-dose? I dosed with Safeguard according to what I read on other posts - it was your post. I'm so appreciative you and kathy have responded to these questions. I will have to worm the chickens again in 6 months? If I do I should switch to Valbazen since...

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I've never treated my 1 year old hens for any worms. I do have 1 hen that is 2 years old. I thought both wormers you are supposed to re-dose in 10 days for eggs that hatched. (is this incorrect?) And the application of Safeguard is 5 doses each time? Reason I used Safegaurd - it was...

I could switch from Safegaurd to Valbazen though? I gave safegaurd for 5 days straight. now I'm waiting 10 days to give a next dose and I was wondering If i could just switch to Valbazen now?

I thought that when you use Safegaurd you repeat dosing in 10 days, I assumed you do the 5 day dose again and wait 14 days for eggs and If I would have used Valbazen it's only 1 dose then wait 10 days and then 1 dose and wait 14 days for eggs? I'm confused, can you tell? This is a long...

I just finished dose 5 of Safegaurd Wormer for my chickens. I will wait 10 days and do the 5 day dosing again? Or in 10 day should I use Valbazen and dose them ONE time and wait 14 days for eggs?

The chickens have lice. I could not really see them but when we bathed the white leghorn we could actually see them I started another threat to keep this one about worming. Need your advice please.

I thought the chickens didn't have any lice, but when I bathed the white leghorn chicken I saw them. I am currently on day 3 of 5 worming with Safagard. I bathed and cleaned chickens feet and applied Comstock for scaley mites. I have some Ivermectin 5mg per ml Can I use it on the...

16% layer crumble. I did notice in spring there was a semi molt going on with the flock and I also noticed some scaley leg mites. We kept checking for lice or feather mites and they are clean. I've sprayed the roosts (neem) cleaned out the nest boxes. I 've changed feeds from H & H layer...

I've been having issues with the chickens laying soft shell / soft spots / incomplete closure at tip / One has vent gleet, with white discharge and diarrhea, have probiotics, electrolytes, vitamins in water for over a week. We've opened more ventilation in the coop and expanded the run. We...

I'm going under the assumption that all animals get parasites and by the time you actually see evidence in the poop that's because they are infested. Since I'm using safegard next time I need to use Valbazen? I will need to go back and read the dosage for Valbazen.