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Good Morning, Happy Chicken People! Off to the auction today! Good day with good people. Wish you could all come!

I had a chicken and a turkey co-brood. They had gotten up under the barn where I couldn't get to them. They walked off with a dozen or so chicks. No poults. Mama turkey and Mama hen raised them together for about a week before Mama turkey turned them over to Mama hen. However, if Mama hen...

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I wouldn't try it that way around. Duck eggs are waxy for a reason! Plus, didn't we just have a discussion about ducks not turning eggs like chickens...that some of them would be squished down into the mud!? But, regardless of turning, I think chicken eggs under a duck are a mess waiting to...

Double. My iPad hates me. :(

Good Morning, Happy Chicken People! A new day dawning. What will it bring?

I use a half unit, with the worst months doubled. I've got around 150 chickens, forty-ish turkey poults, rabbits, calves, a cat, and four big doggies. No horses. The Bt is safe for mammals and fish, but it affects the life cycle of lots of insects. It's not species specific.

I also have a bumper sticker on my car that says, "I like poetry, long walks on the beach, and poking dead things with a stick." I find parasites fascinating. Some of them are amazingly specialized. And some can control the behavior of their host...including us! But in/on me or my critters...

Oh....and I mis-read what you meant about the mosquitoes. I haven't looked at what they offer for those. I tried to take a picture of the batch I just got in. I'll need to release them tomorrow. They're too small without a camera, so this is blurry. The round disk is a dime. The black dots...

They are specific to flies. If they run out of flies, they die off. They don't start attacking butterflies or anything. ;) they don't do mosquitoes, unfortunately. And they'll drown. FYI...researchers are working with a phorid wasp that parasitizes fire ants. They have to make sure it's...

Neither. They lay eggs in the pupae. When you order them, you get fly pupae. Each one has several adults soon to emerge. If you have enough flies to support a sustainable population of these, you've got waaaaayyy too many flies!

We get them from Arbico Organics. They call them "Fly Eliminators". Same thing. Gnat sized parasitic wasps that parasitize fly pupae.

Fly traps and fly parasites released monthly from April through October. The two together seem to do it pretty well.

Not weakness. Everyone balks at things that are alien to their nature. There are lots of people here that can't kill a bird. If the strain of MG I had was as mild as the one you have, I might have stuck to selling eating eggs and left it at that. But mine was a horror.

I'm glad when my kids (27 and 30) visit, they always ask what needs doing. Neither is good at sitting around. And I have a niece who is now 17 who comes up and visits me every summer who works. She loves chickens, and will gladly shovel out chicken houses! (She doesn't work so well for my...

Kudos to you for relocating rather than killing it! I tell people to bring all their non-venomous snakes to my place. I don't mind losing an egg or three, and I've never lost a chick to a snake, but they sure keep the mice under control for me!

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Yes!

When we had MG last fall, we would have either had to close the farm, which included monthly monitoring by the state, or we could kill everything off. No birds could leave, and offal from slaughter had to be buried...although we did get permission to have that landfilled. They said the MG...

There 's always freezer camp. MG birds are still edible. Looky what I have... Two that made it through a test of quail egg packing that was mostly a fail. But these two made it! Cute little guys! Yes, photo is blurry. Tell it to the phone!