INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

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Sally Sunshine said:
you will laugh when I tell you how I started doing it since I am not to lift more than 50lbs. I use a snow sled, drop the feed off the top of the stack on it and drag it through the gravel to the coops, lay the trash can sideways slide the entire sled into the trash can and tilt lift the trash can back upright and then just open the feed and let it in the bag.... Hey a girls gotta do what she has to do! they wont bag at 50lbs! only 100s
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Hey, whatever works for the one doing it! I'm only feeding 7 birds at the moment, compared to God knows how many you are (bet you don't even know), so my 150# lasts me a good while.
 
Sally Sunshine said:
you gonna braid some hair fire? :lau
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I use those small rubber bands to mark and sex chicks.
 
Saris said:
Urg, shopping on Amazon for my chicken medicine cabinet is a pain. I have Banixx Wound care, and 3 little packs of the sav-a-chick electrolytes and probiotics, and somewhere I have some blood stop powder stuff. I'm ordering Corid and Vet tape and....?

Tweezers and razors and scissors are already floating around the house.
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Sally Sunshine said:
How to Prevent Chickens from Getting Coccidiosis
A few good management practices will help control coccidiosis. Contact your veterinarian for full details.
  • Anticoccidial drugs mixed in the feed are used to limit high levels of infection.
  • Keep chicks, feed and water away from droppings.
  • Roost birds over wire netting if brooding arrangements make this possible.
  • Place water vessels on wire frames to eliminate a concentration of wet droppings, in which the chicks can walk to pick up or spread the disease.
  • Keep litter dry and stirred frequently. Remove wet spots and replace with dry litter.
  • Avoid overcrowding.
  • If coccidiosis does break out, start treatment immediately.


http://www.merckvetmanual.com/mvm/poultry/coccidiosis/overview_of_coccidiosis_in_poultry.html

http://www1.agric.gov.ab.ca/$department/deptdocs.nsf/all/agdex4616


typically alot of runs, and lethargy, blood in the poo, sometimes blood doesnt show in the poo, death. you can take a sample of poo to the reg vet and they can check it too for about $15. as the chickens get older they build ammunities to them just like puppies do, they have a vaccine you can give chicks if you order them or you can give yourself, but I dont know much about that vaccine. or you can just have some sulfa meds/corid on hand if you are going to hatch and grow out chicks alot and if you see anything odd treat them, the med is an antibotic. you can research it.

I keep a sulfa product from jeffferslivestock.com
called SMZ-Med 454 this on hand




Soluble powder containing 100% sodium sulfamethazine per packet.
Add 2 Tbsp to each gallon of drinking water of chickens for the control and treatment of infectious coryza, coccidiosis, acute fowl cholera, and Pullorum disease and turkeys for coccidiosis.
Treats bacterial pneumonia, bacterial scours and E. Coli in swine.
Treats cattle for bacterial pneumonia (BRD), shipping fever, foot rot, calf diphtheria, and acute mastitis.


http://www.jefferspet.com/products/...84af9fa2600f00000499/533884af9fa2600f0000049c
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chicken hawk 33 said:
HEEELLLLPP
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kwhites634 said:
Hey, whatever works for the one doing it! I'm only feeding 7 birds at the moment, compared to God knows how many you are (bet you don't even know), so my 150# lasts me a good while.
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I dont count actually havent a clue... guilty
 
Sally Sunshine said:
I wanted to show you what I use for my chicks because of the serama and their "lifted butt" they have a better tendency to get pasty butt the first few days of life.

I use grow gel, sometimes I even put it in the bator as the first several hatch,because the eggs can be of all sizes some tend to hatch hours earlier than others, and I like to keep as many chicks in the bator as I can to get them all to hatch as quickly and get it over and done with, so they get hungry and the grow gel gives them a great start in life and helps give them something to do, but I put marbles in it so they dont get stuck in it of course! I make enough to make about a teaspoon or two when it has water in it, then let them finish it up in the brooder. I add this pro vits to the waterer.......


Anyways this is what they get in their waterer...... I know it doesnt look like a lot is in there, but it goes a long way in chick waterers and I only give it the first two weeks and then I add AVC into their water WELL worth the money, and they grow and feather faster! I swear by this stuff!! I never loose chicks in the brooder! but mind you I DO NOT ASSIST CHICK HATCHING EITHER!!! BECAUSE WE SELL CHICKS!

http://www.jefferspet.com/products/...84af9fa2600f00000499/533884b09fa2600f000004ae




Vets Plus Poultry ProVita

Item #0040957
$7.99
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Poultry ProVita is suggested as a supplemental source of vitamins and direct-fed microbials (probiotics) along with Inulin (prebiotics) for backyard poultry. It can be used for all classes of poultry during times of stress. Use daily or during shipping, receiving, vaccination, debeaking, molting, peak production, hot weather, etc.

Directions For Use:

  • always prepare fresh solution
  • mix one scoop per gallon of drinking water
  • discard unused portions after 12 hours
  • one gram scoop included




http://www.jefferspet.com/products/grogel-plus-b
GroGel Plus-B

Item #0040636
A hatchling supplement for day-old poultry. Comes as a dry powder to mix with water forming a bright shiny green, bite-sized gel that attracts the attention of all poultry species. Provides hydration and concentrated nutrients along with beneficial bacteria that helps hatchlings get off to a good start.

 
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Sally Sunshine said:
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Specifications:

per 4 oz.

per lb.
Vitamin A (IU MIN)

2,500,000

10,000,000
Vitamin D3 (IU MIN)

1,000,000

4,000,000
Vitamin E (IU MIN)

2,000

8,000
Riboflavin (MG MIN)

750

3,000
d pantothenic Acid (MG MIN)

2,000

8,000
Folic Acid (MG MIN)

125

500
Thiamine Mononitrate (MG MIN)

375

1,500
Niacinamide (MG MIN)

5,000

20,000
Pyridoxine HCL (MG MIN)

300

1,200
Ascorbic Acid (MG MIN)

3,750

15,000
Vitamin B-12 (MG MIN)

2.5

10
Menadione (MG MIN)

1,000

4,000
Salt

11.0% (MIN) 13.2% (MAX)
Sodium

4.7% (MIN)
Potassium

3.8% (MIN)
Magnesium

0.26% (MIN)

It lacks 2 things that I want to give my birds - Biotin and Selenium

I add some ground up human tablets I buy in bulk - just 5 tabs per 100lb of feed for adult birds.

just 1 gram is enough for 1 gallon of water
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