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Originally Posted by Chicken Rustler 

Like since you were ENABLED in March.  

Like she suddenly fell off the turnip truck in March ?

March of 2011 ?

2010 ?

Got done a little while ago vaccinating chicks for Marecks with cflaming her DD, and SadieSue. Did 44 birds in just under an hour.  It was great having all the helping hands to get it done fast. And it was way more fun than doing it alone! Thanks ladies!

Oh, and I got rid of two of my white silkies, but somehow I ended up only being down one. I can't figure out thos chicken math!

Thanks for the Silkie Dana! He( I am pretty sure now too) is doing fine. Very mellow! Oh and I am going to have a good dinner tonight with some good wine to go with it!

We did sort of a trade, instead of me just pawning 2 of mine off onto her! Lol!

I really hope one of those whites is a girl!

Hope everyone is enjoying this Pac NW weather we are having!  So tired of the wet stuff!

Ive always used cedar shavings in the coop, dusted with DE and put apple cider vinegar in the water. They arent confined to a small space at all and free range all day.
Its suppose to all be a natural way of preventing.
Im trying to do everything naturally and organic and we try to do everything chemical free But Im at a loss here. Ive done everything I thought would avoid it and here I have lice.
 

Anything I missed Id like to know about though! 

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Originally Posted by KMHunter 

 

ETA- Did VF build this coop for you? This would make a great additional silkie coop for next spring if I want more!

No, I bought the coop from a guy in Enumclaw.  He's a cabinet builder and he makes coops with the spare wood and sells them.  It was unfinished, and required a lot of work to get it to a usable state, but it only cost $300.  My husband said the wood on this coop was top grade and would have cost us close to that had we bought it ourselves.  The craftmanship is absolutely pristine.  It's obvious the guy does a beautiful job building cabinetry.  He said he builds 2 coops a month and lists them on Craig's List.  If you are interested, PM me, and I'll see if I can find his e-mail address.  It is a lot of work to get it to the state we have ours in, but it was really worth it.

We had to make some modifications and finish it - it came unpainted and without any wire or roofing.  We had to fill in nail holes, add some boards to enable us to attach hardware cloth on all the openings, cut the nest boxes bigger (because of Drama, our Light Brahma), move the roosts because they were both up top and way too close together (10" apart - perfect for silkies).  We knew Drama might not be able to get up there, so I placed one lower and centered the other.  We had to roof it and add roofing material to the ramp because our girls were not able to walk up the ramp.  Last night I built a poop "board" using a wood frame and screen door material, and it worked great to keep the pine chips from falling through the slatted floor.  A newspaper floor to keep the pine chips in wasn't working.

We painted 3 coats on it to make it easily washable.  We had most of the paint, because the red is the trim color on the doors of our house and the white is trim from our house, too.  We had to buy the high gloss white on the inside, so that was an extra expense.  We had extra roofing from when my husband roofed our house, so it's kind of cool that the roof is exactly the same as our house and shed and didn't cost us anything extra.  We did have to buy the latches and such, because I wanted lockable black latches.    I'm guessing, by the time the coop was done, we probably put about $400 total into it.  Not to shabby for a coop of that quality!

It was a lot of work, but we are very pleased how beautiful it turned out.  The added bonus, when the neighbors saw it - they were smiling about it.  Yay!  Let me tell you, after all we went through, seeing pleased neighbors was the icing on the cake!

If you can get to a feed store & buy a bottle of WAZINE.......and treat your entire flock.

Then next week do Eprinex, a week after do the Eprinex again.

Repeat in the fall before winter sets in so the birds do not have a parasite load over the winter.

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Originally Posted by Chickielady 

If you can get to a feed store & buy a bottle of WAZINE.......and treat your entire flock.

Then next week do Eprinex, a week after do the Eprinex again.

Repeat in the fall before winter sets in so the birds do not have a parasite load over the winter.

 i have never wormed my flock and the one time i had a sick bird taken to the vet the fecal tests were clean

in the fall the birds get the rotten pumpkin and squash. i cut them in half with a shoval and the seeds have a natural worming agent in them

i figure all my birds are clean right now because i gave them a few lugs of cherries every few days (when they eat all the previous cherries)

birds get the runs just like humans from too many cherries, course i wasn't expecting the black poo.... but pretty sure they are spoiled birds and have clean guts now.  :P

this is probably the only flock given cherries to their hearts content.

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Originally Posted by Chickielady 

A good time to start is just before POL.

I keep reading POL.  What does that mean?

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Originally Posted by 4cats3kids1hubby2many 

Chicken Math is nuts.  I started off with around a dozen miscellaneous birds for egg laying. At the present time - including chicks - I have ? I don't know. Let me add:

Hannna and 4 100% English Orps           = 5

Che' and 4 Quincy chicks (75% E.Orps)  = 5

Trio Seramas on 9 eggs                         = 3 +?

Layer pen, 1 roo & misc hens                 = 8

Quincy and Ellen                                    = 2    

Grow out pen 5 100% E. Orps               = 5

Grow out pen 8 Golden Comets             = 8  (for egg laying pen)

Martha with 5 babies (Seramas)            = 6

Serama grow out pen                            = 18

Misc banty pen (good broodies)             = 4

Voltron, AC and other serama hen         = 3

 

Is this all of them?  Oh yeah, 6 Beltsville Turkeys. okay let me do the current math ....Um this is some 73 birds at present. I'm nuts. Okay, now I need to go and get ready to spend the day in Brewster at a swimmeet. Everyone have a good day.

See and dis is prezactally why when people ask me I make it simple. I just say ya know when ya get in the double digits who cares how many.       WOW I can't  believe ya got that many birds. 

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Originally Posted by itsren 

Oh my goodness... my little Drama reeks so bad tonight!  I could smell her halfway across the yard.  I don't have any pet shampoo... does it have to be a special shampoo?  If I'm going to buy something, I want to buy the right thing.

I'm bumping this question.  A little stinky girl needs a bath.  I read that soap is toxic to chickens, so I don't want to buy something dangerous for her.