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WHOOOO HOOOOO!!!!! So excited FOR YOU!!!! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Please put me down on your list for eggs and let me know when they start laying?!?!?!?!? Pretty please?!?!?!?    

 I can do that but Annies Mom will have them way sooner than I will and I only have one hen...

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Originally Posted by Ogress 

I LOVE pickled Herring (mom is from Holland so I ate it and salty black licorice like candy - yum!)

 

Never tried sturgeon in any form except caviar. Don't care for caviar

 Oh I love black licorice what is salty black licorice?  My husband went fishing years ago and got sturgeon I didnt know how to cook it so it all went to the garbage after a while. ( yea it was frozen)

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Mine aren't laying yet, good thing! I still don't know if I will worm now...I just scooped poop from everywhere, lots was fresh and nothing had worms :-/

 

 

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Originally Posted by Chicken Rustler 

I always been told that WAZINE and others. have an egg withdrawl of about 2 weeks!!

I don't use the Wazine first - I went straight for the Eprinex. I thought maybe since Eprinex is topical it may be slower acting than ivermectin so they are not getting a huge dose at once. I don't know if it is true, but I have never had a problem. I also heard that Eprinex does not have a withdrawl time, but I feed the eggs to the dogs for a week starting a couple days after I use the Eprinex. Maybe it helps the dogs too, but I bet the dose is too small.

 

How old are your chickens? I heard you should not worm before 6 months of age.

I actually spent a substantial amount of time with them this evening examining each birds' poo (yeah, I'm a bit OCD when it comes to my hobbies) and nobody had the runs tonight! I think Tilda must have just eaten something that didn't agree with her yesterday. Plan: strictly stick to the new food and bleach solution water (with electrolytes tomorrow because we got new birds today), a tiny bit of scratch in the evenings after I'm sure everyone has had their fill of feed and free-range, and give it a good week or two before re-evaluating things. My birds are only between 10.5-13.5 weeks old.

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Why Wazine then Eprinex? I have Wazine...

Wazine will eliminate some of the internal parasites so as to not overwhelm the bird's immunal system with dead worms.
Then Eprinex as I said.

I always been told that WAZINE and others. have an egg withdrawl of about 2 weeks!!

Mine aren't laying yet, good thing! I still don't know if I will worm now...I just scooped poop from everywhere, lots was fresh and nothing had worms :-/

You won't see worms in the poo unless the birds have a MASSIVE overload of parasites.  We live in too wet of an area to not worm our birds....

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Reminds me that I should take a bowl of mealworms out to everyone. they love their mealworms.

And I wanted to say that I have zuchinni, sweet meats and spaghetti squash coming out of my right ear, and lettuce, radishes, snow peas and cress coming out of my left ear.

No flies or mealworms, though.

Oh good lord...I read this too fast, and somehow saw "sweaty meats" instead of "sweet meats"...ROFL...must've been flashback from that movie I saw last night!! 

Question: Will two 11-week-old small Marans be fine together in the outside hutch overnight in low 50 degree temps? There's an almost fully enclosed area, and an area with an open front (wire). They know each other and I'm sure will huddle but I'm worried because they are in the hutch inside the run instead of in the coop with everyone else. I know I need to stop worrying but please assure me they'll be ok!

Also...do Marans run small? The 3 I have (which are each crossed with an EE by coincidence!) run very small for their age. Will they catch up or are Marans smaller birds than the rest of my LF breeds?

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I was not going to use wormers on my flock initially; I figured our grandparents did not. Then one day I saw a bunch of little itty bitty squirming things in a fresh chicken poop. That big of a parasite load can't feel good for the Hen. My girls free range all the time, and I have a lot of lavender and garlic and other plants in natural wormers that they scratch around in, but it did not prevent them. I read they can pick up a lot of parasites from eating earthworms. My chickens love earthworms, andy yard is full of them! On days that I am turning the garden soil or compost heap and expose the worms, all the hens are flocked around me gobbling up the worms. Feel their crops when they roost those nights and they are all squishy full of earthworms!

having a table egg customer (or hatching egg customer) complain of worms IN THE EGG is not cool either !!!!!!!!!!!!  

As in an earthworm? they can get in the eggs? ick.

No, if a bird has a heavy enough parasite load, they can get into the eggs as they are being made...  

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Originally Posted by FirewifeJess 

Question: Will two 11-week-old small Marans be fine together in the outside hutch overnight in low 50 degree temps? There's an almost fully enclosed area, and an area with an open front (wire). They know each other and I'm sure will huddle but I'm worried because they are in the hutch inside the run instead of in the coop with everyone else. I know I need to stop worrying but please assure me they'll be ok!

 

Also...do Marans run small? The 3 I have (which are each crossed with an EE by coincidence!) run very small for their age. Will they catch up or are Marans smaller birds than the rest of my LF breeds?

Yes they'll be fine, and I don't know about their size, other than being crossed with EE can make them smaller... ;)

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Originally Posted by Chickielady 

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Originally Posted by FirewifeJess 

Why Wazine then Eprinex? I have Wazine...

Wazine will eliminate some of the internal parasites so as to not overwhelm the bird's immunal system with dead worms.
Then Eprinex as I said.

I always been told that WAZINE and others. have an egg withdrawl of about 2 weeks!!

Mine aren't laying yet, good thing! I still don't know if I will worm now...I just scooped poop from everywhere, lots was fresh and nothing had worms :-/

You won't see worms in the poo unless the birds have a MASSIVE overload of parasites.  We live in too wet of an area to not worm our birds....

Thank you, I think I'm going to wait this time since they are only 2.5-3mo old right now, and worm them at 6mo right before winter. That would put them being wormed at about October 1? Sound about right?

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Messy little boogers...I love their black patend- leather feets though !!!

LOVE THEM!!! SO ADORABLE!! My hubby isn't convinced we need them, though. Having to come up with a strategy!!