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[Sally PB]

Tomorrow is the last day of the TSC Purina Feed experiment, and it'll have been 7 days. I'm pitching the rest of it after snack time tomorrow.

Today is the first day I've gotten 3 eggs since October 4th, out of 6 hens. And it's only 2 pm, so there might be another.

 

[Sherry68lynn]

Careful on just worming to worm. My goat world is dealing with that in my region. A lot of worms are just resistant to the dewormers now. It’s a huge problem. So now when worm count is high by the time I see pale eyelids in goats or too skinny it’s too late. Worms are great at becoming resistant to meds. Not saying you don’t know this and plan a schedule just more for people scrolling through reading.

I do a chicken spa day every spring and fall. It’s an all day event. My son and husband off and on catch them in the run. Lol then I have a everything set up. Water bucket to wash their feet. Check to make sure everything looks good, nails , no bumble foot, eyes ect.. I dry them up. Check their vent and do a scan for mites. If they are bad with mites, I use alcohol in a spray bottle and spray them down really well. Kills them on contact. They don’t like it but I figure it’s that or them getting sick. Only had one broody chicken that was extremely bad that I soaked her completely down. She seemed relieved. Most times though they don’t have any ( we sprinkle DE in coop) I put them in the bucket tray with DE and give them a good dust bath. Then I neosporan their waddles and cone if they have black on them or wounded..lightly oil their legs and feet tops for mite protection. And then give them a dewormer and multi vitamin doze in spring only and just a multi vitamin boost in fall. Then leave them go and free range while I do the next one. Since, doing that my girls are very healthy looking. Cones and waddles nice and bright red and no mites. They don’t seem to molt as bad either.

 

[NatJ]

We sorta nerfed ourselves encouraging our feral flock to... well be feral. They develop the habit if we collect their eggs they move to a new nest akin to if they loose their nest to a predator.

Have you tried putting some fake eggs in the nest when you take the real ones?

That worked nicely with some hens I used to have. They thought the nest was safe because it still had "eggs," so they kept laying there, and I didn't have to hunt for new nests all the time.

 

[miss heny]

Have you tried putting some fake eggs in the nest when you take the real ones?

That worked nicely with some hens I used to have. They thought the nest was safe because it still had "eggs," so they kept laying there, and I didn't have to hunt for new nests all the time.

We gonna attempt that, but we're also planning to actually trap them since we're shifting to doing a breeder conservation type set up with possible egg selling on the side. So need birds trap for NPIP and AI testing.

 

[Kanekoded]

First of all, don't kill the messenger...lol.

Secondly:
These were the TSC feeds that were tested:

-Producer's Pride 16% Layer Feed Mini Pellets
-Purina Layena Layer Crumbles
-Nature's Best Organic Egg Layer Pellets
-Dumor Organic 16% Layer Crumbles
-Dumor 16% Egg Maxx Pellets
-Flock Party Egg Maker Pellets

Producer's Pride 16% Layer Feed Mini Pellets contains about twice the glyphosate of any other brand tested, the next highest was Purina Layena Layer Crumbles.

Glyphosate is a pesticide and we all know that pesticide's and birds don't mix. Whether it has anything to do with egg reduction is still a mystery but I wouldn't feed it to my birds. I'd rather be safe than sorry.

 

[casportpony]

First of all, don't kill the messenger...lol.

Secondly:
These were the TSC feeds that were tested:

-Producer's Pride 16% Layer Feed Mini Pellets
-Purina Layena Layer Crumbles
-Nature's Best Organic Egg Layer Pellets
-Dumor Organic 16% Layer Crumbles
-Dumor 16% Egg Maxx Pellets
-Flock Party Egg Maker Pellets

Producer's Pride 16% Layer Feed Mini Pellets contains about twice the glyphosate of any other brand tested, the next highest was Purina Layena Layer Crumbles.

Glyphosate is a pesticide and we all know that pesticide's and birds don't mix. Whether it has anything to do with egg reduction is still a mystery but I wouldn't feed it to my birds. I'd rather be safe than sorry.

Were actual numbers given?

 

[southwestclucker]

First of all, don't kill the messenger...lol.

Secondly:
These were the TSC feeds that were tested:

-Producer's Pride 16% Layer Feed Mini Pellets
-Purina Layena Layer Crumbles
-Nature's Best Organic Egg Layer Pellets
-Dumor Organic 16% Layer Crumbles
-Dumor 16% Egg Maxx Pellets
-Flock Party Egg Maker Pellets

Producer's Pride 16% Layer Feed Mini Pellets contains about twice the glyphosate of any other brand tested, the next highest was Purina Layena Layer Crumbles.

Glyphosate is a pesticide and we all know that pesticide's and birds don't mix. Whether it has anything to do with egg reduction is still a mystery but I wouldn't feed it to my birds. I'd rather be safe than sorry.

More details are forthcoming, he said

 

[Kanekoded]

Were actual numbers given?

Not yet, in the next day or so they'll be available and I'll post them.

 

[3KillerBs]

aint jumping our fence topped with barb wire for that already get enough scowling from doctors

You might live in the rural south if your doctor asks about a bruise on your leg and accepts "I tripped over a trailer hitch," as a perfectly reasonable and ordinary explanation for a woman in her 50's to have an injury.

 

[miss heny]

You might live in the rural south if your doctor asks about a bruise on your leg and accepts "I tripped over a trailer hitch," as a perfectly reasonable and ordinary explanation for a woman in her 50's to have an injury.

Yeeeup

Been yelled at for using my body to stop a round bale from rolling in the pond. Not my fault they cost so much!