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    All Natural Herbal Remedies and Recipes for Chickens

    This is the first time we have ever done it. We saw large round worms in their poo, thus indicating a heavy load was probably present. Took a fecal sample to the vet for a fecal float test to confirm which parasites we were dealing with.
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    All Natural Herbal Remedies and Recipes for Chickens

    We did! We had confirmed round worms by visual first and then fecal float test. Confirmed clear by fecal float test as well. The vet also told me they do not recommend worming unless a confimred heavy load is present.
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    Anyone use natural wormers with success?

    I am going to post this on a few of the boards because I really feel like some natural miracle has occured on our small farm. We are certified organic so if we wormed with a synthetic wormer, we would lose certification for our birds. Most other farms just cull wormy birds, but we thought we'd...
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    All Natural Herbal Remedies and Recipes for Chickens

    I am going to post this on a few of the boards because I really feel like some natural miracle has occured on our small farm. We are certified organic so if we wormed with a synthetic wormer, we would lose certification for our birds. Most other farms just cull wormy birds, but we thought we'd...
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    Parasites ? / Organic Natural Wormer?

    I am going to post this on a few of the boards because I really feel like some natural miracle has occured on our small farm. We are certified organic so if we wormed with a synthetic wormer, we would lose certification for our birds. Most other farms just cull wormy birds, but we thought we'd...
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    The Trap Nesting Thread

    You may be right although with two of them, I feel fairly certain it was two eggs in one day. The first lay was early in the morning, second lay in the evening. Our hens like to be outside and only come in the coop to lay and leave so it is unlikely that a hen would sit on a nest in the morning...
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    The Trap Nesting Thread

    There are the hooks. They are very long so the chicken pushes it when she enters the nest. Once released, the door rests on her tail until she turns and settles. Occasionally they get spooked by the door touching their back and they back out of the nest, which just results in a closed door, with...
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    The Trap Nesting Thread

    It's to keep them from pushing the door open since I didn't want to go through the effort of adding edges to all the nesting boxes. It has 1 nail through the middle so i can rotate it and open the door. I'll try to get a picture of the hook. I drilled a small hole through the top of the box and...
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    The Trap Nesting Thread

    It took me a bit to make time for this, but I have made one well working trap door with my existing coop. The boxes are 11.5" wide and talk and about 14" deep. I made my door 10x10" with the split at 3". I used a suggestion from Storey's "Raising Chickens" book and fashioned a hook out of heavy...
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    The Trap Nesting Thread

    Thank you! I will check it out now
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    The Trap Nesting Thread

    They are in a run that is 60x60 feet, so 3,600 square feet, about 36 square feet per bird. In the coop, we have two coops, one with 12 boxes, the other with 16. There are no greens left in the area, so they might be bored. I have recently learned about fermented feed and ordered a few...
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    The Trap Nesting Thread

    WAY TO GO READING EVERY POST!!! I couldn't keep going after about 24 pages. Impatient I guess
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    The Trap Nesting Thread

    I have handled them at night and it's like a dream come true. It is just hard for me to get here at night (this is work) because I have two young kids and my husband and I work opposite shifts so our little guys can be with at least one parent at a time instead of daycare. If this were my home...
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    The Trap Nesting Thread

    The RIR are bullies! For God knows what reason, the old manager order a run of fancy chickens this summer. Thought they have the sweetest temperaments, they serve no purpose on this farm. Most of them are sultans and the RIR's pluck out all of their head feathers... its hilarious looking, these...
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    The Trap Nesting Thread

    ok, I should have read first.... the link is great! I am so glad it has photos.... thank you!
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