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    volunteer potatoes

    Too late- we had them for supper. Tasted great! They were a blue variety I tried last year. They actually got bigger this year on the volunteer plants
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    volunteer potatoes

    Hi, I have potatoes that came up on there own in my garden(probably from a few I missed last fall) Live in Wi so was surprised they came up. Are they ok to eat?
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    compost from chicken bedding

    thanks I am feeling alittle better about it. I resisted even using it on my birds until I lost one. How do you control mites on your flock?
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    compost from chicken bedding

    permethrin, the more I read I feel alittle better about using the compost.I'm sure some of the produce I buy have been exposed to a lot more. How do you control mites on you birds?
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    compost from chicken bedding

    too late I already spread it out on my garden this Fall. It never crossed my mind till I was doing some reading on an old book "Silent Spring". It has been composting a good 6 months and will be a over a year old next Spring. That's why I was wondering how long it persists. I have always tried...
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    compost from chicken bedding

    pyrethrimin- a synthetic insecticide
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    Feather Loss-Bare Belly-NOT MOLTING

    I've had mites kill a beautiful rooster so then changed my mind about using Poultry dust.
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    Feather Loss-Bare Belly-NOT MOLTING

    Can you use your bedding for compost if you use sevin or poultry dust in their pens?
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    compost from chicken bedding

    Does any one know how long Hi Yield Garden dust takes to break down in compost or soil. I used the insecticide on my chicken bedding after I lost a rooster to mites. I composted the bedding not really thinking about the added dust, since it can be used in the garden but a having second...
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    foamy eye

    thanks very good site. I'll save it
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    foamy eye

    From what I've read you should not close your coop too much , they need good ventilation but no drafts. Being in Texas I would not think you have to worry. My hens have been in a wood shed with only alight bulb for heat and heated dog dish for water. Each day I open their coop to the outside...
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    foamy eye

    thanks so much, I'll get some tomorrow. Hopefully Spring will be here soon. We have 3 feet of snow on the ground!!!!!
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    foamy eye

    yes sneezing,one other bird has been sneezing for awhile now, but has seemed fine. I thought it was just from being cooped up due to the cold weather- its been hardly above zero since November. thanks
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    foamy eye

    Well thought I was going to make it thru this long cold winter with out any sick hens. But tonight one of my hens has a bubbles in her eye. any ideas what this is?
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    Wood ashes for coop dust bath

    thanks I'll have to look at what I can set up tomorrow.
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