Recent content by talkingriver

Dawg53, thanks so much for your reply. Broody and chicks are doing well and I don't see her panting any more, so you're spot on. I did buy some Ivermectin from my local Tractor Supply but the box is unopened so I'll hope they will take it back. I'm inferring from your post that Valbazen and...

I hope someone might be able to guide me here; I haven't found this exact situation in the forums or elsewhere online. No, I'm not trying to worm new chicks -- but there is an immediate need to do worming in the flock, and some happen to have just been hatched. I found an unmistakable pile of...

Hi Sejeroo -- There is a large goat farm in Lebanon, Beltane Farm. They have a website and a Facebook page. I don't know if Paul does "rent-a-goat," but if not, he's the most connected goat person I can think of. He might know someone else, or closer to where your friend is. (I'm not sure where...

cluckberry, how many chickens shared the one tums per day? I sometimes have the thin-shelled problem too, though my girls have oyster shell at all times. This sounds like an intriguing idea. Thanks for sharing it.

Okay, that makes sense. Into the compost it will go. Thanks, everyone.

Okay, Collingwood -- that feed will be on the next plane to Australia!

Hi, BayBay Peepers -- Thank you for the suggestion. This year's new flock members have LONG since been off of the medicated feed, so it wouldn't be good for them to have it again. I took them off of it at 10 weeks, I think (or whatever the bag said), and they are all at the point of starting to...

I haven't found a post on this, so I'm hoping someone can chime in. I have about a third of a bag (maybe 10 lbs.) of medicated chick starter from early last Spring. I certainly won't be using any of that again before next year, and I didn't feel it would stay fresh enough to save. I tried to...

Skibuny73, I always wondered about those differences, because hatcheries don't seem to know either. I bought Slipper as an Araucana. In a prior year, I bought two Ameraucanas and two Araucanas from a different place, and two had face fluff and two didn't -- but they all had tails. It doesn't...

kubotafoot, Thanks so much for your input. I did know about not interfering if there was trouble with the hatch itself; I guess I was concerned about the possibility of an egg not being fertile, and breaking on the others as mama moved around. I know I'd have had to clean that up lest it smother...

Just an update -- Everybody's doing fine! Slipper brought them outside the "cube" on the third day, and not long after that I had the pen extension completed so they could go out on the grass in a safe area. After being at the bottom of the pecking order, Slipper is the happiest hen in the yard...

Thanks again, iwiw60. My concern was that the lip was too high for them to get out in the first place. I'm sure I can rig something and get the ramp in place too. Thank goodness it's the weekend and I can spend more time out there watching them. Work has gotten extra boring with all this good...

Here are two of the four. She's just great with them, letting them bumble about and peck at her beak and eyes etc. -- she doesn't care. The last two eggs are still under her; I'm thinking they weren't viable. I'm told she'll push them out of the nest when she feels they won't hatch? This is day...

Goodb, she's an Araucana. Her brood comprises a variety of breeds with a Blue Orpington rooster -- but all the chicks hatched from this roo (it's my sister's, and they've hatched a dozen or more over there) look pretty much like dad, mostly black! Talk about a strong gene pool.

This morning I was able to discern four chicks as they popped in and out from under mom. And now I have my first post-hatch question: Is it okay that Slipper sometimes lightly pecks them, or at least one of them? She's not hurting it, but she pecks at its beak and toes on occasion, one here, one...