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Thank you Eggcessive. I had to buy the safe-guard liquid for goats. Could not find the others at the local farm stores. I just started another thread with the hopes of finding a recipe to mix the safeguard in water. Just saw your reply now. The little bottle was $33 and I might return it. To...

The local farm stores were out of Safeguard paste for goats (which can be used to worm chickens) so I purchased a bottle of liquid Safeguard wormer for goats. Can someone please tell me how much to put in a gallon of water for chickens? How many days do I put it in front of them? I know...

What are the easiest worming methods? I am very interested in wormers that can be added to drinking water. Are there any that do not require egg withdrawal?

I have a lot of problems once my marans eggs reach the hatcher. Are you using fine sandpaper to scratch off some of the coating? Do you have better luck raising the humidity higher than other breeds? Or lower? What humidity works best for you in the hatcher? I can not do the dry incubating or...

I have 4 Genesis 1588 incubators...for the past several years I have had very bad luck during the lockdown with chicks dying in the shell the last 3 days. Just recently I was told by someone that he puts his eggs in covered containers with air holes drilled in the sides (he has circulated air...

I have looked at only a few on line... saw some that held 200 or 300. Dont want to go larger than that.

When I moved a batch of eggs to the hatcher I realized I had forgotten to plug in the turner. Still had good hatch results.

Would like to hear your experiences with smaller cabinet models.

I am seriously considering purchasing a small cabinet incubator. Send me your thoughts ... pros and cons on the different models. Turner or not?

I have 4 Silverudds Blue hens and 1 rooster from the hatching eggs that I purchased from KYtinpusher last year. I will try to get some pictures up. I love these chickens. They are pretty chickens and the eggs are not all the same shade of green altho close. This is their first season...

Thanks Woobsie... ok one more time...You mix the denagard in a gallon of water. How much denagard? a tsp or a tablespoon? water the chickens for 2 days in a row with the denagard...and then plain water repeat every 4 weeks. Do you put any juice in it or do your chickens drink it fine?

I just bought my first bottle of Denagard and plan to mix up a batch tomorrow.What is the longest a batch can be used or should it be made fresh daily? Pretty sure I have mycoplasma again. Last summer I had 6 chicks hatch out of 100 eggs. I had two hens that had a brown area show up on their...

I battled mite for months. Treated the chickens and the chicken house many times. Never saw any, but learned they were mites because some feathers looked like someone cut them with a scissors. Our hen house was new and chickens had not been in it for a year when this happened. We decided that...

Thank you for your replies. I have recently heard a lot about Black Jack and plan to buy a bucket this weekend.

What can I use to apply to our pine floor that wont be toxic to the chickens? Local hardware man told me that Thompsons changed their formula and he is not sure it is toxic.

I have also put oregano flakes in each nesting box. I am doing as much as I can... When this summer is over I need to sell my older hens... can not do that if they have a problem. Wouldnt be ethical.

There has been no birds added. No change of foods. No heat yet... already wormed. So what would you use instead of sevin? Remember I have close to 20 chickens in the hen house. Not easy to treat that many. I know this has to be mites. Every time I dust the chickens, I will see know growth of...

Our hen house is 10 x 20 and I have about 18 standard chickens in there. If the others are plucking out feathers, why is the skin around their rears so bright red? They also have access to a very large chicken yard during the day

I finally got miss-wanna-be-a-mom hen to break. Every time I went in to the barn I would remove her from the cage and jostle her around. She wasnt too crazy about that... I also hung the cage from the ceiling and would give it a little push which caused it to swing for a bit. She...

I know it is not lice because I do not see them. I never see any little black mite. There are no feathers in the hen house or outside but there are bare areas on several of my chickens. One hen looked as if someone used a scissors and cut off feathers. After dusting ... after a week or...