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  1. Suzannah

    Affordable incubators and eggs for school project?

    Thanks for all of the info and suggestions! We are going to go to the extension office this afternoon and see what we see!! I will post pictures and results as we get going; if you want to know about my school, this is our website: www.honeyfern.org.
  2. Suzannah

    Affordable incubators and eggs for school project?

    No, not homeschooling. I am a small, non-profit private school where each student designs their own project for the year. (I am here: www.honeyfern.org). One is building a tiny house (www.tinymaison.blogspot.com), a go-kart (www.go-kart-go.blogspot.com) and now my chicken girl...
  3. Suzannah

    Affordable incubators and eggs for school project?

    We have a different kind of school set-up; not traditional at all. 104 on the automatic turners, though. We have a place to go; the student is designing a chicken coop, so they will go there when they are grown, and there is a place for them when they are not, too. No fertilized eggs where we...
  4. Suzannah

    Affordable incubators and eggs for school project?

    I have a student who is designing and building a chicken coop for her school project this year, and we have decided that we might like to try to hatch the eggs while we are building. We were looking at this set for quail, but I was wondering if you had any suggestions for other sets. We would...
  5. Suzannah

    Ended Your Chicken Pictures Needed For The BYC 2013 Calendar

    Cynthia Chicken The Chicken Sisters
  6. Suzannah

    Graphic description - maggots on butt

    Srsly. Sorry.
  7. Suzannah

    Graphic description - maggots on butt

    I did it. GAG. I am glad, though; it went from two dime-sized spots to deep, quarter-sized divots overnight. I am going to check her again today and do it again if I have to. She is in a little isolation area. All other chooks are clean. Cleaning their pen after breakfast today. Couldn't do...
  8. Suzannah

    Graphic description - maggots on butt

    This will be my plan for tomorrow - thorough cleaning of coop and behinds. The other birdies look ok, at least the ones I saw today. WIll check everyone. Thank you for the help!!
  9. Suzannah

    Graphic description - maggots on butt

    I honestly don't think I am capable of digging like that. I am seriously nauseous thinking about it. Can I smother them in something? I can do everything else, but I don't think I am physically capable of doing what you say. We do have flies, pretty bad, in their coop. Will diatomaceous earth...
  10. Suzannah

    Graphic description - maggots on butt

    My flock has had fairly poopy butts lately; nothing runny, but just like they can't get it past their tail feathers. I grabbed one chicken to give her a trim and wash and found two round "sores" (they weren't red, brown, with no blood) filled with tiny, writhing creatures above her cloaca on...
  11. Suzannah

    How do you know when a hen isn't broody anymore?

    Thanks!
  12. Suzannah

    How do you know when a hen isn't broody anymore?

    Oh, and I did try the dunking her in cold water. Didn't work at all!!
  13. Suzannah

    How do you know when a hen isn't broody anymore?

    I put Mabel, the black Orp, in a wire cage a couple days ago; how do I know when to take her out? It seems to me that she might just run straight back to the nest at this point. We don't have a rooster, so there is no sense in a broody hen, and she has been very persistent.
  14. Suzannah

    Another sick chick

    I don't have any Tylan. Where does one get that? Just at Tractor Supply?
  15. Suzannah

    Another sick chick

    Anyone? I put her in the "chicken hospital" - in a large, open dog crate in front of a fan with a little food and water with electrolytes and probiotics. I don't know what else to do. I checked her butt, and it looks totally normal. Only a little diarrhea on her hind feathers.
  16. Suzannah

    Another sick chick

    We just lost a hen two weeks ago (fine in the a.m., 6 hours later, dead), and now we have another sick one. 1) What type of bird , age and weight. RIR, between one and two years old 2) What is the behavior, exactly. a bit sluggish, not cackly like usual. Crusty ear vents (I don't know if that...
  17. Suzannah

    Lost a chicken - gross reason, and I need help

    Do I dust the chicken itself with Sevin dust? I am sorry if that's a stupid question, but I have no idea. Can I use diatomaceous earth for the same thing? I have a huge bag of food grade that I can put all over the coop and the main area where they scratch while they are roaming. Should I go...
  18. Suzannah

    Lost a chicken - gross reason, and I need help

    In order, sort of: I did trim butt feathers, and that worked for a little while, but they grew back (?), and I need to do it again. We just checked the other chicken and although poopy, no other signs like the other chicken. I will trim and wash again tomorrow, and I have Swat for horses. The...
  19. Suzannah

    Lost a chicken - gross reason, and I need help

    Found a chicken today, dead. She is one of a pair of chickens that we got almost a year ago who chronically pooped on themselves (not diarhhea, but somehow couldn't get it past the tail feathers, even the other fluffy-butt chickens could do it). Here is the WAAAAAY TMI.... It looks like...
  20. Suzannah

    Just curious who else is living super frugal

    TONS of people aren't living frugal. My brother's wife "checks in" with her phone at spas, and they go on extravangant vacations. Most people I know eat out nearly every meal; they are amazed that we don't. My school runs a food pantry out of a local church; one of the patrons comes to the...
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