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  1. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    That must be why my son named him Star. 💫 He does a good job too. I’ve spotted a hawk sitting on the outer fence of the run of a couple of times, and he has the hens in the coop, and he’s got himself parked in the pop door not letting them out.
  2. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Tax.
  3. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Correct, but because it is expressed as a percentage, we don’t need to know the density of the solute, if I understand this correctly: https://chem.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Introductory_Chemistry/Chemistry_for_Allied_Health_(Soult)/08%3A_Properties_of_Solutions/8.01%3A_Concentrations_of_Solutions
  4. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Okay, I've redone the math and I think we both got it wrong. 44.2% ought to be .442mg/1ml 442mg/1ml would be 44,200%, right? The dilution is 3oz./10gal. Which would be 0.3 oz./1gal. 0.3oz. = 8.87206ml (just used an online conversion for this bit) 1gal = 3785.41ml So, 8.87ml concentrate /...
  5. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Okay, so another mite question: I’ve heard that Elector PSP is supposed to be effective for mites and lice of all types. The down side is that it is super pricey ($160). The active ingredient is Spinozad. I was at Lowe’s looking for a puffer to use to try to get permethrin powder on chicken...
  6. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Mite tax.
  7. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Thanks for the info. Yep, tiny brown things that run around near their vents. I usually don’t notice them anywhere else on their bodies though. Ironically, the infestation seems to have started right after I changed the coop bedding. But probably they were there before and I just noticed it then...
  8. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I have never heard of using paraffin. I wonder how that works.
  9. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    I believe it’s northern fowl mite. It doesn’t look like lice to me, and they aren’t red. I think I might use Sevin spray to get the vertical surfaces in the coop, and I’ve mixed sand into their dust bathing areas just to try to break up the clay a bit more for them. I’m seeing an improvement...
  10. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Thank you 🙏🏻
  11. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Petrie, could you link the article or book by Nichol that you are referencing? I’ve tried scrolling back to find it, but I’m missing it. I’m on my 3rd permethrin treatment trying to get rid of mites/lice, and just this morning I see more crawling all over the decoy eggs again, so I guess...
  12. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    My basement/floor is pretty cool. I’ve tried moving the lamp higher but then they shiver. I keep a close eye on whether or not they are acting hot or cold. You can’t see it in the picture, but the lamp is suspended from the ceiling and is hanging a good 6 inches above the brooder at the moment.
  13. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Thought I’d share a sweet observation with all of you because it has to do with a rooster and with chickens keeping to their own breed. Also because my husband’s eyes glaze over when I talk bird observations 😅 So this evening I added an extension onto our brooder. We had planned to put the...
  14. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Finally! Some real tax. Deliberately not chiming in because I don’t want to bog down the thread with old stuff. Hopefully this will hold me for a bit since I’m only on page 907 of 1322…
  15. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Lurking tax. Not chickens, but they’re still pretty. And it shows just how cold it is here this morning. I’ve never seen a grackle hunker to the ground like that before. Also, not a bad picture for having been taken by a cell phone through binoculars.
  16. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Yep. We took a 10 year break while the flightless mammals we're raising were too young to help out with chickens.
  17. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Also, the tax system makes this one of the best threads for looking at chicken pictures. :D
  18. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    It was downright predatory ;) No offense taken to the question. I first came upon this thread because I was poking around in the stories forum, and this thread happened to be at the top of the list. I’d seen the terms “battery hen” or “ex-battery hen” used in other places on BYC, and being in...
  19. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Will you allow about another month of forbearance until I can get my new chicks? :oops: I don’t have a lot of pictures from my old flock. They were pre-smartphone. I can offer an unrelated but cool photo of a red-tailed hawk I was lucky enough to snap once though.
  20. becstalls

    Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

    Well, I’ve been lurking and catching up for about a month, so I expected etc I owe a bit of tax. I’m currently chicken-less so I’ll just not say anything to bog the thread down until I can offer more tax-wise. But here is the roo from our old flock giving me the stink-eye when he was young, and...
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