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Well I have to admit that I am a smoker. I swear I will quit this year. I keep trying and want to have a baby so... Anyways, I've heard of many ways to use processed tobacco (usually in cigarette form) to treat/prevent internal and external parasites and pests. I don't recall ever hearing of a...

Ugh, so sorry, it so disturbing when they do nasty stuff to each other. I'm having a similar problem right now and have found my offenders but I'm not sure what to do because it is all of my polish hens. Over winter they just decided to stop going outside. We didn't even have snow so it...

Great video! I have a friend who is totally freaked out by the idea of having bacteria living on her. Sending this to her right now! For the record there are no bones in fish "guts" but usually the spine, ribs, head and fins are being disposed of at the same time. I've thought about giving...

I hope things start warming up for you guys soon...I won't tell you what our weather is doing here. I don't think the other Canadians are talking to us! So I'm "hatching" 8 eggs for a friend right now and I'm afraid I have to tell her there won't be any chicks. I've started only candling at day...

Most importantly, chicks need a place to be moved into that's not in your house pretty quickly. I really recommend having a coop before you get chicks. They grow up so fast!

Wow 100 birds...catching and treating 35 sucked! Hmmmm, bucket of oil and the catch and dip method? A trough of oil that they have to walk through to go inside? Haha yeah they would probably eat that.

It's possible that you have already eradicated the little invaders. I was the one who recommended nustock to you and it is still what I would use. Since nustock is primarily an oil with a ton of sulphur you get the oil doing its job suffocating and the sulphur repelling any survivors. Sulphur...

Thank you and everyone else. Unfortunately he was still in really rough shape this morning but still hungry so I fed him eggs until he fell back asleep and then culled him. I was surprised by how upset I was but its so different culling a bird that you have been trying to save and comforting. I...

Don't know if anyone will remember mentioning how wet my DL is and that I thought one of my young polish cockerels may have botulism. Well he is still alive today and eating better than he was before if I direct his face into a water/feed/poul-vite mixture but there is definitely something...

I am planning on cleaning out my coop next weekend. It's just too wet here right now and my DL is getting kinda gross. I'm starting to worry about mould and have a cockerel that I believe has botulism so I'm going to have to bite the bullet and start fresh. It's been such a weird winter. Only...

Bah! These are the people who make me want to act like a jerk and show them pictures of battery farms and commercial meat operations while they're eating it. Oh well more for you to hoard!

Isn't it the greatest way to get rid of weeds?! We bought our place a couple years ago and all the gardens were completely filled with grass. After trying to clear them the back breaking way multiple times I covered the whole works with cardboard and deep litter. My husband thought I was insane...

Eeek! Thank you! Hmmm now I just have to find a way to tell him I can't take it for now. Since he's offering me a freebie and he's such a nice guy so I feel so bad.

Yeah you guys are probably right... Dang I really want that boy! I'm not sure whether its passed through hatching eggs. I believe that like other influenzas there is more than one strain and I'm not sure which they are dealing with over there. I don't think that all strains can be transmitted...

I assume everyone's heard that there have been confirmed cases of avian flu in multiple commercial farms in Langley and Abbottsford which is across the "pond" as we call it from where we live on Vancouver island. Well last year we ordered some sexed chicks from a gentleman over there who runs...

I admit I've never really worried about those things when we leave either. Always figured if anything went wrong I would get a call.

Agreed, one can always use more chickens! I'm still paring down at this point in preparation for spring hatches. Think we're down to about 35. Although I'm being sent a silver laced polish cockerel chick in February to make up for one I purchased that turned out to be something else entirely...

I know its random but there is a firearms law in Canada that allows people owning livestock to keep a firearm in an outbuilding unlocked and apparently loaded. Crazy! I could see storing it with a lock and a loaded magazine nearby for emergencies such as the bears but that's just ridiculous...

I'm completely with you on the bugs. Thank goodness for the bug killing house cat! We have two gun safes one with a key and one with a combination. Both are in the bedroom, one build into the wall and one in the closet. We are pretty hardcore about gun safety at our house. My mom even had the...

Maybe it's time to take up hunting! I thought I was going to hate it and cry when I actually killed a poor defenceless animal (seriously I've taken a robin to the vet, I'm a sucker) but I love it! Not the killing part but tracking, stalking and sitting so quietly that birds land on you. And just...