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[casportpony]

Quote: You know what they say about excuses, lol.

-Kathy

 

[zazouse]

zaz
One egg was laid on Sunday the other was laid on Tuesday I shipped them Wednesday and she received them in the mail Friday the oldest egg was 5 day old when she got them. I have had eggs do that several times over the years and I never set a egg over 7 day old

Sorry i never ever seen an egg go bad so fast pehaps it is because it was scrambled by the PO?

 

[KsKingBee]

I don't know Margret but i know safeguard in their eggs works cause i have processes 100's of birds a year and not one time have i found worms not even in my dogs they all get wormed the same way.
I go with what i know works.

Zaz, do you measure out the eggs and the amount of Safeguard? I want to do this but want to do it the way you found works. Oh, and uh, you process your dogs?

 

[margaret8]

Zaz, do the peafowl east the scrambled eggs without any problems?

 

[zazouse]

Everyone here loves them but if they are not use to them it may take a couple days to get them to try them and they will like them, pea can be a bit fickled when it comes to the good stuff, try feeding them a couple scramed eggs for a day or two once one eats them they all will it is the perfect food ya know

 

[zazouse]

PS scramble guinea eggs work also so if ya got any which ya should then use them and save yourself a trip to town if ya ain't got any on hand.

 

[zazouse]

Zaz, do you measure out the eggs and the amount of Safeguard? I want to do this but want to do it the way you found works. Oh, and uh, you process your dogs?

Only if they kill my birds then these guys do the processing

 

[zazouse]

Zaz, do you measure out the eggs and the amount of Safeguard? I want to do this but want to do it the way you found works.

I use a half a bottle at a time but if you are just doing pens or a small flock i would put 1cc per bird in the eggs so if you got 3 birds use 3 ccs for 3 days, get them use to eating the eggs first though just in case they can taist the meds, never had that problem with mine they see eggs and they will bird dog ya to get them

 

[KsKingBee]

I use a half a bottle at a time but if you are just doing pens or a small flock i would put 1cc per bird in the eggs so if you got 3 birds use 3 ccs for 3 days, get them use to eating the eggs first though just in case they can taist the meds, never had that problem with mine they see eggs and they will bird dog ya to get them

Ok, so measure the amount needed per bird per pen and it does not matter how much egg. I would suppose that the more egg the less flavor of Safeguard. DW feeds a lot of scrambled eggs, all the birds love them. Babies get the yolks and the peas get the whites.

Change of topic; do you think that one can feed too much egg yolk to young birds? Talking up to two weeks old. We feed the yolks to the new hatchlings for a couple of days and then start mixing it into the medicated starter for the first week or so. We have a lot of extra duck eggs for the birds to eat. You mentioned guinea eggs, we haven't found a guinea egg for two weeks, I think they stopped laying....

 

[DylansMom]

I use a half a bottle at a time but if you are just doing pens or a small flock i would put 1cc per bird in the eggs so if you got 3 birds use 3 ccs for 3 days, get them use to eating the eggs first though just in case they can taist the meds, never had that problem with mine they see eggs and they will bird dog ya to get them

Just wanted to add that I have tried several times over the years to get my peas to eat scrambled eggs, but they have never developed a taste for them. I have tried with just plain egg and no meds and they will each usually take one piece as a taste and then walk away and leave the rest laying on the ground. We put our liquid safeguard in the water, it does settle, but you can use a stiff bristled brush and stir it up each day. I generally do it twice to 3 x per year. We do it when it is not terribly hot out and we remove all water from the pens the night before, 12 hours without water and they will take a Big Long drink. Each night we take it out again and then stir well before returning it the next day. If we see a bird looking off I will catch them and administer it straight down the throat. Since starting this regimen we have not lost a bird to worms and it has been about 12 years now. We have lost one to egg binding, one to hardware disease, and 2 chicks to cocci last summer but none to worms. My dogs get worms and my cats get worms, we know this because our vet will run fecals on them and we then worm them. So we know the worms are here and the birds do get exposed. My vet will not run fecals on my birds, they give me a lame excuse and the run around. The closest avian vet is 1.5 hours away, so he is used for emergencies only. I have birds here that are 19 years old, so I do believe that putting it in the water works, but EVERYONE needs to be capable of and prepared to CATCH their birds when necessary. Just my $.02 .