Arizona Chickens

[Tracydr]

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Speaking of DE. I saw the weirdest thing yesterday. My 50lb bag of DE broke on the floor of my shed ( dirt floor). When I tried to clean it up, there were hundreds of bugs in it, mostly earwigs (pincher bugs). I thought it was supposed to kill those things? Lots of larva, too, like they were breeding and hatching in it!

 

[pimachickens]

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Speaking of DE. I saw the weirdest thing yesterday. My 50lb bag of DE broke on the floor of my shed ( dirt floor). When I tried to clean it up, there were hundreds of bugs in it, mostly earwigs (pincher bugs). I thought it was supposed to kill those things? Lots of larva, too, like they were breeding and hatching in it!

That doesn't give me much confidence in the effectiveness of it.

 

[Tracydr]

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I'm positive! I'm about to get rid of my Egyptian, he's driving me crazy! Not the crowing, it's his flying! He flies into my tomatoes no matter how I fence him out. Than his little girlfriends all have to go in with him. Tomorrow morning, I'm cutting his flight feathers and all the other delinquent girls will get flight feathers cut, too! Then, I'm going to Highley Feeds to get some tall fencing wire and I'm building a fence to make them a pen. Maybe if they stay in a pen awhile they'll forget about Once I get lettuce, cabbage and other winter stuff planted, they have to stay out of the gardens. I need to teach them that the walkways are theirs and the gardens are ours. That Egyptian is the troublemaker. Him and a couple of buttercups.

don't EVEN tell me that buttercups are troublemakers! i have 4 of them, well, 3 live with me and one lives with laree(there was an incident). anywho, they are 6 weeks i think and just FREAK when i open the growout pen door! but they are getting so pretty. i clip ALL my birds wings due to THE BEAGLE and we got the first half of the bird netting up over the run today so they hopefully can't fly out into the rest of the yard to meet their demise. so are you telling me Tracy, i don't want egyptians?

Unless you like raising birds that have the mentality of a pheasant, you will not like Egyptians. They are the cutest chicks I've ever seen and great foragers (too good) but fly, fly fly over everything.
My buttercups were freaky babies but I had four flighty breeds being raised together. They are getting much better with age. They're seven weeks old and getting whiter all the time. I like them because they are always curious. But, they do can be little troublemakers, too. Whenever somebody is not where they're supposed to be I can guarantee that a buttercup will be in on the crime.

 

[Tracydr]

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don't EVEN tell me that buttercups are troublemakers! i have 4 of them, well, 3 live with me and one lives with laree(there was an incident). anywho, they are 6 weeks i think and just FREAK when i open the growout pen door! but they are getting so pretty. i clip ALL my birds wings due to THE BEAGLE and we got the first half of the bird netting up over the run today so they hopefully can't fly out into the rest of the yard to meet their demise. so are you telling me Tracy, i don't want egyptians?

Unless you like raising birds that have the mentality of a pheasant, you will not like Egyptians. They are the cutest chicks I've ever seen and great foragers (too good) but fly, fly fly over everything.
My buttercups were freaky babies but I had four flighty breeds being raised together. They are getting much better with age. They're seven weeks old and getting quieter alll the time. I like them because they are always curious. But, they do can be little troublemakers, too. Whenever somebody is not where they're supposed to be I can guarantee that a buttercup will be in on the crime.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

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Speaking of DE. I saw the weirdest thing yesterday. My 50lb bag of DE broke on the floor of my shed ( dirt floor). When I tried to clean it up, there were hundreds of bugs in it, mostly earwigs (pincher bugs). I thought it was supposed to kill those things? Lots of larva, too, like they were breeding and hatching in it!

That doesn't give me much confidence in the effectiveness of it.

That's odd! However, it's not entirely surprising. Due to the chemical composition of the cuticle, some insects, or particular stages of an insect, are relatively uninfluenced by the adsorptive properties of the DE. E.g. DE is not very effective at all at controlling mealworm larvae, but is very effective at killing the pupae and beetles (http://directory.umm.ac.id/Journals/Journal of Stored Products Research/Vol37.Issue2.Mar2001/318.pdf).

 

[Arizonachicken]

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Thank you for the great info! I'll be making a run to Home Depot tomorrow. I hope your right about the labor! I was thinking that even the THOUGHT of lice would put me labor...no dice. Looks like I'll have a busy day tomorrow! Last thing...any hints as to effectively use the Sevin dust. I read that you could put the bird in a garbage bag with the head sticking out and gently roll 'em around. That just gave me disturbing visuals.

 

[LarryPQ]

Rubbermaid tub
1 bag play sand
2 big scoops of DE
1 Tube od Poultry Dust


Mix together, grab a bird, put bird in tub, hold your breath, and shampoo with the mixture.

 

[LarryPQ]

expect flapping.

 

[mclevinson]

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Cool - How many panels did yo wind up using?

All but 3, and I next need to build the separator walls, so I end up with 3 areas.

 

[mclevinson]

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I lost a SLW earlier this summer, heat stroke. She was under a year old.