Arizona Chickens

[Mahonri]

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I hope so... I named the Blue Wheaten "Junior" because he looks so much like Geoffrey.

I named the Splash Roo, "Heber" since he spent a couple of months up there in the cold country.

 

[kevs-chickadees]

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Sorry to hear. We just did the deworming yesterday, kinda fun kinda hectic. We used the valbazen also and by the size of the bottle and how little is used it looks like it will last forever. I hope it keeps that long. The Rotti was feeling left out so we threw him a slice of bread with a dosage on it. Can't hurt right? He's as big as a goat.

 

[Sonoran Silkies]

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Never heard of using fabric softener on birds. My suggestion is to wash a bird that you are NOT planning to take and see how it works. I had to re-wash half a dozen birds for Farmington as I used too much glycerin in the rinse. Can we say FLAT crests, not pouffy ones

Bluing won;t affect the black, but you need to be really careful to not dye your birds blue/purple

Done that a time or two, and I rarely use bluing any more (it helps that I have very few whites

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So what would you suggest I use to get them white & fluffy???
( it almost seems like a tide with blwach commercial

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I know people who DO use Tide w/ Bleach Alternative, and I've used All w/ Bleach Alternative.

 

[southerndesert]

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My chickens have them too.
I thought dogs couldn't get the tapeworms chickens get.

We just always do all the critters on the property when we have any kind of internal parasite as there are several different species of tapeworm. I think you are correct though that some are not transferable to dogs, but I believe roundworms (not what we have now) are? Not sure myself so we do all the critters to be safe.....

 

[turkeybreeder]

yesterday was a sad day for our family

our dog that we had for 10 years
pass away yesterday due to heart failure

 

[Beckyhsinglsc]

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[Tracydr]

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I'm so sorry. That's very hard to lose a family dog.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

Darkling Beetles and Tapeworms Yes, it's true that darkling beetles can serve as an intermediate host to tapeworms. However, the culprit would more likely be the Lesser Mealworm, Alphitobius diapernis and not the Common or Yellow mealworm, Tenebrio molitor. Consider the mode of transmission--tapeworms require an intermediate host. Beetles, termites, snails, slugs, ants, grasshoppers, earthworms or houseflies must first eat the tapeworm eggs found in an infected chicken's feces. I think that different tapeworm species are fairly specific with their intermediate hosts. The tapeworm can then complete the next portion of their lifecycle within that host and then wait until the host is eaten by another chicken (or the same chicken), thereby infecting that host (or re-infecting the same chicken). So, as long as you don't feed your mealworms tapeworm infected chicken feces, it is virtually impossible for them to serve as the intermediate host. As you probably know, chickens generally don't let mealworm larvae lay around on the ground long enough to pupate, become beetles and then potentially become infected.

The good news is that the eggs don't survive very long once excreted by the chicken, especially in our climate. I think the life expectancy of a tapeworm egg is measured in hours to days, rather than days to weeks in our environment. They require a certain amount of moisture to remain viable. Wet pine shavings, straw or other forms of poultry bedding are thought to be the principle refuge for tapeworm infected feces and intermediate hosts. Of course, you can't do much to avoid an infected beetle or grasshopper from wandering into a chicken's foraging area.

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

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That must be crushing. I'm so sorry.

 

[gallopingfrog]

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I'm really sorry to hear that.

It's so hard losing a pet that you've had so long.

But if love could have save him/her, they would have lived forever.