Arizona Chickens

[pimachickens]

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I'm not going, but as a fellow forum member I have to vote for the rooster gang sign

. Ever since tracydr's description of "Three fingers onto of the head like a roosters comb and then strut sideways a few steps", I have been having flashbacks from when my kids were really little and into The Wiggles. Anyone who has had kids in the last decade must know what I'm talking about. Come on now everyone, sing out... "quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, cock-a-doodle-doo". For those of you who haven't had the pleasure, here you go.

You can thank me next week, after the 14 millionth replay in your head.

You're welcome.

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Thanks Pima - that made my morning! My kiddies days were 2 decades ago though (Holy crap I'm old!)

However...

The low res of my eyeballs in the AM caused me to see the crew of the starship Enterprise singing that song...

...come on - you know you saw it too!

Umm, actually I hadn't seen that. But I now will never NOT be able to see it when I look at them. That really makes it quite hilarious.

 

[pimachickens]

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Can I borrow your 5 year old?

Last time I did it by myself. Get chickie, wrap in towel, talk to her and then grab wattles with one hand and squirt with the other! It is almost like wrestling a child who needs eye ointment/drops.

Mama Hen Chris, you may have both of my boys. Ages 7 and 9. Fairly skilled in animal husbandry. Kind to chickens. Good at collecting eggs and scooping poop. Very smart, mostly well behaved and helpful. One is an excellent cook. In general, pretty good boys. However, having just finished cleaning their bathroom I have decided I can no longer live with creatures that disgusting.

 

[Tracydr]

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Will let you know what I come up with! Like your ideas. Will you be checking in at the Duck and Decanter or the Grow House?

Not ever having done this before...

I've no idea!

Do you get to see the same things from both starting points?

I just checked it out and the grow house is much closer but if we are making a loop I guess it doesn't matter.

Mom bailed out & we'll be taking my dad, son and grandson.

I'd be interested in going, too. Maybe Joe and I can go separately. Sounds like you have quite a crowd.

 

[Tracydr]

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Buttons, ribbons or the rooster gang sign?

I'm not going, but as a fellow forum member I have to vote for the rooster gang sign

. Ever since tracydr's description of "Three fingers onto of the head like a roosters comb and then strut sideways a few steps", I have been having flashbacks from when my kids were really little and into The Wiggles. Anyone who has had kids in the last decade must know what I'm talking about. Come on now everyone, sing out... "quack, quack, quack, quack, quack, cock-a-doodle-doo". For those of you who haven't had the pleasure, here you go.

You can thank me next week, after the 14 millionth replay in your head.

You're welcome.

Edited for spelling

Is there a link to the Tour de Coops? I'm really in the dark, as always.

 

[Tracydr]

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but my chickens have tape worms and from what I read, the tape worms in chickens are not the same as in dogs.

That is correct, different species tapeworm than dogs get.... Roundworms though are the same I do believe and can be transferred from one to the other.

I thought it was the other way around? Same tapeworms, different roundworms?
Parasitologist is so complicated. What about horse worms? Any of them cross over to chickens, dogs or humans?

 

[turkeybreeder]

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good luck at the show your lucky you got to go
to the show i had my entry ready to mail it
but did not have a ride to go

 

[Tracydr]

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Will have to try that. Worries me that I do not get it down the right place. I sure do understand "the look".

yup, some of my hens are easier than others. i have never done the buttercups or the younger set of ameraucanas and they are WILD! i caught a buttercup the other day and was holding her and the entire time this thing was screeching like a banshee. the noise was horrible that was coming out of such a tiny chicken. they really don't like to be held. hopefully they will start to lay soon and they will chill out. otherwise they can go live at tracy's and sleep in the trees and give her "the look" and scream like scary blair witches.

They'll fit right in with the Egyptians and Hamburgs. Was trying to get a pile of eggs out from under one of the Egyptians the other day and she pecked the heck out of me, before flying out of the coop, making a crazy ruckus. When I wormed everyone, the only ones that fussed were those two breeds. Everyone else was well behaved. Now they are flying over the fence, despite their wings being clipped. When I went to get a Hamburg back into the pen the other day she ran like a road runner.
They are getting really pretty since they started laying, I'll give them that. Maybe when I live on 80 acres they'll like their space more, if I decide to move my flock? I'm undecided. May just sell and start over, too many animals to be moving cross country. Although, I'd probably take a few of the "pet chickens" like the banty hens and my two buttercups.

 

[turkeybreeder]

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congratulations tanichca i hope you win
sadly i could not go because i did not
have a ride or anyone to carpool with
i have good quality of animals that can
win

 

[southerndesert]

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That is correct, different species tapeworm than dogs get.... Roundworms though are the same I do believe and can be transferred from one to the other.

I thought it was the other way around? Same tapeworms, different roundworms?
Parasitologist is so complicated. What about horse worms? Any of them cross over to chickens, dogs or humans?

Here is a great article dealing with this subject, http://extension.unh.edu/resources/files/Resource000811_Rep844.pdf

from the article:

Several species of tapeworms affect poultry. They range in size from very small (not visible with the naked eye) to 13 inches long. Each species of tapeworm attaches to a different section of the digestive tract using four pairs of suckers located on their heads. Most tapeworms are host-specific, with chicken tapeworms affecting only chickens.

Tapeworms require an alternate host to complete their lifecycle. Hosts include ants, beetles, houseflies, slugs, snails and termites. The system for raising the birds determines the likely alternate host, with caged birds being infected by houseflies, litter-raised birds being infected by termites and beetles, and free-ranged birds infected by snails and earthworms.

edit to fix link...

 

[Gallo del Cielo]

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I learned a fair amount about worms when I was researching the feasibility of doing the fecal counts in the chickens last year. I think that both tapeworms and roundworms are relatively specific about their hosts. Dogs are most often infected with Dipylidium caninum which use fleas as their intermediate hosts and less commonly by different species of Taenia and Echinococcus which use rodents, rabbits and other large mammals as their intermediate hosts. Chickens are infected by completely different species from three genera of tapeworms Choanotaenia, Hymenolepsis and Raillietina. There are a variety of roundworm species a chicken can have, but the most common is Ascaridia galli, which are restricted to birds as a primary host. I might be wrong, but I think these guys have a direct life cycle--they don't require an intermediate host. Other less common species of roundworm do though. I have no idea about the kinds of worms horses get, but I suspect they aren't too important to poultry given that I listed the most common ones above.