Arizona Chickens

[Mama Hen Chris]

I have out of habit watching their poop. Is the typical bird worm big enough to see move in their poop? Mites were hard enough to spot when I was young, I have been so busy with my projects that I have not yet started a mite program. If ash would help, I got ash. My Grandmother feed use 1/2 piece of burnt toast every meal, to absorb toxins in our food. She also sent away for a light gray tan hard cube she would brake up into powder and put a little in her tea. I tasted it once, it tasted like dirt or clay, as to my memory. She was a very interesting lady.

One of my girls had tapeworm. They look like pieces of rice blobs that move and change shapes. I wormed the girls with Valbazen to get rid of them. (2 treatments)

 

[squeakyballs]

Oh crap!

 

[KingR0o5t3r]

does anybody know of a breeder of show quality jersey giants? Preferably near Tucson

 

[kevs-chickadees]

I am not too sure about that Wazine stuff. We always preferred to worm the chickens with pumkpin seeds and sunflower seeds. If you keep them in an enclosed chicken yard away from wild birds, you probably shouldn't have much of a worm problem.

The same goes for lice and mites. We used the ashes from the wood stove in their dust bath. That worked. And spray their legs with something oily, like WD 40.

Do you feed them the seeds year round or just if and when you notice a worm problem?

 

[rufus]

I can't remember if to keep pasty butt from happening do you add to the chick feed ground oats or ground wheat? I have been addinf something and no problem with my serama chicks but need more and I have nothing to tell me what it is. I do have rememberance problems.

To prevent pasty butt, put just a bit of sod in the brooder. They will tear it apart and make a mess, but there is something in the soil that prevents pasty butt. It may be a mineral or an organism, but I do know that it worked for us. The pumpkin and sunflower seeds do the trick also. I suspect they go down the throat scraping the gape worms down into the crop. From there, nature does it's thing.

Use only wood ashes in the dust bath, and be sure to sift the nails, staples etc. out.

It is hard to keep the wild birds out of the coop, but do the best you can. My coop is only about 38 inches high with a hinged lift up lid made of one inch chicken wire. It keeps the birds out, and I can lift the lid and get into the coop. Also, the coop is not visible from the alley or the street. That goes a long way in preventing problems.

I still haven't been able to evict those feral bees that moved in after we got rid of the chickens. Everyone we call wants to spray an insecticide. I really wouldn't feel good about putting little chicks in there after they sprayed that stuff. I was hoping to buy a CO2 fire extinguisher to freeze the little buggers, but my wife ripped off my retirement check this month for Christmas shopping. Maybe next month.

For what it is worth, I received a catalogue from the Brush Mountain Bee Supply. It would be cheaper just to buy the equipment and just keep the bees, but not in my chicken coop.

My kids said that there is too much legal liability involved with beekeeping in the city. I guess that is the end of that.




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[LadyKotaDoria]

I have out of habit watching their poop. Is the typical bird worm big enough to see move in their poop? Mites were hard enough to spot when I was young, I have been so busy with my projects that I have not yet started a mite program. If ash would help, I got ash. My Grandmother feed use 1/2 piece of burnt toast every meal, to absorb toxins in our food. She also sent away for a light gray tan hard cube she would brake up into powder and put a little in her tea. I tasted it once, it tasted like dirt or clay, as to my memory. She was a very interesting lady.

One of my girls had tapeworm. They look like pieces of rice blobs that move and change shapes. I wormed the girls with Valbazen to get rid of them. (2 treatments)

Thank you. the picture is a wonderful ad. Are tap worms the most command worm? Chickens will ( try at the very lest ) to eat everything, I assume it is transmitted through wild bird poop, or is there an intermediate host in the tape worm life cycle? Is it the same type of tape worm that infects humans? Other animals? I believe tape worm must be ingested, how do you kill the eggs and worms in the poop? Borax dose something to kill bug eggs, would spreading borax on the ground kill tape worm?

 

[City farm]

I have out of habit watching their poop. Is the typical bird worm big enough to see move in their poop? Mites were hard enough to spot when I was young, I have been so busy with my projects that I have not yet started a mite program. If ash would help, I got ash. My Grandmother feed use 1/2 piece of burnt toast every meal, to absorb toxins in our food. She also sent away for a light gray tan hard cube she would brake up into powder and put a little in her tea. I tasted it once, it tasted like dirt or clay, as to my memory. She was a very interesting lady.

Interesting to say the least, is there anyway you can find out with that light gray tan hard cube was ??

 

[rufus]

Thank you.

the picture is a wonderful ad. Are tap worms the most command worm? Chickens will ( try at the very lest ) to eat everything, I assume it is transmitted through wild bird poop, or is there an intermediate host in the tape worm life cycle? Is it the same type of tape worm that infects humans? Other animals? I believe tape worm must be ingested, how do you kill the eggs and worms in the poop? Borax dose something to kill bug eggs, would spreading borax on the ground kill tape worm?

Tape worm eggs lay dormant in the soil for years. If you have your coop in a yard that previously had dogs in it, you may have a problem.

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

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For what it is worth, I received a catalogue from the Brush Mountain Bee Supply.  It would be cheaper just to buy the equipment and just keep the bees, but not in my chicken coop. 

My kids said that there is too much legal liability involved with beekeeping in the city.  I guess that is the end of that.
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I have wild Bree's under my shed, they have been there for almost a year. We have been working near them, dogs have been next to the hive entrance, they are not aggressive. I suggest you keep Benadryl on hand in case someone gets stung and has a reaction. My nephew is the bee man between us. We are going to keep bees this spring. I have yet to read up on them, there is a Bee Assoceation that meets the 3rd Thursday every month at the Garden Center in Phoenix at 7:00.

I will be removing them, (wild bees) from under my shed this spring, that will be an adventure. Getting them out and into a supper, saving the queen, it will be interesting.

 

[LadyKotaDoria]

I have out of habit watching their poop. Is the typical bird worm big enough to see move in their poop? Mites were hard enough to spot when I was young, I have been so busy with my projects that I have not yet started a mite program. If ash would help, I got ash. My Grandmother feed use 1/2 piece of burnt toast every meal, to absorb toxins in our food. She also sent away for a light gray tan hard cube she would brake up into powder and put a little in her tea. I tasted it once, it tasted like dirt or clay, as to my memory. She was a very interesting lady.

Interesting to say the least, is there anyway you can find out with that light gray tan hard cube was ??

No, too young to know what questions to ask. She was into Heath food, made her own vitamins from rosé hips, candy flowers, unrefined sugar, her own root beer from bear root. It was one more thing that was my grandmother. That side of my family came to this county in the 1700's, so a long history, I think that the gray stuff was a clay to remove poisons and toxins. Taught to her from her pioneer family to prevent food poisoning, with no refrigerator, death being part of life, I am pretty sure it was a clay.