Arizona Chickens

[Arizonachicken]

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Is poultry dust DE? I'll do a search, I have a leaf blower. Poop.

. Thank you for all the help, guys!

 

[LarryPQ]

Poultry dust is NOT DE. Poultry dust is an insecticide. DE is a natural deterrent.

 

[Arizonachicken]

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Thank you! I'm going to do a search and learn about this stuff right now. Yuck!

 

[LarryPQ]

Lots of people refer to it as Sevin dust, which is a differnt product, but a little harsher.

 

[Arizonachicken]

This is the only area I see them. The vent areas are clean in all of the birds. This little Marans and the 3 ameraucanas are all 15 weeks old and don't associate with the 2 hens. I tried to integrate them earlier, but the red pecked a sore on the Marans rear, so they are separated again. I'll go ahead and treat them all, though. Any suggestions on where to get the poultry dust? I want to start using DE, too. I don't want this to happen again! Thanks!

 

[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 the tomatoes.
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.

 

[Tracydr]

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I have had barnevelders and still have 1. They are not any smaller than my other brown egg laying hens. They are beautiful birds and some lay a bit darker brown eggs, but not all of them do. The one I have now does lay a pretty egg - not real dark, but I can tell her eggs apart from my other brown egg layers. They do fine in the heat.

I also have a Welsummer (and LOVE her eggs) but she doesn't seem small to me either - she is about the same size as my other hens. I think for the most part, the brown egg layers are going to be larger than white egg layers, and I haven't discovered any smaller breeds, other than bantams. Other than the Delaware (she's my largest), the rest all seem to be about the same size - they are BCM, Plymouth Rocks, SS, Barnie, Welsummer.

Don't forget, most of the smaller chickens lay smaller eggs (with the exception of the leghorns), and if you want large brown eggs, you'll need larger hens.

Yeah, that's pretty much the conclusion I've come to. I think I'll forget about brown egg layers for now. If I get anything, it will be one of these four: naked neck, bantam Welsummer, Penedesenca, sex-linked red.
I'm not really wanting any more full-sized birds right now. I kind of like my "3/4" fowl, like the GH and Buttercups, or even the leghorns. I love the OEGBs. When I get more space, after we move, I won't be so worried about a few extra full-size chickens.

 

[pastrymama]

you can get poultry dust at the feed stores, most home depots sell sevin 5 dust and/or spray, you can use mathalion from home depot(hope i spelled that right) it's in the same section as the sevin 5 dust, some feed stores have a liquid peremethrin product that you dunk your bird in. i use eprinex, but you need to order it online so that could be for future reference(it will happen again so long as you keep chickens). i also throw a few good sized handfuls of cedar shavings into my coop, supposedly bugs don't like cedar, but i NEVER use it in with the chicks. you MUST repeat whatever treatment again in 10 days and like laree said, blow out that coop! that'll put you into labor!

 

[Tracydr]

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Totally agree. And anything big and fluffy will not tolerate heat. Buff orpingtons don't seem very heat tolerant, IMO, either.
I do like sex-links and naked necks. Naked necks grow on you and have lots of positive attributes.

 

[pastrymama]

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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 the tomatoes.
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?