Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[MyHaven]

Open beak panting wings held out from her body if she looks stressed.

Anyone else wanna jump in here ! Have I missed anything?

That's about it unless it goes further. They can just drop. It is hot here in Bris too. If I feel hot I put the sprinkler on for the girls under the mango tree where they are. Some get under it - some don't. They all lay and roll in the wet soil it leaves.

If she's not use to it - it may knock her harder until she gets used to it.

Last saturday in the 41c heat I dunked a clucky. Too hot to lock her up and she was panting on the nest. I always say don't dunk to break a clucky but she was stressed. She complained the first time but she actually relaxed as I swished her up and down to get the water to her skin. She didn't complain the second time. PS she stayed clucky.

 

[MyHaven]

Aw
Awesome thanks yeh everyone has been telling me they are behind!

My Barnies started at 14wks my Marans at 10 months. I had been letting them free range too much and they were getting too many greens not eating their protein. I added some soy meal or meat meal (can't remember which) to their diet and limited the greens. I had eggs in 5days.

But it is hot -don't expect too much from them.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Yes it also has a soothing affect on the chooks legs. It's very messy to apply but when they dust bath , the dirt sticks to the Vicks and really smothers those little suckers. I've tried spraying with cooking oil,( not viscous enough ) , castor oil, ( same ), WD40, ( didn't enjoy the smell ) I made up my own potion last time.
To a tub of home brand vasoline I added a bottle of castor oil, several drops of rose oil and a teaspoon of orchardists sulphur. It made up just enough to do all of my birds. Works well, for me it has to work in one application I don't have time to wash and scrub the feet of 50 chickens and then reapply weekly.

Fancy, do you have to wait till next moult to find out if the leg mites are gone or is their a way of knowing prior?

I don't do it any different Luke it is just that our humidity up here is in the 80% range most of the time so my incubator never needs to add water.. Dry hatching is not adding water til lock down.

Ahh, so it is just as simple as that. Well in that case my last hatch was a dry hatch and I didn't even know.lol.

Quote: Thanks Red

. It's even better when all 3 pop their heads out.

 

[Teila]

Frogee Update:
OMG! I have tadpoles

I read on Friday that the eggs could take 5-7 days to hatch but I just went to check on the eggs and I have tadpoles! Further research says anywhere from 2 to 20 days!

 

[MyHaven]

Further research AND personal experience!!

Congrats!

 

[Teila]

Further research AND personal experience!!

Congrats!

lols MyHaven, yep AND personal experience!!

Thank you!!

 

[Fancychooklady]

Luke, with leg mites you pretty much know when they've got them. My problem is sparrows, they come and go freely, landing above my birds and dropping lice on them. The one mistake we made when we built the breeding pens was to use the regular size chicken wire. If we could have that time again, we would use the small gauge chicken wire. We may even redo the outside wire. Of course I haven't broken that news to hubby yet.

 

[IamSamSam]

White oil may work , but you can add a little pyrethrum based insecticide to be sure.

Thanks !

 

[TheChookPatch]

Ahhhh! I just sold 29 cockerels and a pullet.... Freed up some space to pen up my new pullets

 

[Fancychooklady]

Ahhhh! I just sold 29 cockerels and a pullet.... Freed up some space to pen up my new pullets

Wow chook, that must have lightened the load on the feed bill.