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

[cluckcluckluke]

Quote: ahh, prevention prevention prevention.
Vicks? Isn't that for colds on humans?
Thanks for the comment on my chicks.

Quote: Sounds like a wonderful flock

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8 turkey chicks? Are you raising them for Christmas dinner?
Thanks for the comment on my chicks.

 

[Karen Whitfield]

ahh, prevention prevention prevention.
Vicks? Isn't that for colds on humans?
Thanks for the comment on my chicks.
Sounds like a wonderful flock .
8 turkey chicks? Are you raising them for Christmas dinner?
Thanks for the comment on my chicks.

The turkeys actually belong to our neighbour, she made her nest at the bottom of our property, right where the rain catches, and the day the chicks hatched it was pouring and cold most the chicks were lifeless and soaking in water, so my husband brought them up to the house and we warmed them near the fire and they came back to life. So I put her and her chicks in the chook coop. And we have since inherited all of them they just free range with the chooks and they all (the turkeys) sleep just outside the pen of a night. The chicks are the size of a 19 week old wyandotte. Having said that my husband would like to eat one in July.

 

[cluckcluckluke]

Tutt Tutt Tutt, owners who don't look after their animals.
Well from their loss you gained wonderfully

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[cluckcluckluke]

Ash and Kym. Have you ever dry hatched in the King Suro?

 

[Ashburnham]

Fancy, Satay, Ash and Chook. I want to know how do you keep such large flocks so good looking an free of lice, mites etc.
Like how do you possible manage so many birds when they get lice? It must be a mountain of work.

I spray a bit of insecticide in the pens, but the most effective treatment is to paint all the perches with a mixture of insecticide and oil.
The oil stops the insecticide evaporating too quickly, and the insecticide permeates through their feathers at night when they are roosting


xxxxx M

 

[Bens-Hens]

I know it was mentioned a few pages ago (I know, slack I have not logged in since last night!)

Here is the quote of the DIY recipe that Oz uses, posted into my thread. We were talking about mixed aged flocks and how he gets around feeds for this issue.

here is a simplified version of my recipe book that would work for someone who just raises a few chicks a year

when feeding chooks (or pigs, goats and humans) the protein is the most important element. Protein is many different amino acids of which in chooks and pigs atleast, lysine is the most important.

TO MAKE 100KG Starter Grower Adult Baby Quail Quail
Weeks of age 0-6 6-12 12+ 0-6 6+
soy meal (kg) 30 15 5 30 30
rice bran (kg) 70 85 95 70 70
Salt (g) 100 100 100 100 100
Vit & Elec (g) 50 50 50 50 50
Amprolium 20% (g) 63 63
bacitracin 25

Protein % 24.8 19.4 15.8 25.8 21.9
Lysene g/kg 13.5 9.8 7.4 13.5 11.5

min protein needed % 23.0 18.0 14.0 28 22
min lysene needed g/kg 11.0 8.5 6.2 16 13


layer feed is pretty close to straight rice bran but rice bran is a tad low in lysine. soy is an amazing source of lysine.

for your purposes, you could substitute layer type feed for rice bran in my recipe.

as i dont start with layer mix, my recipe actually has fish meal and copra meal as well. I like to use 3 or 4 sources as it balances trace elements.

i also add 25 crushed tablets of selenium per 100kg. your mix feed should cover that

calcium is crushed oyster shells which i have in a seperate feeder ad lib

my digestive grit is sand and gravel to 4mm ad lib

I compromised and mix my layer and grower feed 2:1 I also add a scoop of Soy meal, with crushed egg shell on the side as a free feed. Once our layer feed is exhausted we will just offer grower with the shell on the side for calcium until all the birds are old enough to go back onto layer (about 6 weeks from today)

 

[Fancychooklady]

As promised, here are my new chicks.

 

[Megans Chickens]

So Wilma is 11 days post surgery today (full comb removal) she is doing fab and is back to normal completely! Just thought if share a picture of her new look

 

[Fancychooklady]

So Wilma is 11 days post surgery today (full comb removal) she is doing fab and is back to normal completely! Just thought if share a picture of her new look

Lol , it's taken years off her , she looks like a young chick. Nice to see she has mended.

 

[MyHaven]

Great shots and lively babies Fancychooklady.