California - Northern

[Flowers of Abba]

So I have a brooder set up but what does everyone do for that in-between stage? Like the stage where they're too big for the brooder but too small to go outside in the fall/winter? I was thinking a cage that's not very high but long and rectangular?

I keep them in the house brooder for the first two weeks, then in the garage brooder until six weeks, then for a few hours each day I take them into the main yard in a bottomless cage that stays there, so the others can check them out and they can dust bath and see their new spot. Then after a week of that I open the cage and watch them run from everyone and put them back when they start to get pecked. I do THAT until no one cares that I let them out. Then that night I will put them in the coop perch with the others.

If your brooder(we use clear totes with holes drilled for ventilation ) is tall enough you can use the same one from hatch until integration. Then even again later for broody or injured hens or to overnight your roo.

 

[chrissyr]

Happy Chooks and others have tried getting rid of worms with the natural methods to no avail. Send the poo in for a test and treat them with the appropriate worm medicine if they have worms.

If I had worms I would use worm medicine for myself. Like chiqita said, they die and you often do not know that they are sick.

It will help them resist worms because if helps them to be healthier. The same is true for pumpkin seeds.

I agree. I have DE in the feed to keep out ants, etc. My birds still had worms.

 

[Flowers of Abba]

I agree. I have DE in the feed to keep out ants, etc. My birds still had worms.

Eeewwww!!!!!!! I don't think we have worms? How do I know? Will someone get slumpy and die?

 

[chrissyr]

On your urging I wormed everyone last spring but it really didn't change anything for her. Maybe it was too late since she was about a year old before I did it the first time I just think that somewhere at a hatchery used by My Pet Chicken, there was a Delaware hen who carries a wonky egg gene. I will be worming them again this fall but in the mean time I am capitalizing on the availability of winter squash and pumpkins and giving them all those.

I have 2 hens:1 doing the same thing, and 1 has a shell, but very soft shells. I wormed one about 3 weeks ago and still found some late night soft shells.Will worm the other pen in about a month. About twice a week I give yogurt with a little wheat germ oil(there's other oils out there that will work too), a little red cell, and Manna Pro poultry conditioner. I know it's alot to have to buy and give chickens. You don't have to give alot. I found some of the ingredients from a Show Thread. But when I do add it, it seems to make a difference. Both lay nicer shelled eggs. Not sure what part is helping, but it is.

 

[ronott1]

Eeewwww!!!!!!! I don't think we have worms? How do I know? Will someone get slumpy and die?

Round worms will hurt the reproductive organs and some will stop laying eggs. They can die from them too.

Send a sandwich size bag of manure to UCD for a test.


http://www.cahfs.ucdavis.edu/index.cfm

I sent in a sample last Spring. All was clear for worms but they found a bit of coci.

 

[Flowers of Abba]

Round worms will hurt the reproductive organs and some will stop laying eggs. They can die from them too.

Send a sandwich size bag of manure to UCD for a test.


http://www.cahfs.ucdavis.edu/index.cfm

I sent in a sample last Spring. All was clear for worms but they found a bit of coci.

Bookmarked, thanks so much.

Why the heck are dogs 500 and guinea pigs almost 200?!? I was so surprised the chickens are free on the necropsy that is. What is the name if the fecal test for worms. The lingo is completely unfamiliar to me. Thanks for all the help with information !

 

[salkxsj]

Bookmarked, thanks so much.

Why the heck are dogs 500 and guinea pigs almost 200?!? I was so surprised the chickens are free on the necropsy that is. What is the name if the fecal test for worms. The lingo is completely unfamiliar to me. Thanks for all the help with information !

wow tyvm

 

[alibra]

Have any of y'all heard of silkied Ameraucanas?

 

[chrissyr]

Eeewwww!!!!!!! I don't think we have worms? How do I know? Will someone get slumpy and die?

I had a couple of my layers get really thin and look unthrifty. So I decided to worm. I knew they had eaten roundworms, etc when they get out. Once I wormed them, (the really thin one) started pooping out roundworms the next day. Oh it was disgusting! I didn't see them until I actually wormed them.

 

[chiqita]

Have any of y'all heard of silkied Ameraucanas?

Ya thy were a mutation in Texas a few years ago. There are not a ton of them around but they are on byc.