California - Northern

[JerseyGiantfolk]

Good Morning,
Yes, its going to be another Hot One... I need to buy a few misters. I was watering down all the Chicken Yards at 6:00 this morning. I do it before I let them all out of there Coops.

Great morning... I hatch out six Cream Legbars ...

Three of each... I will try to post pictures later..
I also hatch about a dozen Blue Laced Red Wyandottes...I never get tierd of watching these little cuties hatch.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day...

Congrats!!

I hope the fog clears up here!

 

[JerseyGiantfolk]

Ah bad news! A woman checked my chicken about a week ago for mites, fleas, ect and said they were clear, and today, entering the fair at the vet check, they said they had fleas! How irritating. Oh well, next year i'll make sure and try again!

Ahh! I'm sorry, hopefully there will be another show in Jan/Feb (that's when poultry shows start up again... it seems).

Clean the coop, Clean the hens, dust the coop, dust the hens. Good luck!

 

[HighNDryFarm]

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Quote: It comes in a tube with a screw mechanism that you can gauge the dose. I haven't bought them in a long time (husbands been taking the horse care) but seems like it's about $28 but that could be the off brand too??

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Yes! I will have an incubator running then, so I can just pop them in.

Quote: Really, you can eat the eggs. I did at the last season change. I got mine from Amazon as a generic. Using it at each season change, the bottle lasted me a year. I saw injectable Ivermectin at the TSC too. You need to get a syringe with a needle to get it out of the bottle. Let me know if you need dosage information. The stuff kills lice and mites too and is so easy to administer.

You can get grass seeds from that nursery off of GreenBack and Sunrise. Online, you can get grass seeds from Outsidepride.com.

The wire idea is something I am going to try in my chicken yard. I also want to try the chicken box.

Bye,

Ron
Thank you Ron. I'll contact you if I don't get something together over the weekend! Thank you so much.

Ah bad news! A woman checked my chicken about a week ago for mites, fleas, ect and said they were clear, and today, entering the fair at the vet check, they said they had fleas! How irritating. Oh well, next year i'll make sure and try again!

Awe, that's so disappointing. Hard lessons learned, get them all cleaned up and be ready for next time.

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Hey all, wow, busy thread as always! i was thinking about the grass and I wonder if you do a larger version of the bin with chicken seed like some of us got to see at the chickenstock at cheryl's. If you were able to put something light with some hardware cloth or something over that rested a few inches off the ground you could move it around and protect the roots but still give them something to peck at. I'm still trying to figure how to do something like that in my breeding pens, based on the tub design from the chickenstock

Sorry if this is a repeat, but I saw another post where someone used nursery flats to plant grasses. They lined the bottom with weed cloth, filled with soil, planted seeds, and covered with small gauge chicken wire to prevent scratching up the roots. When the grass gets tall enough, flats are rotated into the run until eaten down, then removed and allowed to grow back. One person with space constraints hung the flats vertically in the run (but used hardware cloth, I think).

 

[ronott1]

Quote: The pour on is oil based and does not mix with with the water so you can't put it into water.

Generic injectable ivermectin cost me $27.00 last time I bought it.

Claim is that injectable kills the worms better but pour on kills the lice, mites and fleas better. IDK though.

Ron

 

[ronott1]

Ah bad news! A woman checked my chicken about a week ago for mites, fleas, ect and said they were clear, and today, entering the fair at the vet check, they said they had fleas! How irritating. Oh well, next year i'll make sure and try again!

Watch them--fleas is one of the few ways that chickens can get tape worms form your dog or cat.

Generic Ivermectin will kill the fleas. Do the coop spraying too. Fleas live in the dirt as part of their life cycel. There is a benificial nematode that will kill them in lawns and such. Look for it at Gardens Alive!

You can also put up Die Mite strips. McMurray Hatchery sells them.

Sorry you missed competing at the Fair!

Ron

 

[Papa Brooder]

Thanks Ron....I am going to San Francisco for a gift show and Dr's appt on Monday. If I don't find someone closer would you consider taking on some Polish eggs? I candled about 8 last night (can't remember if I posted this here) and I have eggs developing from about 24 hrs to 5 days! If I can find a local broody or an incubator I know a lot of those newer eggs won't finish. I hate that I let that happen! Better get out there and separate them before they add anymore. I'll check Craigslist for a incubator....I'd want a better one then the little giant I got last time.

You could also incubate them at Yellow Rose Ranch for $2/egg and I thought there was someone in the auburn, lincoln area that advertised incubating for $1/egg but not sure. Those may be closer options. I could also put them in for you but I am moving my incubator to redding after my hatch finishes this weekend. It will be the first time my incubator has been off since Feb!!!!

 

[zooweemama]

For the first time in a while I am trying to read pages to catch up. haha!

I have the pour on Ivermectin. Can someone help me out with the dosage for my chickens? They are all between 6-20 weeks old or so. I want to get on the good side of this.

I have also totally brain farted what I was supposed to do with the flooring- DE...was I suppose to put that down? Or does the Ivermectin replace that need. How often should I do the Ivermectin? I want to pre-plan it on my calender.

Also since I have 4 pullets nearing laying age- should I go ahead put out a dish of oyster shell now? The other young ones will be fine right- not over eating it or anything?

Copper Update: seems to be doing ok. Eating watermelon and scrambled eggs (mixed with yogurt) like a champ. I am thinking of starting him on wet mash today for one meal and see how his poops do. If they go green again- then he is clearly not processing it properly yet. Or maybe another day of egg/yogurt/watermelon....hmmm.

EEs I got from Ron are still doing fabulous. The stress of coming to us has not triggered anything so far. They are still in the house. They are sweet as can be. I love love love their muffs. That is such a darn cute trait!

Hope you are all doing well!

 

[Papa Brooder]

Ok, I had to reband some of my chickens, so I finally have a rough count of my chickens. I have at least 250 from chick to layers up in redding. I didn't count my current hatchlings which are pipping and popping and jumping out of their shells for the next few days. Over 120 eggs when into lockdown. when I left yesterday, the first ones had started and there were about 15 hatched. so by the end of the weekend I will likely have over 350 chickens!!! the nice thing is that my grow out pen chickens are starting to feather out and I am beginning to see which ones I will keep for breeding and then will hopefully be able to sell off some of the excess in a month or so. AND, two weeks away from incubating my first eggs. I will have the cream legbars first and the jubilees should start laying any day now. I've kept them separated so once she lays I will have pure eggs from her.

Exciting!
Happy Thursday to all!

 

[zooweemama]

Ok, I had to reband some of my chickens, so I finally have a rough count of my chickens. I have at least 250 from chick to layers up in redding. I didn't count my current hatchlings which are pipping and popping and jumping out of their shells for the next few days. Over 120 eggs when into lockdown. when I left yesterday, the first ones had started and there were about 15 hatched. so by the end of the weekend I will likely have over 350 chickens!!! the nice thing is that my grow out pen chickens are starting to feather out and I am beginning to see which ones I will keep for breeding and then will hopefully be able to sell off some of the excess in a month or so. AND, two weeks away from incubating my first eggs. I will have the cream legbars first and the jubilees should start laying any day now. I've kept them separated so once she lays I will have pure eggs from her.

Exciting!
Happy Thursday to all!

I think I just died imagining your feed bill.

Yep. I just died.