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[Papa Brooder]

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!

I like to put the DE down. it helps dry everything out and I think also keeps the flies way down and it's pretty cheap.

oysters shells i usually just wait until i get my first egg, but I don't think it would hurt to give it free choice. I do notice my layers picking at it and my non-layers don't seem that interested except for one roo who manages to knock the dish over about every day!

 

[zooweemama]

I like to put the DE down. it helps dry everything out and I think also keeps the flies way down and it's pretty cheap.

oysters shells i usually just wait until i get my first egg, but I don't think it would hurt to give it free choice. I do notice my layers picking at it and my non-layers don't seem that interested except for one roo who manages to knock the dish over about every day!

Ok how thick should the DE be when I put it down. Just a little shake like I am seasoning my food or something? lol Or a thick layer? TY!

 

[Papa Brooder]

Quote: sorry forgot to say that Yellow Rose Ranch is in roseville area. I used them once a few months back when I had some eggs come out of sync with other eggs and I needed to incubate about a dozen eggs.

 

[debs_flock]

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!

Congrats Jeff! (How are the Orp eggs doing? It's the tolbunt I got from Cheryl that are locking down today.)

It sounds like my house. I just set 3 dozen more eggs, have 7 going into lockdown today, 3 more dozen eggs coming in a couple of weeks. And my 16 turkey poults finally arrived in the mail this morning..................we won't talk about the 27 quail chicks and the hordes of chickens already outside. Oh and about a dozen bobwhite quail and serama eggs I've been saving up in my bathtub stash (cool/humid place).

Deb

 

[Papa Brooder]

Quote: sorry forgot to say that Yellow Rose Ranch is in roseville area. I used them once a few months back when I had some eggs come out of sync with other eggs and I needed to incubate about a dozen eggs.
Oh, and it's Molly in the Auburn/newcastle area that advertises on CL incubating eggs for $1

 

[debs_flock]

Add to my poultry, the sheep, the alpaca, 4 dogs with champagne tastes (one being a Great Dane), the finches & my frogs/geckos.........

Our feed bill runs $1,500++ per month ( really don't want to know how much +).

I REALLY need to do some heavy culling.

Deb

 

[Papa Brooder]

Quote: Orps are doing great 5 looked perfect, 1 I was a little unsure, just seemed smaller and perhaps a late quitter. I will know in a few days! Also partridge brahmas were doing great I think I had 11/14 go into lockdown. Let's see the 3 MF leghorns all went to lockdown. 2-3 Sp sussex, and there were 4 unmarked eggs of which 3 were not fertile so not sure what those were. my brahmas that I got back at the chickenstock didn't do so hot, only 2/6 made it so perhaps they didn't like the traveling down and back! but josiah will have two chicks that will be "his" if they hatch.

 

[Papa Brooder]

Quote: Add to my poultry, the sheep, the alpaca, 4 dogs with champagne tastes (one being a Great Dane), the finches & my frogs/geckos.........

Our feed bill runs $1,500++ per month ( really don't want to know how much +).

I REALLY need to do some heavy culling.

Deb
Wow!!!! I don't want to even think about how much mine is... I keep telling myself I'll figure it out after I start selling some hatching eggs and recouping some of my feed costs! So, i'm gonna live obliviously for the next month or so.

 

[sewandgrow]

Have you asked them? Most feed stores keep it behind the counter because it's kind of spendy! I just bought the cattle pour-on. It was $35 for a bottle that will last until it expires. Since with a chicken you're using a few drops per bird.

The alternative was an $89 bottle.

Deb

I bought mine at Tractor Supply

 

[ronott1]

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!

Hi Amy Beth,

Someone will correct me, but two drops on the back of the head for pour on Ivermectin. Repeat in 10 to 14 days. DE(food grade) will help prevent lice and mites. It will not protect against worms. If they eat it, DE gets wet and will not kill them internally. The worms come from walking around in the dirt so treating the coop does nothing for worms.

Use DE for both the flies and smell. I am using Sweet pdz and DE in my coops now. I need to keep the neighbors happy

Thanks for the Copper update!

Ron