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[BCollie]

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Thanks. My mom and I checked two of the 6 for mites and lice(pulled back feathers and looked at the skin) and didn't see anything crawling around on their skin. The vents on the two birds look just fine. Couldn't get the others but the problem seems to be with the whole flock and not just a specific bird so I think what goes for the two will probably go for the rest of them.
Does it have to be horse paste wormer? Is there one I can just mix into their water?

 

[ronott1]

Thanks. My mom and I checked two of the 6 for mites and lice(pulled back feathers and looked at the skin) and didn't see anything crawling around on their skin. The vents on the two birds look just fine. Couldn't get the others but the problem seems to be with the whole flock and not just a specific bird so I think what goes for the two will probably go for the rest of them.
Does it have to be horse paste wormer? Is there one I can just mix into their water?

There are worm medicines that go into the water.

Wazine should be fine for the first worming and it is at the feed store too.

Yes, worm the whole flock.

 

[BCollie]

You know what is odd is that they all just now started getting the very watery poop, and we just moved them to the new house a month or two ago. I am not one to believe much in coincidences...how are worms contracted? Is it possible that they got them from the new house?

 

[ronott1]

You know what is odd is that they all just now started getting the very watery poop, and we just moved them to the new house a month or two ago. I am not one to believe much in coincidences...how are worms contracted? Is it possible that they got them from the new house?

Good Point!

They eat them from worms or soil, eggs hatch and then worms form. It does take some time so they may have gotten them there.

Wild birds spread them.

 

[tls_ranch]

 

 
I wish someone up here would carry it.   Western Feed is never going to.  I have had the sales rep for the area deliver some to me when she is up this way trying to get some of the other local feed stores to carry it.   She had a trunk full of feed that she brought from a store in Lodi for people up my way that want it but can't get it!

Now that is service!  Personal delivery.  It is such a good product.  It smells good, like real food and has actual green specs in it.  I didn't realize it had probiotics in it too until she told me.   

It smells really good, IMO!  I still have the bags in the back seat of my car.  (The trunk is loaded with little kids plastic hangers which is a different story!)  We got in the car this evening and Monet wrinkled her nose and said,  "The car smells like chicken feed."  My comment back was, "I think that it smells good!"

That's OK...I one of my favorite smells in the world is horse poop.   

LOL, horse poop does have a "nice" smell We just got a horse and my kids saw her poop yesterday at the stables. They are a little bit grossed out by seeing so much poop. Of course, smelly chicken poop doesn't bother them that much.

So, I now own a Silky. I think she's large fowl, smooth feathered, and maybe a black tailed buff. Well, at least her name is Silky This is about as close as I will come to owning an actual silky ( no offense to those who own silkies, LOL).

 

[BCollie]

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We have a TON of wild birds here. There were probably 15 of them on just the pool cover this morning, hopping around and eating who knows what. If the lifecycle of worms in hens is the same as the worms in dogs, then it would be 3 weeks until the worms were adults if I remember right. Meaning it would fit very well into the timeline with us just having moved to a new town.

I just called my feed store and they said they have Strike 3 dewormer for chickens, which is a pellet. Will this work? It's a bit pricey, but it looks like it would be really easy to use since it can just be fed like normal feed. Would a 1lb bag be enough for a flock of 6?

If I were to use the horse paste(if they have it at my feed store) is it easy to administer? I would rather pay the extra money than try to shove stuff into the hens mouths...

 

[ronott1]

We have a TON of wild birds here. There were probably 15 of them on just the pool cover this morning, hopping around and eating who knows what. If the lifecycle of worms in hens is the same as the worms in dogs, then it would be 3 weeks until the worms were adults if I remember right. Meaning it would fit very well into the timeline with us just having moved to a new town.

I just called my feed store and they said they have Strike 3 dewormer for chickens, which is a pellet. Will this work? It's a bit pricey, but it looks like it would be really easy to use since it can just be fed like normal feed. Would a 1lb bag be enough for a flock of 6?

If I were to use the horse paste(if they have it at my feed store) is it easy to administer? I would rather pay the extra money than try to shove stuff into the hens mouths...

The Pellets would be very easy to use.

If they are a lot of birds there you may need to worm at each season change. It would be a good idea to worm now and then send in a sample for a fecal test at the start of Summer.

The chickens will be much healthier that way

 

[Audio51]

It's Spring!

I have 5 Delawares out and two SG Dorkings. The UofA blues did nothing and had no pips this morning when I got up. I just checked, a couple hours later and one hatched and I see 7 or so pips!

The first one to hatch is Black.

 

[mendocinosunris]

Hm. I just discovered that chickens are afraid of banana slugs. Who knew? I thought they'd eat anything.

 

[casportpony]

It doesn't take long to get (WAY) behind on this thread.

I picked up the little Marans Chicks on Thursday. Do they look like Cuckoo Marans? None of them had any head spots.



I have a question about one of my Silkie Chicks. I know @chiqita had a mico-Silkie a while back. How can you tell the difference between "just small", and failure to thrive? The little black one in the front is tiny. She is the loudest of all the chicks, and doesn't seem to have and issues. Is she just small?

Cute chicks!

I know you didn't ask me, and I hope no one minds me answering

, but I would do it mathematically... I'd weigh all of the chicks every few days and calculate the *percentage* of weight gain for each one. If it's just small it would gain the roughly the same percentage of weigh as the others.

-Kathy