California - Northern

[tommysgirl]

I agree with you about Delisha....She was very helpful and I was so glad to get the eggs for the hatch-along in time, She actually ended up losing a bit of money (Less thana $1) sending them to me, but I offered to send her an extra $5 and she wouldn't let me. I made sure to give her good good merchant feedback!

Nice to know that I know good character when I see it

Mine also made a mistake yesterday. We were in the feed store buying chick starter and they had turkey poults for sale. I said "Aren't you glad I haven't brought home any turkeys yet?" and he said.. "Y0u know what? I don't even pay any attnetion anymore". That's the same thing as saying I can have as many as I want...right?

Yay for Audio H!!! what a guy!

I recently just went through this. My son's project birds are free range & when the mamas hatch out their babies I watch them get picked off one or two at a time so this time I put them on Craigslist for $1 a chick. I figured I was saving their little lives by finding them new homes. The Mamas put up quite a struggle trying too defend them when Aaron was rounding them all up but as soon as they were gone they went right back to running around with the other girls & their husbands.

Thanks for sharing your story. I hope she will be mellow about it. She is a great hen...an enormous drama queen...but a great girl who laid an egg nearly every day all winter long. She is a mutt and the daughter of our rooster who died last spring.

They aren't quite that size yet, but the big girls don't seem to think the little ones are dinner any more. And to be honest I can't keep chicks in my room for months on end, it would take a really long time for them to be 3/4 the size of an adult chicken and I can't keep a brooder in my room that long. They aren't bothered by the big girls so much any more, I just don't know when I can tell that it's safe. I mean, if they've already accepted the little ones and aren't trying to kill them, wouldn't it be safe to say that they'll be fine to start living outside once the girls are 100% not going to try to seriously harm them? I just don't know how to tell when that will be.

Ron's advice is solid. If it won't work for you then try dividing the common area so that the smaller birds are on one side and the larger on the other.

 

[chrissyr]

OK....I did it...I processed my first meatie....all by myself. It is now resting comfortably in the fridge. It was not nearly as traumatic as I thought it would be. Took me about an hour and half from start to finish, but the next ones will go faster now that I know what I am doing. Plucking took the longest of course. He was 4.4 lbs pre-process and finished out 3.6. I found a great thread here with pictures that really helped. Here he is...ready to bag and tag.

Nice!

 

[chrissyr]

Can anyone tell me the frontline spray dosage again?

 

[sewandgrow]

Ron's advice is solid. If it won't work for you then try dividing the common area so that the smaller birds are on one side and the larger on the other

I divide my grow out bins (peach bins) right down the middle with a light weight home made wood & hardware cloth divider. It gives each group a 2' by 4' area to themselves. If they are only a week or 2 apart I don't divide them & they do fine. I completely divided my 4 bantams though. I don't normally have bantams & am amazed how much smaller they are so they are all alone.....LOL Looks like I have 2 & 2 of the little Mottled Japanese bantam from Dyann @Chooklet so if anyone one needs a cockerel I will have one available soon.....LOL

 

[TheKeeper]

OK....I did it...I processed my first meatie....all by myself. It is now resting comfortably in the fridge. It was not nearly as traumatic as I thought it would be. Took me about an hour and half from start to finish, but the next ones will go faster now that I know what I am doing. Plucking took the longest of course. He was 4.4 lbs pre-process and finished out 3.6. I found a great thread here with pictures that really helped. Here he is...ready to bag and tag.

Nicely done! Very impressive & delicious-looking.

 

[ronott1]

Can anyone tell me the frontline spray dosage again?

I have this:

Quote: Peter Brown, the chicken Doctor has information on his website too.

 

[sewandgrow]

Can anyone tell me the frontline spray dosage again?

I have Large Fowl. I think it was a squirt under each wing at the body & a squirt at the back of the heck/neck. I think I saved that post but maybe Ron will chime in. It was different for the bantams. I just got mine from Amazon a few days ago & haven't been out to do it yet.

 

[tommysgirl]

Can anyone tell me the frontline spray dosage again?

one on the keister, one on each side for bigger LF, take away a side squirt for smaller LF 1 squirt from the back end of a bantam toward the front...does that make sense?

 

[BCollie]

Thanks guys, that's a good idea. I think I'll either divide the coop or put a makeshift coop outside so the Marans can start living out there. Any ideas what can be used as a temporary coop outside? I was thinking a covered dog crate but they're so expensive.

 

[EZFarms]

Hey guys how can u tell if a rooster has been Abused?