California - Northern

[ronott1]

Quote: make sure to get the dust into the cracks and the under sides of the roosts and do not miss the nest boxes.

Yes, get a duster.

 

[Nikon]

What breed id this? are they friendly. looking for a few down the road for weed control

Happy Chooks is right. They're Toggenburgs. Yeah, the mother follows us around.

 

[chrissyr]

I've sprayed my coop with a dilution of Permethrin 13.3%. The last time we did a major coop clean out, DH and Monet painted the whole inside with a hydrated lime white wash. The inside was already painted so after a good scrubbing, the white wash was painted over everything and allowed to dry before letting the chickens back in. It may be my imagination, but I haven't had any problems with mites since doing that. I plan on white washing twice a year.

The team!

Great team! where do you get hydrated lime?

Most use saddles for over mated hens. I do not know if they cover the part that is bare on your girl though.

I think i'm going to need quite a few saddles over here. Each coop has about 6 hens looking a bit bare. I haven't looked before, but are all saddles created equal?

 

[lawatt]

hooray, Craigslist finally worked out! i just handed off Max the rooster, plus two of his girlfriends, to a young couple from Santa Rosa who are just starting a flock. hooray!!

 

[PetRock]

hooray, Craigslist finally worked out! i just handed off Max the rooster, plus two of his girlfriends, to a young couple from Santa Rosa who are just starting a flock. hooray!!

 

[PetRock]

Great team! where do you get hydrated lime?

I ordered it from amazon. I love shopping on that site!

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Earth-Or...&qid=1384828831&sr=8-2&keywords=hydrated+lime

 

[ronott1]

I ordered it from amazon. I love shopping on that site!

http://www.amazon.com/Good-Earth-Or...&qid=1384828831&sr=8-2&keywords=hydrated+lime

Thanks for the link!

 

[PetRock]

Those of you with over amorous roos who love their ladies, be sure to keep a close eye on your girls. I have a splash Langshan hen who was easy and she let all the boys have their way with her. I'm only out at the farm once a week and I didn't realize how bad it was until it was almost too late. I knew that she was looking bare backed and a week later when I went to check on them, she was acting like she didn't feel well. She had a horrible abscess on the top of her leg where the roo/roos had dug into her. I brought her back into town and nursed her with Vetericyn. (That stuff is amazing IMO! And I use it on myself, too, Ron!) The abscess healed but she wouldn't use her leg. She just hopped around and earned the name Hop-a-long Cassidy. I started doing physical therapy with her in hopes that she would regain the use of her leg. A few weeks later, she was acting sick again. I checked her over very carefully and found another abscess buried under feathers on the underneath part of her lame upper leg. Vetericyn healed that up but she really doesn't use her leg. I have her in the aviary with the young birds along with another chicken with gimp feet. Her feathers have grown back beautifully! DH was thinking that we should put her down but she is one of my few chickens that is actually laying eggs right now. She is healthy except for her leg and is living the pampered life away from the big girls and the boys. I wish that I had put aprons on my hens before this happened to Cass. That or penned the roos up separate from the hens. All but 3 of those lover boy roos are now residing in freezer camp so that has helped with the over breeding of the hens. Some of my Langshan hens show no sign of worn feathers from breeding. I'm thinking that they are the smart ones who run under the trailer coop when the boys go for them.

 

[Happy Chooks]

 

 
No need to dust their heads, lice congregate in the warm areas around the vent and under the wings.  Flip them upside down, sprinkle some Sevin on their tush, run your fingers through their feathers to work it down into their feathers.  Sprinkle some under their wings and spread it around with your fingers.  Redust again in 10 days when the eggs hatch. (keep doing it every 10 days until you don't find any more lice or eggs stuck to the feathers)

Lice can and will live in the bedding, nest boxes, etc, so make sure you do a thorough cleaning.

No.  Follow up with the same wormer in 2 weeks.  Then next year, use a different wormer.

I'm pretty sure what I saw on me was a mite, same treatment?

Yes, but the mites are like vampires--they come out at night and feed on the chickens. Treating the coop is very important with them.

Dab them with Ivomec and dust them at dusk.

Have you heard about the shake and bake method? Get a 13 gallon trash liner, sprinkle some poultry dust or seven in it. Place the chicken into the bag with the head out and shake to apply the dust.

I just dump them over and powder their bottom side....

Ditto.

And yes, sprinkle the sevin before you put the clean shavings back in. Get it in the cracks, nestboxes, etc.

 

[Happy Chooks]

I sold 2 cull pullets tonight. I'm taking them to a family that has a flock of 3 in the morning, so now they will have 5. They will be free ranging spoiled hens by their 2 daughters.