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[chrissyr]

Ok I guess soonish is nowish. A breese hatched last night so I have chicks but am still far away.
S

yay! babies!!

 

[Happy Chooks]

Quote: I've used both and they both worked fine for me. How do you know they have them? Are you seeing a lot of worms in their poop? If so, then you may want to pretreat with Wazine first.

Ok I guess soonish is nowish. A breese hatched last night so I have chicks but am still far away.
S

Congrats!

 

[chrissyr]

I've used both and they both worked fine for me. How do you know they have them? Are you seeing a lot of worms in their poop? If so, then you may want to pretreat with Wazine first.

Congrats!

Hi Happy Chooks,
Well they’ve been looking quite thin and unthrifty. Almost 2 months ago I wormed one who was looking really thin from that flock. She started pooping out tons of roundworms after I wormed her. So I figure her whole flock probably has them. They are all much thinner than last year. I use ivermectin gold with that hen. probably should have use wazine first, but didn’t. She ended up fine. But now I have Valbazen. I’d hate to lose one from worm overload. Yet, 3 doses of worming seems like a bit much (wazine and 2 valbazen) . My other flock I didn’t really worry about because they’ve been wormed before (about 6 months ago).

 

[ronott1]

Hi Happy Chooks,
Well they’ve been looking quite thin and unthrifty. Almost 2 months ago I wormed one who was looking really thin from that flock. She started pooping out tons of roundworms after I wormed her. So I figure her whole flock probably has them. They are all much thinner than last year. I use ivermectin gold with that hen. probably should have use wazine first, but didn’t. She ended up fine. But now I have Valbazen. I’d hate to lose one from worm overload. Yet, 3 doses of worming seems like a bit much (wazine and 2 valbazen) . My other flock I didn’t really worry about because they’ve been wormed before (about 6 months ago).

I would use Wazine for the rest of them for the first treatment and 10 days later use valbazen. They would probably be fine with Valbazen but if you have Wazine you might as well use it.

Send in a sample for a float test on the first week of Spring next year.

 

[ronott1]

I checked an hours of daylight table yesterday and we have now entered a ten day flat time period for daylight. For woodland, we have the 9hours and 28 minutes of daylight Until Dec. 26. Then it goes up to 9 hours and 29 minutes.

We are almost there! Chickens will start laying more eggs soon.

http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Dur_OneYear.php

 

[lawatt]

it's funny, my birthday is the winter solstice -- you want more daylight, you've got to get it from me! i've never thought of it in relation to chickens, but now it will feel like getting eggs as a birthday present!

 

[chiqita]

it's funny, my birthday is the winter solstice -- you want more daylight, you've got to get it from me!  i've never thought of it in relation to chickens, but now it will feel like getting eggs as a birthday present!

So you have been holding our light hostage!
I knew it!

 

[lawatt]

So you have been holding our light hostage!
I knew it!

only until saturday! then it'll start leaking out again...

 

[liz9910]

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Thank you both!

 

[CackleJoy]

It is called Natures Domain and has a kirkland label on it. It is Fish meal, Salmon meal and Sweet potatoes mostly.

This is so funny. I feed my cats this. I'm forever having to hide the cat food because the chickens LOVE it! I don't want them eating cat food because it is not organic. Do your chickens do well on it? I will worry less