California - Northern

[Michael Apple]

FYI - I found a fantastic product to finally kill the mites that I've been battling for months. I even wrote a review, here:

https://www.backyardchickens.com/products/elector-psp-premise-spray-8-oz/reviews/9496

I don't think many people know about it because the retailers are all advertising it with the old label, as a premise spray only.

I thought I would tell you all about it, in case any of you are having trouble with other products not working, like I was.

I remember reading about this product looking through some Elanco literature. Spinosad is the same ingredient for Comfortis, an oral dog tablet which repels fleas and ticks. People prefer it when dogs have allergic reactions to topical flea treatments. It is used for cats too.

Elector would be a good change up to permethrin or rabon. I have seen consistency with Ravap EC or Rabon 50 WP as a change up to Atroban, Permectrin II.

 

[jacksson515]

Actually, Northern California starts just south of Bakersfield before starting up the Grapevine; to me this is Central California, but, oh well, everyone calls it Northern California. The so-called geographical center of the state is marked by a pair of trees (pine on the north side, I believe, and a palm tree to the south) in the middle of the 99 freeway near Madera between Fresno and Modesto.

 

[ronott1]

Actually, just south of Bakersfield before starting up the Grapevine. The so-called geographical center of the state is marked my a pair of trees (pine on the north side, I believe, and a palm tree to the south) in the middle of the 99 freeway near Madera between Fresno and Modesto.

What poultry do you have?

 

[jacksson515]

Thank you for the welcome, Ron.

i should have mentioned this earlier, but hopefully this edit will suffice, I have no poultry right now. Just moved back to the mountains east of Fresno, CA to my old property. I have a fairly large chicken house on my own property which used to house about 50 chickens quite easily, a dozen guineas, and a handful of turkeys (in separate quarters in the building.

I am planning on getting some Turken chickens this spring and some Runner ducks. I help the nuns at the local monastery with their chickens and goats (they are about 1/2 mile from me). And, actually, I pasture two male goats to keep them separate from the milk goats and the possible hormonal changes when the males are nearby which causes bad tasting milk (the goats are Nubians).

 

[LittleBlu]

I'm not sure where I posted last but here's the pics of the white poop that they've been having.

 

[OR4-hmom]

@tls ranch, did you send some barnies north to WA last week? If so you met my sister, she said she was picking some up to take back with her.

Good to read that everyone is doing reasonably well with all the water. Wind blew down some trees up here and knocked out the power for a few hours. Ran into a few traffic slow downs with minor accidents. So far so good, a few muddy spots but runs mostly dry.

I slipped eggs under a broody, I don't even know if they are fertile, we'll find out in a week or so.

 

[ronott1]

@tls ranch, did you send some barnies north to WA last week? If so you met my sister, she said she was picking some up to take back with her.

Good to read that everyone is doing reasonably well with all the water. Wind blew down some trees up here and knocked out the power for a few hours. Ran into a few traffic slow downs with minor accidents. So far so good, a few muddy spots but runs mostly dry.

I slipped eggs under a broody, I don't even know if they are fertile, we'll find out in a week or so.

Come on over and join us! You already set the eggs...

 

[AmyPaperlady]

I've been working on a project for over a month now, and I'm, well, not done, but close to the home stretch, at least! Though the "over a month" bit is a bit unusual...

Anyway, I've been a member of a certain website since July of '01 ('tis where I got the Paperlady part of my name--the Amy came from my birth certificate

) and, the last few years, it's become a tradition to post a journal a day in November. This year, I decided to write bits of an entry on backyard chicken keeping on the even-numbered days. When the month was over, I compiled everything and edited it. Then I had @ronott1 look it over for me to make sure I didn't have any factual problems (I'd asked earlier in the month) and added a bit more tonight. Now, the way this website works is that, if you want to have what you write be officially included, you submit it to Peer Review, where it'll be checked that it fits the style of the site, and is accessible and enjoyable for laypeople (hm, that makes it sound more formal than it is...), and then it's copied into it's own page, edited and put on the Front Page. If you choose not to put something on PR, it'll still exist on the site, and people can still read it, but you don't get to say you had it on the Front Page. Kind of like the difference between having an article here, and having your article picked to go in the carousel thingy.

So, here's what I wrote: http://h2g2.com/entry/A87844314 If, after it goes through the whole process, there are significant changes, I'll post both links

Though it could be awhile.

 

[ronott1]

Hwy. 113 had flooding this morning at the Covell off ramp. Lane 1 was open but the off ramp and lane 2 were closed. I was delayed by about 5 minutes but made it to work fine.

I do have to work on the peak of the big coop where the roof comes up. A bit of water got in. Other than that we made it through in good shape.

Oddly, one of my Partridge Penedesenca hens laid her firs egg since molting yesterday. Too late for the hatch a long of course...Silly chickens!

 

[caychris]

Well after a dry nights sleep the 2 hens I rescued yesterday seem happy this morning.

Took a couple of quick phone pics this morning. Last night I was a bit worried when looking at their combs and beaks because there was a lot of black on their heads but on closer look it really seemed to be mud. Well this morning it looks like I was right much of it is gone.





I'm thinking they were someones Back yard birds that got out and lost they seem pretty tame and fairly well cared for and were probably not lost for long.