California - Northern

[ronott1]

Ok thanks. I'm going to use the ivermectin. Found directions online. Is the sheep stuff the same as the cattle? This just seems like an easy option and since we have so many birds I can apply it when the roost at night.

for lice, you want the pour on version. Look for instructions--it goes by weight and you drop the ivermectin on skin around the vent and under the wings.

 

[jenniferlamar70]

for lice, you want the pour on version. Look for instructions--it goes by weight and you drop the ivermectin on skin around the vent and under the wings.

Ok thanks so much.

 

[BirdieBirdie]

Anyone want a EE roo? He was hatched at the end of July and found his voice this morning. His dad is a true Jersey Giant (about 12lbs and still growing) but I'm not sure which hen is mom. Regardless, he is black and chases other siblings around.

I can't have another roo and he's not old enough for dinner. I don't want to advertise on Craigslist because there are known cock fighting rings in the area.

He's yours free. I can also give you the name of a vet that will decrow him.

 

[caychris]

Anyone want a EE roo? He was hatched at the end of July and found his voice this morning. His dad is a true Jersey Giant (about 12lbs and still growing) but I'm not sure which hen is mom. Regardless, he is black and chases other siblings around.

I can't have another roo and he's not old enough for dinner. I don't want to advertise on Craigslist because there are known cock fighting rings in the area.

He's yours free. I can also give you the name of a vet that will decrow him.

PM me with details about the vet sorry cant take the boy too many of my own but am thinking about possibly needing to decrow a boy or two to keep things under control and a bit more quiet.

 

[Sylvester017]

Hey all. Just found out my free range flock has lice. Poor baby's. I think I found a good site on treating it but it wasn't clear on everything. I'm not going to use DE. Figured spinosad but unsure where to get it. Also saw ivectin can be used. Any suggestions for a free range flock of about 20? Also should I treat my other chickens that aren't free range who are kept seperate in coops? Thanks.

I was shipped two juvenile Buff Leghorns 12 weeks old with lice. I used Manna Pro Poultry Protector organic enzyme spray and treated per instructions the birds immediately out of the shipping box. Of course they were isolated/quarantined and I saw no evidence of lice the 2nd day but I treated with Poultry Protector again. A week later I sprayed again just to be sure I got any lingering hatched lice leftover. The stuff really works fast and safe to use as often as needed because it is an organic enzyme formula. DE is useless for immediate to no-results. Permethrin(?spelling) dust is fast and effective but I would try the Poultry Protector first before more drastic solutions. Mites need a more aggressive solution but lice are fairly easy to get rid of -- Poultry Protector can be sprayed around the nestboxes too -- remove the nesting material (straw or shavings or whatever), spray the boxes, then add clean new nest material. You can repeat this for a couple of days making sure to spray the hens each day too (I would spray the birds at night one by one after they go to roost -- they will be more mellow and easy to spray treat each one and return to their perch). Hope this works for you like it did for me. Manna Pro Poultry Protector should be a staple product in any good feed store.

 

[Sylvester017]

I love you coop. We built our own but are going to need a new one for our silkies. You should send me some detailed pics so I can make my husband build me one lol. It would be perfect.

Not sure what kind of pics you're wanting to see so here are some pics of our coop -- we have 2 old Silkies, lost an Ameraucana and Breda this summer, but have a new Breda pullet and getting a Dom pullet in the Spring to bring us up to 4 chickens again (our zone allows 5 hens/no roos).

Our Black Silkie toodling around the outside of the coop - we leave the 4x4 attached kennel wire run open during the day to allow free ranging. We like the additional 4x4 run which is 5 feet high and easy to walk inside.


All coop walls and run walls assemble at top and bottom corners of each wall panel with bolts/screws that slip into corresponding hinges - no nails or staples or hammering. To remove a wall just unscrew the bolts and pull apart. These are huge sturdy hinges and bolts!


This is how the 4 wall panels of the coop got shipped to us - just had to use bolts/screws to connect the 4 corners of the coop (the bottom pen area was already attached to each coop wall panel) and we invested in an additional 4x4 kennel wire run to attach to the coop. We had our contractor assemble the heavy wheel package because we didn't have the right tools.


The coop is under a patio roof for protection from brutal summer sun and winter rains - our 2 Silkies are next to the left background chair eating treats.


The ladder ramp up to the chicken pop-door was way too steep for the Silkies and we had to put cinder blocks under the ramp to make it less steep



Top view of our Black Silkie sitting in a nestbox at floor level of the coop - thick kennel mesh floor is good ventilation during hot summer days.


Breda hen facing nestboxes - Black Silkie in nestbox closest to pop-door - a Partridge Silkie is outside in the run area below (hard to see her).


During colder winter months we put the solid floor tray back in the coop and use cardboard to catch poops - this works for us with only 4 hens. We eventually closed the hole in the floor for the ramp that led to the pen below -- the ramp was too steep for the Silkies and they use the pop-door ramp instead. We moved the perch to the center of the coop so the perching chickens can have a window view which they seem to like. The Silkies still insist on sleeping in a nestbox for the night. This view is from the clean-out people door side.


These windows are for light only because they don't open - vents for air flow are at the top of each end of the coop -- there's not enough ventilation for the manufacturer's recommended amount of 15 to 16 chickens for this 4x4 coop which is 6 feet tall. Manufacturers over-state how many hens can safely be housed in their coops. The black brackets between the windows and top vent are mounts for additional perches which we never use, I mean, top roosting chickens would be pooping on lower perched hens during the night!!! This coop came with 5 perches -- way too many for a 4x4x6 space!


There is a large clean-out door nearly the whole side of the coop's wall - very spacious to reach for things inside the coop. The heavy-duty wheel package was well worth the expense for us since we moved this coop all around the yard during remodeling.


There are pros/cons to every pre-made coop so we had to weigh them before deciding if this type of coop fit the majority of our needs. We knew that whatever the next coop was it would be placed on a roofed patio so we didn't have to stand in the rain to collect eggs and the nests would stay dry when the collection lid was opened.

This was our first pre-built feed store coop for 5 years - cheap materials, flat roof, leaky in storms, but somehow managed to preserve it well enough to pass along to someone else who wanted it.

 

[rreid87]

Flock of ducks for sale. SACRAMENTO


Cayuga/Pekin Duck Flock - $150
http://sacramento.craigslist.org/grd/5836766193.html

 

[anthrogirl]

Anybody looking for a very sweet almost 7 week old BSL Cockerel? he's a mix of Dominique (mother) and either EE or Welsummer (the lady we got the eggs from wasn't sure which rooster) he was hatched under a broody hen so he's very comfortable with adult hens and forges well. We're in Fresno (Central California) but could drive to meet if you're farther away. (We really want him to go to a long-term home, not 'freezer camp'

 

[jenniferlamar70]

Hey guys I'm looking for a white cochin roo preferably under 10 weeks. If anyone has one or knows where to get one let me know. Also I'm cutting down on my flock and trying to focus on just a few so I'm selling my polish bantam flock consisting of one roo and 6 hens. If interested let me know thanks.

 

[h2oratt]

I have 2 chocolate orpingtons cockerels to sell. They were hatched from eggs from Papa s poultry. They are very nice and friendly cockerels, I have an adult rooster related to them and he is very respectful of humans.