California - Northern

[Hyroler]

What Kind are you bringing?

My rooster is New Hampshire/Easteregger so chicks are mixed with Americaunas ,olive eggers and silver wyandettes .They are 2 weeks old.

 

[Hyroler]

I also have some white leghorn,tetra brown eggs incubating right now.

 

[h2oratt]

My rooster is New Hampshire/Easteregger so chicks are mixed with Americaunas ,olive eggers and silver wyandettes .They are 2 weeks old.

Want a crested cream legbar rooster? I have 2 for sale?

 

[Hyroler]

Want a crested cream legbar rooster? I have 2 for sale?

I have get rid of my rooster.I live in city no roosters allowed.Thanks anyways

 

[h2oratt]

Eat it.

 

[Hyroler]

Eat it.

I would except I dont have it in me to kill him and he refuses to commit suicide.

 

[Stephine]

I had to bury one of my little firewalkrr flock this morning... Poor Eloise never managed to recover from the stress of the smoke, lack of feed and water and drastic change of environment. While everyone else responded to my pampering beautifully and ended up looking better than ever, she never managed to get out of her molt. A week ago I noticed that she looked pale and a couple of days later mites had invaded the areas she liked to hang out in (I think the mites were a symptom of her weakness, not the cause). I treated her of course but today she was dead on the coop floor. A GLW she never endeared herself to me, but I liked her nevertheless... I gave her special treats the last few weeks and even yesterday she still managed to enforce her spot in the pecking order when a lower ranking hen tried to eat a sunflower seed next to her, so I think she didn’t suffer much.

Everyone else looks fine, luckily. Now to battle the mites she left behind - yikes!

 

[ronott1]

I had to bury one of my little firewalkrr flock this morning... Poor Eloise never managed to recover from the stress of the smoke, lack of feed and water and drastic change of environment. While everyone else responded to my pampering beautifully and ended up looking better than ever, she never managed to get out of her molt. A week ago I noticed that she looked pale and a couple of days later mites had invaded the areas she liked to hang out in (I think the mites were a symptom of her weakness, not the cause). I treated her of course but today she was dead on the coop floor. A GLW she never endeared herself to me, but I liked her nevertheless... I gave her special treats the last few weeks and even yesterday she still managed to enforce her spot in the pecking order when a lower ranking hen tried to eat a sunflower seed next to her, so I think she didn’t suffer much.

Everyone else looks fine, luckily. Now to battle the mites she left behind - yikes!

I am do sorry!

Don't use DE if you are. Use spinosad or permectrin.

One reason is that DE will not kill adult mites and it is harsh on lungs. If they already have lung damage you do not want to make it worse

 

[Stephine]

I am do sorry!

Don't use DE if you are. Use spinosad or permectrin.

One reason is that DE will not kill adult mites and it is harsh on lungs. If they already have lung damage you do not want to make it worse

 

[Stephine]

oops. Meant to say:

Thank you! I normally use sulfur in their feed and dust bath. I think this girl was not eating enough in the end to keep her sulfur levels up and she certainly was spared dustbathing anymore. I dusted her with sulfur by hand, when I realized what was happening but the mite population had already exploded then. I am using poultry protector and DE in the nest boxes right now, that was what I could quickly buy locally, and have ordered Scalex, which will hopefully arrive soon.