Diary & Notes ~ Air Cell Detatched SHIPPED Chicken Eggs for incubation and hatching

[elliechooks]

Hoping to get some of those surprises myself! I have 30 eggs in and more than half were clear at day 10. Day 14 today so will have another look when it gets dark enough. Fingers crossed because my last hatch was really bad, and now half of my chicks have just died of coccidiosis time for some good luck.

 

[sumi]

Hoping to get some of those surprises myself! I have 30 eggs in and more than half were clear at day 10. Day 14 today so will have another look when it gets dark enough. Fingers crossed because my last hatch was really bad, and now half of my chicks have just died of coccidiosis

time for some good luck.

Good luck and

. Sorry to hear about your chicks!

 

[ozexpat]

I am having fun

Well apart from reading everyone's misfortunes here....

I am gearing up for my 5th hatch of shipped eggs.

I was going to stick to chickens but....

I managed to get some of the last pheasant and turkey eggs of there year. I am determine to have a huge Christmas spread of roasted fowl. lol

The bird that was hatched on my Christmas run that went broody has hatched 8 from 12 locally laid eggs and now we have a mama and chicks in the main coop as a social experiment.

My attempts to get Australorps had failed again. I had 3 suppliers teed up for 24 eggs each. "The Great Molt of 2013" struck. I do have 24 black Orpingtons. Worse comes to worse, I will teach them to say G'Day.

I pick up creme legbars, swedish flower hens, white rocks, cochins, silver laced wyandottes and cuckoo marans as well as BCM locally tomorrow and Monday. I have Mille Fluer Leghorns, BBS Marans and Speckled Sussex coming from Papa Brooder in Norcal too!

 

[ozexpat]

I know many people love DE but what is it?

Diatomaceous earth is made from the fossilized remains of tiny, aquatic organisms called diatoms. Their skeletons are made of a natural substance called silica. Over a long period of time, diatoms accumulated in the sediment of rivers, streams, lakes, and oceans. Today, silica deposits are mined from these areas.

and in the news today....

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed long-awaited rules on Friday to limit crystalline silica, a move it said would prevent nearly 700 deaths a year by reducing exposure to these very small particles that can cause lung cancer and other diseases.

“Exposure to silica can be deadly, and limiting that exposure is essential,” said David Michaels, the assistant secretary of labor in charge of OSHA. He estimated that the proposed rule would prevent 1,600 new cases of silicosis each year.
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Just Sayin.......... Sometimes natural aint natural

 

[cochins1088]

I know many people love DE but what is it?

Diatomaceous earth is made from the fossilized remains of tiny, aquatic organisms called diatoms. Their skeletons are made of a natural substance called silica. Over a long period of time, diatoms accumulated in the sediment of rivers, streams, lakes, and oceans. Today, silica deposits are mined from these areas.

and in the news today....

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration proposed long-awaited rules on Friday to limit crystalline silica, a move it said would prevent nearly 700 deaths a year by reducing exposure to these very small particles that can cause lung cancer and other diseases.

“Exposure to silica can be deadly, and limiting that exposure is essential,” said David Michaels, the assistant secretary of labor in charge of OSHA. He estimated that the proposed rule would prevent 1,600 new cases of silicosis each year.
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Just Sayin.......... Sometimes natural aint natural

Yikes.... I've been using a LOT of DE lately... I use masks for the poultry dust, but I usually don't with the DE. I'm sure that I've inhaled quite a bit of it..

Thanks for sharing Oz. I won't be buying any more DE. It doesn't work very well anyways..

 

[cochins1088]

What do you all use to prevent mites and lice?

I've been having a lot of trouble with both mites and lice this year. The barn sparrows insist on living in the barn with my chickens which makes it almost impossible to prevent mites and lice.

I was using the poultry dust, but I no longer trust it as much as I used too and it takes forever to apply it on so many birds. I know some people use ivermectin. Does it work? I'm going to start doing some research, but I'd love to hear some opinions.

 

[loveourbirds]

the same problems can come from 7 dust.

i know this will make some of you cringe - for a small flock owner DE and 7 Dust might be the way to go. i blinded a hen in one eye with 7 dust, and started looking at alternatives. for flocks of any size (if its available to you) ground tobacco stalks mixed with bedding will work great as a preventative. even throwing a pinch of bulk bagged tobacco in the bedding will help.

with as many chickens as we have, i prefer Ivomec pour on- for chickens i dont plan on eating. i dose it with a syringe at 1/4 cc on my small bantams up to 1/2 cc on medium sized chickens, and 1 cc on turkeys. it kills the bugs and worms them at the same time.

some people mix a solution of lime and water and paint the inside of their coops with it, i cant tell you if it works; but its cheap and by others statements it is supposed to work well.

i've talked about this somewhere before, and i have not used it on chickens. but spinosad is an organic that should work fine on chickens and kill bugs. i only know of it as a liquid concentrate for around $20 a bottle. its a bacteria that feeds on spent fermenting grains. if i remember correctly on vegetables there was no withdraw periods before you could eat them.

 

[ozexpat]

You can use a fogger with permethrin

Its pretty heavy duty but works as it gets into every nook and cranny

I put permethrin on my skin with insect repellent

http://www.pbigordon.com/pdfs/Permethrin-10-SL.pdf

You can also fog with oxine to kill resp diseases

 

[loveourbirds]

You can use a fogger with permethrin

Its pretty heavy duty but works as it gets into every nook and cranny

I put permethrin on my skin with insect repellent

http://www.pbigordon.com/pdfs/Permethrin-10-SL.pdf

You can also fog with oxine to kill resp diseases

permethrin/pyretherins in most cases isnt supposed to be used on animals more than once a month. i really don't know why. i decided against it for that reason and locally fleas have become resistant to it. on the other hand, used in the bedding as a repellent it should work great.

 

[cochins1088]

the same problems can come from 7 dust.

i know this will make some of you cringe - for a small flock owner DE and 7 Dust might be the way to go. i blinded a hen in one eye with 7 dust, and started looking at alternatives. for flocks of any size (if its available to you) ground tobacco stalks mixed with bedding will work great as a preventative. even throwing a pinch of bulk bagged tobacco in the bedding will help.

with as many chickens as we have, i prefer Ivomec pour on- for chickens i dont plan on eating. i dose it with a syringe at 1/8 cc on my small bantams up to 1/4 cc on medium sized chickens, and 1/2 cc on turkeys. it kills the bugs and worms them at the same time.

some people mix a solution of lime and water and paint the inside of their coops with it, i cant tell you if it works; but its cheap and by others statements it is supposed to work well.

i've talked about this somewhere before, and i have not used it on chickens. but spinosad is an organic that should work fine on chickens and kill bugs. i only know of it as a liquid concentrate for around $20 a bottle. its a bacteria that feeds on spent fermenting grains. if i remember correctly on vegetables there was no withdraw periods before you could eat them.

I think I'll try the Ivomec pour on for the mites, but will it help with the lice?