Dixie Chicks

[Amberjem]

mine pretty much stuck inside the coop for like the first three days which worked out cuz I wanted them to rehome in the henhouse lol and I would open the free range area for the big girls and close them in there and let the chicks have a lil free access in the henhouse pen........noone was mean to them or anything there was a bit of chasing but sure it ws just the whole pecking order thing...... those guys got SUPER fast and sneaky with dashing in for a goodie in the snacks and dashing off to gobble it...they even would snatch the tidbits from the big girls and run off....they were amazingly fast..pretty sure there isnt much faster then a baby chick with a goodie it wants

edited to add.. except for a baby chick trying to get it from another one..cracks me up

 

[Beer can]

The woman I'm getting the cemani crosses from had cream legbar chicks in a outside chick coop. Her heatlamp bulb blew last night and she lost them all. Luckly she has been keeping her cemanis chicks inside.

 

[bamadude]

(just think chickens. just think chickens)

We have had a beaver rat in our pond all winter.
A muskrat, it's cute but looks like a eight pound rat.

we have several beaver ponds. We have 1 that has to be huge. It chewed down a young planted pine about waist high.

 

[Amberjem]

The woman I'm getting the cemani crosses from had cream legbar chicks in a outside chick coop. Her heatlamp bulb blew last night and she lost them all. Luckly she has been keeping her cemanis chicks inside.

ohh that bites ....how old were they? is it super cold there???? we been getting madcapped weather here.. we are back up to the fiftys it got to 55 yesterday..two days before was 30's

 

[Amberjem]

we have several beaver ponds. We have 1 that has to be huge. It chewed down a young planted pine about waist high.

those things are amzing to see chomp into them saplings..sure wouldnt want it chomping me

 

[Amberjem]

 

[perchie.girl]

ok I am half here n awake.. I should be asleep...anyways good morning @vehve @Beer can @Alaskan @hennible @Outpost JWB @JW12 @BriardChickens @Bogtown Chick @tntchix @perchie.girl @Aliciahess .......yawnnnnnnn stretchhhhhhhhh ...... @sourland
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@bamadude
and anyone else I forgot in my sleepiness


So there is a huge debate over medicated and not medicated, do you use medication or do you look for alternative things to use and what are they and why? Also how do you deal with worming, when do you find it good to worm and when do you avoid it and why?

Dont medicate dont worm... or havent wormed yet. If I do feel the need I will use trusted methods... Which ever is appropriate.

I have never had a sick chicken nor needed to worm.... I have had mites though. I used Seven dust. At the time that was before BYC and it was suggested through one of the books I had. That got everything but the leg mites. I used vasaline to starve them of oxygen.... No one told me to do that... I just thought it might work... It did.

deb

 

[Amberjem]

ohhh that reminds me I heard my first crow today out of one of the boys!! it was super quiet but it was def a crow!..man I am all alone today @Sharps Big 50 is off teaching gun safety class...my son got picked up by a neighbor who wanted to give him some work for a few odd jobs

 

[perchie.girl]

Quote:
I was only able to nurse about two months.... He had trouble latching on. Because he was a Franks Breach his feet were up around his face and it messed with his jaw. I had to go to a Lactation specialist to find this out. So I pumped and used that in a bottle. Just to keep the milk going. But it was too late. I had to finally go to formula.

MY good friend Denise nursed till her daughters were almost three.

Oh well he got what he needed in the beginning.

deb

 

[bamadude]

Giggety giggety