Dixie Chicks

[minihorse927]

How are you mini?

alive. actually I feel a lot better today. How are you?

 

[buddy phoenix]

Looking for needle a hay stack lol. I'm good. Though

 

[minihorse927]

Looking for needle a hay stack lol. I'm good. Though

what you trying to find?

 

[chickisoup]

Nice pics Jem and Felix

Hi Hennible!
for future reference, if you get any "crawlies" again, Sevin garden dust will kill anything, red mites, northern fowl mites, lice,,,, that get on your birds. I just do the old "shake and bake" method. Just be sure, as with any powder, that you or the birds don't breathe it in. Sevin can be used to de-bug the coop as well by two methods. Either sprinkle it under the bedding etc. and don't forget the nest boxes! I always sprinkle a little under the nesting material and under the woodchips in the catchboard under the roost every time I clean as a preventative measure. In the case of red mites I recommend using the liquid Sevin in a sprayer, locking the birds out till it dries of course. I know many folks are against chemical use and I try very hard to keep it to a minimum but honestly when it comes to mites, especially red mites, organic methods just are not that effective.
If you have questions or need more info on proper, aka safe, usage etc. you can pm me.

 

[hennible]

Thanks but you can't buy sevin here anymore.

 

[hennible]

...you can hardly get anything here :/
Which I understand, but am totally annoyed by!

 

[Beer can]

They tried outlawing bug bombs in NY state. I guess our nanny state govt. didn't trust that people would leave their home when they use them. They wanted to force us to spend $100s of $ to hire a professional exterminator. Who would stay in their home watching TV after setting off a bug bomb? Those things reek.

 

[vehve]

Seriously, people are that stupid. Of course, a Darwinian approach might work, but that idea never seems to be all that popular...

We haven't had any issues with mites or other crawlies yet (knock on wood), we mainly try to keep the litter dry in there, and Karin does a light DE treatment on the run every few months, whenever it starts looking like the straw in there needs to be changed, we take it out and dust a bit. We don't use DE inside the coop though. I'm not a big fan of preventative poison use, it's not that healthy on the chooks, and it might help build up a tolerance. Keeping a close eye on the coop is a better idea in my opinion, and then killing everything at first sign of trouble. I know some people use that corrugated cardboard as a mite indicator (the stuff with a wave shape between two flat surfaces, it provides an excellent home for crawlies, so having small pieces of it in a few places in a good way to monitor the situation.

I wouldn't use wormers without indication of trouble either. Then again, our climate sort of keeps the pest population slightly lower.

I think we might go buy a trail cam tomorrow. Turns out, they're not really all that expensive after all... If I can get the store to do price matching, it would be cool. I found one that seems OK for 120e close by, or 90e on the other side of the country + 10e shipping. 20e for impatience isn't that bad, but if I can get them to match the 90, I would even save the shipping charge. We'll see what they say.

 

[vehve]

Hilma video of the day.

 

[Amberjem]

Afternoon. Chicks ventured outside today a bit.





It's pretty fun to watch the chicks climb up to the coop too.

awesome!

Hilma video of the day.

your making me miss my rabbitary!