Faverolles Thread

[hcammack]

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Ha ha No problem I got them from the old site. If you want to update them feel free to send me anything you want to add or take out or just and updated version.

Henry

 

[hcammack]

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Pete, will a liberal sprinkling of DE take care of that? I know i haven't had any problems over the past few years since I've been using it, but my feathered-leg population has been pretty low. I make sure to put a good amount in the nest box also, so it gets into their toes when they root around. Thanks, Mary

What is DE?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth it cuts the outside of the mites bodies and dries them out. I think it works on some but not all cases of mites. Probably not scaly leg mites.

 

[comerspoultry]

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Prone? If roosts are kept clean and you use an injectable liquid wormer it usually takes care of it. I guess you could say their prone to northern fowl mite also. But, if you dust for that often enough it takes out the risk. Same with red mites. I just don't think prone is the word here as what you're talking about can be eliminated so very easily. Change out your roosts every so often. During warm enough months bathe them and leave soak in tepid water for about 30mintes. That drowns em but they will come back as they exist on the roosts and come out to feed and infest during the night.

peter

Hey Peter, how is it going?

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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What is DE?

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth it cuts the outside of the mites bodies and dries them out. I think it works on some but not all cases of mites. Probably not scaly leg mites.

If you use it Peter, just make sure you get food grade DE, as there is another version they use in pool filters...not so good for the critters!

 

[keesmom]

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I can answer the lavender question. A lavender split will show no indication that a lavender gene is present. There is no visual way to tell a pure black apart from a black split.

 

[mame1616]

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatomaceous_earth it cuts the outside of the mites bodies and dries them out. I think it works on some but not all cases of mites. Probably not scaly leg mites.

If you use it Peter, just make sure you get food grade DE, as there is another version they use in pool filters...not so good for the critters!

I get mine from Cutler's - they have pretty good prices. Wow, Henry, That's a lot of work! I only bathe my girls before a show because they hate it and it's so much work. Consequently, some of them never get bathed. I also use Frontline about twice a year. I pour a little into a dish and, using a q-tip, just wipe a bit at the back of their heads, under their armpits, and around their vent. That's worked for me. My biggest problem is "drop-dead disease." You know, where everything is fine and the next day they're feet up in the coop. I lose about four a year that way. Even a necropsy couldn't find the cause, and every time I ask poultry people, they just say it's a chicken thing.

 

[comerspoultry]

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I get mine from Cutler's - they have pretty good prices. Wow, Henry, That's a lot of work! I only bathe my girls before a show because they hate it and it's so much work. Consequently, some of them never get bathed. I also use Frontline about twice a year. I pour a little into a dish and, using a q-tip, just wipe a bit at the back of their heads, under their armpits, and around their vent. That's worked for me. My biggest problem is "drop-dead disease." You know, where everything is fine and the next day they're feet up in the coop. I lose about four a year that way. Even a necropsy couldn't find the cause, and every time I ask poultry people, they just say it's a chicken thing.

Thanks everyone for the DE answers. WD 40 works on scaley leg also

Cindy, thanks for the lav answer.

Hey Leisha! It goes. What about the Bluegreass Show in Kentucky for a National? Or consider following the apa/aba annuals. That's always incentive to go and usually means more numbers. Yea, I guess I could be tempted to drive to Kent. Not much further. I really burned on the drive outta FL from here. Let alone that means I have to cross GA too. Scarey.

Mame, they hate it so you don't? Gee I don't ask mine at all at 3 1/2 - 4 mnths if they wanna. They just get it! lol What else comes with the drop dead thing? Waste away? Or just absolute perfection n they just die?

peter

In 2012, I want to have a show east of the mississippi and one west of the mississippi. I would love to go to kentucky or tennessee

 

[comerspoultry]

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A few. I will have to investigate these. Will really need help from the people out west on shows. Would love for you to come up north. My sister in law lives in Florida and Georgia is a boring state to drive thru.

 

[keesmom]

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So does Pam (the cooking spray).

 

[mame1616]

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What can I say, Peter? When it comes to medicines or other health stuff, I don't take no for an answer. I just put a scalpel to my JG hen's foot last night to work on her bumblefoot, and I have no problem tube feeding, or even giving nebulizer treatments at four in the morning. But baths? Maybe I'm just not that organized at it, but to me it's a big wet sweaty job, so I only do it for birds I'm showing. The rest I keep an eye on, check for lice or other skin stuff, and then leave them alone to be happy in their "non-show-quality" lives.

The drop dead thing? 90% of them are healthy, looking great, eating great, then dead. The others have a bad few hours - puffed up, tired - and then they die. No other symptoms - runny noses, bubbly eyes, coughing, wheezing, diarrhea, swollen faces - nothing, except they're dead. They're usually young, anywhere from 3 to 8 months. Some folks have suggested it's something in my soil or the surrounding areas that the older birds have become immune to, which is the most reasonable explanation. It certainly seems to affect my more expensive birds than my Agway-moment-of-weakness birds. (Naturally!) Once they hit adulthood, I rarely lose one, which is why I generally like to buy older pullets. Like I said, I had a necropsy done on one of them, and the vet found nothing. It also happens only every once in a while, unless I have a lot of young ones. For instance, I got 15 birds of various ages (3 days to 5 months) in May of this year at chickenstock, and have lost three of them to this, but separated by two weeks, and then not again for almost six weeks. No indication anything was wrong with any one of them. In fact, I have siblings of each of those three and they are doing fine. I have tried doing a light course of Terramycin and similar drugs for a week here and a week there, to try and prevent it, but the only thing it did was give everyone the runs, so then I had to fix that. I've looked in every book, on every website I could find, and nowhere does anyone even mention this type of thing. Like I said, most of the people who've been with poultry for forever say it's just a chicken thing.