Night flight for me tonight. I wish you all well! ( my chickens are all safe and will be awaiting my return in the morning. I will nap tomorrow to catch up with sleep, if I can remember what that is!
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Good luck, be safe!Night flight for me tonight. I wish you all well! ( my chickens are all safe and will be awaiting my return in the morning. I will nap tomorrow to catch up with sleep, if I can remember what that is!
When should they start laying?Kris, I just put all my healthy thriving Chooks to bed. I’m thinking there is a very big difference between pets and just poultry! I know if I ever called my Jaffar “just poultry” ,I’m sure that he would bite me until I died from my wounds. Ps. Here’s a pic of Coco for the night.View attachment 2729208
Just about any medication can be given by crushing the pill in the case of solids, emptying a capsule, or adding liquid drops to make a solution of sorts.I have not. How does this work? I have one of seven having issues. Any recommendations how to get Naenae what she needs without over "medicating" (using this term very loosely) the rest?
It is terrible especially when one considers that 108 degrees is just over 42 centigrade which is only one degree above a chickens core body temperature.To the heat! My gosh! That's terrible.
Thanks yet again
It's really difficult to force feed them. I've been trying with amber, luckily she's back too eating again but I know this will be become problematic again when it gets hot.Just about any medication can be given by crushing the pill in the case of solids, emptying a capsule, or adding liquid drops to make a solution of sorts.
A liquid vitamin supplement is what I've used usually.
You only need a few drops, enough to ensure that the medication/additive can be made into a paste.
An eggcup makes a good container to mix in.
Once you have a paste you can soak it/wipe it up with small pieces of bread, or even push it into a grape.
I try this method as a fist stop solution. Most of the time it works. If not, then the options range from forcing the beak open and firing the pill down the throat to tube feeding. Plenty of article on BYC about tube feeding.
They are all young yet. The oldest are a year old and the youngest will be a year the end of July. I am just trying to keep on top of things. My understanding of the situation with production hens is that they burn out at a young age. I don’t know how one can fight genetics, but I figure food is the first line of defense. I can only imagine the loss of nutrients from the body from laying eggs every single day.
I have made it my mission to at least TRY to get all the important nutrients into them every day. Once or twice a week I add probiotics to their water.
Here's an egg weight guide.I can only imagine the loss of nutrients from the body from laying eggs every single day.
Not always, personally speaking I'm doing everything possible too keep my girls cool. I have four shady covers for them and another being built.It is terrible especially when one considers that 108 degrees is just over 42 centigrade which is only one degree above a chickens core body temperature.
If one lives in a region that reaches such temperatures, then if your chickens are dying from the heat I would suggest that not enough care has been taken to ensure they have suitable adequate shade.
It's no good blaming the weather; it's the fault of the keeper.
Just saying.