Fuzzy's Farm

[fuzzybutt love]

*sigh* a week ago i posted pics of my d'uccles on that thread, and asked if they were quality or not. No reply! So i still don't know. I know they look better than a lot of the others posted by the non-showers, but........ I can't show, but it would still be nice to know!

Took all of the chips out of the coop the other day, back to scraping and mopping. Got too nasty, i kept adding pine shavings but since it's not freezing in there.......... whew! I finally walked in one day to a highly ammonia smelling coop, that was it! So no deep litter happening for me, i will add chips and replace once a week i guess.

Treated the whole lot of them for lice, uncle next door got a few more roos a couple months ago "with no lice" and well.............. darn old farts. Won't listen to me because i'm too young to know anything! This last roo he kept is friendly though and he's handling him so a few days ago when he caught him for the night i looked him over until i found the lice............ he "didn't look chewed" so uncle didn't know, and for some reason people think dust bathing stops lice??? Grr. Anyway i talked him into letting me treat his bird this time, i kindly blamed the wild turkeys for the lice and refrained from being too smart. As soon as i'm able i'm gonna definitely get the ivermectin though, hopefully he'll let me do that as well. (potential worms)

I hate doing this over and over to my flock, seems like every time i get it all gone and done they import more roosters to butcher! And of course they have to come see what all the happy noises are about over at my coop! I didn't even get to eat any eggs this summer! Between heat and treating , and trying to get a broody going.......I hope the "babies" did ok with it. Poor things were getting chewed too, they are still very small for their age so i gave them a banty dose.

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

Fuzzy: If you want to just post or PM me some good side view pics of the d'Uccles I can try to help you. I used to show d'Uccles. . If you can, get them to stand up straight, so that their heads and tail are parallel.

Kind of like this:

What are you using for lice? Sevin works best, but apparently it was banned for poultry? I'm not to sure on the details, but I still use it with no problems, as long as I cover the birds head/face. I've never tried DE, but Coconut Oils smothered on the area with lice works wonders. I use it especially for babies.

Rusty, for your grandson. That's scary.........

Today is the seventh anniversary of the day Boom Boom came to us. <3

 

[NovaAman]

I didn't like the deep litter method either and I have lots of ventilation... I know, you take off the top layers of poop, but I just don't like it. Maybe we are doing something wrong? I just put enough chops down to make cleanup easy weekly. Take off the big piles daily... Never any smell. One month on the deep litter... Tuck...

 

[BackyardFarmMom]

I have deep liter in my coop... but I only have 4 birds so clean up is easy under the roosts. I rake everything out once a month or so.
I have never had a bad smell.

My chickens don't hang out in the coop though either during the day.

 

[MsBagawkbagawk]

I have deep liter in my coop... but I only have 4 birds so clean up is easy under the roosts. I rake everything out once a month or so.
I have never had a bad smell.
My chickens don't hang out in the coop though either during the day.

Deep litter you clean out more like once or twice a year......

I tried it this fall. It was fine for the first three weeks then the fourth week it started to smell. I have boards under the roosts that I dump daily. They really don't poop that much in the coop (except under the roosts) and I can usually get away with cleaning it once a month, sometimes I can do it once every two months in the summer (since they're in the coop less) and more often in the winter. I would rather spend an hour cleaning once a month rather than an entire day every six months anyways...........

 

[BobBry]

Ya just need to remember, you are talking to a bunch of ladies who have raised their kids/are raising their kids. So.. You may not get the best reception when complaining about your mother to a bunch of mothers...

Achy day... Dealing...

I'm Still behind... No NOVA, not admitting to being A behind .... just behind , can't resist.

What am I ? Chopped liver ?

 

[fuzzybutt love]

i make a homemade frontline for my birds. One drop to the back of the neck for banties, two drops for big ones. I thought that's what the lady at the store said to do for birds, turns out that idea is for dogs! Ooops. Can't find no info on doing it for birds, apparently i'm pioneering this one! Works great though. In 3 days there will be no more bugs. I've used this since last fall with no ill effects on my flock. I really want ivermectin though, because it's better studied and does worms too.

My birds hang in my coop, it's almost a greenhouse in the winter because the bay window faces the sun. They lay in the sunbeams Outside is more fun but comes with a chilly breeze, they will do it for an hour and then it's back to the coop. That's probably why i'm failing with the deep litter; it worked last year but i used waaay more dry maple leaves and was able to have it deeper. I also lost the poop board because the new birds needed a high roost, and to have a poop board would make it too hard for me to do my floor cleaning with the new roost's placement.

I stopped at another goodwill and scored a coffee pot for my coffee maker today! The coffee maker is an older model, but essentially i spent $5 between the two goodwills for a programmable coffee pot! It's a black and decker "spacesaver" so it's cube shaped, very neat and tidy! (good for the compulsive side of me) The pot i got today for $2 is a near enough match that you can't tell it is a replacement. A replacement at the store would have been $12! Coffee at 4 am now, the smell and sound are sure to make waking much more bearable

 

[BobBry]

*sigh* a week ago i posted pics of my d'uccles on that thread, and asked if they were quality or not. No reply! So i still don't know. I know they look better than a lot of the others posted by the non-showers, but........ I can't show, but it would still be nice to know!

Can't tell you what I don't know. Sorry

 

[BobBry]

I didn't like the deep litter method either and I have lots of ventilation... I know, you take off the top layers of poop, but I just don't like it. Maybe we are doing something wrong? I just put enough chops down to make cleanup easy weekly. Take off the big piles daily... Never any smell. One month on the deep litter... Tuck...

TUCK ?

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Not a lady, Bob.

How are you doing? All well in your corner of the world?