Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[piglett]

absolutely!!

How many do you have now? Five or Six?

I am actually hatching some lav orps for HFR right now - day 6 22 doing well,

They will move off the turner on thursday, get put in foam in the incubator and the whole thing will be transferred to her place, running on an inverter in the car

i have 3 plus 4 that looks to be some sort of orps but the go to Bresse lady says they are Bresse chicks

she is telling me that their leg color will change soon

i guess i'll find out

maybe i do have the goods

the bator is taking a break

i'll pull the top off & vacuum out all of the dust from in where the electronics live

last batch of buffs just hatched out in the bathroom last night



still looking for a mate for my hen turkey

no one on craigslist responds to me emails

i guess i'll keep looking

 

[ChickenFox]

i have 3 plus 4 that looks to be some sort of orps but the go to Bresse lady says they are Bresse chicks

she is telling me that their leg color will change soon

i guess i'll find out

maybe i do have the goods

In about a week you should notice a grey tinge on their legs. I freaked a little too when my girls hatched with yellow legs. At 6 weeks you couldn't tell they were ever yellow.

 

[piglett]

In about a week you should notice a grey tinge on their legs. I freaked a little too when my girls hatched with yellow legs. At 6 weeks you couldn't tell they were ever yellow.

sweet, thanks

i figured they had grey legs from the git go like black,blue &splash orpingtons do

i guess not

 

[maryhysong]

My understanding is that tapeworm infestations in chickens are pretty rare but in our environment, I want to be sure

the only decent wormers for tapeworms is valbazen and droncit (praziquantel). you can get praziquantel/ivermectin as a paste horse wormer or tablets on its own or with pyrantel. i think you may need a prescription for it as a tablet.

I am a big fan of ivermectin this week



My boar ( who I am losing patience with) came down with Sarcoptic Mange caused by mites. Ivermectin cured it. We happened to have some coming with our feed delivery on Friday but needed it stat. The nearby agrivet store sold a 2cc syringe worth (in a drinking straw tied with knots) for 45 cents. It worked like magic.

well tapes might be rare in chickens but mine have had them the last couple of years. I see them in the poop along with round worns. So I don't know if they are coming from wild birds, wild rabbits (who have a kind that dogs can get that the regular dog tapeworm med doesn't kill; you have to have fecal done and see which kind they have) Or if some of my original birds came in with them. So the current plan is Eprinex in the spring and summer since it also kills mites & lice, Valbazen twice a year for tapes. Some safeguard in the rotation if I don't need other bug control.

 

[vehve]

Ok, I blame all of you Back Yard Chickeners. Tonight, I went to close the coop door and was expecting, like every night, to have to lift the little Sussexes inside from under the outside perch where they usually huddle up to sleep, but for the first time, everyone was inside the coop! And I actually felt really proud of our little babies. This site has made me anthropomorphize them completely. I had to run inside and and tell my girlfriend immediately!

I think I'm starting to become a crazy chicken person... (Like building a coop in the back yard wasn't a sign of that yet)

 

[ozexpat]

Ok, I blame all of you Back Yard Chickeners. Tonight, I went to close the coop door and was expecting, like every night, to have to lift the little Sussexes inside from under the outside perch where they usually huddle up to sleep, but for the first time, everyone was inside the coop! And I actually felt really proud of our little babies. This site has made me anthropomorphize them completely. I had to run inside and and tell my girlfriend immediately!

I think I'm starting to become a crazy chicken person... (Like building a coop in the back yard wasn't a sign of that yet)

anthropomorphize your poultry as much as you want. most of us just humanize our birds
were they all juxtapositioned with their phalanges in oposition to their digit as they grasped the perch?

 

[vehve]

anthropomorphize your poultry as much as you want. most of us just humanize our birds
were they all juxtapositioned with their phalanges in oposition to their digit as they grasped the perch?

Oz, your point has been received. As a non-native English speaker I often result to overly complicated linguistic structures due to my native tongues. I shall in the future try to contain these urges. But them purdy birdies just grow on you's all I'm sayin...

And to answer your query in slightly lyrical form, the birds hath yet to take to the perches, for they sleep atop a boxlike structure, which hath provided shelter from pecking and abuse when fewer days had passed since they first laid eyes on the cold light of day.

 

[ozexpat]

Oz, your point has been received. As a non-native English speaker I often result to overly complicated linguistic structures due to my native tongues. I shall in the future try to contain these urges. But them purdy birdies just grow on you's all I'm sayin...

And to answer your query in slightly lyrical form, the birds hath yet to take to the perches, for they sleep atop a boxlike structure, which hath provided shelter from pecking and abuse when fewer days had passed since they first laid eyes on the cold light of day.

touche

I love multisyballic words. Anthropomorphize is one of the better ones. Feel free to flex your vocabulary here

 

[vehve]

touche

I love multisyballic words. [COLOR=333333]Anthropomorphize is one of the better ones. Feel free to flex your vocabulary here[/COLOR]

I shall. For your entertainment, heres a page about the 2253 different word-forms of the Finnish word for store, "kauppa".

http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/~fkarlsso/genkau2.html

This might explain something of why I am this way...

 

[scottcaddy]

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Scott