Heritage Large Fowl - Phase II

[colburg]

Quote: You mean if written in a specific way, a notification is sent to Colburg?????
I think I figured out how to do what he's talking about. It's a link to a webpage. highlight a word or phrase, then Click on the chain link(haha, get it?) put the webpage into the URL box, and it turns the word or phrase into a hyper link.

Also, Ron's thinking you wanted to link to my page, when you merely wanted to let me know the message was directed at me without using the Quote:

 

[Fentress]

Thanks Arielle and Nankat. I had thought of some of those, but there are many I hadn't.

I've never bred anything - yet. But I have read that different lines can have different breeding characteristics, tricks of trade if you will, for that particular line. You also may want to just focus on your relationship with him so you can maintain him as a resource for the future.

Mark

 

[Arielle]

Quote: Ahhhhh . . . . . I get it.

 

[3riverschick]

Fentress Zanna
I see you are reading the thread. Quick answer, please. Will washing a bird kill any bugs on it.
Just the act of washing? or do I need to add something to the wash. I don't think my birds have bugs,
just wondering as they are about to get a bath.
Thanks,
Karen

 

[Zanna]

You can use a puppy/kitten flea shampoo with permethrin in it, I have used Zodiac brand. It will get the bugs I would think any type of soap would kill some and just the act of washing will rinse some away but most likely not get them all.

 

[3riverschick]

You can use a puppy/kitten flea shampoo with permethrin in it, I have used Zodiac brand. It will get the bugs I would think any type of soap would kill some and just the act of washing will rinse some away but most likely not get them all.

Thanks so much, Zanna!
Best,
Karen

 

[Arielle]

While reading some of my word docs I found this:

Rhode Island reds by Bob BLosl



All the master breeders I interviewed 30 years ago did two things they did not use line breeding charts from the 1920s and did not know anything about genetic terms. Heck only one had a idea about the color scheme of a R I Red. There where two people that felt it was a color combination of Red, Yellow, Black and Red. From my research the yellow is the most important color as it will if over done will block the beetle green color to the wings and tail.

The secret that we learned from George Underwood was in the ticking of the female. If you had stripes in the neck of the female a major fault then they would block the black to the wings and tail. Also, it could become a fixed trait in the line and show up in the males neck and neck under color. The correct method of understanding R I Red Color was in the female and to make sure she had ticking or no ticking at all and if you did your chances of managing your color in your line could be successfully. This is a breeder secret 101. You lurkers cut this message out and staple it to your chicken house wall or save it and put it in your bill fold.

 

[NanaKat]

@3riverschick A few years ago I bought two Cochins that were housed by a friend for two weeks before I finally got them. The poor girls were covered in mites. One of my mentors said to do a three soak bathing process using 5 gallon buckets.
The first had warm water with a tablespoon of bleach. The girls soaked for five minutes while I ran my fingers thru their feathers along their backsides and belly and wings etc. loosening mites and eggs. It was surprising how nasty the water was with dead mites.
The second soak was an actual shampoo with Adam's flea and tick shampoo. Wet from the first soak, the girls were lathered and then put in the bucket and massaged to remove the lather.
The third bucket was a final rinse in warm water with a tsp of flea and tick dip. They were allowed to air dry in the sun. If it were cold, a blow dryer would help.

I probably could have made another bucket of rinse water between two and three to more fully rinse out the shampoo.

 

[3riverschick]

@3riverschick A few years ago I bought two Cochins that were housed by a friend for two weeks before I finally got them. The poor girls were covered in mites. One of my mentors said to do a three soak bathing process using 5 gallon buckets.
The first had warm water with a tablespoon of bleach. One tablespoon of bleach to how many gallons of water? The girls soaked for five minutes while I ran my fingers thru their feathers along their backsides and belly and wings etc. loosening mites and eggs. It was surprising how nasty the water was with dead mites.
The second soak was an actual shampoo with Adam's flea and tick shampoo. Wet from the first soak, the girls were lathered and then put in the bucket and massaged to remove the lather.
The third bucket was a final rinse in warm water with a tsp of flea and tick dip. To how many gallons of water? They were allowed to air dry in the sun. If it were cold, a blow dryer would help.

I probably could have made another bucket of rinse water between two and three to more fully rinse out the shampoo.

Thanks so much,
Karen

 

[NanaKat]

Sorry I did not make that clear....
The buckets had three and a half gallons of water each to allow room for the large girls. Tablespoon of bleach to 3.5 gallon water.
Teaspoon of dip per gallon of water. I mixed three gallons...three teaspoons and was able to dip both girls in the same bucket.
That,s why I suggest using a water rinse before the dip.