bad monkey
In the Brooder
A friend gave me 12 chickens, 2 roosters and 10 hens. My wife of 33 years named the roosters Foghorn and Big Red, my avatar is Hpenny. Hpenny got her name when she had Vent gleet and she spent the night in a box in the kitchen, she was so polite, we used Apple cider vinegar in water on all of them because it balanced the ph levels and penny was eating again the same day. The fella that gave me the birds gave me the food too, which is what made them acidic, we changed that too.
I've had to learn alot in the month since I got them and joining this forum made sense so.... I use Diatomaceous earth for paracites on all my animals, being 19% calcium it's good for a calcium suppliment.
We're holistics and neither of us have gone to chemical doctors in years. I read up on Iridology when I was a young man and today I read humans eyes to find health problems. We have 3 cats a dog and I have eye charts for them too. I also have a green check conure, the original angry bird.
I enjoy landscape and vegitable gardening but my favorite is Bonsai, I love my little trees. Unfortunately when life happens they die first so I don't have many. My oldest is 4 years and the rest were started this winter and last so their young yet. I found mimture pansies and hyacinth in the yard so I'm thinking about doing a fairy garden this year.
I do have a question, how do I keep my roosters from fighting? They didn't fight when we got them but they've nearly killed themselves twice. Red was bleeding so much after the first one no amount of flour in this world would stop it, I'm using tea tree oil on them now, on an open wound it burns like fire but the blood stops and it serves them right. Red is in the coop with his brown birds and Foghorn is in my greenhouse and I want my greenhouse back. I can't let the hens free range because those roosters find a way out and the last time they fought 6 hours before I could get hands on them.
I'm here to learn so I won't say much.
Steven
I've had to learn alot in the month since I got them and joining this forum made sense so.... I use Diatomaceous earth for paracites on all my animals, being 19% calcium it's good for a calcium suppliment.
We're holistics and neither of us have gone to chemical doctors in years. I read up on Iridology when I was a young man and today I read humans eyes to find health problems. We have 3 cats a dog and I have eye charts for them too. I also have a green check conure, the original angry bird.
I enjoy landscape and vegitable gardening but my favorite is Bonsai, I love my little trees. Unfortunately when life happens they die first so I don't have many. My oldest is 4 years and the rest were started this winter and last so their young yet. I found mimture pansies and hyacinth in the yard so I'm thinking about doing a fairy garden this year.
I do have a question, how do I keep my roosters from fighting? They didn't fight when we got them but they've nearly killed themselves twice. Red was bleeding so much after the first one no amount of flour in this world would stop it, I'm using tea tree oil on them now, on an open wound it burns like fire but the blood stops and it serves them right. Red is in the coop with his brown birds and Foghorn is in my greenhouse and I want my greenhouse back. I can't let the hens free range because those roosters find a way out and the last time they fought 6 hours before I could get hands on them.
I'm here to learn so I won't say much.
Steven