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[fire370]

Yea I'm just chicken little. Hahaha

I couldn't imagine buying bagged feed. Expensive!!!!

 

[Jessimom]

Baby chicken lovin girl is 11 today!!

Happy Birthday Baby chicken lovin girl!!! You are as beautiful as your mom!!!

 

[ChickenCanoe]

YES do not use sevin! It is banned for use in poultry, and the egg withdraw is lifetime! (If you have used it once, yu should nevery eat that bird's eggs again)
I think its a bit overkill, but you still shouldnt use it.

I've never heard that. Why would that be?
I've never had to treat for lice or mites but have 2 containers of 5% Sevin dust I bought at Lowe's when they were on sale to have on hand just in case I did.
I do use it to dust nooks and crannies when I completely clean out a coop.
Carbaryl, just like all the insecticides in that family, do not have the persistence of chlorinated pesticides. Although toxic to insects, carbaryl is detoxified and eliminated rapidly in vertebrates. It is neither concentrated in fat nor secreted in milk, so is favored for food crops, at least in the US. It is the active ingredient in Carylderm shampoo used to combat head lice until infestation is eliminated.
So if humans can use it for shampoo, why wouldn't one be able to dust their chickens and continue to eat eggs?

When weighing for proper air sac growth, how often should you be weighing them? Are days 7, 10, 18 enough?

I weigh them at roughly those days, give or take. If they're on target at day 7, I'm not too concerned. If not, I weigh more often. The exact day doesn't really matter if using a graph so you can just plot the weight on whatever day you weigh to know if they're losing the correct moisture.

 

[Pensmaster]

I couldn't imagine buying bagged feed. Expensive!!!!

$62 for 4, 50 pound bags 16%

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I couldn't imagine buying bagged feed. Expensive!!!!

SOO expensive. I was buying bagged feed as part of a co-op that cut the price dramatically and was delivered to my house but it fell apart recently.

 

[kwhites634]

I've never heard that. Why would that be?
I've never had to treat for lice or mites but have 2 containers of 5% Sevin dust I bought at Lowe's when they were on sale to have on hand just in case I did.
I do use it to dust nooks and crannies when I completely clean out a coop.
Carbaryl, just like all the insecticides in that family, do not have the persistence of chlorinated pesticides. Although toxic to insects, carbaryl is detoxified and eliminated rapidly in vertebrates. It is neither concentrated in fat nor secreted in milk, so is favored for food crops, at least in the US. It is the active ingredient in Carylderm shampoo used to combat head lice until infestation is eliminated.
So of humans can use it for shampoo, why wouldn't one be able to dust their chickens and continue to eat eggs?

I weigh them at roughly those days, give or take. If they're on target at day 7, I'm not too concerned. If not, I weigh more often. The exact day doesn't really matter if using a graph so you can just plot the weight on whatever day you weigh to know if they're losing the correct moisture.

I'm the one who started this controversy earlier; at least today, anyway. I can't vouch for the validity; just passing it along for info. I understand it's not been approved for use on poultry, which reminds me of when Ivermectin wasn't approved for dogs, either...who knows?

 

[lazy gardener]

$62 for 4, 50 pound bags 16%

I pay about the same rate (12 - 12.50/bag) when I buy single bags on sale.

 

[fire370]

$62 for 4, 50 pound bags 16%

That is CRAZY!!!!!! I know this is probably the only route you guys can take though.

 

[country lovin]

well my data ran out on my phone so I have been gone for way too long. I am at my dads cleaning so I get to use his computer! just and update, the chick that hatched did not make it through the night, and I have not had another internal pip. I am on day 23 so I am not holding out much hope.

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I'm the one who started this controversy earlier; at least today, anyway. I can't vouch for the validity; just passing it along for info. I understand it's not been approved for use on poultry, which reminds me of when Ivermectin wasn't approved for dogs, either...who knows?

I'm not saying there isn't some inherent danger. I don't recommend indiscriminate use of chemical anything whether it be insecticides, antibiotics, wormers, etc.. But I think if one has an infestation in their flock, that's not the time to dabble in treatments like DE, ACV, garlic and colloidal silver. It's time to bring out the big guns, get it over with and move on cleaning your birds systems of the chemicals.
That's just my take on it. Anyone is free to husband their animals as they choose.

That is CRAZY!!!!!! I know this is probably the only route you guys can take though.

If you don't have enough chickens to eat a ton of feed in a month or two, that's all one can do.