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[pginsber]

An hour and 13 minutes without a post on this board--that could be a record!
<<radio silence>>

 

[pbirdhaven]

I'm trying to rehome a mixed Easter Egger rooster. He is aggressive to my HRIR and I can't have that. He is sweet to people though.
If anyone is interested please PM me and ignore the rehoming fee on CL.


What is the best way to clean a styro bater? I had just been wiping down and air drying but I did not know if there was a better way.

After wiping it down you can spray it with Oxine added to water (I don't remember amounts; it's on BYC somewhere). No chemicals, no odor, safe--you can even add it to your own drinking water to purify.

I am so mad at poultry press it is not even funny. My mom thought that she would buy me a years subscription for my birthday. My B-day is in late april and she ordered in the first few days of may. They said it would be 4-6 weeks before I got. So waited very patiently, I even waited 2 extra weeks. Then I had my mom call them, since she used her info when she ordered it for me. A guy anwsered andd said that he would have his daughter call us back around 1pm. They never called us. Since then she had called poulrty press 4 different times. 2 times the exact same thing happend, we will call you back and it never happens. The last 2 times they do not even anwser the phone. My mom think that she should just ask for her money back and give it to me, but I really want the paper. you would think that since it is connersville it would not take long to get here considering I am in the same state! Here I am 5 months later still without a paper!

They will be at the Lebanon show, so get on their case there. If Jennifer is there, she's the one to talk to (blond with a monkey); otherwise any of them. Bill is usually pretty good about seeing that things are taken care of, too.

 

[hogster160]

So far I've never been able to find it locally. Just ordered online.

It separates in the tube so you have to shake it and/or squeeze it awhile to get it to mix altogether. I actually cut my tube open, squeezed/scraped it all into a small canning jar and capped it. I stir it with a knife or stick in the jar. Easier to get it all mixed that way for me, at least.

Here's my jar of Nustock:



Here's some NuStock on a bumblefoot I was treating last year.

Good idea with the canning jars, I have plenty. I'll get my order in today, thanks!

 

[gunchief25]

Good idea with the canning jars, I have plenty. I'll get my order in today, thanks!

I found it at my local Farm Bureau Co op

 

[Delawaremommy]

I didn't think that monkeys were APA or ABA!!!!

 

[Leahs Mom]

Quote: Great! I'm in Northern IN (read South Bend, Elkhart, Nappanee, Goshen, Wakarusa, Bremen, etc. area) and checked every relatively local place and no one stocked it. So..had to order online unfortunately.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

I zoomed one of the pictures in. See the shiny / pointy saddle feathers here? I think this is a boy.

I guess we'll find out for sure in about another 6 weeks...I'm sure hoping you're just imagining the little pointy feathers and it's really a cute little pullet in disguise!

I don't think so, but it'll certainly be easier to tell for absolute certain in another 6 weeks.

 

[Old Salt 1945]

hello everyone! my coop came today, it's all assembled ready to go, I decided to put the girls in it as a brooder, they were quickly outgrowing my cabinet brooder I made, they are flapping around trying to fly it's cute, their wings are feathered, and tails are starting also, they are loving being outside during the day, they don't seem to miss a heat lamp, but I still have it on at night as is getting down in the 40s, do they have to be fully feathered to be outside in the run and no lamp I believe I read that but some places have a different take on it.

That's a rather small coop. Don't use a 250 watt bulb dead center with no place for the chicks to escape or you are liable to cook them.

I may break down and just sevin dust the roo. I'm not much of a pesticide person. Every time I go in to buy it I read the label and can't do it! But I can't let him have mites either

. The DE worked for awhile and seems to have prevented the others from getting them but this guy is a magnet! I also have these mite strips from mcmurray hatchery. It's basically a flea collar that hangs in the coop door and rubs a little pesticide on the feathers. I might try that with the feed before I break out the dust. I was going to wait a week or two and see if the feed alone does anything. I'm pretty curious as to how effective it is.

If you had mites and lice crawling and biting all over you, you wouldn't start trying various "natural" cures like ashes, DE, stump water, pixie dust. You would go straight for the good stuff.

I have used Sevin dust on dogs, cats, chickens, ducks, pheasants, guineas, quail, and when they got off the chickens and on my nether regions and proved resistant to a shower, myself. Nothing that I used it on died or got sick from it.

John

 

[kabhyper1]

M2H, your girls are very cute! Bon Bon is a neat color!

So I took Lavender out for her morning poop and dust bath and breakfast, and the other chickens came over. They have been coming in and out of the barn everyday to see what she is up too. I didn't think there would be a problem so I watched. They went after her!! Picked on her terribly. Chased her right into the alpacas water trough. She got wet and freaked out. I shooed them off and let her dust bathe in peace. Once they were gone she was fine, but I can't believe they went after her like that. Poor girl. She doesn't seem bothered by it. She went about her morning routine for 10 minutes or so and went right back to her eggs. Maybe I should have left her in the coop to brood. I don't know how re-integrating her into the flock is going to be after the chicks hatch. Today is day 9. So far so good on the eggs, I think she was pretty dry by the time she went back to the nest after her swim this morning, so I hope that doesn't affect the hatch. Have any of you ever had issues putting a hen and chicks back with the flock after the babies hatch?

 

[Old Salt 1945]

Leahs Mom~ You made me nervous when I saw your post about processing. I make sure not to see any processing photos/videos because I would have to be institutionalized.

I almost missed this opportunity to pick at you M2H.


I thought you were already there. I was under the impression that they only let you out for the afternoon at RacinChickin's shindig.

John