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[Leahs Mom]

Oh.. and @pipdzipdnreadytogo

The blog post I shared earlier tells the difference between how folks are using the terms "fodder" and "sprouts".

http://naturalchickenkeeping.blogspot.com/2012/12/easy-ways-to-sprout-seeds-for-your.html

 

[Leahs Mom]

On the bleach - I've never had to use it.


But if I were having problems with molding, I think I'd try white vinegar to see how that works before resorting to bleach. I know that the amount is pretty small, but still would try the white vinegar first.

 

[Minminme]

See the posts and video above a few.

Yep that was it! Lol replied t posts as I was reading them. Should have read all then replied.

 

[Minminme]

On the bleach - I've never had to use it. 

But if I were having problems with molding, I think I'd try white vinegar to see how that works before resorting to bleach.  I know that the amount is pretty small, but still would try the white vinegar first.

I was wondering two things about growing the sprouts in burlap.
1. Do you grow them in th house?
2. Do you have t water them in some way? And how much light do they need? Do you use a light of some kind?
3. If you keep them in th house, how do you get them outside without spilling the seed all over your house? (I'm kinda anal about keeping my house clean n foul odor free. Lol
As I'm sure others on here are also.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Leahs mom, thanks for your answers! I especially like that link you shared. I quite like that setup for sprouting...

It's odd, there seems to be so much debate about the difference between sprouts and fodder. Your link says sprouts are just when the roots have begun to grow. Another article I was reading said something like if the plant itself is shorter than 4 inches, it's sprouts, and longer is fodder. Others use the terms interchangeably. No wonder people like me don't know what term to use!

It's all so much simpler when you can just let it grow under a grazing frame outside. Why do we need winter again?

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

I guess now that real life has started again, I will only be able to drop by occasionally, sigh.

My parents came to visit. My dad so does not get the whole chicken thing. He kept asking "why chickens?" (actually he has been asking that for months - the first time was with a look of utter disgust). I was good and did not retort with asking him why he enjoys hobbies he and my mom are actively involved with. At least my hobby provide food!

My mom get's it. Her fondest memories are summers on the family farm with her grandparents. Actually those are my fondest memories too! And the farm is still in the family.

The thing my mom found the funniest was how, as soon as anyone goes outside, they would all run over and beg for treats. She kept saying "they are as bad as dogs begging for treats!". She'd lead the around the yard pied piper style just for kicks.

Okay, time to go to bed before I fall asleep at the computer!

Try to take care of you too!

just drop in when you have time.
LOL my parents just laugh! I started at about 5 years old carrying all sorts of critters indoors. I studied with a vet and had hopes of becoming one..health issues and other things interfered. Mom and Dad sit on the porch in the afternoons now, weather permitting. They both love the feathered pets so much! Dad buys extra bread and he and mom play frizbee and laugh as the birds chase the bread! Dad takes a daily walk with me and visits the livestock too. DH and I are searching for a motorized cart so mom can be more mobile and see more of the land too.

good evening hoosiers (& WV) - started up the fireplace to take a little chill out of the air til the furnace repairman comes out wednesday + had a power outage from 645 til 1000.
here is our roo doing alot better after his injuries from the dog attack on our flock july 09th. hes still got some more recovery to go yet & prob wont regain full use of his left leg :

So glad your roo is improving! I haven't started a heater yet.. but you can bet winter clothes are coming out this weekend!

Because I'm having a tough time sexing this crazy bird, I brought it inside to photograph.

9 week old Easter Egger Mix




While taking the pics, my curious dog sniffed the chicken. I watched as the confused chicken jumped onto the curious dog's back. Dog didn't like it & started to walk away. Chicken got a doggie-back ride across the room.

Loved the piggyback! I vote pullet!

Here is a little update on my Jearhon flock - a few folks expressed some interest when I first got them as chicks back in February ...

I've learned that they take longer to mature, similar to the banty breeds. My girls didn't start laying until late August - so it took six months before I started to see egg production. They were EXTREMELY flighty as chicks in the brooder - little freakazoids, really - but once I put them out in a run, they settled right down and became the sweetest natured chickens I've ever worked with. I've raised about 15-20 different breeds of chicken and these are, hands down, my favorite.

Their eggs were small to begin with, as usual - but now they are laying a very nice sized egg for the small bird that they are. Here is a photo of a double-yolker I collected from them (the egg on the left). It's pretty huge! Ouch!



Here is one of my gentle roos:



The reports of Jaerhons being excellent fliers are true. The first thing that GG (my favorite NJ hen) did when I let her out to free range, was fly to the top of the shed roof:



Here's my NJ flock enjoying a summer sunflower treat ... you can see the dark (gold) and light (white) hens together here:



I had my partridge silkie and jaerhon flocks mixed together for a little while and this beautiful pullet (NJs are auto sexing and the white spot on the top of the head indicates pullet) with some deep red coloring that hatched last week looks like it is most likely a mix - can't wait to see how it feathers out:



In another coop corner - both my Serama hens hatched some chicks for me this summer - five total - and I think that all five of them just might be girls. Here are the three youngest, taken a couple weeks ago:



And one of the proud Serama sires - "Caboose" ... I hatched him this past Christmas when I was going through chick withdrawal:



Well, that's my update - summer kept me so busy that I really didn't have time to participate in IN BYC. I missed it. I enjoy seeing all the photos that everyone posts, getting ideas and learning from questions that are posted and answered. I hope to be able to check in here more often now that I've just about got my flock culled to winter proportions and the garden is about finished up.

G'night for now!

Loved all your pics, and your striking lil serema roo!
I am sold on jaehorn, they are very sweet fellas. I paired them with my leghorns, and the girls are calmer with them around.

Quote: Thats adorable! I bet I can't do stockings for everyone here tho! It feels good no matter how old you are to have support of your parents.

Afternoon everyone, I really hate to bother you, I have been searching all morning about round worms. I found some in my coop this morning.

I have 2- 8 week old chicks, 17 hens (1-1 1/2 yo), 1 rooster (1 yo), 12 -9 week old turkeys poults. The turkeys are housed separately. I found the worms in the hen house with the hens, rooster and chicks.

I have never wormed them and all of this reading, medicine names, dosage, etc I am getting confused. I will enclose a pic of the worms in question. I believe they are round worms.

How would you treat for these? I do value all of the information you offer. I do not care to eat the eggs while treating the birds if that makes a difference. I would prefer to throw them out.

Do I treat the chicks any differently than the hens?

Do I treat the turkey poults any differently?

Here are the pics.


Here are the pics.




Do you know if I have to worry about my outside cats getting them as well? I do know that I had a dove nest knocked down out of a tree about 3 weeks ago. The babies have been staying in the chicken yard. I'm not really sure how to get "rid" of them. Any suggestions on that will be helpful too.

Thanks in advance!

Deb

On the worming, wow thats definitely an invasion. Barn cats get them often too, since they are eating mice and wild birds. I use Ivermectin pour on (not the new, or II), and plan to switch to Valbazen. Since I use it off label, I can only tell you what I do. The cats, use a cat dewormer. Cats are highly sensitive to medications.
Here is what I follow from a thread on BYC: Use the Wazine liquid first if you have never wormed them.

The dosage is:
1 drop for a small "micro" bantam, say the size of an OE hen
2 drops for an average small bantam - OE male, small bantam hens
3 drops for an average bantam sized bird or small hen
4 drops for a commercial sized hen or small large fowl hen
5 drops for a commercial sized roo or average large fowl hen
6 drops for larger bodied laying type birds
7 drops for giant breeds

As always I do recommend worming first with wazine if:
- the birds are under 4 months of age
- the birds haven't been wormed in over 6 mos w/broad spectrum wormer
- the bird is of an unknown worming history
- the bird is shedding worms, or their flock mates are shedding worms
That caution is to prevent an unknown heavy infestation from causing shock or blockage in a bird. Some say 'just do it' but I like to treat every bird of mine as if it were the most valuable irreplaceable bird in my flock. And so that's the advice I give to others - as if theres were that $500 once in a lifetime bird. That doesn't mean I recommend expensive things, but I darn sure don't recommend stuff that I think could harm.

Hope that helps!

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

So I have 6 girls missing feathers. From roosters, molting and I'm not sure what else, maybe mites. I Ivermectined all of them a couple days ago just in case. I really hope molt out before it gets colder. I have a feeling I am going to have some hens in the house.
Also I have found I am having a case of coccidiosis paranoia. I am going to dose all of the chooks before winter just to put my mind at ease, since I have a few fluffed up and less than energetic. This rain we've had seems to have brought out all of the creepy crawlies.

Almost have all of the in barn coops built, so that I don't have to deal with the gates being frozen to the ground this winter like last year. I'm hoping having 7 alpacas and 60 chickens in the barn will help keep it warmer this year in there.
I have a bad feeling most of my silkie grow outs are boys, but since they are getting nicer through breeding, they all look alike. Now I can't sex them even at 4 months old. They all look like girls, but have boyish qualities. I hate waiting to see what I am working with lol.
I hope everyone is doing well. I've been really busy getting prepped for winter, regular old life stuff, and having fun working with @raisinemright 's horses, so I haven't been able to get on here and be very involved lately. Pretty birds everyone. Have fun at your swaps. Don't forget we have an Indiana byc page on fb too. Hope I didn't break any rules posting that.

The barn will probably help your babies, and put your mind at ease too. Its good they are molting now! Mine are too, it looks like chickens exploded all over the coops! Mine have been droopy too but with the sunshine today, everyone's normal. Sound like a lot of fun with the horses! Take care of you, post when you can

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Pretty confident my dad will never like the chickens. He pretty much dislikes "outside" in general. I had to laugh about your "phase" comment. I think my parents have given up hope on that one. I am the wierdo and I think they gave up waiting for me to grow out of several phases awhile ago! Twenty plus years means it is not longer a phase! My mom is the one who takes things in stride more than my dad. If we ever end up getting goats, I can just imagine my dad's reaction to that one!!

Hmm, I am sure if I mention the glitter stockings to my daughter, they all will have one!

GOATS--YES!

We've been tossing around the idea of pygmy milk goats for a year now. We have a list of several pros and a few cons for having goats.

We recently became foster parents of 2 puppies that were recovering from parvo. Now, we're considering becoming permanent adoptive parents of these puppies, because they fulfill some of the benefits the goats would.
For example: the goats (puppies) would be good company for our dog, the goats (puppies) would be good learning experience for DW, we would love the goats (puppies) and give them a good home, etc.

I know if we keep these puppies, we'll not get goats. Maybe that's a good thing, I'm not sure...remains to be seen.

The cons are: you can't milk a dog (ew, gross!), and you can't bring a goat in the house with you at night (again, ew, gross!)

Even 1 goat is a joy, but you need 2 so they don't get lonely

I love mine. Sugar is more like a dog than my lil pug mix. Even my big buck, Bo, still loves his shoulders rubbed and ears scratched. I just have to make sure he doesn't catch my arm between the horns, ouch!

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I have had orphan or rejected kids in my kitchen ( in a tall box!) more than once. And one by my bed because he as so weak

Quote: Good luck pipd, I am watching for you too.

Ugh, this semester has been unnecessarily stressful thus far. My first calculus test had a full 20 points banking on one problem in which I had to remember how to extract an equation from my graphing calculator, and I couldn't for the life of me remember how to do it. (Yup, I know how to now! Probably will never forget how to after that!

) I've been all doom and gloom since last Tuesday, when the test was taken, as a result. The good news is I got pretty much everything else right and managed 78% on that test. I don't feel so bad for losing out on that question now.

Fortunately, German, the class everyone has been telling me is so tough, hasn't been so bad.

That's my stress-free class this semester. (Well, okay, I get nervous about tests no matter what the subject, but otherwise I haven't had issues in German!)

I've said before, but having the birds to come home to has really helped me keep it together. Love my biddies.

Speaking of, Sora, my unwell red sexlink hen, is back in action and acting as if nothing happened. Naughty girl probably won't learn from this experience, I'm sure.

But oh, well.

They really do relieve stress, I am so glad you have them.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Quote: LOL I named my first goat kid after my Gramma, Sophie

She is the spitfire my gramma was too, I am proud!

Drum Roll Please! We have our First Egg!!! Yay!!

While were were out admiring it, my daughter got stung twice. Nasty Yellow jackets. Last year she got swarmed and ended up in ER.

Hubby has the camera at Robotics practice so at the moment the chickens are locked out of the coop so I can get pictures!

Congrats!!!!!!

Quote: Thats the stuff! Its tough to avoid and harder yet for us that free range. Thats why I just worm on a schedule. I am not risking it, too many birds.

More pics!

Huka Kairakau the Silver Lakenvelder. She had just stretched and I guess she forgot to draw her wing back in.

(I had to trim her wing when she was younger because she was flying the fence. She hasn't molted yet, but it should regrow when she does.)




Huka again, rockin' the eyebrows.

Welsummer Mabel! I think she's the only one of the babies this year that actually willingly poses!




Georgette the Black Copper Marans. This is one bird I don't think I'd want to meet in a dark alley.

Tilde the Swedish Flower Hen. Her crest seems so much larger in person!



She looks like she's wearing a winter hat in this one.

Violet the Bielefelder, hurrying over for attention! (Or food. Yeah, she was probably after food.

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A better look at Vi's color. She's so pretty, and has such soft feathers!




Elda the Silver Gray Dorking! I love how she feathered in!

Such a pretty young lady!



Elly again, checking out my Indiana BYCer shirt.

Elly snuggled up next to me while her twin, Kit-kit, waits her turn.

These two are the sweetest little ladies!




That's all.

I have so many birds and a lot of pictures I took just didn't make the cut. I got a picture of Sora, but she must have moved as I hit the button because it was out of focus.

But like I said before, she's doing fine.

I love your pics! They are such happy birds.

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Yep there sure is! https://www.facebook.com/groups/653896251318576/
@kabhyper1 started it for us! I don't get on there often but am sure signed up

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hehe ya I am a hill jack too, but I try to save all my babies. If they are weak, sick or orphaned, they are going inside period.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Quote: Muscovy are an unusual cousin of the duck breed. most normal duck breeds hatch at 25-28 days. I keep Muscovy and honestly prefer them since they are so social.

My broody disappeared the same day I saw her on the nest. Came back later that night, and she was just gone. No clue where she is

hoping she comes home.

 

[Chaneys Ranch]

Quote: Its usually fermenting well in 2 days. And it will really improve their digestion, and retention of proteins. Just remember to add new food as you use it. They will thank you as they grow!

Good Morning

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Dont feel bad! You are a good chicken mom for asking!

Quote: I loved my CX chickens! I plan to get more, and keep a few more for my egg flock. We are seriously thinking getting jersey or brown swiss and raising our own. Prices are just stupid! and folks are paying it. Beef is rarely below $5 a pound at the grocery now, even ground. Just sad and impossible to budget for.

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They are very sweet and manageable. I know a brown swiss bull I would hug and love on without fear, he is full grown. Would love to own him. My neighbor Jack won't part with him! If I do breed and raise calves I will be using his swiss bull. I have a CX hen that's about 2 years old now. Have hatched her chicks, she went broody. I treated her like a normal chicken. They can be part of a flock if you let them free range. I have also processed a lot of them, as well as heritage birds. I pick the social, friendly birds to stay. Same for any livestock, they need to be able to be handled without issues.

I'm looking for a chicken friendly dog, my old Pyrenese finally left me last month.

I am so sorry for your loss

There is a few members that raise guardians. good luck in your search!