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[Leahs Mom]

Look!!!! It's @Ol Grey Mare !!!

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/977461/byc-member-interview-ol-grey-mare

 

[iamfivewire]

update : the 2 baby GLWs i added to be with the lone chick & Mama did not work out - she decided to reject them & would not let them be included with her & baby . we have them in the house, with their own brooder box w/ heat plate warmer - they seem to be doing fine .
i will have to admit that i have been missing the quietness since the last young-uns got big enough to go outside to their growout area , so now we get to hear the chirping, peeping, & trilling again. i may try to record their "conversations" so i can play it back to listen at a later time.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Quote: I know the vet for my goats said not to deworm on a schedule but to check for worms first. Turns out that worms like other things can build up a resistance. So all of this timed and planned deworming is not healthy in the end.

For chickens, I don't have the time to run tests for each bird I own. Instead I use dish soap as a dewormer every so often. no real pattern, just when I think of it and it is easy to add to the water. During the winter when I'm carring water from the house out to the chickens, it is a nice soapy water. Come summer when I'm using a hose multiple times a day, I only add the soap if I see a worm issue.
Now for bug issues, I don't wait till I see a fly to order fly control bugs. Instead I placed my order last winter and I already got my first package of GOOD bugs. So far it has been wonderful.

 

[ChickCrazed]

I know the vet for my goats said not to deworm on a schedule but to check for worms first. Turns out that worms like other things can build up a resistance. So all of this timed and planned deworming is not healthy in the end.

For chickens, I don't have the time to run tests for each bird I own. Instead I use dish soap as a dewormer every so often. no real pattern, just when I think of it and it is easy to add to the water. During the winter when I'm carring water from the house out to the chickens, it is a nice soapy water. Come summer when I'm using a hose multiple times a day, I only add the soap if I see a worm issue.
Now for bug issues, I don't wait till I see a fly to order fly control bugs. Instead I placed my order last winter and I already got my first package of GOOD bugs. So far it has been wonderful.

That is interesting! What is the dishshoap to water ratio?

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Quote: Kind of like asking how much soap to put in the sink to wash dishes. In the winter I carry out milk jugs of water while my DH can carry out a pair of almost full 5 gallon buckets. I just squirt some in here and there in the milk jugs and the buckets. Sure I put more in the buckets but I have nevered measured it.

 

[Ol Grey Mare]

For chickens, I don't have the time to run tests for each bird I own. Instead I use dish soap as a dewormer every so often. no real pattern, just when I think of it and it is easy to add to the water. During the winter when I'm carring water from the house out to the chickens, it is a nice soapy water. Come summer when I'm using a hose multiple times a day, I only add the soap if I see a worm issue.
Now for bug issues, I don't wait till I see a fly to order fly control bugs. Instead I placed my order last winter and I already got my first package of GOOD bugs. So far it has been wonderful.

Absolutely with regards to testing individual chickens, just not practical. Like you, it's an "as I see it is needed" sort of thing on that front. Unfortunately the resistance is an issue - akin to that of the "super bugs" that have come to be out of overuse and misuse of antibiotics, etc. I am a "medicate only when necessary" person.

 

[flyladyrocks]

Now for bug issues, I don't wait till I see a fly to order fly control bugs. Instead I placed my order last winter and I already got my first package of GOOD bugs. So far it has been wonderful.

 

[hanakimi]

I know the vet for my goats said not to deworm on a schedule but to check for worms first. Turns out that worms like other things can build up a resistance. So all of this timed and planned deworming is not healthy in the end.

For chickens, I don't have the time to run tests for each bird I own. Instead I use dish soap as a dewormer every so often. no real pattern, just when I think of it and it is easy to add to the water. During the winter when I'm carring water from the house out to the chickens, it is a nice soapy water. Come summer when I'm using a hose multiple times a day, I only add the soap if I see a worm issue.
Now for bug issues, I don't wait till I see a fly to order fly control bugs. Instead I placed my order last winter and I already got my first package of GOOD bugs. So far it has been wonderful.

Where did you order your fly control bugs from? I'd like to order some myself thanks

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Can you plz explain what you are talking about for the flies?
Quote:
https://www.spalding-labs.com/
If you tell them that you got their link from me they will send me extra bugs in one of my shipments.

Basically the bugs they send eat the baby bugs that I don't like.

 

[SallyinIndiana]

A picture of our Julia goat with her mother.