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[Leahs Mom]

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CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Pics please! Lol

It's @SallyinIndiana that we're waiting for photos from

 

[ellymayRans]

Good morning everyone!  Just a quick post for two things.  Yesterday while I was fixing dinner, my DH said get over here quick!!!  I ran to the window and there was an opossum trying to get into my garden while the chickens were out.  He chased them off, but it was so disconcerting seeing it out there.  The chickens just gathered around to see what it was going to do.  They didn't even have the sense to run back into the actual run so I could lock them up safely.  I thought they knew danger.

Anyway, I know many of you worm your chickens and I'm wondering: only when you see a need or preventatively.  Which do you do?

Have a great day.  I will try out my access and try updating the spreadsheet tomorrow morning with the new requests.  I didn't know I was authorized yet

I've battled roundworm and little worms..not sure what they were but I found using the ivomec eprinex (I think that's it) it's only approved for cattle but I read plenty use it for chickens and I now use as preventative because there's no withdrawal time and it works really well. It's a topical just like the oil stuff you use for treatment of fleas on your dog or cats. I use a oral type syringe to apply it to their skin. It's like .5 cc for bantam and 1.5 cc LF. Another good thing is they say you can't really overdose them with it. After seeing those big ol nasty roundworms laying in the coop floor and outside it just grossed me out and I don't know if I could eat an egg again if one showed up in an egg I was getting ready to eat! I've seen pics EWE! So I would suggest preventative. .especially if they free range.

 

[racinchickins]

For anyone in the Indianapolis area that likes to meet up and talk chicken with like minded folks, another group that I belong to is starting up again and having their first meeting of the year.

The Central Indana Poultry Enthusiasts are a small group of chicken owners/wanna be owners that meet occasionally to socialize with other chicken folk. I found this group before I found the Indiana BYC thread, so it was a great outlet to find a group who would open up their homes, and talk chickens with not an eye roll in the house (at least until chicken math was brought up!) There will be people there with just a couple birds on up to people like me who don't like to admit even to themselves how many chickens they have. lol.

The meetings rotate among the homes of some members who volunteer to show off their chickens and coops. I got a lot of ideas from the meetings I went to. Some of you have already met some of them because when we had Poultryfest at my place last year, a lot of them attended also. I have enjoyed every meeting I've been to.

Here is the invite:

ATTENTION!
Calling all Indy area chicken owners/enthusiasts/seekers of chicken truths
Winter is behind us(hopefully) so let’s get together for food, fun, and chicken stories

Sunday, March 30th 3 - 6
Home/Urban Farm of Sue Gilfoy, (contact me for her address, don't want to post if for everyone to see)
(near IMA & Marion College)

Sue & her five chickens will greet you with open beaks, eager to hear how you dealt with the challenges
of having and caring for your chickens in bitter cold and feet of snow. Did anyone come up with clever
new ways/diets to keep your girls happy and still producing eggs despite the bad weather?

Please bring a snack or drink to share

Call Sue at 317-295-9903 for directions

Don’t mean to be a pessimist but if it is raining or snowing, let’s postpone one week to 4/6
* Some may also want to discuss ordering chicks

If you are interested in going, send me a pm with your email, and I will forward it to the host to send you the invite poster. I can't figure out how to post a .pdf on here.

This brings up the topic of biosecurity. Please be aware you are visiting the home of a chicken owner and will be surrounded by chicken owners who may not be as knowledgeable or careful as you are. I'm not saying this is a reason not to go, but it is something to be aware of. I firmly believe that with the proper precautions, you can have a great time and keep your chickens safe. I have a seperate set of shoes and clothes that I wear to other chicken properties that I wash upon returning home, and never wear near my chickens.

Also - i'm not sure if I will be there or not at this point. I may have to be out of town that weekend. things are still up in the air on that.

 

[minmin1258]

Thanks all for the help on my bator. The Welsummer were put in on the 11th so I put them on lockdown on the...28th and they should hatch on the 31st. Unless my math is bad which it usually is I'm right, right? My dad checked too though so I should be good. Ugh, math...my personal tormentor.

I've got silkies due on the 3rd of april too so I've got to make a hatcher to put the wlesummers in so that I don't have to mess with the silkie eggs.

Lol and dad is threatening to turn the ee chicks outside in a few weeks they are soo cute! Their feathers are coming in and they are all so pretty. I was a little concerned because a couple ate and stood their up straight and shook their heads like they were having seizures of something. I took one out and massaged its chest/crop area incase it was choking and I was surprised at how small but hard and full their crops get. You'd think I was starving them too by how quick they all jump at the food. They cover it up almost withing minutes when I change it out because they like to scratch. They're something I just don't know what yet.

Ah Kab I'm sorry about the baby duck. Doesn't sound like that was very fun.

If you can put their feed container on something to raise it out of "throwing" area of the bedding. I have 20 in a brooder right now their feed is up on a cinder block. Works great no bedding in their food and they can jump up there t get at it!

 

[raisinemright]

I believe that our doe is only going to have the one baby boy! He is strong and already nursing and following his momma around!

 

[minmin1258]

 

 

 

Another home birth (non-hippie) person

Me too! My husband calls me a hippy sometimes though  

CONGRATULATIONS!!!! Pics please! Lol

It's @SallyinIndiana
  that we're waiting for photos from

Oh ya!!! She looked ready to pop when I saw her a month ago! I'll bet if she hasn't already she's one miserable little lady with a humongous baby bump! Lol

 

[Leahs Mom]

She did!!!! Little girl

 

[minmin1258]

 

It's @SallyinIndiana


  that we're waiting for photos from

Oh ya!!! She looked ready to pop when I saw her a month ago! I'll bet if she hasn't already she's one miserable little lady with a humongous baby bump! Lol

She did!!!! Little girl

Awe! I'll bet she's got her hands full! "Sally" if u read this Congratulations! (Shhhhhh don't wake th baby.....[whispering] and please send pics!)

 

[bradselig]

And they are here! I finally received my now trio of Lemon Blue Sports (splash) modern bantams! I'm loving their colors. Here are some quick crappy pictures.

The roo

Hen I bought

Freebie hen

 

[SallyinIndiana]

It's @SallyinIndiana that we're waiting for photos from

Its been a bit busy here. Lots of bonding time and such. Then there is the warm afternoons that DH has been attempting to work outside with the chickens. And of course while DH is home the children are having lots of fun playing and being children. Pictures will come eventually.



Here is a picture. It is an early one so she is a bit smaller now. It won't be long before she will be growing way to fast just like her siblings did.