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I cannot wait for Lockdown either. I will begin on Thursday. I removed my quitters (one developed for a few days as I could see a big head and a tiny little body, the blue egg was infertile and the big white egg had a blood ring that I misjudge as veining for a while). All 14 others are happily moving about in their shells. I will be picking up 3+ dz. of Black Copper Maran/ Salmon Faverolle and EE eggs on Saturday and start all over again once the chicks leave the incubator.
On another note, one of my layers got sick on Thursday and I could have sworn she was egg bound and was going to die. Guess what, I think she has worms as she pooped out worms yesterday. I immediately dewormed her and will do the rest of the gang next week. She is feeling a lot better now and starting to eat again. She is also drinking a lot now. I heard a great recipe which is to deworm first and after that use 2 tsp of Cayenne Pepper per 1 Gallon of crumbles all the time to keep them dewormed. This way you dont have to worry about the 2 week period after deworming with chemicals in which you cannot eat the eggs. Just an FYI to everybody. Seems like worms are very active right now.
I cannot wait for Lockdown either. I will begin on Thursday. I removed my quitters (one developed for a few days as I could see a big head and a tiny little body, the blue egg was infertile and the big white egg had a blood ring that I misjudge as veining for a while). All 14 others are happily moving about in their shells. I will be picking up 3+ dz. of Black Copper Maran/ Salmon Faverolle and EE eggs on Saturday and start all over again once the chicks leave the incubator.
On another note, one of my layers got sick on Thursday and I could have sworn she was egg bound and was going to die. Guess what, I think she has worms as she pooped out worms yesterday. I immediately dewormed her and will do the rest of the gang next week. She is feeling a lot better now and starting to eat again. She is also drinking a lot now. I heard a great recipe which is to deworm first and after that use 2 tsp of Cayenne Pepper per 1 Gallon of crumbles all the time to keep them dewormed. This way you dont have to worry about the 2 week period after deworming with chemicals in which you cannot eat the eggs. Just an FYI to everybody. Seems like worms are very active right now.