"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"

[TerriLaChicks]

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Congratulations, really nice egg color!!

 

[TerriLaChicks]

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Purdy!!! I love splash coloring in any breed! those are healthy looking youngsters!

 

[TerriLaChicks]

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ANOTHER enabler! You guys are killing me!
I tell ya, I'm sworn off any more until I cull some roos & my Wellies get old enough to start laying. Need to get a pic of them. I really like the way they are coming along.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

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Our condolences to you and your family Missi. Hope everyone is alright and can get at ease soon

X 2 - it's so much worse when it's a young person. Just doesn't seem right.

 

[TerriLaChicks]

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We had a breeze here too, & I just got back from my morning trek & it was almost bearable.

I saw Romeo fanning this morning -- & FINALLY he has developed one perfect white 'eye' on his yearling train! He is going to be one gorgeous hunk of peacock in a couple more years! He has a perfect "V" of white in the center of his train flanked by colored feathers & is developing white eyes on those. I'm getting to like D'art more & more too -- the Buford Bronze coloring is sublte, but very elegant esp in full sunlight.

 

[GLBRWyans]

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Please accept our condolences and will definitely pray for ya'll .

 

[kuntrygirl]

Hey everyone. I was thinking about if all of us Lay'ers could put our brillant minds together and come up with a list that would be a resource link for our LOUISIANA thread. I know that many of us from time to time will experience some type of illness or emergency and if we had a list where all of us could refer to, would help a little.

I know that there is a thread for emergencies/illnesses, etc. on BYC but if we compiled that list here in "one location", we wouldn't have to search all over to find this. Also, if something happens to one of our animals and no one is online at the time that person posts and they are needing immediate help on the Louisiana thread, then they could go to that post on our thread and read up on it until one of us can is able to read that person's thread and respond. Example: Missi had an emergency with her rooster when she came back from vacation and she posted but no one was really online to offer any suggestions, so Missi winged it and helped her rooster with no help. If there was a "Resource Thread" that she could have gone to, she could have pulled up what to do and would have had all of the information in front of her.

I know that we won't be able to have information for every little thing but the few things that we can put together would help. And as things happen and as we experience problems, we could continue to edit the post to add those things. We could also have a Predator category and include information on what to do and how to catch them.

And we can still post our questions and problems as they happen every day and we can still help one another out as we always do.

There are a lot of great posts that contain information on BYC but they are ALL over the place. Having it in one place would be less stressful and we wouldn't have to search for hours to look for information.

Everyone has a variety of animals, so we could have a category for those animals.

We could also post pics of what an illness or problem looks like in the event someone wants to know what "something" looks like. Example: Dry Pox, Pics of worms, wry neck, "poop chart pics" for anyone seeing abnormal poop from their chickens, etc.

We can also post pics of the products/meds that will be listed.

Let me know what you all think and everyone could contribute to the thread because everyone on this thread has expertise, knowlegde and valuable information that they can contribute to this "Resource"thread.

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EXAMPLE OF LAYOUT OF RESOURCE THREAD

De-worming
Use Ivermectin pour on - drop 3 - 5 drops on skin on the bare skin on the back of the chicken's neck.
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WAZINE
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Gapeworm
Use Safeguard (fenbendazole) liquid goat wormer (125ml bottle).
ORAL ADMINISTRATION - use a syringe without a needle to administer. Dosage -3/4cc for large fowl: 1/2cc for standard size: 1/4cc for smaller chickens. Adminster again 10 days after the initial treatment.

ADMINSTERING SAFEGUARD IN WATER:
The mixing is 3ml to a gallon of water (or 1 ml to 42 oz).
25% solution--The take 1 cup of the mixed solution and add 3 cups water. Use as only source of drinking water for 1 day.
50% solution--take 2 cups of mixed solution and add 2 cups water. Use as only source of drinking water for 1 day.
Third week--no cutting, full dose.


LICE AND MITES
Sprinkle with Sevin Dust - food grade strength..........................
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RESPIRATORY PROBLEMS
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Cocci
Use Corid or Sulmet............
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Dry Pox
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Wet Pox
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Spraddle Leg
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We can add more categories and have individual categories (Chickens, Ducks, Geese (Twiley and Gracie's area of expertise), Peafowl (Terri's area of expertise), Turkeys, Quail (Mike's area of expertise), Sheep, Goats, Rabbits, Horses (Whiskey Bay's area of expertise), etc) that you all feel will be helpful to others.

Let me know what you all think.

Thanks

 

[GLBRWyans]

Kuntrygirl ,
That is a great idea

One thing I would like to let ya'll know about is " New England Pigeon and Poultry" they have one of the most extensive medicine inventories that I have yet to run across . They sell meds for a variety of critters that we all raise . They will send out a magazine if so desired also .

 

[kuntrygirl]

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Great! This is definitely good information that we should add to our Resource Link.

Thanks for sharing that information.

 

[Whiskey Bay]

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Sooo sorry to hear Missi. Anything we can do,just let us know.