We made it to one week old!! Yea!!
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We made it to one week old!! Yea!!
- Aug 4, 2013
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I have my coop 2' off the ground because of flooding. What you look for in sand can differ from inside the coop to outside. Under my coop I use quickrete play sand because it has a lot of small gravel and stays longer. Inside my coop I use the paper sack ($2 for 50#) sakrete kiln dried play sand because there is no gravel and it is dry making it easier to scoop. Any sand sold in plastic bags will be wet from what I have seen and they take forever to dry out. If you have a place near you that will sell loose sand by the truck load that would be your best option.
CATCHING UP:
Kuntry - has a lamb who likes her hand held boob... TEEHEE
Primrose(& whoever else) Treat scabies with warm bath water and a LOT of CLOROX 2.... soak in it for 30 minutes. DONT GET YOUR HAIR WET! and dont use soap or anything but using a rag to scrub it into your skin is fine. I say do it once a day for two days. Works quick.
EGGS: I have a huge problem leaving my eggs in my table basket, and then thinking I can go eat them a week later. Seems mine, the embryo starts to grow.? When ever I try to open and cook, there is blood and growth in them. So maybe it is OKAY weeks later being left on the counter IF it has NOT been fertilized? I put some in fridge, washed if needed for buyers, the leave some out (since I read it is best to leave fresh laid eggs out for a couple days BEFORE incubating and my hatch rates of success has risen) on my counter but it is always for future incubation. Thoughts?
CHICKEN CRAP for gardens.... had an elder farmer explain to me that chicken poo is to be used seasonally. 3 months between each cycle.... crap gathered in Fall, tilled into garden 3 months later in Winter, and planting on said area can be done 3 months after that in Summer kinda thing. Allows all the ammonia and heat of it all to be filtered out. Though I must say Rabbit poo seems easier to use!? Making me crave a bunny now.....
LEMON: just remembered I was supposed to send u a pic of our water collector we use on our garden.,... look at the blue plastic drum ANGEL posted she uses for compost? THAT IS IT!!!!
SEAN, keep plastic milk crates and on those rainy days, place those out there for them to keep their feet dry and even your chicks can hop up on them ro perch for sleep. OR even use a pallet. I have noticed when I let my chicks loose, they like a pallet to run under when a grown chicken pays too much attention! LOL anyway, anything really for them to get up on will help. Then when it is not rainy day, lift it against the wall. They can use it as a higher perch and BUGS WILL BE EVERYWHERE! They will love you! CRAP., nevermind, just read ur coop is 3 feet high....
SAND: my chickens love the sandy ground under our house. There are these round 'holes' everywhere under there where they have been 'bathing' themselves!
ANGEL - seriously? You dont know what it does to me to read you WANT ME TO MAKE POOP TEA!!!!!!!!! LOL I know, I know, BUT it IS funny to read.... LMBO
Kuntry - has a lamb who likes her hand held boob... TEEHEE
Primrose(& whoever else) Treat scabies with warm bath water and a LOT of CLOROX 2.... soak in it for 30 minutes. DONT GET YOUR HAIR WET! and dont use soap or anything but using a rag to scrub it into your skin is fine. I say do it once a day for two days. Works quick.
EGGS: I have a huge problem leaving my eggs in my table basket, and then thinking I can go eat them a week later. Seems mine, the embryo starts to grow.? When ever I try to open and cook, there is blood and growth in them. So maybe it is OKAY weeks later being left on the counter IF it has NOT been fertilized? I put some in fridge, washed if needed for buyers, the leave some out (since I read it is best to leave fresh laid eggs out for a couple days BEFORE incubating and my hatch rates of success has risen) on my counter but it is always for future incubation. Thoughts?
CHICKEN CRAP for gardens.... had an elder farmer explain to me that chicken poo is to be used seasonally. 3 months between each cycle.... crap gathered in Fall, tilled into garden 3 months later in Winter, and planting on said area can be done 3 months after that in Summer kinda thing. Allows all the ammonia and heat of it all to be filtered out. Though I must say Rabbit poo seems easier to use!? Making me crave a bunny now.....
LEMON: just remembered I was supposed to send u a pic of our water collector we use on our garden.,... look at the blue plastic drum ANGEL posted she uses for compost? THAT IS IT!!!!
SEAN, keep plastic milk crates and on those rainy days, place those out there for them to keep their feet dry and even your chicks can hop up on them ro perch for sleep. OR even use a pallet. I have noticed when I let my chicks loose, they like a pallet to run under when a grown chicken pays too much attention! LOL anyway, anything really for them to get up on will help. Then when it is not rainy day, lift it against the wall. They can use it as a higher perch and BUGS WILL BE EVERYWHERE! They will love you! CRAP., nevermind, just read ur coop is 3 feet high....
SAND: my chickens love the sandy ground under our house. There are these round 'holes' everywhere under there where they have been 'bathing' themselves!
ANGEL - seriously? You dont know what it does to me to read you WANT ME TO MAKE POOP TEA!!!!!!!!! LOL I know, I know, BUT it IS funny to read.... LMBO
Mine didn't, its 30 inch's off the ground, but we got less than a quarter inch in Jena,
CRAP!!!!! I didn't know this and have been adding earthworms to my chickens diet for some time now.... mind you ground up in my blender but still. Found this, and thanks for making me do more googling... ya'll KNOW how I love researching stuff!
GAPEWORM: found in earthworms, beetles, slugs, snails, and grasshoppers
also known as a red worm and forked worm, is a parasitic nematode worm infecting the tracheas of certain birds. The resulting disease, known as "gape" or "the gapes", occurs when the worms clog and obstruct the airway. The worms are also known as "red worms" or "forked worms" due to their red color and the permanent procreative conjunction of males and females. Gapeworms are common in young, domesticated chickens and turkeys.
When the female gapeworm lays her eggs in the trachea of an infected bird, the eggs are coughed up, swallowed, then defecated. When birds consume the eggs found in the feces of an intermediate host such as earthworms, snails (Planorbarius corneus, Bithynia tentaculataand others), or slugs, they become infected with the parasite.
The drug Ivermectin is often used to control gapeworm infection in birds though the use of DE is a MUST when planning on using this.
Blockage of the bronchi and trachea with worms and mucus will cause infected birds to gasp for air. They stretch out their necks, open their mouths and gasp for air producing a hissing noise as they do so. This "gaping" posture has given rise to the common term "gapeworm" to describe Syngamus trachea.
These clinical signs first appear approximately 1–2 weeks after infection. Birds infected with gapeworms show signs of weakness and emaciation, usually spending much of their time with eyes closed and head drawn back against the body. An infected bird may give its head a convulsive shake in an attempt to remove the obstruction from the trachea so that normal breathing may be resumed.
Severely affected birds, particularly young ones, will deteriorate rapidly; they stop drinking and become anorexic. At this stage, death is the usual outcome. Adult birds are usually less severely affected and may only show an occasional cough or even no obvious clinical signs.
www.mollysherbels.com is a website i found for herbel remedies for de-worming chickens. Hghly recommended.
It says, allowing pullets or chicks ro roam in a caged environment such as enclosed coop/run alow the older chickens to eat such bugs found in the dirt then the worms will be present in their poop. or, WHEN A GROWN CHICKEN gets infested, it will cough and shake until wriggling them loose them vomiting it onto the ground, when chicks/pullets will them eat said 'pile'. Pecking at small things found, the chicks/pullets will ingest such worm from adult feces or vomit and become infected. These small tracheas in young birds WILL end in death, yet grown chickens have a medicine available. Grown chickens seldom find death from such parasites though it says... Worms also get eaten, then travel back up to the trachea. There are treatments available. IF a grown chickens dies with no seeable reason, check the trachea for red worms that form a Y due to continuous copulation.
FLUBENVET 1% is licensed to treat chickens.
Also recommended for prevention is ACV as well as a garlic clove in each water receptical as well as diced garlic and cayenne pepper in their diet as a regular contribution. They attach to the trachea feeding off the blood and body fluids so a spicy, hot, and garlic blood flow will deter that.
HERE IS A YOUTUBE VIDEO OF A CHICKEN WITH GAPEWORM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8iL3U2lj50
GAPEWORM: found in earthworms, beetles, slugs, snails, and grasshoppers
also known as a red worm and forked worm, is a parasitic nematode worm infecting the tracheas of certain birds. The resulting disease, known as "gape" or "the gapes", occurs when the worms clog and obstruct the airway. The worms are also known as "red worms" or "forked worms" due to their red color and the permanent procreative conjunction of males and females. Gapeworms are common in young, domesticated chickens and turkeys.
When the female gapeworm lays her eggs in the trachea of an infected bird, the eggs are coughed up, swallowed, then defecated. When birds consume the eggs found in the feces of an intermediate host such as earthworms, snails (Planorbarius corneus, Bithynia tentaculataand others), or slugs, they become infected with the parasite.
The drug Ivermectin is often used to control gapeworm infection in birds though the use of DE is a MUST when planning on using this.
Blockage of the bronchi and trachea with worms and mucus will cause infected birds to gasp for air. They stretch out their necks, open their mouths and gasp for air producing a hissing noise as they do so. This "gaping" posture has given rise to the common term "gapeworm" to describe Syngamus trachea.
These clinical signs first appear approximately 1–2 weeks after infection. Birds infected with gapeworms show signs of weakness and emaciation, usually spending much of their time with eyes closed and head drawn back against the body. An infected bird may give its head a convulsive shake in an attempt to remove the obstruction from the trachea so that normal breathing may be resumed.
Severely affected birds, particularly young ones, will deteriorate rapidly; they stop drinking and become anorexic. At this stage, death is the usual outcome. Adult birds are usually less severely affected and may only show an occasional cough or even no obvious clinical signs.
www.mollysherbels.com is a website i found for herbel remedies for de-worming chickens. Hghly recommended.
It says, allowing pullets or chicks ro roam in a caged environment such as enclosed coop/run alow the older chickens to eat such bugs found in the dirt then the worms will be present in their poop. or, WHEN A GROWN CHICKEN gets infested, it will cough and shake until wriggling them loose them vomiting it onto the ground, when chicks/pullets will them eat said 'pile'. Pecking at small things found, the chicks/pullets will ingest such worm from adult feces or vomit and become infected. These small tracheas in young birds WILL end in death, yet grown chickens have a medicine available. Grown chickens seldom find death from such parasites though it says... Worms also get eaten, then travel back up to the trachea. There are treatments available. IF a grown chickens dies with no seeable reason, check the trachea for red worms that form a Y due to continuous copulation.
FLUBENVET 1% is licensed to treat chickens.
Also recommended for prevention is ACV as well as a garlic clove in each water receptical as well as diced garlic and cayenne pepper in their diet as a regular contribution. They attach to the trachea feeding off the blood and body fluids so a spicy, hot, and garlic blood flow will deter that.
HERE IS A YOUTUBE VIDEO OF A CHICKEN WITH GAPEWORM
www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8iL3U2lj50
Hi,
I am totally new to this whole chicken thing.... Already obsessed with this site!!! Talk about ADDICTIVE!!! I live in metairie. I have my coop ready to go...I was interested in getting some orpingtons ( possibly bantam orpingtons) for my first flock. Does anyone know the best place locally or near to get some? My kids are super excited to bring chickens into our family!
Thanks
I am totally new to this whole chicken thing.... Already obsessed with this site!!! Talk about ADDICTIVE!!! I live in metairie. I have my coop ready to go...I was interested in getting some orpingtons ( possibly bantam orpingtons) for my first flock. Does anyone know the best place locally or near to get some? My kids are super excited to bring chickens into our family!
Thanks
I live in Slidell finally someone in my neck of the woods. You will love the Peeps on this thread. I'm Pam I share this site with my hubby when I post I put my name at the end of the post. We are a wild and wacky bunch. Its all is good fun. We talk chicken and help each other. I have other breeds than what you are looking for .Some one will point you in the right direction. I think Jeff has orpintons But I don't Know if they are bantums. Why did you decide on bantums? Pam
Not cool. They can't even show up to a meeting to address the concerns of the community they are trying to be in? Keep them OUT. No fracking in St Tammy. Residents don't need water issues. 
http://www.wwltv.com/news/Fracking-company-a-no-show-at-community-meeting-258996221.html
http://www.wwltv.com/news/Fracking-company-a-no-show-at-community-meeting-258996221.html
welcome! I'm in sabine parish so no help on where to find them near you. However, most feed stores can and will order whatever you are looking for. Or, yoju could check out McMurray Hatchery and order them straight from there yourself.
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