Mahonri's 3rd Annual, BYC Easter Hatch-a-long!

[buckabucka]

Thanks for all the info on mites, Ron!
I posted in the emergency/disease section and couldn't get a response. I've been poring over so much information. It looks like I will be spending my vacation cleaning the coop and treating the birds.

We are torn as to what to use. Frontline is systemic, and since it is not officially approved for poultry, I worry about eating the eggs.

Injectable ivermectin in the water would be easy, but it is odd that they say you can't eat the meat, but eggs are fine. I guess I could feed the eggs back to them for a week.

Pyrethrum spray seems the most harmless, but I'm concerned I won't be able to get a thorough application on each chicken.

And there is Adam's tick and flea dip. Dipping and drying 28 birds also seems a little overwhelming.

I do want to get this under control soon, and at the same time, wonder if the mites have anything to do with my sick hen, or if she has something else going on. She doesn't look so great this morning. Last night she was perking up. We'll be off to buy some kind of mite treatment tonight.

Sorry about your dead chick, Mahonri!

 

[kathyinmo]

Dipping and drying 28 birds also seems a little overwhelming.

I dipped 300 birds. Well, I had help. Then, I repeated it a week later. I dipped in permethrin (concentrate). There is also permethrin dust. I alternate products. This go 'round I am using Sevin dust, and I am worming with Valbazen (.5 cc on a piece of bread for each bird).

 

[java girl 2]

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Ron




We've just been eating it steamed, but I do have a great Broccoli Cheddar soup recipe. Next month I'm having surgery on my jaw, the periodonist basically said I would not be a happy camper for 3-4 days, the extra time depending on if they need to do the bone graft.

I am saving up all my cream soup recipes for a few days of no chewing!

Deb



ooh, can you please share them with us??

I LOVE cream of soup but can't find any good ones!!

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do you need any help??

 

[Arielle]

Have we gotten a final tally on the number of chicks hatched for the Easter yet? My curiosity is killing me! Anyone know?

Killing me too!!!


Please post your numbers on the specified spread sheet on Pg1--listing in the thread is fun but it also needs to be put into the spread sheet via page 1 link.

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Kathy what dip did you use and dhow do out actually dip a bird with out drowning it. Yes, I'm a nubie!

 

[1muttsfan]

OK since almost everyone who on this forum reads this thread. Is there any way to find all of your posts in eac thread you post in? Not just hunt the entire thread, but actually find just your own post?

Wolftracks, maybe you do this already, but if you right-click on a link - for example the my profile tab - you get a drop down menu. Select open in a new tab, and you will have both your original page and the new page open in separate tabs that you can switch back and forth between. I often have 4 or 5 tabs open at the same time.

 

[NotAFarm]

We know everyone wants to know the winner of the "Number of Eggs Hatched Contest". As soon as Mahonri can, he will annouce it.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Sure, I'm always up for trying/tweaking a new recipe. And you're safe, it wasn't me!

Deb

Cream of Broccoli Soup
Serves 4-6

2 tablespoons butter
1/3 cup diced leeks or scallions
1/3 cup diced onions
1/3 cup diced celery
1 cup diced broccali
3 tablespoons flour
3 cups chicken stock
salt, pepper, and thyme to taste
1/3 cup white wine
1 cup light cream


Melt butter in sauce pan and add leeks, onions and celery and broccali. Saute about 5 minutes over low heat so butter won't brown. Blend in flour then add chicken stock. Cook until boiling. Add salt, pepper thyme, and wine. Let simmer about 20 minutes until vegetables are tender. Puree in blender. Return to low heat and add cream just before serving.

Thanks for all the info on mites, Ron!
I posted in the emergency/disease section and couldn't get a response. I've been poring over so much information. It looks like I will be spending my vacation cleaning the coop and treating the birds.
We are torn as to what to use. Frontline is systemic, and since it is not officially approved for poultry, I worry about eating the eggs.
Injectable ivermectin in the water would be easy, but it is odd that they say you can't eat the meat, but eggs are fine. I guess I could feed the eggs back to them for a week.
Pyrethrum spray seems the most harmless, but I'm concerned I won't be able to get a thorough application on each chicken.
And there is Adam's tick and flea dip. Dipping and drying 28 birds also seems a little overwhelming.
I do want to get this under control soon, and at the same time, wonder if the mites have anything to do with my sick hen, or if she has something else going on. She doesn't look so great this morning. Last night she was perking up. We'll be off to buy some kind of mite treatment tonight.
Sorry about your dead chick, Mahonri!

I use ivermectin pour on and then feed the eggs back to them. I also mix their sandbox with DE and pyrethrum powder for them to dust bathe in and every time I clean the coop I spray pyrethrum long acting horse spray on the cracks and crevices where the roosts meet and in the next boxes.

 

[Arielle]

We know everyone wants to know the winner of the "Number of Eggs Hatched Contest". As soon as Mahonri can, he will annouce it.

I hope everyone entered their numbers!!! Can put up a list of indivuals like the earlier contest??? ANd we can flood them with PM's . . . . or just one.

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SCG-- where do you buy pyrethrum powder??

 

[rebelINny]

Mohonri- I entered my amount, it was wrong but I had sold some anyway before a pic. I can't get a pic on here till late today or tomorrow morning My husband took my camera the pic was on with him on a hauling trip grrrrr.......funny how its MY camera and he always takes it off somewhere. Grrrr. How soon do the pics have to be up?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

SCG-- where do you buy pyrethrum powder??

I either got it at Tractor Supply or the local farm store, or Lowes or Home Depot or WalMart in the pest or garden section... Bought it probably back in 2010 when we had mites from swap chicks. Yay for quarantine.

I went home to see my family for a few days and came home to this all over the chicken area of the basement:



And then the chemicalgirl in me went wild. I now treat anything that comes here for lice, mites and worms without knowledge that they have it and quarantine for 4 weeks. The swap chicks of course had worms, too. We had to burn the brooder (and when I say we, I mean BF). That man's a saint.