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

[mlm Mike]

What is blue cote? Never used that before. I heard of using the neo in conjunction with minute amt of Vicks rub, heard they hate the taste

It's a wound spray commonly used on poultry and livestock. It would cover the bare reddish spot and turn it blue. Chicks will pick at the red spot.

 

[rarely bored]

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[The Chickeneer]

It's a wound spray commonly used on poultry and livestock. It would cover the bare reddish spot and turn it blue. Chicks will pick at the red spot.

Oooohh I think i have some thing like that....but it's purple, and it's for horses....Ive used it on chickens before, so yeah Chicken Fever, I think getting that blue cote would help allot better than neo...... hope your chick does better

 

[chicken fever]

It's a wound spray commonly used on poultry and livestock. It would cover the bare reddish spot and turn it blue. Chicks will pick at the red spot.

That sounds much better and much safer than the Vicks. I did the neo tonight, separated the wounds ones and will get red lamp and blue kote manãna! Thx gals n guys!

 

[chicken fever]

Oooohh I think i have some thing like that....but it's purple, and it's for horses....Ive used it on chickens before, so yeah Chicken Fever, I think getting that blue cote would help allot better than neo...... hope your chick does better

Ive got the purple junk.... I'm a horse trainer!

 

[The Chickeneer]

Haha Lucky you!

just remember that stuff is hard to get off (u probably already knew that...) so be carefull where/how you srpay it on the little chick. Good luck!

 

[Spangled]

I read a pdf yesterday that said all eggs have a bulls eye--The important thing is the size--I think it said the bullseye needed to be 1/8 of an inch or larger.

Very cool info. Thanks. I'm going to check this out with some of our eggs one of these days.

 

[Spangled]

I thought this was interesting. This is the list of "breeding don'ts" from the 1915 American Poultry Yearbook. Something to think about as we select breeders for our hatch.

Thos aree great points! Does the book give the do's?

One thing I like to "do" is to watch the chickens throughout the year (or years) to see which are the best free-range foragers and which hens are oldest and still laying well. I try to get at least a few eggs from those hens to set in the incubator. Those are good genes. (If I'm repeating myself from earlier in this thread, I apologize.)

 

[java girl 2]

Haha Lucky you!

just remember that stuff is hard to get off (u probably already knew that...) so be carefull where/how you srpay it on the little chick. Good luck!

someone said that they use makeup wipes to get the stuff off, but the baby wipes will do the same thing as well.

 

[gryeyes]

Marking my "catch up" spot.