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

[Farmerboy16]

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Thanks for the prayers... as far as supplements.. This is my first goat experience... so all I am doing is giving her colustrum from mom.. Where would I get a supplement?

Here's another picture of the boys with mom


and the large black hogs are getting big!!

Cute kids! Hope the female makes it. We got breeder stock American Guinea Hogs from Olive Hill yesterday! They declared war on the nice grass right away, and ate them all before the sun went down. This morning, the pen was one muddy, turned up ground.

 

[1muttsfan]

Birdguy, for the first 24 hours they should only get colostrum, to establish their immunity. Feeding other things can interfere with the colostrum's absorption. Continuing to feed colostrum got the first few days bathes the gut with antibodies that help fight off infection s.

Kathy, that video was so fun. The little ones are starting to get big!

I set another 40+ eggs over the last 4 days - and have more coming this week. I need help... :/

 

[chick-among-us]

Yes Cynthia I am the one with the Hawk....it has been more than a friday thirteenth week now that I think about it!! Makes me wanna duck when I hear bad weather is coming...I seem to be a magnet for crap lately...its ok though, sure makes me appreciate my morning coffee on the front porch listening to the farm wake up...all peaceful.... and soft quiet noises and roosters crowing...and those LEARNING to crow,which always makes me laugh out loud... before all hell breaks loose!! lol jk.... HA! that reminds me...The humming birds came back this mornin' time to put their feeders back up.

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Bless your heart!

There, I hope that helped.

That is a lot to go through. I can imagine one of the biggest things right now, is getting that upper respiratory taken care of in your chickens. Keep at it, it will come, healthy chickens again. Aren't you the one that had that huge hawk go inside of your coop and get your babies? Or was that someone else? My goodness! I'll bet you are tired of all the drama that life can throw at us. Have to say, sounds like you have a pretty good attitude though, you were able to see the good through the bad when you mentioned all of those cute baby chicks you were able to hatch! Good for you. Best way to get through the hard times, with half a smile? lol.. Well, keep on a chuggin. Rootin for ya!
I can share in your good news, and at least relate to the good part. We also got a new truck..new to us..a Dodge Dakota. My husband is pretty happy. Wish we could have a new RAM! Those are great! Sounds like you need a nice big truck for all of the animal and farm work you have to keep up with. Hoping we hear when your chickens are all sounding healthy again. That can be such a hard thing to go through. Sooo glad that fire didn't do any more damage than it did! And that you all are ok!

 

[The Chickeneer]

ok if any of you who want to hatch again and have not join in any hatch-a-long YET. COME ON OVER TO THE MOTHER'S DAY HATCH-A-LONG!!! HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!!

YESS! I've been waiting for another excuse to hatch like crazy, since this Easter one didn't go so well for me..I only hatched 4 out of 41(and 2 of those are dead now) But hopefully I have beter luck

 

[cowchick11]

Baby pictures!

 

[Arielle]

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Many feed stores, the well stocked type would have it; Otherwise check out Premier 1 online catalog. They only do sheep/goats. Very helpful people.


My vets give supplements right away; even the horse vets push the supplements on newborn foals. Yes Colosrom is very important; this supplement is meant in ADDiTION to colostrom. When you have another girl kid and she has less than 3 kids, take some colostrum and freeze it for emergencies. I pour it into a plastic ziplock, ANd put that into another one, then freeze. Colostrum is liquid gold!

 

[Arielle]

My cutest chick entry. It's the Iowa Blues I hatched from the swap from MrHeinz



Deb

So darn cute!! Great photo!

Quote: Try, try again, and you'll get the hang of it.

 

[buckabucka]

As soon as you get new chickens, flip them up side down and dust them with poultry dust. Make sure to hit the vent area real good. Do this even if you don't see lice. Then keep them separated for three weeks of so and check them before letting them in with your flock.

Ok, I know I said this before, but once you get lice and mites, DE will not kill them. Funny thing, years ago Pyrethrum was considered organic. It comes from marigolds right? It is not that toxic. Also, it is very important that you use seven or something similar to spray the coops and pens. Do use DE after the mites are gone. I use Organic as much as possible.

The Die no Mite strips work by putting a little bit of pyrethrym on the chickens when they bump into it. With the Mites and lice, you are having a lower than normal production of eggs right? Let me know how much better your flock looks after they are treated and how much better your egg production is.

My hen that had symptoms of Mites is now laying again and looking good. I used ivermectin, Die no Mite strips and sprayed the coop with Seven.

Ron

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Thanks!
Well, we're not sure where the lice came from, but we did add pullets to our flock. We quarantined them to make sure they had no diseases, but never examined them for lice. Stupid, I know. We can almost never catch a chicken except in the dead of night. You should have seen our chase scene yesterday

. I do know we had mites earlier. I'm hoping we can get them under control. For now, DH is insisting on organic methods. He has become the king of chicken dusting.

Well, that's the surprising thing. If I don't count our sick hen or the Marans that has never laid eggs, we have 25 hens. One of those is a cross-beak that only lays occasionally, and we are averaging 19 eggs a day, which seems pretty good. You may be correct that just DE will not work, but DH insists we go this route first. I must say it seems to be working on our sick hen. She was covered in mites. We've dusted her twice now, and couldn't find any mites on her today. It is time consuming though. DH puts the chicken upside down on his lap and parts the feathers to directly apply the DE to the skin and around the base of the feathers. He does this all over the chicken. We plan to do this repeatedly for each one. Personally, I would have gone for ivermectin in the water, as that seems really easy, but I'm willing to give the DE a shot.

 

[ronott1]

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That is good news. You caught the problem quickly if egg production did not go down.

Maybe you can get DH to try this:



I used this last night after I cleaned out the big Coop. It smells nice.

 

[ronott1]

Hi have a Brooder cam up now. The 11 EO Maraduna Basque chickens are there along with 2 Cream Legbar Chicks. They are 5 days apart in age. It's funny to see the Legbars stand up to the Basque. The Basque chicks accepted them very easily.

The little one with the spot on it's head is the Cream Legbar Cockerel. The gray one with the darker head is the Cream legbar Pullet.

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/ron-s-hatch-cam

Ron