Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[Amy PT]

Some of the environmental forms of parasites, such as eggs, are killed off by freezing. Worms inside animals live just fine in the winter, whether in a chicken, squirrel, or any other animal. You can safely deworm bird during molt, it will help them recover from molting faster, and you will have fewer eggs to discard, as they do not lay during molt.

Thanks! I'll do it tomorrow.

Misty, welcome!

 

[fuzzybutt love]

Dear chicken gurus,  I planned to worm our birds this weekend.  I figured with the fading natural light, they're not laying right now anyhow.  This weekend, they both started a full on hard molt.  Will the double stress of worming meds and a molt be too much for them?

Also, I know nature knows better than I do, but a 1/2 naked hen in November seems like bad planning.  They know how to keep themselves warm, right?  Or, should I shut them in the warm coop until they feather out a bit?

Ok. First question . You CAN worm now and they won't croak. But the wormer inhibits protein synthesis. Feathers need protein to develop. Will your birds be bald? No but it is still a stresser. I switch to gamebird/turkey/ flock raiser for the molt and worm directly after. I am still using the ivomec, but for new birds i like to use zimectrin gold horse paste. It even does tapes! Didn't think they got those till one of my boughten hens got them. So gross. And i do keep them in during the worst of the molt. Don't know if it is necessary but they seem glad to be back in when i do let them out when it is sunny. But the camper coop has lots of windows and sunbeams so...

Many chicken parasites, both external and internal, are now resistant to Ivermectin, and as said above Wazine has a very limited range.  The best all-around dewormer is Valbazen - highly recommended by Dawg and other worm experts.

Only drawback is valbazen has to be dosed right it is easy to o.d. But yes, still the best

 

[Trefoil]

For those of you that have other livestock. Years ago I had a rooster die from picking through the manure of my horses that I had wormed for bots using that wormer that looked like small blue pellets. The rooster was weaving around, acting drunk when I called the vet, who laughed at the idea of someone calling the vet over a rooster and soon after the rooster died. After that I cooped my chickens when worming the horses.

 

[EverMystique1]

When the power flicked the cat jumped a mile lol.

I can completely see our cats doing that. Although, the outage didn't disturb them near as much as the lightning strike so close that the sight and sound were practically simultaneous. That made my teenage son jump a mile. LOL.

Just watched a news report that I don't quite understand. It said that Butterball was reporting a shortage of turkeys. That for some unknown reason they weren't growing as fast as normal. It said that this shortage only affected fresh turkeys.

What I don't quite understand does this mean frozen turkeys grow faster?

Opa, you crack me up!

Reminds me of a night at work a few weeks ago. I am a team leader, so carry a radio to communicate with supervisors and forklifts. I radioed one of our drivers to bring me a set of certification tags and some tape back to shipping. He called back "What kind of tape?" I had to try to keep my voice steady as I replied to him, "The sticky kind."

 

[preciouskitty]

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THAT is FUNNY!!!

 

[Opa]

Yesterday David and I went to check the storm damage at my old farmer friend's property and found he was sitting in his house in the dark. Of course there was no way was I leaving him with out power, and more importantly without heat, so he came home with us. So now I'm sitting here this morning drinking coffee with friend reminiscing about years gone by. Good coffee, good friends, pretty nice way to start a morning.

 

[lbrykowski2011]

Looking forward to interacting with some Michigan and BYC members!

Welcome

 

[RaZ]

I just found out that Calder Dairy has natural milk. It is the closest thing you can get to raw milk.

 

[chickflick]

I'M GOING TO BE A GRANDMA AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!

 

[HollyDuckFarmer]

You aren't excited are you?

Congrats Chick!!!!!