Michigan Thread - all are welcome!

[OldMissionChick]

If you want to make sure they get the niacin, then mixing it in a treat then feeding directly to each duck is a good idea. Almost like a bolus dose. Then giving brewers yeast or something similar with food will imrpove the niacin levels in the diet. Because it is a water soluable B vitamin, it is very difficult to overdose, since they quickly excrete what they don't need.

How much, I am not sure. With brewers yeast, I just sprinkle a bit on top of the food, I never really measured. I stop doing it once they're grown.

I couldn't find any brewers yeast. But I did get a bottle of 100mg capsules. If I mix it with a treat how much should I use? I have read sprinkle 50mg on food, but I assume thats food in a feeder not a direct dose.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/980007/how-do-you-give-your-duckling-niacin

https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/756861/duckling-niacin-deficiency#post_10734399

Thanks HollyDuck.

 

[aart]

Quote: The little 5wo chicks on the roost are separated from the main flock by a mostly wire wall that just went up yesterday,
tho they had spent time in a day pen next to the main run. There is also a separate run only a few feet away from the main run.

The 3mo pullets from a February broody hatch, are now 'trapped' in the main coop and want to get back to that roost the littlests are using......
.......they are taking a fair amount of abuse from the flock and Woody Roo is dominance mounting them. No blood drawn but I feel a little sorry for them.
I'm gonna have to put up another roost, always kind of in the long range plan, so they won't sleep in the nests.
I'm 'proving' that the 4sqft rule is not always adequate....and my chicken math balancing skills are climbing a steep curve.

Partition wall, goes up with a few screws. The little sliding doors, installed to hopefully help with integration, are kind of too low for the 5wo chicks.......
....I think I can raise the entire lower portion of wall.


3mo pullet not happy to be excluded from her prior territory.


......and I've got a broody in a breaker crate <rollseyes> chaos in the coop!
The 3mo pullets taking daytime refuge on the main roost

 

[taprock]

It's been a while with work, very busy at home and this week away at a conference. My last hatch wasn't so great. Not many fertile eggs and not everyone hatched. During the hatch there was a section of time that everyone who hatched was very sticky and had trouble. I'm not sure why. I have one having leg problems because he spent an undetermined number of hours stuck - glued to the bottom of the incubator in a weird position. I had to soak and peel him off. The fun thing is I ended up with an unexpected frizzled salmon faverolle girl, along with my own frizzled naked neck.
My ducks are broody again. They are hiding under the shed where I can't get them this time. I just wish I had some fertile eggs for them.
I think my broody hen is due to hatch her little ones this coming Monday. However I'm not really sure.

 

[Opa]

My youngest son recently sent me an issue of Poultry Tribune for 1939. Certainly interesting reading through the ads from 76 years ago. Hard to image buying a small John Deere tractor for less than $500. Or day old chicks for $5.70 per 100. It did seem like the hatcheries tried to make a lot more profit by selling more exotic breeds for $7.40 per 100.

 

[dportfamfarm]

Is any one a pekin duck expert? If so, can anyone tell me about how old mine are. Boughy at tsc 3 weeks ago and was told they were a few weeks old, not sure on exact date. But they eat constantly! Should they still be eating chick starter? Or should i put them on something else? Plan is to move them to the coop this weekend. (Orwhat sex they are)

 

[1muttsfan]

My youngest son recently sent me an issue of Poultry Tribune for 1939. Certainly interesting reading through the ads from 76 years ago. Hard to image buying a small John Deere tractor for less than $500. Or day old chicks for $5.70 per 100. It did seem like the hatcheries tried to make a lot more profit by selling more exotic breeds for $7.40 per 100.

I wonder what the average income was back then? I remember my grandmother telling me that once during the Depression pork chops were 10 cents a pound, and she did not have ten cents to buy them.

 

[RaZ]

I wonder what the average income was back then? I remember my grandmother telling me that once during the Depression pork chops were 10 cents a pound, and she did not have ten cents to buy them.

Heck. I don't have 10 cents now!

 

[uchytil]

Is any one a pekin duck expert? If so, can anyone tell me about how old mine are. Boughy at tsc 3 weeks ago and was told they were a few weeks old, not sure on exact date. But they eat constantly! Should they still be eating chick starter? Or should i put them on something else? Plan is to move them to the coop this weekend. (Orwhat sex they are)

Age is about right, 4 weeks. They eat constantly if you let them. Feed them a "Flockraiser" type food now. Purina makes it as do others. I feed my grown quacks a 50/50 mix of Armada Duck Pellets and Armada Layer Crumble. Forget trying to sex them for now, lol! When they start laying eggs, or not, you'll know. Sometimes the drakes get curls on the hind end feathers. Hens have a louder more throaty voice. That might help you to tell. Mine lay until winter then stop till spring. Pekins do well to free range as they get very heavy and need the exercise. Mine run with a bunch of Khaki Campbell's and do well to keep up.

 

[Opa]

The average income in 1939 was $1860

 

[TreeTree411]

In this corner we have Sammy, the biggest chick in the brooder.. (My personal favorite)


vs.




Mr. Darcy... Second biggest chick in the brooder, and has a bit of a mean streak, lots pecking on the smaller chicks.


These two are always fighting in the brooder, but not doing any damage to each other. Mostly jumping and trying to kick each other. Now, I've decided these are male, but watch them turn out to be pullets. haha