Michigan

[MrsChickendad]

We have used both Stall Dri and PDZ, they are pretty much the same. If you use wood shavings, there is one that has a rebate coupon for PDZ printed on the side, $3 I think.

We sprinkle a couple scoops of PDZ under the roosts and near the water drinkers, anywhere it tends to get wet. It helps a lot. If you don't have time to do a real coop cleaning, throw a couple cups of the stuff where you notice ammonia.

 

[keyt1969]

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Well, here's the story. Last year as we were building our flock, we answered a LOT of craigslist posts. One was with a young guy who had a bunch of mixed chickens. He claimed they were 6 months old, but if they had been that old they would have been bigger. But I liked their colors so we took 7 home. He said 4 of them were RIR mix, the others were BR. They didn't grow ALL SUMMER! You may remember I posted a while back thinking they might be bantams. Anyway, now they have finally grown but we have way too many roos. Around the same time I picked up 10 Isa chicks at Family Farm & Home and all but 3 of them appear to be roos. I'm letting them stay for a little longer to be sure. They too are still quite small. I don't know what happened to all of them when the other 40+ we picked up from various other places all grew up beautifully!

 

[Opa]

128 till Chickenstock

 

[FunnyBunnies12]

With this upcoming snow/ice storm is there any precaution I should take on the ducks? Should I bring them inside until it passes or just keep them confined in the area that is under the deck/patio area and keep the other enclosure off limits that go out onto the yard?

 

[theron]

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Older and he was recently selling silkies for his mom and I remember maybe a couple months ago he was selling a bantam brahma pair on here. i tried going through the past buy/sell/trades but couldn't find him.

 

[FunnyBunnies12]

ARGH looks to be a really bad Sunday-Monday for weather and this snow/ice storm. 12Z NAM has shifted the heaviest snow further north…which would be more ice for GR.

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[sevenchickens]

Hello everyone. Haven't been on in ages but the warmer weather that we HAD has me thinkin' chicken and hatching...ahhh babies!!

 

[KrisRose]

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Sand isn't dirt. Its a component of dirt. Dirt is composed of all sorts of things including compost and clay. Keeping chicks on sand is fine except when one of them developes an obsession and starts eating only the sand. Then you can get an impacted crop. It is more difficult to get an impacted crop with dirt because of its mixed composition. This is the same for chicks on wood shavings. We had one chick that was just eating the shavings and had bloody stools from it. Then another joined in, then another, then another. We had to pull them off the shavings and put back on paper toweling. This was the only batch of chicks we had that we had this problem with.
I agree with Diane to use common sense. Watch your chicks/chickens for harmful behaviors, if they are too cold and/or hot, etc. Their behavior will tell you what you need to know.

Welcome to all the newbies!!!

I hardly ever post and its good to see Chicken Mania is contuining to grow!! Hope to see new faces at Chickenstock!!

 

[RIRJen]

Hello!!! Awesome story to share with you all!
My daughter, Hannah, and I went out to check to see if there's any eggs this afternoon and when we openned the coop door one of my Speckled hens was sitting on the eggs (as usual!). I told Hannah to go ahead and grab the eggs from under her but the hen stood just a little bit and looked like she was in the process of laying an egg. I told Hannah to wait and the hen was turned so we had a clear view of her vent...then about 30 seconds later...POP!...out comes an egg!

Hannah though that was really cool! But then of course she didn't want to pick up the egg that she just saw come out of the hen's "butt" LOL.

She grabbed up the hen and carried her around for a while...crazy kid...

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

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I have always hear that the ducks and geese can tolerate the cold weather very well. I think as long as they have some kind of shelter they will be fine.

RIRJen, that is so funny. Is she at least still willing to eat eggs?