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[1muttsfan]

Poultry drench sounds much safer than pedialyte, chickens don't sweat and don't need as much salt, and the sugar can upset their digestive tract.
I got my first pullet egg yesterday, looks like a big blue jelly bean

 

[babigyrl22]

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Is that the same as Pedialyte? I had some extra so I put some in their water a couple times this week. What exactly is Poultry Drench? I don't think I've ever seen it!

While it does some of the same things that Pedialyte will it is much stronger and contains more sugars. Tractor Supply carries it.

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Poultry Nutri-Drench•Increase profits and flock production
•Raise big healthy birds, naturally
•Balanced nutrition for growth, reproduction and resistance to disease
•Appetite
•Poor hatchablilty
•Laying hens
•Antibiotic response
•Transport stress

It is measurable in the bloodstream within 10 minute
50% is absorbed in 30 minutes
99% utilization.

Opa do you put this in their water everyday?
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[Opa]

I fortify the first water I give newly hatched chicks and then twice a week for the first three weeks. After that I use it anytime I feel the birds are stressed; ie, heat, injury, severe thunderstorms, pedator attacks, etc.

 

[babigyrl22]

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Thanks! I don't normally go to TSC. I try to support our local elevator bur I will have to go check this out.

 

[1muttsfan]

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Keyt I use blu cote on those featherless areas, it discourages pecking and protects the area from the sun. Be careful though, it stains everything blue - fingers, clothes, faces. Try to keep the hen from flapping, that produces a pretty blue mist.

 

[fifelakelooper]

Good Morning everyone!

Yesterday wasn't too hot up here...hubby and I went fishing in a lake that my parents always had a cabin on when I was growing up. Spider Lake. It was great to see the lake and islands and recall days of old! Good thing the memories kept me occupied because we did poor fishing! I tried to remember the best fishing "snag" area I use to fish with my dad but couldn't find the exact spot. So hubby caught just two bass and I lost two "somethings"! Still it was nice and relaxing. (although the jetskis and motor boats buzzed us constantly)

Picked 4 cherry tomatoes from the garden...first to ripen. We have been picking blueberries and raspberries daily. My 7 surviving apples are growing nicely. Dug up some potatoes....using the swiss chard and lettuce...all are so much tastier coming from our own garden than the store.

 

[uchytil]

We are picking 5 gallon buckets of beans every few days. The heat did it. Purple pole, green bush, and wax bush. Other stuff too. Picked a quart of raspberries and wifey put them on the bumper of her car. Next morning I went out and found a run over quart of jam

 

[fifelakelooper]

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Oopsy!

 

[Chickmate]

Just read this on AOL News.

Large-scale farms, which face additional challenges when animals are housed in close quarters and unable to naturally cool off, typically use fans and water misting systems to keep animals from overheating. When those systems break down, it can have tragic consequences. Last week, about 50,000 chickens at a North Carolina farm died after the power went off for 45 minutes and the temperature outside was 98 degrees. A Kansas couple lost 4,300 turkeys, which weighed about 50 pounds apiece and took 26 hours to bury. The temperature in the building, even with fans cooling it, hit 106 degrees. In South Dakota, up to 1,500 head of cattle died across the state from the heat.

I feel so bad for the animals, farm and domestic, who are at the mercy of us humans to keep them safe. Some humans aren't fit to care for animals and some humans just don't care. Not saying that is the case here, I just always think of the animals during intense heat or cold especially.

 

[Stacykins]

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You know, in a last ditch move to cool those animals down, letting them out of the building would have been the best idea. Sure, they'd crap everywhere, but I doubt they'd go far since they are giant broad breasted turkeys that don't get exercise anyway, or chickens confined to cages all their lives. Better than dying because of the heat, which must be an absolutely miserable way to go.

Though burning them might have been better than burying..unless there was a burn ban in the area.