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I'm happy for you!! We considered the beehives also...but to get started it was going to be quite costly and then we heard there is a real problem with bears tearing them up. So we keep trying to find someone who will place THEIR hives on your property...every once in a while I see them advertised on Craig's list.
Congrats Keyt! I can't remember if I posted on this site that Thursday and Friday I hatched out 13 of my 15 BBS English/American Orpingtons! I uploaded the picture and posted somewhere on BYC but haven't spent much time on the computer because finally the weather is BEAUTIFUL!!! I picked up 13 Red Comets (with a few comet/Ameracauna mixes) and a roo on Thursday also. They are about a year old. I wanted eggs this summer...didn't want to wait until October. We will butcher them I guess in the fall. They are penned away from my babies and I am pretty sure they have mites/lice. A couple show evidence on the legs. So I read on Byc...about the Invectin (I may have it spelled wrong) but I'm going to try first the Frontline for kitties...and put it on them as they roost between the shoulders. I'm buying a covered sandbox and putting sand with food grade diamacteous earth for dusting and I'll spray pyrethian in the coop after I take out the fresh bedding . This is a new coop! Does this plan sound like it will work??
Fife, I also found some mites on some birds we just acquired and was going to look into the Frontline thing, how much do you think is the right dosage? and can I get this pyrethian at my feed store?
I got the pyrethium concentrate at a Farm store here locally that is sort of like a farmers version of a "Health food store". They always have animal/environment friendly meds for animals and garden supplies. You could check at
TSC ...I'm pretty sure you can get it for plants in home depot...but this actually says good to use in poultry, animal houses.
The frontline for kitties I read to put 2-3 drops on each hen between the shoulders. I have never done this..never had to. There is a lot of info on BYC about it and this sounded like the way I wanted to go. I'm getting a covered sandbox tomorrow at
Walmart (turtle) and 150 lb. of sand to fill and put the diamateous earth in that for prevention. I will spray the run and the coop with the pyrethium and do the frontline on the chickens. I haven't SEEN the mites...just the looks of a couple of hens legs make me think there is a problem. Good luck to us! LOOK OUT BUGS!
I also read about using "seven"...that is controversial also. I'm freaking too Cricket...I don't like it at all!
