Michigan

[fuzzybutt love]

OK, since i won't be having house internet for a while, i wanted to show you guys this pic, in case anyone needed to know what leg mites looked like. If you look at the middle toe, at the top, you can see where the scales are tall and "lifted up". This particular hen's whole feet were this way, until i treated her. I have come up with a new way to treat, which does not require daily treatment. I mixed the liquid 10% pyrmethrin 50/50 with vasaline, then warmed it a little in the microwave to mix it. The 5% dilution is what the docs use to treat human scabies, (skin mites) with only 1 dose. First i rubbed regular vasaline into her scales. The next day i gently picked as much of the gunk out of her scales as i could without hurting her. Then I rubbed the medicated vasaline into her scales. I treated her a week later just to be safe. I did not eat the eggs either, until 2 weeks after i was done treating. If you read on the forum about standard treatments, you will see how hard this is supposed to be to clear up. I did it this fall, and as you can see most of her scales are healed and laying down already.

 

[Opa]

At last years Chickenstock we had 107 people signed in although there were quite a few more that didn't. I would quesstimate that we had between 120 and 130 in attendance.

If we held an ugly chicken contest I probably would win the ugly rooster division without even bringing any birds.

 

[RaZ]

Why me?

Because you wrote the lamb ditty.

It's either that or choreograph the Chickenstock "Glee" dance routine. Your choice.

(dancing chicken)

 

[1muttsfan]

muttsfan - it just occurred to me I could do some of my button quail for the hatch along. They only take 16 days. Or I'd even have time to order some fancy quail that I wouldn't need to keep in the house.

Set day for Button Quail is 3/22, for Coturnix 3/20

I have a friend looking for Coturnix if anyone has a male (hers died) or would have some baby quail available

 

[swampducks]

I've got ducklings!

I've got ducklings! Two so far that I can see, momma muscovy is still sitting pretty hard on the nest but there were 13 eggs so hopefully I'll get a couple more. Odd time of year for a hatch, but this gal could hatch a thing last year so this is good news. It helps that it's warmer than normal outside and her nest is right under the heat lamp, so fingers crossed these little guys will survive.

 

[Farmerboy16]

Quote:
Because you wrote the lamb ditty.

It's either that or choreograph the Chickenstock "Glee" dance routine. Your choice.

(dancing chicken)

I will take the Official Nursery Rhyme Poet Laureate!!! I dislike dancing!!!!

 

[SillyChicken]

Quote: Originally Posted by NovaAman This is Mr. Fluffers. Love this guy.

I still love fluffers. He has "gold leakage", but that saddle really is something else! And the beard... So fuzzy he has to peek through! Mabe some day in the future i'll have to get some hatching eggs from you.... I'm imagining fluffy-faced fluffy-butt ee/fav crosses with those gigantic odd feet with the extra toes.....The big guy i got has even more gold, and his saddle is a bit long, but not so long as fluffer's. They would be furbies on legs!

Quote: Originally Posted by teeville5 I don't know what I'm going to do about him and Newton or how I'm going to re-integrate him.
I second whoever said to take the offender out and put him back in. That will temporarily put him at the top of the pecking order... But they will likely have a showdown when the other one gets back. Depending on breed and individual temperment, most roosters won't share space. Sometimes you get lucky, usually if the one rooster was little when you brought him in, or they grew up together. Usually though when they hit puberty "all is fair in love or war". Especially in the spring. I just put my roos in seperate lockdowns, to protect them from each other and the hens from being loved too much. A large dog crate works great, and you can stack them. I still let them be together when they are ranging, but then i let everyone have a break. Also lets the roos know those are MY hens.... don't like being spurred....

Quote: Originally Posted by SillyChicken I've been slowly losing my hens.
You do have solid doors on all entrances to your coop?! just having a fenced run will not protect the girls, because the worst offenders can dig and climb.... If your coop has a dirt floor some wire should be tacked to the wall and buried in a u shape in a ditch around the coop as well.
If it's coons that's not good because in the late spring when their babies are ready to learn how to survive, the coons band together and bring the babies on a hunt. With this screwy weather, who knows when that will be, early or late. That is how i lost my first flock, in only 2 days. DH and friend killed 10-12 all together in one night. Adult took 1 the first night, then brought in the pack the next. So basically your coop is now on the "easy food" list, and will be the first place they come. You gotta make that coop animal proof, and kill what you can before they show the rest of the neighborhood their new hangout!

No access - it is animal proof - the only access is through the pop door. Because we have to leave early, we open the door before daylight. We think it's getting the birds then cause I'm always watching when I'm home in the evening and never see anything. I'm looking into getting an auto door so we don't have to open them so early and I think this will help, but I still need to catch and kill what ever it is.

 

[RaZ]

Anybody here like birds?

http://www.mibirdatlas.org/Home.aspx

 

[babigyrl22]

Welsummer

WANT.

 

[Chickmate]

Unfortunately, we also had an incident with my roo Red today. My son took a break to see to the animals and I heard him shouting for me while out there. I sent my youngest daughter out and she came back in saying Red was bleeding really bad. My other roo Newton has been really going at him lately. I got out to the coop and there was blood everywhere. The waterer, the feeder, up the corner...just everywhere. I grabbed poor Red and he was bleeding so bad from his comb which is now missing it's top 2 points. I felt so bad for the boy. I took him inside and got him cleaned up as best I could and he's now in my doggy crate hospital wing. I don't know what I'm going to do about him and Newton or how I'm going to re-integrate him. Any advice would be really appreciated. Here's a pre-attack pic from summer of my Red.

I'm worried that I'll have the same problem with Joe and Worf, teeville. I have been watching them spar in the yard when they're free ranging and I'm afraid I'll open the coop one day to see the same thing your son found. They have been raised together but Joe matured sooner and Worf has always been his underling, sidekick, wingman. Worf will back off usually when Joe challenges him, but yesterday they went at it longer than ususal. I really like having two roosters because they both watch the sky for hawks and when the girls split up one of the roos goes with each group, so I feel they are safer. I hope they work it out. Now with the new babies I have two or three more to worry about, unless I can find homes for them. I hope you get yours resolved as well. Good luck.

Thanks and here is a link to the "smiley's" BestSmileys.com and another http--www.myemoticons.com-emoticons-images-msn-new-emoticons-watching.gif and with this new BYC they are so easy to use.

Thanks CR!