I have been throwing peat moss down in one corner of the pen, they love to scratch it around and I figure eventually it will help the soil (very hard clay and rocks). You can build dust boxes and put sand in them, they love that too.
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Where are you at, lady? I am getting some 8 - 10 week olds, probably a few Araucana, one or two Leghorns, and maybe a Silkie or two. SO! I have a couple questions if I am to pick up babies.
*First off, we will need to pick them up Sunday evening because we will be staying at my parents' house over the weekend over there and I don't know what we would do with the chickens. So the plan was to pick them up before heading home, that okay?
*How do I keep them warm enough on the long car ride? I wasn't worried about the 8 - 10 week olds, but would the little chicks need something for that long a time?
*Also, I do not have a brooder set up, so I will have to drop them off that night upon arriving home. That may end up being about midnight, maybe earlier, but possibly, (though hopefully not,) later. Is that okay with you, Nova?
Nova, is it okay if we just use large cardboard boxes? You don't need to worry about gas, we were going anyway, and you are barely out of the way of the path we take back in any case.
Pipedream cones? Sounds terrific!
Thank you!
We do indeed take 96 around Lansing! Where are you at, and do you mind the fact that it will most likely be around 9:30pm when we are passing through there? I used to live in Lansing, and have lived in Okemos, too. I worked at The Traveler's Club International Restaurant and Tuba Museum, ever been there?
Haha, I know, just wait until I tell my husband.
Good luck with your tractor!
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Our mum always told us, "Leaves of three, let them be!" Of course, I eventually had to figure out how actually to identify poison ivy, and overcome a terrible fear of all three leaved plants.
But what of the blood drops!? How could you leave us hanging like this!
Any soap will break down the oils, just be sure to scrub well and immediately, with lots of cool water. Hot water will open your pores and can cause you to absorb more of the oil, or so I have heard anyway. I don't know anything about build up in your system, but I can tell you that I come into contact with poison ivy all the time, and while I have a horrible reaction, it hasn't actually gotten to be any worse of a reaction than it always has been. If you are going to pick anything special up, I really recommend Technu, it is a homeopathic scrub and I have found it to work very well, both in preventing and treating poison ivy.
I'll tell you one person whom it spreads on! Not from scratching it, though.
I always have a very bad reaction and almost always end up having to have shots to rid me of it, it always takes weeks, and it always spreads like crazy. The doctor told me that in some few people it is carried into the bloodstream and can erupt anywhere from there, and I am one of those lucky people.
*sigh* For the most part, while I have it I will get "new" poison ivy anywhere that I get a scratch or cut, but sometimes it just seems really random.
But no, I have heard over and over that scratching does not spread it, and that you cannot get poison ivy from another person, unless of course it is right away and they still have the oils on their skin, but the rash does not spread. I think most often I get it from the cats, where the oils sits on their fur until they rub it all over me.
I have to say, though, that time to time I find this fact highly questionable. For instance, let us say that I have a patch of poison ivy on the back of my calf. And if I sleep with well fitting pajamas on, or if I wrap it with a loose gauze before bed, it does not go anywhere. However, if I do nothing, and I pull my legs up under me while I sleep, as I do, I will develop a perfectly symmetrical patch of poison ivy on the back of my thigh, where my calf touches it, even weeks after having gotten the poison ivy. So I do wonder...
Where are you at, lady? I am getting some 8 - 10 week olds, probably a few Araucana, one or two Leghorns, and maybe a Silkie or two. SO! I have a couple questions if I am to pick up babies.
*First off, we will need to pick them up Sunday evening because we will be staying at my parents' house over the weekend over there and I don't know what we would do with the chickens. So the plan was to pick them up before heading home, that okay?
*How do I keep them warm enough on the long car ride? I wasn't worried about the 8 - 10 week olds, but would the little chicks need something for that long a time?
*Also, I do not have a brooder set up, so I will have to drop them off that night upon arriving home. That may end up being about midnight, maybe earlier, but possibly, (though hopefully not,) later. Is that okay with you, Nova?
Nova, is it okay if we just use large cardboard boxes? You don't need to worry about gas, we were going anyway, and you are barely out of the way of the path we take back in any case.
Pipedream cones? Sounds terrific!
Thank you!
I'd be interested in picking up some chicks/chickens from DFarms...I'm located near Lansing...is that anywhere near where you'll be passing through?
We do indeed take 96 around Lansing! Where are you at, and do you mind the fact that it will most likely be around 9:30pm when we are passing through there? I used to live in Lansing, and have lived in Okemos, too. I worked at The Traveler's Club International Restaurant and Tuba Museum, ever been there?
Haha, I know, just wait until I tell my husband.
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Poison Ivy - Here is a young plant. They can grown quite large, and vine up into shrubs and trees. They look a lot like rasberry leaves, but are shiny instead of matte.
Our mum always told us, "Leaves of three, let them be!" Of course, I eventually had to figure out how actually to identify poison ivy, and overcome a terrible fear of all three leaved plants.
In the coop I see some blood drops. Put everything down on the nest boxes to investigate and come back to a pesty chicken who had knocked the eye dropper behind the nest boxes where I can't get it!
But what of the blood drops!? How could you leave us hanging like this!
RaZBTW keep a small bottle of hand sanitizer in your pocket when you go in the woods. The alcohol will help neutralize the ushinol oil.
Would the oils still build up in your system? I found gasoline to neutralize too, in a pinch. (All i had) Our local convenience station is selling a "poison ivy" neutralizer soap, i may get some for this year just in case.
Any soap will break down the oils, just be sure to scrub well and immediately, with lots of cool water. Hot water will open your pores and can cause you to absorb more of the oil, or so I have heard anyway. I don't know anything about build up in your system, but I can tell you that I come into contact with poison ivy all the time, and while I have a horrible reaction, it hasn't actually gotten to be any worse of a reaction than it always has been. If you are going to pick anything special up, I really recommend Technu, it is a homeopathic scrub and I have found it to work very well, both in preventing and treating poison ivy.
I'll tell you one person whom it spreads on! Not from scratching it, though.
But no, I have heard over and over that scratching does not spread it, and that you cannot get poison ivy from another person, unless of course it is right away and they still have the oils on their skin, but the rash does not spread. I think most often I get it from the cats, where the oils sits on their fur until they rub it all over me.
I have to say, though, that time to time I find this fact highly questionable. For instance, let us say that I have a patch of poison ivy on the back of my calf. And if I sleep with well fitting pajamas on, or if I wrap it with a loose gauze before bed, it does not go anywhere. However, if I do nothing, and I pull my legs up under me while I sleep, as I do, I will develop a perfectly symmetrical patch of poison ivy on the back of my thigh, where my calf touches it, even weeks after having gotten the poison ivy. So I do wonder...
Yes,
You can put fresh poo in the garden. I'd do it soon so that is has time to decompose by the time we can start planting up here in mid to late may. I have. dried pine shavings in my coop and whenever I change it I spread a thin layer on my raised beds. I haven't had any problems with it burning my plants but I don't spread it around my tender annual veggie plants. During growing season I use it as a mulch around all my fruit trees and grape vines . The pine shavings also help to retain moisture.
Sounds like your layered beds are off to a good start. I don't think it matters how you lay it as long as you have a good green (manure, grass clippings) to brown ratio(straw, peat moss, old leaves work great if you cover them with another layer right away or really keep it wetted down. Make your layers thinbut many and as you can. It will really surprise youhow quickly all the layers will break down.
Hope this helps.
You can put fresh poo in the garden. I'd do it soon so that is has time to decompose by the time we can start planting up here in mid to late may. I have. dried pine shavings in my coop and whenever I change it I spread a thin layer on my raised beds. I haven't had any problems with it burning my plants but I don't spread it around my tender annual veggie plants. During growing season I use it as a mulch around all my fruit trees and grape vines . The pine shavings also help to retain moisture.
Sounds like your layered beds are off to a good start. I don't think it matters how you lay it as long as you have a good green (manure, grass clippings) to brown ratio(straw, peat moss, old leaves work great if you cover them with another layer right away or really keep it wetted down. Make your layers thinbut many and as you can. It will really surprise youhow quickly all the layers will break down.
Hope this helps.
Y'all are a bunch of chicken enablers you know that? when DH comes home and says "you did what?" I'm blaming all of you. You're all just lucky that he's too lazy to drive out there and smack all of you for me!
So since this thread just hanging there kinda slow-like, I started thinking to myself; "swampducks, TSC didn't have what you wanted last week, gas prices are too high to just willy-nilly make a 75-80 mile round trip to Alpena in case they have something you want this week, or next week when you'll be heading to Alpena around the 28th for groceries, but that's a Loooong time from now, and it's so much warmer than it ought to be and other people don't seem to have too much trouble getting chicks even when it's colder out, and though you have a hatchery order coming the first week of June, why not just head over to your favorite hatchery website and see what they might have sooner, and lookee there! They got some nice laying type birds available the first week of April!!! A whole 2 months earlier so you could have eggs possibly by August. hmmm, should you just get 10 or 12 pullets? But wait the shipping fees get lower with the more birds you buy and if you buy 11 of a breed the chick price drops too... hmmmmm
So you enablers, first week of April I'm getting a mess of Golden Buffs, aka gold comets aka gold sex-links and for the heck of it because they didn't have buff orpingtons available that week a mess of Blue Andalusians just because they had 'em available and they were different. I know absolutely NOTHING about them other than the tiny blurb under the photo.
I did remain slightly sensible and order straight run so extra roos will be visiting freezer camp, but still.... I've succumbed to chicken math!
And TSC will probably have I was looking for when I finally do get there.
So since this thread just hanging there kinda slow-like, I started thinking to myself; "swampducks, TSC didn't have what you wanted last week, gas prices are too high to just willy-nilly make a 75-80 mile round trip to Alpena in case they have something you want this week, or next week when you'll be heading to Alpena around the 28th for groceries, but that's a Loooong time from now, and it's so much warmer than it ought to be and other people don't seem to have too much trouble getting chicks even when it's colder out, and though you have a hatchery order coming the first week of June, why not just head over to your favorite hatchery website and see what they might have sooner, and lookee there! They got some nice laying type birds available the first week of April!!! A whole 2 months earlier so you could have eggs possibly by August. hmmm, should you just get 10 or 12 pullets? But wait the shipping fees get lower with the more birds you buy and if you buy 11 of a breed the chick price drops too... hmmmmm
So you enablers, first week of April I'm getting a mess of Golden Buffs, aka gold comets aka gold sex-links and for the heck of it because they didn't have buff orpingtons available that week a mess of Blue Andalusians just because they had 'em available and they were different. I know absolutely NOTHING about them other than the tiny blurb under the photo.
I did remain slightly sensible and order straight run so extra roos will be visiting freezer camp, but still.... I've succumbed to chicken math!
And TSC will probably have I was looking for when I finally do get there.
I used to live over in Okemos with my brother, went to the Traveler's Club a couple times. Lived in Lansing too, now I live out near Charlotte. Where are you living now? And PS~Thanks for the info on adding quotes.
Where do you live now swampducks? I grew up in Alpena, I'm from that area.
Y'all are a bunch of chicken enablers you know that? when DH comes home and says "you did what?" I'm blaming all of you. You're all just lucky that he's too lazy to drive out there and smack all of you for me!
So since this thread just hanging there kinda slow-like, I started thinking to myself; "swampducks, TSC didn't have what you wanted last week, gas prices are too high to just willy-nilly make a 75-80 mile round trip to Alpena in case they have something you want this week, or next week when you'll be heading to Alpena around the 28th for groceries, but that's a Loooong time from now, and it's so much warmer than it ought to be and other people don't seem to have too much trouble getting chicks even when it's colder out, and though you have a hatchery order coming the first week of June, why not just head over to your favorite hatchery website and see what they might have sooner, and lookee there! They got some nice laying type birds available the first week of April!!! A whole 2 months earlier so you could have eggs possibly by August. hmmm, should you just get 10 or 12 pullets? But wait the shipping fees get lower with the more birds you buy and if you buy 11 of a breed the chick price drops too... hmmmmm
So you enablers, first week of April I'm getting a mess of Golden Buffs, aka gold comets aka gold sex-links and for the heck of it because they didn't have buff orpingtons available that week a mess of Blue Andalusians just because they had 'em available and they were different. I know absolutely NOTHING about them other than the tiny blurb under the photo.
I did remain slightly sensible and order straight run so extra roos will be visiting freezer camp, but still.... I've succumbed to chicken math!
And TSC will probably have I was looking for when I finally do get there.
Tell your husband -
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Thanks to both of you for showing me how to do that, I appreciate it! had to try it for myself
So I bought a bag of chick grit when I bought my chickens...should I just return it? I mean, it won't hurt to give it to them will it? I figured when they were about 2 wks I'd start giving them some. I've also read that if you're only feeding them chick starter they dont need grit, unless they are eating other stuff, which I plan to let them do when theyre outside obviously.
I also wondered...I know they like dust baths, but is that something that they do after they have feathers, or when they're still downy? And the area where my coop is going to be doesn't really have a "dusty" area...should I make, like, a box with dirt in it for them? Thanks in advance for any info from anybody, and nice to meet everyone btw.
If it were me, I would return it, but I have lots of sand, so when I started giving my chickies "treats" I also gave them a little tub of sand. I don't recall if I gave it to them before their feathers started to come in, I don't think I did, but I do know that when they got the tub of sand they loved it.
If what they are getting other than chick starter is what they are finding outside, I do not believe you need worry about extra grit, because they will be getting the grit they need outside, too. What you would need the bag for would be if you started to give them other things to eat, like kitchen scraps, and they were not able to access dirt or sand.
Don't bother digging them a place to dust bathe outside, they will dig their own, and probably more than you would prefer!
Excellent, thank you! (Especially since Raz still hasn't responded!
I used to live over in Okemos with my brother, went to the Traveler's Club a couple times. Lived in Lansing too, now I live out near Charlotte. Where are you living now? And PS~Thanks for the info on adding quotes.
Traveler's Club is, ahh, a "unique" place, lol. We live in Holland, now.
I agree, it was definitely unique. I really liked the food though, even though I thought it seemed expensive. Thanks for the advise about grit too, that was kind of what I was gathering from reading all kinds of posts on this fantastic website. I think I will return that & some other stuff I'm not using once they get moved out to the coop in a couple weeks. Hope I still have the receipt, haha! I will have to post pics of them as they grow, I have some from the day I got them (Sunday).
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Yes, good food, a little bit pricier, but we also made all of it from scratch, down to chopping our own veggies instead of getting them in a bag as most restaurants do, and using local, free range eggs, and as much local produce as was available and feasible.
Oh, some of the best and worse years of my life there, lol. Couldn't compete with the beer and wine list, though!
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