Minnesota!

[The BlanchRanch]

Again this is not scientific at all and just what I like to use. (if I have to use something) I really try to use nothing. I isolate the sick ones and try to stop the spread before it starts. I have been lucky so far.( knocking on wood). I would rather lose a bird instead of feeding drugs to them all..

It won't be easy to separate them. I have about a half acre. Most of that is the garage and the house.

 

[duluthralphie]

When they are sick, they do not need a lot of room, I use 4x3 dog kennels. I am thinking of cutting that down and making 2x3 hospital rooms.

 

[aussiegal318]

Staples Mn here! Newbie chicken lady!

Welcome Jewelsong. You'll learn many things here like how to care for your chickens, chicken math, how to covet thy neighbors coop, and what stories DuluthRalphie can tell. Enjoy

 

[Rhetts]

I use a small pet carrier for immediate but temporary isolation. I have small brooder boxes or whatever you would call them that I can put a bird if its long term. They are made out of wood and chicken wire. I do like the wire dog kennel idea though, I just don't have one. And I am too cheap to go buy one just to have on hand in case I need it.

It is cleaning the house day here. After running all week all over the place doing lots of things, I come home with tired eyes yesterday to find that a tornado had destroyed the interior of my house. I believe the tornado had the same name as my kids. Go figure. So we are forced to clean it up. The kids are not too happy but hey, I want my house back!! A clean house makes for a happy mom.

 

[nordicacres]

Staples Mn here! Newbie chicken lady!

Welcome!

 

[holm25]

Welcome Jewelsong!!!


Ralphie I think your hen wants to toughen up behind bars so she can learn to defend herself with all the animals running around and killing "people".

 

[scandiafowl]

@jewelsong

Welcome!

 

[Cearbhael]

Its a "Primitive" antibiotic.   We used it for calves with scours and just about everything else when we were kids.

I think it still works for minor bacterial infections.

Actually Sulpha is used for people too. I took Sulpha for pink eye when I was a child, and my son got Sulpha back in the 80's when he had his first bad eye infection. I was not surprised to find it used for cats and dogs for eye issues either.

 

[nordicacres]

We are getting Icelandic chicks soon

They are due to start hatching tomorrow so cross your fingers for me that it goes well. The more, the merrier. You can't be Nordic Acres without some Nordic birds, right???

 

[Scott16475]

We are getting Icelandic chicks soon

They are due to start hatching tomorrow so cross your fingers for me that it goes well. The more, the merrier. You can't be Nordic Acres without some Nordic birds, right???

Really curious about Icelandic chickens. I'll be really interested in seeing what you think! I heard of them for the first time this past winter in Mother Earth News and I've been very curious about them ever since.

One of our Black Austrolorps went broody yesterday. I went out to the coop around noon yesterday to gather the eggs and Rebecca was in one of the nesting boxes so I let her be. Around 5:30 that evening I went back out and she was still in there. It wasn't until the family and I was out to dinner that I realized it was the same hen. When we got home around 7 she was still in there. My first thought was something had to be wrong with her but when I reached in to pick her up, she fluffed herself up to be as large as she could and started making a lot of noise and it was then I realized she was sitting on the eggs to hatch. No rooster so there's no chance of that happening. She was laying on more eggs today. I ignored her aggressiveness and picked her up, gathered the eggs, and moved her along.

This is my introduction to a broody hen and they can be aggressive. I also didn't think BA's got broody but clearly they must. How long does this last typically?