Nevadans?

[Lacy Blues]

How do you know if a chicken has worms?

Does anybody know of a natural remedy for worms? I've tried mixing DE into their food and they just don't like to eat when I do that so if there's something else?

I've read before about people giving pumpkin seeds to their chickens to worm them but I don't understand how that works. Do you chop them? Do you give them raw? What is it about the pumpkin seeds that works?

 

[aubreynoramarie]

I think the pumpkin seed paralyzes the worms and then you are supposed to give them something else to flush them. I don't remember what it was but without it the worms recover eventually from the pumpkin and don't get flushed from the body.



Pam I'm sorry about your chick. Hope she makes it!!!



Elizabeth good luck with your window!

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Ummm missy what is a brachin??????

ok so my chicken that liad the other pullet egg hasen't laid agian yet, but today was my first 2 egg day cause a DIFFERENT chicken started laying

Brahma-cochin. I'll post pictures of them soon. The lady I got them from said they were mixed, but she mostly has cochins and brahmas. The chicks are now a reddish color, with lightly feathered feet, and one is getting the brahma markings around his neck. So I call them my red brachins.

 

[NevadaRon]

Elizabeth I'm so sorry about your neighbor troubles. I would stack straw bales on the side of the coop that faces his yard and see if that doesn't do the trick. It's cheap enough and if it doesn't work you can continue on the course you are now.

Harvested most of my corn today.



Question for my fellow gardeners. If I want to freeze some of this, do I need to blanch it first? I have a Food Saver vacuum sealer so I was going to just do that, but then I thought I'd better check the collective wisdom bank first.

 

[2seth2]

BTW elizibeth if you give away your golden copper maran i could probly take it

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Elizabeth I'm so sorry about your neighbor troubles. I would stack straw bales on the side of the coop that faces his yard and see if that doesn't do the trick. It's cheap enough and if it doesn't work you can continue on the course you are now.

Harvested most of my corn today.



Question for my fellow gardeners. If I want to freeze some of this, do I need to blanch it first? I have a Food Saver vacuum sealer so I was going to just do that, but then I thought I'd better check the collective wisdom bank first.

Dip it in boiling water for about 4 minutes, then drop immediately into ice water to cool it down. (If you're freezing the entire cob, boil for 7-11 minutes.) At that point you can either put the entire cob in the Food Saver (my mom also put in a pat of butter) or cut it off the cob to save space. You get about a cup of corn per ear if you cut it off the cob. We put at least 12 bags of cut corn into the freezer this year from the corn sales. Yours looks great!

http://www.stilltasty.com/fooditems/index/16963

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Elizabeth I'm so sorry about your neighbor troubles. I would stack straw bales on the side of the coop that faces his yard and see if that doesn't do the trick. It's cheap enough and if it doesn't work you can continue on the course you are now.

Elizabeth, do you think he's the kind of guy that will see all the hard work you're doing to accommodate him and decide to drop the issue since you're really trying to be a good neighbor?

 

[NevadaRon]

Dip it in boiling water for about 4 minutes, then drop immediately into ice water to cool it down. (If you're freezing the entire cob, boil for 7-11 minutes.) At that point you can either put the entire cob in the Food Saver (my mom also put in a pat of butter) or cut it off the cob to save space. You get about a cup of corn per ear if you cut it off the cob. We put at least 12 bags of cut corn into the freezer this year from the corn sales. Yours looks great!

http://www.stilltasty.com/fooditems/index/16963

Thanks! I guess I know what I'll be doing tonight.

When your mom put the pat of butter in, did she then just throw the whole Food Saver bag into boiling water when it came time to eat it?

 

[americanvalkyrie]

Thanks! I guess I know what I'll be doing tonight.

When your mom put the pat of butter in, did she then just throw the whole Food Saver bag into boiling water when it came time to eat it?

Yep! Or in the microwave, but normally in boiling water. Actually, we didn't have a microwave until I was about 17 years old.

 

[chicharomirinda]

I got a hinged board over one window and I'm constructing a makeshift frame to hold a plexiglass window I got at the habitat store for $1. I actually bought 2 but one was in the garage and got broken. I can put that together tomorrow and hang it up. I have the cut out piece of siding for the window that is on the other side into the run so I painted that and can put on the hinges tomorrow. I still have vents along the top of the coop so there is ventilation. Then I have one other window on the other side that I have another piece of plexi for. I don't have a router so my "frames" are a bit crude but do the job.

so far the candidates for rehoming are the two silver laced wyandottes and one of the welsummers (orange band). I wasn't here in the morning to carefully observe and listen so tomorrow I will pay attention to who else are the loudest. the two barred rocks do have quite the egg songs but I'm reserving judgment for now.

Elizabeth I'm so sorry about your neighbor troubles. I would stack straw bales on the side of the coop that faces his yard and see if that doesn't do the trick. It's cheap enough and if it doesn't work you can continue on the course you are now.

the straw bales might help. of course, It could take me awhile to accumulate enough since I can only fit one in my car at a time.

I have to put the back seat down in my cavalier and one fits across. Not sure if one fits in the trunk too. Your corn looks good!

BTW elizibeth if you give away your golden copper maran i could probly take it

well, I'm not that desperate yet

Elizabeth, do you think he's the kind of guy that will see all the hard work you're doing to accommodate him and decide to drop the issue since you're really trying to be a good neighbor?

If it gets quieter, yes.