North Carolina

[ramirezframing]

get some sevin dust and just ruffle the birds feathers as you hold a handful of dust and let the dust slide outta your hand into the feathers. Do the whole bird this way, than just throw some around the coop. On worming, I use valbazen (sp), kills all the worms and you do it twice (10 days part if I remember right) and don't eat the eggs for a month (you can hatch them or cook and feed to your dog and worm them but don't feed back to the chickens)

 

[dutchbunny83]

get some sevin dust and just ruffle the birds feathers as you hold a handful of dust and let the dust slide outta your hand into the feathers. Do the whole bird this way, than just throw some around the coop. On worming, I use valbazen (sp), kills all the worms and you do it twice (10 days part if I remember right) and don't eat the eggs for a month (you can hatch them or cook and feed to your dog and worm them but don't feed back to the chickens)

Okay I will look for the dust.
I picked up some zimecterin from TSC, should I deworm again in 10 days?
Also, is it a month from the last dose given or the first?
That's a LONG time with no eggs!!!

 

[Chasity]

Quote: You can opt to just do the new flock, and this is another reason to have separate areas, feed, and water. If you do not have to do the others, you will still have eggs from them. When you are done, you can scalp the area that they were wormed in, and let the sun dry and bleach it for you to get rid of any remaining parasite eggs in the lawn. We do free ranging in large fenced yards. New birds go in tractors, or kennels. There is not much you can do about air born on a small lot, but you can for parasites, external/internal, and fluids from eyes/sinus, biologicals passed on your body, or boots. We always take care of the newly hatched first, and the new to the yard last (even if from a hatchery). Sorry if everyone is freaking you out, but most of us have had a brush with some kind of invasion or other.

I'll share my most recent. Gape-Worms! had to worm and treat close to 20 birds, and new what the problem was, but could not find the active ingredient to treat. The vet asked me to weigh them all in this group to give him an idea of weight for meds, but he was taking to long to get back to me. After all the on-line research, it came down to asking the right person about that ingredient, and yes, Beth new what goat med had it in it, and at what dose to administer. I gave it right away to the young pullet in distress, and in the drinking water of the rest of her flock (because of the way it is passed). By the time the vet was able to get back with me, we could already see improvement in her, and after the flock was done, I did another group that was not laying because one of the birds was with them (fence hopping Bantam) also, and I still have never had to do my main run, or the other two that run against it. Doing these three runs would have meant no eggs for not just us, but everyone that gets eggs from us. They can be wormed in the winter, when egg production is not stuck in the on position. All the ones I did worm, are laying now, and have even put on weight. This was not something that I even brought in from outside, it comes from them grazing, and scratching, and the worm-er for chicken at TSC does not work on it (different active ingredient). If I had not known what I was looking at, I would have lost lots of birds from this.

 

[nursebecky99]

Now, I knew there were bears here. When we lived in Anchorage (Alaska), every summer I'd have to call home to tell the kids to stay in the house because there was a bear in the neighborhood. You didn't want to mess with the moose either. One very snowy winter there were so many moose in town that we were escorted from work to our cars by armed security guards because they (the moose) were getting aggressive (food scarcity). They're mostly dangerous just by virtue of their size though.

Well, I planned the coop for possums and racoons and coyote. Guess I'd better take another look and think like a big cat.

HEY! I am in Snow Camp also!! Do you have chickens already? I just got mine about 5 weeks ago, and they are now big 9 week old girls. At least they think they are big anyway. My SO told me about possible cougars, bears, definite coyotes, possums, hawks and raccoons. I have only seen possums, hawks and squirrels so far. But I made the run pretty darn tight and the coop is locked down at night.

 

[ramirezframing]

When you are done, you can scalp the area that they were wormed in, and let the sun dry and bleach it for you to get rid of any remaining parasite eggs in the lawn.

the sun doesn't kill some eggs, they can live in the soil for 10 years waiting for a 'host' to come

 

[wildriverswolf90]

Okay I will look for the dust.
I picked up some zimecterin from TSC, should I deworm again in 10 days?
Also, is it a month from the last dose given or the first?
That's a LONG time with no eggs!!!

with zimecterin I only waited 14 days after the last treatment well I'm still standing so I guess the eggs were okay. You won't have to worry about getting to many eggs during that time any way, the stress from moving usually stops them laying for about 2 Weeks.

 

[BennieLangdon]

Had fun at wca today. Nice to meet you Dutchbunny, even if it was at the very end

. I had fun talking and seeing everyone again.

Bennie, what breed was that monster bird you bought again? (I think you should stick him by the fence on the old lady neighbors side

)

BBR Malay....clearly not 3 months old like wrote the ticket? some people...lol.....his comb should be more cushion-like thou.....hoping it will fill on in
.....and I put him where my neighbors could see him and hear him every time he CccRrrrrROOoooOOOOOoooOOOWWwwwWWWWwwwwwWWsssSSSS

Gonna try and get my DW to post a few pics of him soon

 

[nursebecky99]

Okay, fellow NC'ers, I have a small 4*4 coop with 4 birds. I posted on another thread, about doing sort of deep litter method, 4-6inches of litter, and I stir it every few days, adding new shavings when it seems low. Smells clean, very dry, and birds seem healthy. Another person, basically said its.lazy, unsafe and unhealthy for my girls. Help me understand please?!

 

[rbaker0345]

I do the same thing. You just need to make sure that it stays dry. Also, if you do happen to have an outbreak of coccidiosis or some other intestinal parasite, you will have to just go ahead and change it completely every couple of days and then do a complete changeover and disinfection when the outbreak is over.

Wondering why coccidiosis is on my mind? All of my birds are on corrid because I got tired of it jumping from brooder to brooder with all of this freakin' rainy weather. I feel like I'm going to turn into a coccidiomushroom! Two days on corrid and everyone seems to be on an even keel again, now for the rain to just stop for like a week. That's all I'm asking.

I'm also varnishing a boat, or trying to varnish a boat right now. She's 70ft, so she doesn't exactly fit in a garage. Oh great, its raining again. Gotta go put birds back into coops! Arrgh!

Hope its nice for chickenstock, if its raining on the 18th, I'm gonna cry.

or hit my head against an unvarnished boat.

 

[my little peeps]

Ok so is it normal for chicks to stand out in the rain? It's flooding in the run, but dry in their coop which is built up off the ground. I noticed them (7 weeks old) freaking out but making no effort to go inside. Is this normal?

I do have a few questions. When do I put DE in their food or coop? And when should I do the first worming? I feel like doing it twice a year (winter & summer) but these are my first chicks.