NY chicken lover!!!!

[Beer can]

@rancher hicks you might want to look that up if your planting grapes. Grapes I believe do not need any fertilizer, I don't think you even want rich soil. I think mine are in too rich of soil, they grow like crazy, too much vegetation, drown out the grape bunches. I actually have to prune the crap out of them in the summer (not supposed to) to open them up and get sunlight on the bunches, otherwise they rot before they ripen.
I really need to prune them back big time this winter, maybe that'll help. Mine are really old, main vines are as big as my arm.

 

[SammyLee]

Thanks for the welcome! I just started my own flock. So far I have 15 Easter Eggers that are about 8 weeks old (one of them crowed already!). I plan on using the boys for meat and keeping the girls for eggs. I hope to obtain a broody hen and a nice unrelated cockerel to mix in with my EEs. I also help my Grams with her leisure flock consisting of 3 red star hens, 1 red leghorn hen, 1 unknown mixed hen, 1 red star/ameraucana cross hen and her brother.

 

[casportpony]

Here is one:

The max dose listed by the FDA for 20% powder is 4.536 grams per gallon (0.16 ounce), and it is supposed to be given for 3-5 days, then 1.134 grams per gallon for 7-14 days.

One teaspoon = 2.7 grams

-Kathy

 

[Beer can]

Here is one:
The max dose listed by the FDA for 20% powder is 4.536 grams per gallon (0.16 ounce), and it is supposed to be given for 3-5 days, then 1.134 grams per gallon for 7-14 days.

One teaspoon = 2.7 grams

-Kathy

Nice to see you help out wherever needed.

I've actually never used the stuff, very rarely have had chicks die, don't no if I'm just lucky or what, never use medicated feed. I did have six out of twenty five I ordered from SandHill die last yr, worst I've ever witnessed, if it was cocci wouldn't the rest of them have got it? Or not? Never did notice bloody poop, but I might have not been looking, healthy one day, gone the next, IDK.. What's the best preventative?

 

[Beer can]

Thanks for the welcome! I just started my own flock. So far I have 15 Easter Eggers that are about 8 weeks old (one of them crowed already!). I plan on using the boys for meat and keeping the girls for eggs. I hope to obtain a broody hen and a nice unrelated cockerel to mix in with my EEs. I also help my Grams with her leisure flock consisting of 3 red star hens, 1 red leghorn hen, 1 unknown mixed hen, 1 red star/ameraucana cross hen and her brother.

Easter Eggers have enough genetic diversity, plus beings they probably came from a hatchery, you should have no problems breeding the ones you have. Most hatcheries use multiple cocks and of course plenty of hens, so chances are they are not brother and sister. Chickens are not like other animals, most pure bred strains are line bred, bred pretty close, one of the best real Heritage Rhode Island Red strains have been line bred for a hundred yrs now.
The Easter Eggers I got from Meyers hatchery, four of them, do not even look like they are all the same breed. One of them became broody on her own, hatched three out of four eggs, one was a cockerel, she doesn't even look like a Easter Egger, lays the best of all my hens, nice olive eggs.
Her the day I decided to candle her eggs; oops too late...Lol!!

My other favorite one, no muff on her either, but super pretty, lays a green egg, both pullets I kept from the broody look just like her;

The two that have muffs I don't have pictures of.

 

[Gramma Chick]

Those are pretty hens ..Im hoping for some brown hens too

 

[Pyxis]

My newest additions

 

[fireredcannon]

Last night a dog killed one of my Australorps

 

[boskelli1571]

Last night a dog killed one of my Australorps

Whose dog? They need to pay for your loss of livestock....

 

[boskelli1571]

My newest additions

Additions or addictions??