NY chicken lover!!!!

[featherz]

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Certainly it's not ideal! But DH is a bit of a survival freak so showing him a jar of powdered eggs will be his speed. I tried my powdered eggs in pancakes, they worked fine, at least for that.

 

[Cass]

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Nope. It's a lie. Silkies are not sweet....they are nasty mean little things. (At least the 4 I got rid of were)

 

[greymane]

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Do you know the times for that auction Saturday?

Which one, the one in Batavia? That one says consignment starts at 6:30, sale at 8:30. I think the FL one starts around the same times?

I didn't go to the FL one they had last month, so I dunno how it went. I immagine both will be much like all the other fall auctions, low low prices. lol

Dirt cheap prices. A LOT of rabbits. It was funny, though. A few things went oddly high. My son bought a turkey hen to go with our Jersey Buff tom (guess we won't be having him for Thanksgiving) and I got a cheap cage.

 

[Henicillin]

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Congratulations on the new addition!

 

[Henicillin]

A couple more of my slacker girls appear to be getting ready to lay at last. I now have a second Dominique squatting, although she doesn't do it with as much gusto as does Miss Thing, who snaps into position like she's participating in some sort of drill. Of course, the incomparable Miss Thing also squatted for about 2 1/2 weeks before she actually laid an egg, so it may be a bit yet. The third Dom apparently wants nothing to do with any of it, thank you very much.

All three Faverolles also appear to be gearing up to fire up production. I was in the coop scraping roosts yesterday. The entire time I was out there, the three of them kept running into the coop, chattering up at me even more than usual (and that's saying something, as the Faverolles like to tell you all about their day), inspecting the nest boxes, then running back out again. As they're built like little footballs, it's hilarious to watch them trucking back and forth at top speed. Also, one of them made a short football-flight in the run this afternoon for no apparent reason. Leopold the WCB Polish, who is boss cockerel, apparently thought that something had startled her, so he came trotting over to check the situation out. As he approached her, she practically threw herself to the ground in front of him. Alas for her, though, he ignored her and just kept staring through the fence looking for the nonexistent threat. We can't figure if a WCBP/Salmon Faverolle cross would be adorable or freaky-looking. I guess we'll find out in the spring!

Count me in with the "wanting blue egg-layers" crowd. We're going to expand the run next year from its current 18'x36', so there will be room for a few more girls.

 

[El Exorcisto]

Hey everyone... I've been skulking about for a few months now and decided I should probably join up. My dad and I are raising 80 birds right now, with 50ish slated for a date with the cone in another month.

We are trying to get out hands on a couple dark or red laced white cornish to breed with a buff orpington as a meat cross for next year. Does anyone know where I could find chicks or a couple mature hens somewhere in central NY?

I am going to be putting a coop up in by back yard in a month or so, and will be taking a few of my parents' egg flock. I'm looking for an ancona to put in with the 5 I am taking off my parents' hands. Any idea if there is anyone local I could get a hen from?

 

[vmdanielsen]

Ok, I was out cleaning the feeders and waterers and I felt something crawling on me. Not unusual but I like to know what it is. Not all insects get killed(or fed to the chickens). I could barely see it and had to put my glasses on. SO...... I start checking the chickens and they have these little grey bugs on them. What are they and how do I treat? I assumed that the youngsters have them too. Processing date for the Young'uns was to be the beginning/middle of November. Ideas? Suggestions?
Ginny

 

[Cass]

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Sevin Powder rubbed on the parts that are infested and Food Grade DE in the bedding. That's the party line.

ME? I'm lazy and featherz told me about Eprinex Cattle Pour on wormer....you just put 1 ml on the neck of large fowl (best if you can get it down to the skin) or .5 ml on bantams (I have both so needed to know both dosages.) It kills EVERYTHING that sucks blood from an animal. This usage is "off label" (as is much of what we use on chickens), so the feed store will kinda look at you funny....but my chickens stopped laying and were pulling feathers (in other words, they had a LOT of problems and I was getting NOTHING for my feed bill) so I figured "what the heck, if they die, I won't have a feed bill and I won't have any fewer eggs than I am getting now"....so I spent the money (the bottle will last me a LIFE TIME at twice a year) and did it. They didn't die and 2 days later they started laying again.

The best part, in my mind, is no food withdrawl (if used on cattle)....so I figured a week on eggs would be safe, instead of 2 weeks like traditional chicken wormer...and I am eating eggs once a week again. (and trading them for hatching eggs and giving them to my mom and freezing some for "down time" this winter)

What are they? Gray is probably lice, but no matter what they are, if they are on your chickens they aren't doing your chickens any good.

Edited to add : I used a syringe without the needle to draw up the right dose and apply it to their necks after they had gone to roost, so I knew I didn't miss any of them. (The smallest size works, 1 ml is a very small amount of fluid) (Oh, and it may be 1 cc...whatever it was, it was 1 and 1/2 of 1 LOL)

 

[vmdanielsen]

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Sevin Powder rubbed on the parts that are infested and Food Grade DE in the bedding. That's the party line.

ME? I'm lazy and featherz told me about Eprinex Cattle Pour on wormer....you just put 1 ml on the neck of large fowl (best if you can get it down to the skin) or .5 ml on bantams (I have both so needed to know both dosages.) It kills EVERYTHING that sucks blood from an animal. This usage is "off label" (as is much of what we use on chickens), so the feed store will kinda look at you funny....but my chickens stopped laying and were pulling feathers (in other words, they had a LOT of problems and I was getting NOTHING for my feed bill) so I figured "what the heck, if they die, I won't have a feed bill and I won't have any fewer eggs than I am getting now"....so I spent the money (the bottle will last me a LIFE TIME at twice a year) and did it. They didn't die and 2 days later they started laying again.

The best part, in my mind, is no food withdrawl (if used on cattle)....so I figured a week on eggs would be safe, instead of 2 weeks like traditional chicken wormer...and I am eating eggs once a week again. (and trading them for hatching eggs and giving them to my mom and freezing some for "down time" this winter)

What are they? Gray is probably lice, but no matter what they are, if they are on your chickens they aren't doing your chickens any good.

Edited to add : I used a syringe without the needle to draw up the right dose and apply it to their necks after they had gone to roost, so I knew I didn't miss any of them. (The smallest size works, 1 ml is a very small amount of fluid) (Oh, and it may be 1 cc...whatever it was, it was 1 and 1/2 of 1 LOL)

Cass, thanks! nneed to go to work...where to get eprinix? would others recommend this?
Ginny
ps have been using DE...maybe I should have used more!! I hate toxins but realized that sometimes they need to be used.

 

[featherz]

I love Eprinex. It also cures internal worms and gapeworm too, I believe. I think there's one type it doesn't hit, but forget what that was. No egg withdrawal. It's a bit pricey, tho, and the bottle will probably expire before you can use it all.

That reminds me, I need to Eprinex up my molters, good time to do it.