NY chicken lover!!!!

[Glasshen]

Thank you for the info about vinegar and Ivermectin. I remember my brother making vinegar on our porch when I was a kid. He just left the top off a gallon jug of cider for weeks, and ater a while he said it was hard, then he said it was vinegar...it looked pretty nasty with foam and cloudiness. I suspect he was sampling it to check its progress.

It has been snowing steadily since I got up. When I go out to the coop I will not placate the chooks, I'm just gonna join right in with their complaints. My ss hen has the most distinctive complaining voice of all. She makes me laugh.

 

[brahmapapa]

Airplane

hanger

 

[rancher hicks]

From one Baconista to another! "Either you love bacon, or you're wrong!"

Ain't that the truth.

 

[rancher hicks]

hanger

Cliff

 

[Lapeerian]

I seen this picture and just had to share with Rancher, because I know you don't have Facebook. It was posted by Chicken Chat, which is P. Allen Smith sponsored by Purina (just to clarify where it came from). Naked Neck Silkie!!!

 

[rancher hicks]

I seen this picture and just had to share with Rancher, because I know you don't have Facebook. It was posted by Chicken Chat, which is P. Allen Smith sponsored by Purina (just to clarify where it came from). Naked Neck Silkie!!!

Well I might get a few. At least I can used it to dust the coop when rigger sets in if it dies.

Someone should make rhinestone neck wear for 'em. Sissy birds!

 

[Framac]

Does anyone close to Norwich/Oneonta/Oneida have Brahma Eggs?

 

[Framac]

FWIW...I have been using Walmart cider vinegar without "mother" for years and it works fine. Somewhere on the internet, is a study that disproves the mother theory. All mother is, is solids/residue that didn't dissolve in the vinegar process. It has no "magical" properties. Like sludge actually.

Not trying to start an argument, if anyone wants to pay large sums for "organic vinegar" with mother in it, that's fine with me. For the rest of us, just know plain old Walmart cheap vinegar works just as well.

What vinegar does for chicks is makes their poop more solid. Vinegar also acts as a mild disinfectant. So it helps to keep their water a little cleaner longer. They also say that chickens ph is more on the acidic side, so it might help maintain that as well.

About worming with Ivermectin, whatever form you use. Doctors have been using Ivemectin on humans for years in 3rd world countries. So there is no concern really about eating eggs from hens just wormed with it. If it does get into the egg, the amount is so small that it won't do any harm.

A little more about worming, you could take a fecal to a vet and had it analyzed for worms. I do this a few times a year.

 

[ChickPrincess]

you will get worms anytime you worm anything. Even yourself. We all carry a healthy balance of worms. The "treatment" kills the worms, then it just all starts over again. A healthy balance of worms is unavoidable period. If it is living, it has worms.

Wood ash to dust bath in. No bugs. It works. All natural, costs nothing, healthy and did I mention it works?

I wormed because of what I found in the poop BEFORE worming. When I say 6" worms, that is on the very low end. I laid one out using a stick and it was EASILY 10" long and it was ALIVE. I read up a bit online on roundworms, and after seeing they will kill the chickens, I decided to worm. I can live with a few bugs here and there. This was downright NASTY.

Dragon is probably good with bacon, because everything is better with bacon.

My daughter would totally agree with you. She has an "I love bacon" bumper sticker on our fridge.

Thank you for the info about vinegar and Ivermectin. I remember my brother making vinegar on our porch when I was a kid. He just left the top off a gallon jug of cider for weeks, and ater a while he said it was hard, then he said it was vinegar...it looked pretty nasty with foam and cloudiness. I suspect he was sampling it to check its progress.

It has been snowing steadily since I got up. When I go out to the coop I will not placate the chooks, I'm just gonna join right in with their complaints. My ss hen has the most distinctive complaining voice of all. She makes me laugh.

I'm complaining, too, after taking the first graders out for recess every day.

I think our hawk/hawks have moved on. We did spot two. Must be a mating pair. Great. I saw them down the road today. Hope they stay down there. I will be building some "hides" for the chickens out of wooden stakes and chicken wire roofs. Has anyone ever used fishing line to string across the run? I was thinking about making rows and rows, attaching it to the tops of the fence. That way, if something tried to swoop down, they may get knocked off balance hitting the fishing line.

 

[happyhensny]

Dragon is probably good with bacon, because everything is better with bacon.

From one Baconista to another! "Either you love bacon, or you're wrong!"

Oh yeah! Remember when the Atkins diet came out? My SIL thought it was fine to eat a pound of bacon in one sitting.

Just giving out info, doesn't make any difference to me.

I didn't know how to get to the last post, thanks!

I wormed because of what I found in the poop BEFORE worming. When I say 6" worms, that is on the very low end. I laid one out using a stick and it was EASILY 10" long and it was ALIVE. I read up a bit online on roundworms, and after seeing they will kill the chickens, I decided to worm. I can live with a few bugs here and there. This was downright NASTY.
My daughter would totally agree with you. She has an "I love bacon" bumper sticker on our fridge.
I'm complaining, too, after taking the first graders out for recess every day.

I think our hawk/hawks have moved on. We did spot two. Must be a mating pair. Great. I saw them down the road today. Hope they stay down there. I will be building some "hides" for the chickens out of wooden stakes and chicken wire roofs. Has anyone ever used fishing line to string across the run? I was thinking about making rows and rows, attaching it to the tops of the fence. That way, if something tried to swoop down, they may get knocked off balance hitting the fishing line.

We had a pile of worms last year, I did use Ivermectin then repeated 10 days later. Scarred for life. EEEEEWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!