NY chicken lover!!!!

[Lynzi777]

Oh goody goody goody, I'm getting some Sebastapol adult geese....wheeee!

Just had to look these up because I was curious as to what they looked like-I was picturing something completely different in my head! Lol they're very pretty. (Wonder what rancher thinks of them ;-) )

 

[miquwid]

miquwid, Thanks for asking. He was in Physical Therapy for 2 weeks and then
4 weeks in out patient PT. Now home, doing the physical therapy exercises
they sent home for him to do. He is doing GREAT.

In fact, he had one knee done and the other is BAD too. The doctor would NOT
do two in on surgery. NOW, he can start think about the other knee. I wish the
new knee replacement will "take the load". No fun being the care taker. The one
nice thing about it....I can visit BYC. AND, I am not so sure I want to go back
to College????

Do you live near Rochester? My son lives there. Regards, Aria

Yes i do! Hope he keeps up the exersices and does well.
What does your son do? I work at petsmart in webster, imma dog n cat groomer.
I know its hard being the care giver my son helps my mom on the weekends with my dad. He spent his last summer helping with the care so im saving money and sending him away for camp next summer.
Take care

 

[County Boy]

Hey Pyxis! Glad you like the new chicks - so some of them (other than Scalpy) were girls after all? Good! They all looked boyish to me, but I don't know bantam cochins too well.

I should have brought mama too - she's a little black barred cochin and she still hasn't been able to integrate back in with her 'sisters' since I took her babies away. Poor little thing was only separated by an electronet x the last month and now I put her in there and she gets chased out. Silly chickens!!
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I am still getting eggs here - but only from my california whites.. Almost everyone else is on winter strike.

There turned out to be 3 and 3 I think. I kept 2 of the Buff Barred boys and the unknown colored pullet. It actually was a buff barred that doesn't have good patterning. Have your LF Cochins started laying yet?

This is my absolute last post here until I'm back from Indiana. See you all in a week!

 

[miquwid]

Oh goody goody goody, I'm getting some Sebastapol adult geese....wheeee!

Just had to look these up because I was curious as to what they looked like-I was picturing something completely different in my head! Lol they're very pretty. (Wonder what rancher thinks of them ;-) )

OMG i want!! Congrats.
That is funny Lynzi i wonder too what he might think lol

 

[miquwid]

Enjoy country boy!

 

[Lapeerian]

Hubby closed up the horse barn early with the wind and rain. When I went up, not all chickens were accounted for. Ugh! I found them, hiding behind the round pen panels that are leaning against the barn. Eventually grabbed or guided them out with a flashlight. While I had my hands on the OE roo, decided to check him out with everyone's talk of creepy crawlers. I got bugs too! Eeeeewwww! Looks like lice and mites, but didn't study for long. Long enough to see there is nasty bugs crawling. And get the heebie jeebies, I feel itchy all over. While working in the barn this morning, I dumped out the short water tank, rinsed it out and pulled into the barn to dry. Going to use that for dust baths, so they stop tearing up the barn floor as much once snow comes. Got woodash, DE, just need to pick up some sand. Not giving 22 LF baths in my house, so going the dust bath route. And maybe chemical warfare via Eprinex.

 

[Glasshen]

it is really sad so many of us have bugs. Such a pain. I did the dusting thing this evening, Earl was first, and he took it like a man. Then he stood in the corner of the roosts with his head in the corner. The hens were not happy, the first few were Rocks, two were kind of confused and behaved pretty well, the last two were real drama queens yelling and flapping, and trying to get everyone else worked up. The best behaved were the young SS girls. I rarely pick them up, and it was nice to feel the differences in size and demeanor.

I invented a handy tool to help in the dusting. It is like a big salt shaker to put the DE and woodashes in. I used a plastic container that had boullion cubes in it, and grabbed DH's cordless drill that was conveniently at hand and had the perfect size bit in it, drilled five holes and filled it with the mix. I think it was better than trying to manage flapping birds and a giant container of stuff with only my hands.

Maybe tomorrow I will have a spa day for everyone, their hygiene is very lacking. Then we can have dust baths the next night...Such fun with bugs.

I really need to spend a little time in my studio, I will have a very poor selection for the show Im in on Sunday. Oh well, the way things are going, I'll probably get lice and wont be able to do the show.I

It really does make me itch. Guess we all have good imaginations.

 

[Gramma Chick]

[Was looking around on the site, found something on Iveron, Ivermectin, and Eprinex Questions post 13 saying that Eprinex works on worms, lice and mites. So I did start well. And I will continue to clean the coop, sweeping out all the rest of the litter, washing the lower walls, and taking out. The carpet pieces in nest boxes and washing the nest boxes.

But, maybe I should hold off on bathing the birds, so I don't weaken the Eprinex? Or does it absorb so quickly that I would not be washing it off? Or, if I just spray the dawn and water, as Lynzi suggests, would that be the way to go?

I always have so many questions on what should be easy.

I wouldnt wash them until the eprinex wears off ...if you do it now it will wash it off .
Like Rancher said about washing ..it is late in the year ? ( I think he meant cold outside ?)
If my chicken gets a bath she spends the night in the cellar ...so she is totally dry before she goes out .

 

[Lynzi777]

Ok so with so many of us coming across the bugs this has me thinking.....

If no one on here ever mentioned finding mites or lice on out chickens, how many of you can honestly say you would check routinely for these. And this is not meant to be pointed at anyone, I'm just curious because there are so many who raise chickens strictly as livestock and not "pets". Also this is not to say that anyone raises their chickens better than anyone else, I'm just curious. If no one on here ever mentioned lice or mites, would you be out there checking your birds right now? Because had this been a year ago, and I did not know of these pesty critters, I can surely tell you I would not have been checking because it's something I probably would not have thought of until someone brought it up.

This has crossed my mind more than once now. I think of all the farmers out there who have 30+ chickens, do they even have the time to look over every single free ranged bird? Or do they just assume their birds are clean? Or do they not look at it as that big of a deal? Again, just something I've been pondering. I guess what I'm trying to figure out is, HOW bad is it if your birds have bugs knowing they dust bathe, knowing you treat them from time to time to DE or what ever it is you choose to use?

 

[stonykill]

Ok so with so many of us coming across the bugs this has me thinking.....

If no one on here ever mentioned finding mites or lice on out chickens, how many of you can honestly say you would check routinely for these. And this is not meant to be pointed at anyone, I'm just curious because there are so many who raise chickens strictly as livestock and not "pets". Also this is not to say that anyone raises their chickens better than anyone else, I'm just curious. If no one on here ever mentioned lice or mites, would you be out there checking your birds right now? Because had this been a year ago, and I did not know of these pesty critters, I can surely tell you I would not have been checking because it's something I probably would not have thought of until someone brought it up.

This has crossed my mind more than once now. I think of all the farmers out there who have 30+ chickens, do they even have the time to look over every single free ranged bird? Or do they just assume their birds are clean? Or do they not look at it as that big of a deal? Again, just something I've been pondering. I guess what I'm trying to figure out is, HOW bad is it if your birds have bugs knowing they dust bathe, knowing you treat them from time to time to DE or what ever it is you choose to use?

time to offend

ALL birds have lice. Chickens are birds...therefore.....

Regular dust bathing and preening keeps the lice at bay. A small amount of Lice on a bird is unavoidable. It happens. I think in the pet arena the lice get more out of control due to small housing, small pens and runs. Basically just not enough space.
I know a lot of old, former chicken farmers. They think worrying about such things is just plain silly. Me... as long as the birds are not overloaded.... they will take care of the situation themselves as long as I provide dust bathing area's in the winter and spring when they can not find a natural place to take care of it themselves.