NY chicken lover!!!!

[rancher hicks]

Washing cats suck, but the best way to do it is to put them in a 5 gal bucket. They will hold on to the rim and you can wash them easier that way. Last summer I changed out litter to a corn cob type and he had a bad reaction to it. After some heavy doses of medicine he started to get better, but I had to wash him with a special soap that they gave me. Then again later in the year when he got fleas. I tried in the kitchen sink one time and it wasn't easy, then I did it in the laundry sink. after several time I started using the 5 gal bucket and it was so much easier.

I think that I need to get some of that miracle blue soap to keep on hand just in case!

My daughters cat Frances used to be okay washing. I we used to have a cat Toby. He got into a fight and had a nasty knot on his head. I stuck him under the faucet in the tub and scrubbed it til it bled and then doused it with Peroxide. That happened twice.

He was cat that we got dumped with and I'm sorry to day in those days we weren't real smart about having him fixed. Years later we wised up and never had a cat that wasn't fixed.

I do like cats, but just can't bend over to sift litter and the smell of the litter aggravates my sinuses. Norma Jean just spent a week here and I just couldn't stand the litterbox.

We used those large cement mixing pans. Much more room to keep the litter from going all over. The plastic does tend to hold the smell after a time though.

 

[rancher hicks]

Thank you! Nope, these are pure BBS Ameraucanas' from Paul Smith.

And you live where? I could use a light colored hen to mix in with my EE's. Right now mostly I get black or dark colors. I do have lavenders in the line too, but don't often get many lighter colored birds.

 

[rancher hicks]

Neat idea from the Duck Houses thread.

"Here's my duck house. I LOVE ducks, but they are the messiest creatures on earth. For their pool, I dug a large pit in the ground, and put several boards over the pit. The pool sits on the support boards. I drilled a hole in the bottom, and put a regular bathtub plug in the hole. Now, I just pull the plug, and all that dirty water drains into the pit below, then soaks into the ground. It is the easiest way to change water, and the ducks love it!"

Though the drainage is poor here.

 

[SAHchickenmom]

I've got chicks hatching like crazy here today. Some sex link Ee's and some mixes. I guess the cabinet bator dh and I built is working

 

[SunnysideupstateNY]

And you live where? I could use a light colored hen to mix in with my EE's. Right now mostly I get black or dark colors. I do have lavenders in the line too, but don't often get many lighter colored birds.

Haha, in New York! I'm hoping that blue one is a hen. Really I'm hoping I have a nice trio so I can breed them. I need to add some darker layers for olive eggs. My barnies don't lay that dark of an egg.

 

[rancher hicks]

Haha, in New York! I'm hoping that blue one is a hen. Really I'm hoping I have a nice trio so I can breed them. I need to add some darker layers for olive eggs. My barnies don't lay that dark of an egg.

I have Birchen Marans and one Olive egger. Of course there are always the extra roosters to cross if you'd like. You could put him in with your hens hatch eggs and then eat him.

Now I reckon a Rooster cross would be an Olive egg producer too ? I mean if I kept a rooster frm the Marans/EE cross that is.

 

[andreanar]

As a newbie chick mom,I can sure attest that this is an addictive hobby! My chicks are still in the brooder and I'm thinking "I would love to hatch eggs"! It's a sickness I'm telling you!

As for washing cats, ugh, I bathe my 2 once a week. They are hairless sphynx and are really pretty good in the bath.

 

[Gramma Chick]

As a newbie chick mom,I can sure attest that this is an addictive hobby! My chicks are still in the brooder and I'm thinking "I would love to hatch eggs"! It's a sickness I'm telling you!

As for washing cats, ugh, I bathe my 2 once a week. They are hairless sphynx and are really pretty good in the bath.

It sure is ...then you find out there are hundreds of breeds ...I want one of each ...LOL
How Cute ! It looks like you both had a bath !

 

[SunnysideupstateNY]

I have Birchen Marans and one Olive egger. Of course there are always the extra roosters to cross if you'd like. You could put him in with your hens hatch eggs and then eat him.

Now I reckon a Rooster cross would be an Olive egg producer too ? I mean if I kept a rooster frm the Marans/EE cross that is.

Ooooh, I may need some marans from you next time I get a broody!

An olive egger rooster can throw more olive eggers depending on what he is bred with...there was a really good chart on the olive egger thread and of course when I look for it I can't find it. lol. I know the more crosses back and forth between the blue and dark brown you make the more varied the shades of olive you can get.

I am hoping to keep an Ameraucana roo to start with, that way all the offspring will lay shades of blue, green and olive.

 

[Stuffedcritter]

Sinus/allergy suffers I've been using a netty pot and drinking aoc to knock out any candida overgrowth. I'd rather wax my eyebrows then attempt to wash the cat! Less pain and blood I've yet to bite myself-)