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[eramsey99]

had to get rid of my rehab pigeon the other day cause it could finally fly.... lol but when i let it out it'll be gone all day and right as it starts to get dark it'll be right back at the coop wanting in..

 

[MacGuyver]

Layena feed bags will last one season. The sun really leaches them out.

One season isn't bad. I can live with that. My bantam ark is in the shade, it might last longer on that one.

 

[MacGuyver]

i use 1 t p gallon and 1 c sugar(hides the taste) for treatment, 1/2 t for maintinance once a month

One teaspoon is only 5 cc, unless you mean T for tablespoon.

 

[Ksane]

Robin, that only comes to 5 cc per gal for treatment and 2 1/2 cc per gallon for maintenance which is half what I've always read to use. I've read and read and have always found Nana's amounts stated in one form or another. Did it help your birds when you used the lesser amount? Since it's raining buckets right now I think it'd be a good time to go read about the stuff some more.
All *8 of the Arauacana that were in lock down pipped and *7* hatched! I have 7 more little tiny rumpless babies! 1 died soon after pipping but the other 7 are all doing great. I have Blacks and Duckwings & the breeder thinks the yellows are probably Wheatens because that's what she's been breeding for. Joe, the 3 pullets I got from you-are they Duckwings? I'm not sure what the color on the double tufted one is called, is that a Duckwing also or a Wheaten? I won't mix the 10 babies with the 3 adults but this'll give me 10 little Rumpless Wonders and that completes my "No Butts Allowed" yard

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It feels so lonesome with an empty incubator :-( Is this called withdrawal?
Man oh man! What I'd give for your yard, Okla! It's beautiful and needs to be on the cover of some magazine. I can only imagine the work that went into something like that. I'm lucky to get mine mowed. I wish I had the talent to do what you do.
MacG, I guess me and you posted at the same time.
Nana, yes, the door's going on the left end. After seeing the picture of the pigeon in that coop though I'm wondering if I should go ahead and use plywood instead of 6" wide pickets to side it with.

 

[artsyrobin]

Robin, that only comes to 5 cc per gal for treatment and 2 1/2 cc per gallon for maintenance which is half what I've always read to use. I've read and read and have always found Nana's amounts stated in one form or another. Did it help your birds when you used the lesser amount? Since it's raining buckets right now I think it'd be a good time to go read about the stuff some more.

so would that me double the teaspoon??? i don't know cc's....

 

[jcatblum]

Sold all the keets by 10. Now we are home enjoying warm coffee for me. Hot chocolate for the girls. They ate an early lunch, checked animals & are going back to bed. I got them up @ 5 & this afternoon we still have to get everything ready for farmers market. They are exhausted but they love having money in their pockets. Think the market & swap helps the girls with manners, communication & math. OJT is the best way to learn IMO.

For egg prices we sell ours $3 dz. at that price I don't think any profit is involved. Feed cost is a gray area since I am feeding more than laying hens 100 lbs of feed only lasts us 3 days.

Mitzi awesome hatch! I have always heard they were hard to hatch because the lethal gene??

When doodle comes back to OK I am going to contract him out to landscape the new house. Wonder if he will trade labor & his knowledge for guineas?

 

[Ksane]

Robin, that only comes to 5 cc per gal for treatment and 2 1/2 cc per gallon for maintenance which is half what I've always read to use. I've read and read and have always found Nana's amounts stated in one form or another. Did it help your birds when you used the lesser amount? Since it's raining buckets right now I think it'd be a good time to go read about the stuff some more.
so would that me double the teaspoon??? i don't know cc's....

Robin, get out from underneath that chair lol! The only reason I know cc's vs tsp is because I had to working at an animal clinic all those years. 1 teaspoon equals 5 cc's (which is the same as 5 ml's).
An ounce is 29 cc (although to round it off I always call it 30 cc in my head). A Tablespoon is 15 cc which would be pretty equal to 1/2 ounce. So for initial treatment the dose would be 1 Tablespoon (or 16 cc to make it easy) per gallon of water. I'm so dang OCD I end up re-figuring each and every time I mix anything. I drive myself crazy.

Sold all the keets by 10. Now we are home enjoying warm coffee for me. Hot chocolate for the girls. They ate an early lunch, checked animals & are going back to bed. I got them up @ 5 & this afternoon we still have to get everything ready for farmers market. They are exhausted but they love having money in their pockets. Think the market & swap helps the girls with manners, communication & math. OJT is the best way to learn IMO.
Mitzi awesome hatch! I have always heard they were hard to hatch because the lethal gene??

She sold all those keets by 10??? Wonderful!
I didn't expect the lock downs to hatch either. That lethal gene is when they inherit 2 copies of the tufted gene, that's why some breeders just breed non-tufted to tufted. I candled them and didn't see a single bit of movement before lock down but still saw veins so went ahead and put them in lock down with a bit of a eulogy since I was convinced they were all dead anyway. Imagine my surprise when it turned out to be the best hatch ever (granted I've had limited hatches).

 

[Buster52]

Great day at the market, Christina! Congrats. Always nice to sell out. Our problem is selling out too early and the market managers make us stay till 11 anyway.

We got half of our new electric netting up and running and the layers well contained. We are testing it out before we move it to the back pasture, to make sure the energizer works well and the birds stay in and don't fly out.

We counted our layers for the first time in months last night. If we count the 4 broodies in the brooder house (who of course aren't really laying), we now have 84 layers. Just 16 short of the magic number 100. Lookout, Blanchard, here we come!

They are all housed in our big eggmobile we got from Grady. So glad I bought that thing!

 

[Oceanseve]

AH! Where'd that flood come from??? It just poured here for about an hour and a half. My barn turned into a river. My young ones were on an island (a rolled up old carpet we've got to rip apart to fit in the garbage) in the middle of the barn. Wow, I had no idea the drainage around that was THAT bad.

 

[mamapoppybee]

after getting soaked with the rain warm coffee sounds good. So joe when you say rain is coming you sure mean its a coming! Had to drive in it and almost pulled over and waited it out. Looks like ill be spending my day in the house with my lil egg crusher clinging too! He sure dont like thunder. As for my garden grow lil plants grow!