***OKIES in the BYC III ***

[miohippus]

Well, I guess old Travis Meyer wasn't lying after all!!!! It is COLD out there! And that wind is brutal!

i know i it is terrible i don't want to go out there but i have too. wish i could say inside and hibernate.

 

[lonnyandrinda]

And ask Rinda about her ordeal with bacterially infected eggs she got from a breeder. She got eggs that had ecoli passed from the laying hens, and it didn't start killing the chicks until after hatch.

Ugh yes. Hoping that is behind me now. My first batch of clean eggs (after prescription antibiotics) went through the power outage but at least one Isbar was wiggling around when I candled Wednesday!

 

[artsyrobin]

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How much cayenne should i add?? garlic, i love the stuff and use it to regulate my blood pressure

Quote: well, a couple thoughts on silkies, and betsy is the expert, but i add polyvisol infant vitamins to their water- as silkies tend to be anemic, and a bump up their protien some- the only time i had a die off was ith a bout of cocci lost all but one of them in that group-

 

[RetiredArmyWife]

Another natural wormer is pumpkin. The chickens eat the seeds as well as the pulp. I simply cut one in half and let the birds go to town.
Giving the birds red pepper also helps stimulate laying.

I had heard pumpkin seeds work well in humans. I never thought about giving the whe pumpkin to the chickens.

 

[katie1500]

I had heard pumpkin seeds work well in humans. I never thought about giving the whe pumpkin to the chickens.

I used to take all the innards out of the pumpkin after carving and the chickens LOVED it. Had a field day for sure.

 

[Kassaundra]

Ugh yes. Hoping that is behind me now. My first batch of clean eggs (after prescription antibiotics) went through the power outage but at least one Isbar was wiggling around when I candled Wednesday!

That is great, that at least one made it through the great incubating ice age!

 

[BetsyOK]

Sounds to me like the problem was either genetic or something that happened right at hatching--maybe chilled? Could also possibly be bacterial infection during incubation? I've never had a die-off like that, and my silkies are generally quite hardy, with the exception of self blues, which are a bit harder to deal with. Still nothing like that! The only other thing I can think of is that something could have been wrong with the feed, either there or at your place, but I'd think you'd notice it with other chicks. The only times I've had chicks cry a lot were when they were cold or something was wrong with them internally, and then it was only one in a hatch--I just remembered I've also had chicks cry when their Achilles tendon had slipped, but that stopped when it was corrected, and certainly wouldn't pertain to your situation. Hope your replacement batch does much better!

Inspired by NanaKat, I made a batch of Aunt Bill's Brown Candy today. Haven't made it in many years, but had taken the recipe out and put it "front and center" for several years. Not sure how it has turned out; have no candy thermometer, and I'm not sure of "soft ball" stage or "firm ball stage", so I may not have cooked it long enough. I also may not have beaten it long enough, as my wrists get tired. Vashi helped with the beating until HIS wrists were tired also. I know it will taste good in any case. I think this is the kind of candy my Aunt Grace sent us each Christmas when I was a child. She refused to divulge her "secret" recipe, and when Mom found it among her papers after her death, she threw it away saying, "If Aunt Grace wanted us to have the recipe, she'd have given it to us!"

 

[Kassaundra]

Sounds to me like the problem was either genetic or something that happened right at hatching--maybe chilled? Could also possibly be bacterial infection during incubation? I've never had a die-off like that, and my silkies are generally quite hardy, with the exception of self blues, which are a bit harder to deal with. Still nothing like that! The only other thing I can think of is that something could have been wrong with the feed, either there or at your place, but I'd think you'd notice it with other chicks. The only times I've had chicks cry a lot were when they were cold or something was wrong with them internally, and then it was only one in a hatch--I just remembered I've also had chicks cry when their Achilles tendon had slipped, but that stopped when it was corrected, and certainly wouldn't pertain to your situation. Hope your replacement batch does much better!

Inspired by NanaKat, I made a batch of Aunt Bill's Brown Candy today. Haven't made it in many years, but had taken the recipe out and put it "front and center" for several years. Not sure how it has turned out; have no candy thermometer, and I'm not sure of "soft ball" stage or "firm ball stage", so I may not have cooked it long enough. I also may not have beaten it long enough, as my wrists get tired. Vashi helped with the beating until HIS wrists were tired also. I know it will taste good in any case. I think this is the kind of candy my Aunt Grace sent us each Christmas when I was a child. She refused to divulge her "secret" recipe, and when Mom found it among her papers after her death, she threw it away saying, "If Aunt Grace wanted us to have the recipe, she'd have given it to us!"

My Gma never had a candy thermometer she always had a glass measuring cup filled w/ water, she would drop a small drop off her stirring spoon then feel it, if it formed a ball but could easily squish that was soft ball, if it formed a ball but felt hard that was hard ball.

 

[shelbydog]

Trivia time! How many chickens are in Dusti's car right now ?

 

[Kassaundra]

Trivia time! How many chickens are in Dusti's car right now ?

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