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[mjgigax]

Some chicky prayers are needed. Nathanael's mr Red isn't well. He had mites two days ago and we gave him a bath in Adams flea and tick soap. Sprayed the coop and his girls. But he is going down hill still. His poor comb is blue on the edges. We don't know how old he is but he is Nathanael's best buddy so we are praying he pulls through. Reds little hen is sitting next to him and won't eat without him so I worry we will loose her too. I was really hoping we would hatch one of reds eggs before something like this happened but we didn't set any this year. Please pray Red pulls through. Thanks.

Hope he makes it through! I feel so helpless when they are sick, it is so hard to tell what they need.

 

[NanaKat]

LonnyandRinda..you can give the Tylan 50 for five days. The oxytetracycline in the drinking water will help too.

Jcatblum...hope the move is an easy one. The guineas left yesterday when I let them out to freerange. We followed them and they walked across the highway and east for 1/2 mile, ducked under a fence and down a lane for 1/4 mile. Today we saw them in the middle of the highway a mile east of our place when we were driving back from Prague. At the rate they are using the highway...they will be road kill soon. Don't know the owner.

Anybody else being overrun with grasshoppers in your pastures? I used No Lo bait in the garden last year and so far the grasshoppers are not invading the garden...yet. Going to pick up another bag when we are In the city next week.
Going to boil crawfish tomorrow for étouffée for dinner....had a nice catch in the minnow trap today.
The count is up to eight broodie hens today....it is going to be 100 this week....not good temps for broodie success. Depending on how many are still broodie next week when the temps drop to the 80 to 90s may give the girls some eggs from the incubator to finish hatching.

 

[artsyrobin]

nana, on the guineas, i always thought you had to keep them cooped for a few weeks till they know its home??

on Captain and the saga of the thrush throat infection, heard to give tylan, i thought he was on his way o ut, and within 24 hours he was perking up- why would tylan help something like that?

 

[our 5acre farm]

ummmm étouffée, i am jealous! yes this year and last year, grasshoppers everywhere! there wont be any next year, i will finally be able to free range again next year! pluse i have 22 baby guineas in the brooder, and they cant wait to case grasshoppers, lol

 

[Kassaundra]

nana, on the guineas, i always thought you had to keep them cooped for a few weeks till they know its home??

on Captain and the saga of the thrush throat infection, heard to give tylan, i thought he was on his way o ut, and within 24 hours he was perking up- why would tylan help something like that?

Since thrush is yeast an antibiotic wouldn't help a PRIMARY yeast problem however if the thrush was a symptom and a problem b/c of a different unseen or known to you infection the tylan would help the primary infection helping the birds own immune system to recover from the yeast.

 

[miohippus]

Im sorry. I ment houdans, lol didn't mean to get your hopes up, lol

yea that would be awesome if there were some mottled polish then i could make some tolbunts!!!!

 

[miohippus]

I would like to have some tolbunt polish or even try to make some

me too!!!!

 

[artsyrobin]

Quote: ok, thanks Kass, i have been battling this a long time, that would make sense- i have tried the remedies for the thrush itself, so now i have a hint as to something else....


another hot one, yuk- so far almost all the bantams are integrated- makes life much easier- had to separate the ducklings since papa decided to chase them all over- darn his little webbed feet! hopefully as they get older they will work it out

 

[jcatblum]

The only thing grasshoppers haven't eaten here is my tomatoes. Last wk we planted pumpkins & winter squash in hopes the grasshoppers won't eat them. I used semi spore bait last yr, but this yr the focus is on the house not the garden.

I tried to clean the duck pond yesterday & Taron protested. It is full of tadpoles that have began to get their feet. I explained the ducks will eat them all soon if we leave them. No luck convencing her, so the duck pond is going to be GROSS! My call ducks are full grown now, really need to try & sex them & take some pics. Also going to take the guineas out of their seperated breeding soon. I have to remember how I seperated them for next season. We didnt hatch a single pearl or lavendar so I am thrilled! Think we may take keets to the sale in Andarko Thursday if we don't have anything else going on.

 

[RetiredArmyWife]

Last summer I froze water bottles and milk jugs and put them throughout the coop and in the water. I also had a sprinkler hose tied up to the fence of the pen. I turned it on during the hottest part of the day.