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[Kassaundra]

I don't think you can figure mg (weight) converted to teaspoon (volume) with the info you have.

 

[casportpony]

I don't think you can figure mg (weight) converted to teaspoon (volume) with the info you have.

I just weighed one tablespoon of tetracycline powder at 10 grams.

-Kathy

 

[BetsyOK]

I'd love to have some of those carnation poppy seeds if you get a nice harvest from this year. My red American Legion single poppies were outstanding this year. I've had them for many years, but they'd mostly gotten crowded out, so I got a bag of seed from my sister-in-law in Texas, who originally got them from me. I'd be happy to share gather and share them with anyone who wants them. They are sown in the fall--don't even need to cover the seeds--and the plants germinate and grow all winter long.

 

[Kassaundra]

Tetroxy HCA-280 powder is 36.57% tetracycline
Oxytetracycline powder is 5.5% tetracycline

Now I have to figure out what that means in terms of mg per teaspoons.

-Kathy

Okay not a math whiz so someone check my work


first have to change % by moving decimal two places left

then gms to mgs is 1000 (1000 mgs = 1 gm)

then multiply .3657 x 1000 = 365 mg of tetracycline in 1 tbsp. tetroxy hca-280
and 55 mg in oxytetracycline

 

[Kassaundra]

and if your breaking down from tbsp. to teas divide by 3

 

[casportpony]

Package weighs 280g
Package contains 102.4g of oxytetracycline
Package is therefore 102.4 ÷ 280 = 0.3657 = 36.57% oxytetracycline (63.43% filler)

One tablespoon of a similar powder weighs 10 grams.

-Kathy

 

[SharkmanDan]

This is the product of a barred hen, and a black copper Marans rooster, and that should, with ZERO DOUBT, mean that this is a black sex link hen. While until very recently, it has completely appeared to be a hen, it was showing some "rooster-ish" behavior. Crowing, fighting roosters and copulating hens and pullets. I really figured I just had a hen with a gender identity "issue" and wasn't too concerned. But, one day, my biggest, most aggressive rooster, got access to "her" and the chase was on. Only, when the chase ended, it didn't end in copulation, it ended in a vicious attack. I thought this one was a goner. I got there in time to break it up, got them separated, and after a while, this one came limping back. Mind you, this one is MAYBE 3#. The Speckled Sussex rooster that did the attacking, is maybe 10-12 pounds. I was not sure this one would make it, so I've watched closely, for the ensuing weeks. In that time, I've seen the saddle feathers become sharp and pronounced, the sickle feathers are becoming much more "rooster-like" and the assertiveness with the hens, has stepped up, ten-fold.
I'm pretty sure I have a rooster. okay, that's fine. I'm happy with the bird. I'm just confused. Maybe I'm wrong. What do y'all say?
Hen?
Rooster?
Gender nonspecific?

 

[mjgigax]

A few pictures..

A Delaware Bantam hen with month old chicks. Two Birchen Bantam hens sharing eggs...Bashful always turns her back to me when I open their door for any reason.



Ying and Yang with some of their chicks...they would love to be on the floor, but there are juveniles that need to go out as soon as pens dry out first. They successfully brooded together in their pen and are vigilant mothers.


Miranda's temporary pen...on the dirt floor in the hen house and then her with her 24 chicks. She was a rooster favorite thus the bare back, but her chicks don't seem to mind it and she will recover her plumage when she molts. .The pen is made from freezer shelving and is wired to the wall. Then the open feed sack keeps other hens from trying to roost on top.


The dirt floor is higher than the ground outside the barn and has stayed dry. The brooder room next door has a concrete floor covered by wood shavings. They have a box for dust bathing.

Did she hatch all 24?

 

[mjgigax]

A few pictures..

A Delaware Bantam hen with month old chicks. Two Birchen Bantam hens sharing eggs...Bashful always turns her back to me when I open their door for any reason.



Ying and Yang with some of their chicks...they would love to be on the floor, but there are juveniles that need to go out as soon as pens dry out first. They successfully brooded together in their pen and are vigilant mothers.


Miranda's temporary pen...on the dirt floor in the hen house and then her with her 24 chicks. She was a rooster favorite thus the bare back, but her chicks don't seem to mind it and she will recover her plumage when she molts. .The pen is made from freezer shelving and is wired to the wall. Then the open feed sack keeps other hens from trying to roost on top.


The dirt floor is higher than the ground outside the barn and has stayed dry. The brooder room next door has a concrete floor covered by wood shavings. They have a box for dust bathing.

Jack has a flock of LF Delawares now. They sure are pretty birds, and great layers. Bantams must be absolutely adorable.

 

[mjgigax]

I'd love to have some of those carnation poppy seeds if you get a nice harvest from this year. My red American Legion single poppies were outstanding this year. I've had them for many years, but they'd mostly gotten crowded out, so I got a bag of seed from my sister-in-law in Texas, who originally got them from me. I'd be happy to share gather and share them with anyone who wants them. They are sown in the fall--don't even need to cover the seeds--and the plants germinate and grow all winter long.

I've got just the spot on my South wall.