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It's okay, T-Feathers - once they get a little taste, they will come around - try the spaghetti and let us know if they go for it!
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Haute poultry - I love chickens!
Haute poultry - I love chickens!
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They were cherry tomatoes and I squeezed them so they busted apart, but they still won't touch them. I thought they would love them. Oh well, I tried to give them a little treat.
Lat summer mine ignored the cherry tomatoes for a few days but eventually figured out that they were good. I had alot of volunteer basil plants and when I put them in the pens with the tomatoes I called it Italian night. They like basil and zinnia flowers. This year I have few zinnia plants.
They were cherry tomatoes and I squeezed them so they busted apart, but they still won't touch them. I thought they would love them. Oh well, I tried to give them a little treat.
Lat summer mine ignored the cherry tomatoes for a few days but eventually figured out that they were good. I had alot of volunteer basil plants and when I put them in the pens with the tomatoes I called it Italian night. They like basil and zinnia flowers. This year I have few zinnia plants.
remember, anything different is suspect in their mind- if i am giving something new i get one of them to taste it- to see it won't eat them.... they totally ignore a head of cabbage- so you just never know
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They were cherry tomatoes and I squeezed them so they busted apart, but they still won't touch them. I thought they would love them. Oh well, I tried to give them a little treat.
Lat summer mine ignored the cherry tomatoes for a few days but eventually figured out that they were good. I had alot of volunteer basil plants and when I put them in the pens with the tomatoes I called it Italian night. They like basil and zinnia flowers. This year I have few zinnia plants.
Mine are picky at first too. I cut up grapes for them and they gobble those down as fast as their beaks will let them. I tried pork and beans once but they wouldn't touch that - at first. Eventually they've come to like just about anything that's offered to them and come running anytime they see me. They've come to know the routine in the evening, too. Just before bedtime I usually offer them a treat of some kind. If I'm late, they let me know by knocking on the glass door with their beaks. At least I think that's what they're doing it for.
MJ - early in the spring when the cannas first got their leaves the girls ate nearly every one of them down to the stalk. Now that the cannas are full grown and flowering, the only leaves they can reach are on the bottom, so almost the entire bunch of canna leaves is gone. Goofy girls...
They were cherry tomatoes and I squeezed them so they busted apart, but they still won't touch them. I thought they would love them. Oh well, I tried to give them a little treat.
Lat summer mine ignored the cherry tomatoes for a few days but eventually figured out that they were good. I had alot of volunteer basil plants and when I put them in the pens with the tomatoes I called it Italian night. They like basil and zinnia flowers. This year I have few zinnia plants.
Mine are picky at first too. I cut up grapes for them and they gobble those down as fast as their beaks will let them. I tried pork and beans once but they wouldn't touch that - at first. Eventually they've come to like just about anything that's offered to them and come running anytime they see me. They've come to know the routine in the evening, too. Just before bedtime I usually offer them a treat of some kind. If I'm late, they let me know by knocking on the glass door with their beaks. At least I think that's what they're doing it for.
MJ - early in the spring when the cannas first got their leaves the girls ate nearly every one of them down to the stalk. Now that the cannas are full grown and flowering, the only leaves they can reach are on the bottom, so almost the entire bunch of canna leaves is gone. Goofy girls...
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Evening all!!! I have some pics to share also!!! Lynn
Pic is of a super large egg on left, a large egg in center and a pullet egg on right!!!
My Brown Leghorns I got from Joe, hatched by Donnie!!!
Large Brown Leghorns again!
Naked necks from Don, hatched by Donnie!!!
NN Roo from Don
Cockoo Marans Roo
Two of the four Cuckoo Marans hens
Pic #1 of my pen of RIRs and Red Sexlink pullets I raised from chicks bought from Chuck(BigOkie)
Pic#2 of RIRs and RSs
Pic#3 of RIRs and RSs
The largest egg came from an old Americauna hen, she was consistantly laying these this size, they were usually double yoked, I sold her last weekend!!! Lynn
Evening. Lots of neat pictures posted today. Nice looking Brown Leghorns
I had black leghorns for a while. They were neat, but nobody knew what they were, so folks were not interested. Most thought the only true leghorn is all white.
I've got a Barnevelder hen limping. She had a splinter in her foot, which created a sore, and now it's looking like a staph infection has set in around the puncture. I washed her feet twice with antibacterial soap and hot water. The scabby part of the injury came off in the washing, so I cleaned it all out with hydrogenperoxide and then packed it with Neosporin. She's in an isolation cage. I read a little today to see how to treat staph. Anyone know where I can get Novobiocin or Erythromycin or Penicillin? Is there anything else on the market that you know of that will cure the infection? I don't want to lose this hen. She's a top producer. She's an excellent forager, too, which is probably the reason she picked up a splinter. She can kick grass, dirt, and straw like a mantis tiller.
I've got a Barnevelder hen limping. She had a splinter in her foot, which created a sore, and now it's looking like a staph infection has set in around the puncture. I washed her feet twice with antibacterial soap and hot water. The scabby part of the injury came off in the washing, so I cleaned it all out with hydrogenperoxide and then packed it with Neosporin. She's in an isolation cage. I read a little today to see how to treat staph. Anyone know where I can get Novobiocin or Erythromycin or Penicillin? Is there anything else on the market that you know of that will cure the infection? I don't want to lose this hen. She's a top producer. She's an excellent forager, too, which is probably the reason she picked up a splinter. She can kick grass, dirt, and straw like a mantis tiller.
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have heard of mixing a poultice of sugar and betadine the sugar draws out infection and the betadine kills it- haven't tried it yet- have heard it is effective with bumblefoot
have heard of mixing a poultice of sugar and betadine the sugar draws out infection and the betadine kills it- haven't tried it yet- have heard it is effective with bumblefoot
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