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[banjoejoe4783]

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Yes ready to start the year of ROUSH.

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Hendricks who?:

barnie

im with ya there

hendricks

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GO PENSKIE DOGE GO KURT BUSH roush is not bad but the drive then there FORDS

 

[Buckguy20]

My water already has Dr. Pepper in it but I haven't had any yet.
Gotta fix that on the way to church.
Yesterday was beautiful but I didn't get to get out in it as much as I wanted to.

 

[al6517]

I have the front part of my coop mainly just the front door and gangways that I put 2x4 wire on, well the small wild birds have been getting in and wearing out the feeders and hanging out and they are bringing in the mites. I got a case of Northern fowl mites on my big white Rooster last week, so I treated him and he is recovering well. I checked all the others and they are mite free but I am still going to do the full Monty so to speak on the whole coop. Cage all the birds outside and muck out all the pens, using a dilluted 7 liquid in a garden tank sprayer and spray down the whole area from ceiling to floor, roost, nest boxes the works. Then I will mix more as a dip and dip all birds, set back in the cages to dry a bit. Put down fresh straw hay along with a healthy dose of spinkled DE, put back all the freshly cleaned waterers with some Wazine added and feeders and nest boxes. Dust the birds with DE and put then back in their pen's, clean up the mess and then pop a cold one while sitting in their checking then out and formulating my spring breeding and hatching and brooder pen's. So yeah long day ahead.

AL

 

[Buckguy20]

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Al, Actually I just typed what I felt like but in this harsh cruel world, I had to get up and go feed and water.
I don't usually do it this early but sometimes on Sundays we don't get home very early and then we usually turn around and go right back.

 

[poultryand bees]

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I hadn't thought of the sparrows as being anything more than annoying. I will sprinkle DE around the areas they are roosting and put some in all the nest boxes as well. Thanks for the reminder that they do more than just eat feed.

 

[Greybear23]

Hey Donnie, do you use a cafe style feeding system, or do you mix it all together and put it out in a feeder, I limit the grain intake on mine so they eat the pellets as I feel they are more of a balanced ration, the grain in the evenings is more of a treat to them, Games do well on just grain but I like mine to get the pellets for balance, I am no nutritionist and only feed from experience and what I was told by old Cockers when I raised them for sport. Heard a judge one time at a poultry show comment that Cock fighters had the finest birds he had ever seen and kept them in the finest shape he had ever seen and wish that show people knew how to feed their birds like the cockers did. I knew a lot of cockers and they all took exceptional care of their birds, never did I see a farm that neglected their birds in any way.chickens were born to forage by nature and eat a variety of grains and bugs and anything else they find. I think you are doing a great job of providing what your birds need. Just mu opinion!!! Have a blessed day! Lynn

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see lynn thats what i find crazy about them

i keep auto feeders full in my pens , and i feed layer pellets , calf mana , oats , little chopped corn / or scratch , soy bean meal 48%protein , along with oyster shell free choice , and then i also add in cat food which is 31 to 41 % protein , and i still give them vitamin mineral water , and scrambled eggs , its like they hold in all the eggs they can but as soon as i let them out they will go nest somewhere and go broody on me


so i know they are getting plenty of protein and probally more than they should lol , they just hate pens i swear

 

[al6517]

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I hadn't thought of the sparrows as being anything more than annoying. I will sprinkle DE around the areas they are roosting and put some in all the nest boxes as well. Thanks for the reminder that they do more than just eat feed.

A week before last I was in there doing normal daily chores and was in my main Cornish pen and looked at the hulk, reached down picked him up and I knew instantly something was amiss, he looked thin and felt sluggish. I immediatly checked his vent and under his wing's sure enough there they were. I dipped him and did some other things put him in the infurmary cage and dusted him.

My breeder pen's are enclosed and the only thing that can get in is these little birds swamping the feeders, so I knew that was it.

AL

 

[okracefan]

m.ruzycki :

evening all, just got back from the blanchard auction. It was my first time to go and definitely not my last. It was alot of fun and I got some good birds and met some new peeps. I ended up gettn a red frizzle roo a white frizzle hen and 7 cochin chicks. Cant wait till the next auction.

Did you by that cage full of cochins that had some frizzles in it. I stopped at $1.00. You are lucky that my wife was with me or I would have gone higher! Post some picks of them will ya.​

 

[Greybear23]

Morning Al and Monty and whom ever else is up and around, I need to get out and do something today, don't feel that great but still need to do something constructive, have a good day all and enjoy this warmth!!! Lynn

 

[al6517]

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Take it a little easy then today Lynn, after all it is Sunday LOL.

AL