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Well, Zippy got all roo-ish at Niko today. First um, roo behavior, I've seen. Bridget had chased him across the yard earlier. I am staying out of their politics. But maybe since Niko crouched for me and he was after her, maybe just maybe, I will start getting eggs again?
 
My chicken's are shaking their heads a lot more than normal anyone know why? What does everyone think how to get rid of mites and or lice. I was also thinking give tylan 50?
 
Just Ducky10 said:
I would also be interested in pictures. I'm building an incubator, but it's mainly out of free stuff I've picked up (but I'm definitely buying a thermostat & a hydrometer new). It should hold about 4-6, 40 egg trays when finished which is plenty for me at the moment.
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This is a list I'm building as I go of the parts I'm buying. Not all are available on Amazon, but the list is convenient to track it all
Incubator build
Link: http://amzn.com/w/2L2Q7QPYLBDF8
 
I just came back from my boyscout meeting. My scout master was dressed up as Santa and the boys went to the nursing home to sing carols for the residents. He said last week that he was dressed up as Santa last week for the firehouse and they had a picture day with kids then with pets. He told me some person brought 3 chickens to have their picture taken with Santa. I was laughing so hard and I said "it wasn't me!' lol Ok, which one of you took your chickens to have a picture with Santa???
 
jmayday said:
My chicken's are shaking their heads a lot more than normal anyone know why? What does everyone think how to get rid of mites and or lice. I was also thinking give tylan 50?
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You should try to look in their ears and see if there is black dirt looking stuff (an indication of ear mites, it's their feces), any sort of discharge (usually a reaction to an irritation, could be mites, particles of something, or an infection), or curd looking stuff (usually a bacterial infection).

To kill ear mites you can put a drop of olive oil in their ears to suffocated the mites. After that make sure you clean and dust (DE or clean cold wood ash) them and their coop to make sure they don't get them again.

I got some free chickens and rooster that shook their heads when we got them. On closer inspection their ears were red and swollen almost completely shut. I opened them with a pair of blunt tweezers and they had some whitish or yellowish curd looking stuff in their ears from a BAD bacterial infection. I cut a Q-tip sick to a point and scraped out the worst of it then cleaned out the rest with deluded peroxide and a glass dropper. After that I put 1 drop of deluded oregano oil in each ear (as an antibiotic, I also added it to their fermented feed). I did that once every 4 days for 3 weeks and it cleared right up.

They had other problems (bumblefoot, scaly leg mites, 3 had a bacterial infection in their ovaries and were bound with lash eggs, sour croup, 1 had an impacted croup, 1 had a tumor but thankfully it wasn't marek's, etc) so the worse off ones were culled immediately. The rest were mended and kept for the summer and fall then later culled when their laying slowed for winter.

Never again will I get adult birds, no matter how good the deal, unless I can give them a once over before they get on the property. The only reason we got them was because a friend's relative was going to have surgery and was unable to care for them anymore (and obviously she should have gotten rid of them sooner).


I don't know about tylan 50, I usually go the natural herbal route for things since that's what I've got on hand.


dheltzel said:
This is a list I'm building as I go of the parts I'm buying. Not all are available on Amazon, but the list is convenient to track it all
Incubator build
Link: http://amzn.com/w/2L2Q7QPYLBDF8
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Thanks for the list :)
 
barbiegirl said:
I just came back from my boyscout meeting. My scout master was dressed up as Santa and the boys went to the nursing home to sing carols for the residents. He said last week that he was dressed up as Santa last week for the firehouse and they had a picture day with kids then with pets. He told me some person brought 3 chickens to have their picture taken with Santa. I was  laughing so hard and I said "it wasn't me!' lol Ok, which one of you took your chickens to have a picture with Santa???
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Never did it with Santa, but I did take a chicken in one year for fall photos at tsc.

The asst manager suggested it and the photographer was happy to do it. She was happy for the opportunity to add something different to her portfolio.
 
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These guys showed up a couple days ago. They are still here. I called the farm camp up the road to ask if they were theirs and they said they have been hanging around there for a year. They said the white ones {royal palms?) just showed up about a month ago. Not really sure what kind the dark ones are, possibly wild, although I can approach within about 10 feet.

I guess they heard mine and decided to investigate.
 
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