Ribh's D'Coopage

[Ribh]

Ice storm tonight. I will try and get some pictures when the sun first touches the ice. That's cold but beautiful.

I will enjoy looking & be very grateful I don't have to live it.

 

[Kris5902]

Soon as I hear the word, fleas, lice, ticks, etc. I am itching everywhere. Mind over matter.

Still itching myself thinking about them I know I don’t have anything on my, but they make my skin crawl. In treating some of the older farm girls they would literally be running up my arms.

Good evening folks I've only had one case of lice/mites here and I was too late. I treated everyone, even though only the one bird had them. Makes me wonder how only one can get them?

They should be preening them off themselves normally, and dustbathing to control them. Sometimes when a girl is otherwise under the weather they don’t properly preen themselves, or if someone has a trimmed beak, or if they can’t dusbathe properly due to mud, or no dustbath is being provided. These were all contributing factors to the serious infestation that was here in that coop.

Again, shuddering and scratching myself while typing this.

 

[Ribh]

Just had to do the cats before the summer flea infestation got waaay out of control but nothing is as bad as the outbreak of headlice @ the primary school. One family ~ & they refused to treat their kids so it went round & round. My girls & I had hair down to our waists... The chickens are @ least easy to manage.

 

[MaryJanet]

They've been a

Still itching myself thinking about them I know I don’t have anything on my, but they make my skin crawl. In treating some of the older farm girls they would literally be running up my arms.



They should be preening them off themselves normally, and dustbathing to control them. Sometimes when a girl is otherwise under the weather they don’t properly preen themselves, or if someone has a trimmed beak, or if they can’t dusbathe properly due to mud, or no dustbath is being provided. These were all contributing factors to the serious infestation that was here in that coop.

Again, shuddering and scratching myself while typing this.

I had a close look at Sandy and Janet today. Sandy's tail (not her vent) is very red and dry, she has a bare patch down one side of her breastbone, and dirty feather shafts. She's been sick lately and her beak is squared off. Janet's feathers were clean all the way down to her skin and there were no bare patches. Janet is quite roly poly but even with her special feeding regime, Sandy is not thriving. I think I'm going to book her in for another checkup.

You're probably wondering what the feeding regime is. At the end of the day, I put Sandy in the henhouse by herself with three handfuls of golden lay pellets and one handful of seventeen, mixed together with a scoop of water to soften it all up. She fills her tummy for about 20 minutes then she's ready to go out into the yard again. In the meantime, Janet and Mary are out in the yard and sharing a dish of the same concoction, but double portions. Once they've walked away from the bowl, I put it in the henhouse.

Eventually, the wild birds go to bed, so I can open the henhouse and when the hens are ready, they go in to eat a bit more from the bowls before having a good drink and turning in.

 

[Ribh]

They've been a

I had a close look at Sandy and Janet today. Sandy's tail (not her vent) is very red and dry, she has a bare patch down one side of her breastbone, and dirty feather shafts. She's been sick lately and her beak is squared off. Janet's feathers were clean all the way down to her skin and there were no bare patches. Janet is quite roly poly but even with her special feeding regime, Sandy is not thriving. I think I'm going to book her in for another checkup.

You're probably wondering what the feeding regime is. At the end of the day, I put Sandy in the henhouse by herself with three handfuls of golden lay pellets and one handful of seventeen, mixed together with a scoop of water to soften it all up. She fills her tummy for about 20 minutes then she's ready to go out into the yard again. In the meantime, Janet and Mary are out in the yard and sharing a dish of the same concoction, but double portions. Once they've walked away from the bowl, I put it in the henhouse.

Eventually, the wild birds go to bed, so I can open the henhouse and when the hens are ready, they go in to eat a bit more from the bowls before having a good drink and turning in.

That doesn't sound good, MJ. I've got a couple of threadbare girls from the feather picking but it doesn't seem to be bothering them any & their feathers are starting to grow back.

Let us know what the vet says. We've all got a soft spot for your Sandy.

 

[MaryJanet]

I'd really like to see her flourishing. I wonder if she's an escapee from an egg production farm, because if so, she might've been drinking antibiotics her whole life until she joined us, which would explain her fragile immune system. Anyway, that's just one of the Sandy hypotheses I've got in mind.

 

[rjohns39]

Good evening folks

 

[BY Bob]

Ice storm is in full bloom. Here are some early photos.

 

[Ribh]

Ice storm is in full bloom. Here are some early photos.
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That looks miserably cold, Bob. Very pretty though.

 

[Ribh]

Good evening folks

Bob & Sue.