Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[Molpet]

What damage to a chickens lungs is done by the inhalation.
What damage exposre to fine particles does to the chickens eyes, ears and throat.
I would also want to know what risks there may be to my health by breathing in sulpher dust.

Yes a study for commerical birds.

I believe when birds dust bath with fine powders they close eyes and throat when it's flying around.
I used to poof my birds with a duster and the sulfur is about the same as poultry dust they sell in shaker cans. I just put sulfur t in the dust bath now. I think anything we would use should not be inhaled, weather it's a mist or powder.

 

[Shadrach]

Yes a study for commerical birds.

I believe when birds dust bath with fine powders they close eyes and throat when it's flying around.
I used to poof my birds with a duster and the sulfur is about the same as poultry dust they sell in shaker cans. I just put sulfur t in the dust bath now. I think anything we would use should not be inhaled, weather it's a mist or powder.

Have any of your birds got mites now? I would be interested in how you find it performs. What about the bag method, say one hanging just below the pop hatch?

I believe when birds dust bath with fine powders they close eyes and throat when it's flying around.

I didn't know that. I've seen them close the second eyelid when bathing but I hadn't considered them shutting their airway.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Maybe the wood ash we take out is why I have not had mites.. My birds do a ton of dust bathing in the coop and I mix the wood ash in the holes and dirt.

 

[MaryJanet]

Maybe the wood ash we take out is why I have not had mites.. My birds do a ton of dust bathing in the coop and I mix the wood ash in the holes and dirt.View attachment 3233819

I do that too Penny and so far there haven't been any mite problems. But in my case, the house was built on sand and maybe sand is hostile for mites?

 

[Shadrach]

Maybe the wood ash we take out is why I have not had mites.. My birds do a ton of dust bathing in the coop and I mix the wood ash in the holes and dirt.View attachment 3233819

I put wood ash from my stove in the dust baths outside my house. We didn't have much of a mite problem apart from SLM with some of the bantams.
One that was supposed to be a temporary coop seemed to attract wasps and red mite but it was easy to clean with a few swats and a blow torch.

 

[Shadrach]

Henry seems to be over whatever it was that made his comb go almost black in places. I' still leaning towards a minor heart attack. Poison, virus, whatever is I think unlikely to come and go so quickly with no other signs of illness. He was a bit vague for a few minutes and that was it. Maybe it was heat related.

The one by the gate is not well again. She was on the sick list a few days back but looked like she was recovering.
She's doing it again. The Legbar, not Fret, has been with the sick hen or close by since I arrived. There is something going on here that I don't understand.

She isn't really as belligerant as she looks.

 

[Molpet]

Have any of your birds got mites now? I would be interested in how you find it performs. What about the bag method, say one hanging just below the pop hatch?


I didn't know that. I've seen them close the second eyelid when bathing but I hadn't considered them shutting their airway.

This spring a 6 month white cockerel had lice. But I hadn't added any sulfur since fall 2020. I caught a few others and no one else had any.
He was a meat mutt that's part CX. He closely resembled a CX and was having troubles walking from his size. I had a black brother, I was deciding on which to use. I kept the black since he wasn't as heavy but didn't have health issues.
I have found birds with health issues attract bugs.
I did put out sulfur and when I harvested another brother, a few weeks ago, he was bug free . I had a couple injured hens, spousal abuse, and they didn't have any.
Since I don't handle my birds unless they are injured or I'm harvesting, it's hard to say if they have any.

 

[Shadrach]

This spring a 6 month white cockerel had lice. But I hadn't added any sulfur since fall 2020. I caught a few others and no one else had any.
He was a meat mutt that's part CX. He closely resembled a CX and was having troubles walking from his size. I had a black brother, I was deciding on which to use. I kept the black since he wasn't as heavy but didn't have health issues.
I have found birds with health issues attract bugs.
I did put out sulfur and when I harvested another brother, a few weeks ago, he was bug free . I had a couple injured hens, spousal abuse, and they didn't have any.
Since I don't handle my birds unless they are injured or I'm harvesting, it's hard to say if they have any.

I find chickens with health issues attract parasites as well.
The theory has it that free range chickens get more parasites than contained chickens because they get exposed to more. I have no way of measuring the exposure, but I can see whether they have parasites or not.

 

[Molpet]

I find chickens with health issues attract parasites as well.
The theory has it that free range chickens get more parasites than contained chickens because they get exposed to more. I have no way of measuring the exposure, but I can see whether they have parasites or not.

The first time I seen a louse,it was on a turkeys head, was right after a huge flock of black birds roosted in the poultry yard. It was the only one I found. The birds I had back then were tamer being raised in the house. Most of the ones now have been raised by broodies.
The cockerel this spring had eggs on his chest where he had been laying down. None by the vent or under wings.

 

[micstrachan]

Hi Shad and Ex Batts. Wow, I’m 100 pages and almost a month behind! I hope everyone is doing well.

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