Shadrach's Ex Battery and Rescued chickens thread.

[TropicalChickies]

You may not have noticed but Covid didn't go anywhere; or rather it went everywhere but the media got bored of the hype, the government found other things to spend our money on like war and very quietly the advice about how we should deal with Covid changed to something like what the Swedish did at the begining of the crisis; something our wonderfull politicians condemed with much self rightous crap at the time.

Yup. Indeed.

 

[TropicalChickies]

I put a lb of elemental sulfur powder in the dust bath. 10lbs. Of dust bath material if making In runs.
I have a poofer that I have squirted dust into cracks, roosts and under wings and butts.

Ok, sounds good thanks. I dusted some sulfur in the coops yesterday on the roosts and all the cracks and sprinkled some in the egg laying area. I'm going to mix up some dustbath material with it now.

 

[TropicalChickies]

This tick season was very bad for me and I adopted an old fashioned remedy which is to hang a sock full of sulphur by the door. You use it like a powder puff on your pants and shoes.
I have no idea if it works but sometimes these old approaches are at least as good as others and this one is easy.
I hadn’t thought about adding it to a dust bath. Of course mine pick their own bathing spots so that might not be practical.

Thanks, I hung up some sulfur filled sachets too.

 

[RoyalChick]

Thanks, I hung up some sulfur filled sachets too.

The hanging up is just so it is handy and you remember to puff yourself as you go out.

 

[L-plate chicken mum]

If I read it right then in tests in commercial production they hang the sachets up so the chickens dust themselves & they found that not only do the chickens with the sachets in their cages (cages!) benefit so also did the other chickens. One of the conclusions was that it should also be applicable in backyard settings if hung up in the coop or near feed and/or water stations or used in dust bath areas.
If the little blighters are resistant to the available chemical control then it’s worth a go

edited cos ‘it’ put a smiley face next to cages
not that great with technology & have paws not slender digits!

 

[RoyalChick]

If I read it right then in tests in commercial production they hang the sachets up so the chickens dust themselves & they found that not only do the chickens with the sachets in their cages (cages!) benefit so also did the other chickens. One of the conclusions was that it should also be applicable in backyard settings if hung up in the coop or near feed and/or water stations or used in dust bath areas.
If the little blighters are resistant to the available chemical control then it’s worth a go

edited cos ‘it’ put a smiley face next to cages
not that great with technology & have paws not slender digits!

Now that is clever.
I hadn’t seen that. I was looking for how to protect myself against the ticks so mine was more about dusting me!

 

[BDutch]

Now that is clever.
I hadn’t seen that. I was looking for how to protect myself against the ticks so mine was more about dusting me!

Are you talking about the same sulfur as used in the grape fields or vineyards ?
This is not harmless if you use it a lot. Humans get headaches from wine with much sulfur. And I believe using it is restricted because its unhealthy in large quantities.

 

[Molpet]

Are you talking about the same sulfur as used in the grape fields or vineyards ?
This is not harmless if you use it a lot. Humans get headaches from wine with much sulfur. And I believe using it is restricted because its unhealthy in large quantities.

Same sulfur.

 

[RoyalChick]

Are you talking about the same sulfur as used in the grape fields?
This is not harmless if you use it a lot. Humans get headaches from wine with much sulfur. And I believe using it is restricted because its unhealthy in large quantities.

I don’t know anything about grape fields (I have one vine and it seems to need no care other than to hack it down when it gets too aggressive).
I know that the wine headache is often attributed to sulfites. I am not sure the evidence for that is rock solid but it is a widely held belief.
Some of the sulfites are naturally occurring as a result of fermentation, but sulphur dioxide (sulfite) is often added to wine as a preservative.
To get to sulfites from sulfur is an industrial process requiring a fair bit of chemistry including an electric charge.

 

[fuzzi]

Public transport is very much a no go now but not for the reasons I think you have in mind. Between the strikes, the staffing levels, the out of date rolling stock and the lack of investment I'm surprised any buses and trains run at all.
However, that is not what you meant.

You may not have noticed but Covid didn't go anywhere; or rather it went everywhere but the media got bored of the hype, the government found other things to spend our money on like war and very quietly the advice about how we should deal with Covid changed to something like what the Swedish did at the begining of the crisis; something our wonderfull politicians condemed with much self rightous crap at the time.

I've been traveling every day, some times twice a day for the last eighteen months to and from the allotments on public transport while Covid spread and mutated. I've got quite good at spotting the sick on the buses and trains and take the necessary action to avoid close contact. Many it seems believe that if they've had the jabs they can no longer contract Covid. My sister who would present herself as an intelligent person is one such. What the vaccinations do, probably in most cases, is reduce the severity of the infection. What many people it seems do not understand is you are still infectious, jabs or no jabs should you contract the disease.

My sister and her husband have been a two person super spreader event; not because they contracted Covid but because they are ignorant.

What I've learnd is fresh air and freedom of movement will help keep me well and the people I have to try to prevent from killing me are friends and family, who many, despite the vast amount of information on the subject want to rush around hugging and kissing everyone.

So, yup, I'm still using public transport. I wear a mask and choose off peak travel times when possible. I wash my hands a lot, sit by open windows if possible and in general try to keep a sensible distances from other people.
The best place for doing that is at the allotments.

Common sense...not so common, unfortunately.

To be fair, I think a lot of people believed politicians who claimed that you couldn't get or give Covid if you just got a shot. They were wrong.

When I feel as if I am "coming down with something" I stay away from others, rest, and drink fluids, especially my homemade bone broth.

ETA tax:

Deep Litter method at work

We're being hit with a tropical storm this morning, but there's dry areas underneath the tarps.