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[centrarchid]

After a day of bugs and greens, everybody piles on to top off on feed. We got a huge amount of grasshoppers and flying ants leaving the chicks craving sweets.

 

[centrarchid]

Neighbor to north has owl working their chickens so I have to get birds penned early.

 

[centrarchid]

I guess we can call Aseels games. Chicks hatched/hatching today.

Juvenile pullet below full-sibling to chicks above.

Wonder how much trouble it will be to combine them all later.

 

[Matejka]

These Roundheads have been solid red for many generations and this pops up. View attachment 2257652

She may not be what you wanted but I think she's purty.
Give the throwback a chance. It might surprise ya.

 

[centrarchid]

I sent daughter out to look for the comet. She got side-tracked trying to catch a bullfrog in the dark. She said it is ginormus. I said it is a boy. Our place crawls with bullfrogs and green frogs. And other frogs too. My daughter is into the creepy crawlies, except for spiders. Boy is breeding mice.

 

[Warrior gamefowl]

She may not be what you wanted but I think she's purty.
Give the throwback a chance. It might surprise ya.

She’s fine. It’s just a paint job. I like her for being different but in the end she will produce like her normal colored siblings.

 

[Warrior gamefowl]

Does anybody else here use DE?
Curious. It’s good for some parasites and lots of claimed benefits for all animals

 

[centrarchid]

Does anybody else here use DE?
Curious. It’s good for some parasites and lots of claimed benefits for all animals

Only for controlling insects in feed and bedding. It kills adult flies, but is slow acting. I think it may be effective as an additive to dust bathing material against mites and lice, although method action seems more like how regular soil particles work. The DE / soil particles interfere with ability of external parasite to hang on so they fall off host / chicken.

As for intestinal worms, I have not seen any research not funded by manufacturer showing efficacy. Most of the bunk post on this site and others has DE being an effective dewormer.

 

[Warrior gamefowl]

Only for controlling insects in feed and bedding. It kills adult flies, but is slow acting. I think it may be effective as an additive to dust bathing material against mites and lice, although method action seems more like how regular soil particles work. The DE / soil particles interfere with ability of external parasite to hang on so they fall off host / chicken.

As for intestinal worms, I have not seen any research not funded by manufacturer showing efficacy. Most of the bunk post on this site and others has DE being an effective dewormer.

That’s pretty much my take on it too. I don’t think it does much, with the exception of fly control. On the other hand, I don’t see much of a down side either

 

[Studabird]

Okay so I am a victim of TSC blindly asserting chicken breeds so I have 14 chickens that were supposed to be 4 sexlinks 5 cubalaya pullets and 5 bantams. What I actually got were 5 buff Brahmas 3 pullets 2 cockerels. 5 Game Fowls 3 pullets 2 cockerels. And 4 sexlinks. My question is I have read that game fowl roosters will fight to the death with other roosters. Is this true? They have all been together since they got home from the store and I have not seen any aggression yet and they are 13 weeks give or take a few days.