Silkie thread!
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Thank you, i had a baby silkie pass away last night too. I cleaned & sprayed the coup with the poultry protector but i dont know what to do. There is another d'uccle chick and her tail droops and stuff but she runs around, eats, and drinks.Should i spray each of them?
Whatever spray you use always follow direction label carefully. That goes for organic Poultry Protector too. We don't use it on everything. We only apply on sections of the chicken recommended by the label and only in the crevices/cracks of the nestboxes and perch joints as recommended. Those are the places lice/mites hide so its wasteful and not necessary to overuse spraying EVERYTHING.
they are 6 months old I started feeling them crumble after they started laying eggs
If there's no money to be made on it no one does anything "safe" in the food or gardening industry until there's a huge public scandal or outcry. Sad but so typical
So long as you are getting eggs and your birds are healthy, I wouldn't change a thing. Just keep the protein down to 15-18 %.
Wonderful vid! May I also add that it's not just cruelty to caged birds to address but the type of engineered chicken that's used by fast food chains.
99% of chickens bred for our USA markets and restaurants are the Cornish Cross which are engineered to grow large and fast for slaughter at 8 weeks old. The poor chicks grow so fast and are fed such a huge diet that their internal organs and skeletal structure can't support their quick growth and if they go past 8-10 weeks start having terrible health issues - I don't think I care for this cruelty or to consume such a meat so we have discontinued getting restaurant, market, or canned chicken here - that includes McDonald's, Burger King, Taco Bell, KFC, Del Taco, Carl's, Jack In The Box, and any hamburger/chicken joint or Chinese fast food. Sit-down or expensive restaurants are just as guilty since they procure their purchases through wholesale large-scale warehouse orders to get the large-breasted Cornish Cross meat.
As for Mad Cow we haven't eaten beef in over 7 years. In the USA ground beef is collected from several parts of the States and even from South America to one central packing/distribution plant in the Midwest - several cases of e.coli have emerged in the past few years where restaurant and market chains have had major recalls - and those are just the ones they tell us about - how many other outbreaks has the industry kept from an uninformed public? Because the ground meats are collected from several sources into one central plant they can't even trace the single source of an outbreak.
As for eggs, we haven't bought market eggs and not even so-called organic or cage-free labels since we've had rich golden-yolked eggs from our own girls. Open an organic or so-called cage-free egg from the market next to one of your own chickens' eggs and see the difference!
Find your nearest open air "Farmers' Market" for pesticide-free veggies or grow your own. The commercial produce industry is so heavily laden with pesticides or irradiated leafy vegetables or GMO origins that there's danger in every bite or next to no nutrition left in them.
Sorry, had to add a rant about USA foods
Smiles - Syl
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I'm hoping someone can help me figure this out, as I'm not sure whats going on here! I kept this cockerel back for myself to let him grow out, thinking I might keep him to breed. Last week he started looking like he had some very light silver leakage in his hackles, which doesn't really bother me, I just figured I'd have to be a little more selective with his offspring, and I don't typically keep many males back anyway and my females tend to stay pretty clean. Today, I noticed he's got this big white patch of feathers in his crest and a couple other patches of white here and there on his body. I have a black rooster over blue, black and splash hens, so no blue or splash roo to make splash chicks. None of the other chicks I've hatched from these birds has ever looked like this, and I've got quite a few others from the same parents! Anybody want to take a guess as to whats going on here? I'm not sure what to do with him now, or if I should even keep him. I really hate to let him go, he's got really nice type so far, holds his wings high and tight, good feet, beard, comb, ect. I'm kind of at a loss with this one. What would you do with him?
This isn't the best picture and I can try to get a better one if need be, but you can definitely see the white spot in his crest and the other "dapples" (what I'm calling this for now) throughout his back. I think he's pretty neat looking, sort of like a reverse splash and I'd hate to rid of him if I've got something unique and special here. However, if this is just some type of really exaggerated leakage, I don't really want to keep on going with it. Anyway, any thoughts or advice is very much appreciated!
This isn't the best picture and I can try to get a better one if need be, but you can definitely see the white spot in his crest and the other "dapples" (what I'm calling this for now) throughout his back. I think he's pretty neat looking, sort of like a reverse splash and I'd hate to rid of him if I've got something unique and special here. However, if this is just some type of really exaggerated leakage, I don't really want to keep on going with it. Anyway, any thoughts or advice is very much appreciated!
That is not true.
Cool!
ty so much its crazy to think how much love and enjoyment I have for themSo long as you are getting eggs and your birds are healthy, I wouldn't change a thing. Just keep the protein down to 15-18 %.
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