Sitting with a cup of coffee. (coffee lovers)

[Highcotton]

Good Morning all. The coffee is good. Today is my chicken partner's ninth birthday party. So, a lot is not going on with the chickens.

 

[3goodeggs]

We wish her a good day!

 

[Alaskan]

@Hagar3

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!

Are the chickens going to wear party hats?

My chickens wear clothes, I think you need to dress your lovelies up for the party!

 

[TeaChick]

this will probably be My last post until December for I will be attending school in PA starting tomorrow. My chickens shall be in good hands I am sure.

Signing Out,
orpington13

We'll miss you!!!

Have a good time (and do well) at school!

 

[TeaChick]

Good Morning all. The coffee is good. Today is my chicken partner's ninth birthday party. So, a lot is not going on with the chickens.

to your chicken partner!!!

@Hagar3

Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!

Are the chickens going to wear party hats?

My chickens wear clothes, I think you need to dress your lovelies up for the party!

I did actually make a saddle for one of my hens b/c she was losing feathers so badly. By the time I got it finished, the weather was way too hot for her to be able to wear it.

 

[Alaskan]

@TeaChick

I have never treated for any disease, or worms. (In my poultry)

Only thing I have ever done is wash off pasty butt bottoms, taped chick foot issues, and splayed leg issues, and sewed up one chicken that was attacked by an eagle (that was actually super cool! I used a sewing needle, vodka and embroidery floss. She recovered perfectly).

I have also used chicken saddles. I also never use medicated feed.

My prevention consists of cleaning equipment.

I wonder.... Other people up in Alaska have mites and diseases, I know our dog gets worms

I have, I think twice now, had a respiratory disease that killed off only one hen each time, years apart.

When I was a kid in Texas, the losses were only predation, and one internal layer, and we lost one goose because she got covered in egg yolk from sitting on some cracked eggs (super nasty).

I need to ask my sister if she has had disease or worm issues ( she is also in Texas). I know her goats and horses get HEAVY worm loads if she doesn't stay on top of it. She did once get a terrible mite infestation with her chickens (forget what kind).

I know my Grandmother, my sister, and I, have a LARGE amount of ventilation. I am very pro-ventilation. However, I know ventilation has nothing to do with cocci.

I wonder about the disease thing.... One of these days I bet I get hit hard, just hasn't happened yet.

 

[TeaChick]

We kind of try to maintain a policy of minimal chemical preventions. Cocci in chicks and parvo in dogs is something that we've just lost too many little ones too. Otherwise, like you, our prevention consists mainly in keeping everything super clean.
Thank you so much for sharing this all with me. =)

 

[chickadoodles]

@TeaChick

I have never treated for any disease, or worms. (In my poultry)

Only thing I have ever done is wash off pasty butt bottoms, taped chick foot issues, and splayed leg issues, and sewed up one chicken that was attacked by an eagle (that was actually super cool! I used a sewing needle, vodka and embroidery floss. She recovered perfectly).

I have also used chicken saddles. I also never use medicated feed.

My prevention consists of cleaning equipment.

I wonder.... Other people up in Alaska have mites and diseases, I know our dog gets worms

I have, I think twice now, had a respiratory disease that killed off only one hen each time, years apart.

When I was a kid in Texas, the losses were only predation, and one internal layer, and we lost one goose because she got covered in egg yolk from sitting on some cracked eggs (super nasty).

I need to ask my sister if she has had disease or worm issues ( she is also in Texas). I know her goats and horses get HEAVY worm loads if she doesn't stay on top of it. She did once get a terrible mite infestation with her chickens (forget what kind).

I know my Grandmother, my sister, and I, have a LARGE amount of ventilation. I am very pro-ventilation. However, I know ventilation has nothing to do with cocci.

I wonder about the disease thing.... One of these days I bet I get hit hard, just hasn't happened yet.

Last year was my first with poultry and I had a problem and lost all my birds from someone letting them out of the coop and run. This year I bought birds from several sources and cackle hatchery was one I got a lot of birds from they kept getting cocci and I bleach their water buckets weekly and wash them out daily. It has cost me a small fortune in meds! I am not happy about it either and lost 10 out of 150. I have a lot of ventilation in my coops as well around the entire top at the eves and two windows and two doors that are only welded wire no shutters or anything. I don't like to use meds but here in Alabama it stays so humid I have to worm the birds at least once a year.

 

[subhanalah]

Last year was my first with poultry and I had a problem and lost all my birds from someone letting them out of the coop and run. This year I bought birds from several sources and cackle hatchery was one I got a lot of birds from they kept getting cocci and I bleach their water buckets weekly and wash them out daily. It has cost me a small fortune in meds! I am not happy about it either and lost 10 out of 150. I have a lot of ventilation in my coops as well around the entire top at the eves and two windows and two doors that are only welded wire no shutters or anything. I don't like to use meds but here in Alabama it stays so humid I have to worm the birds at least once a year.   

I got birds from cackle, didn't have any problems, other than them wanting to live in the neighbors' yards and not my own!

 

[vehve]

In Finland, very little medication is used on poultry. Culling is the usual treatment for most things, which leads to more resistant specimens surviving. Some medicated feed is sold though, but we haven't used any. I think our two Sussexes suffered from a mild case of cocci, but they seemed to snap out of it. I think it delayed their development a bit though, they're closing in on twenty weeks now, and the rooster still hasn't started crowing. The pullet looks like she'll start laying in a few weeks.