Smoky Mtn East TN

[cybercat]

I save my egg shells and crush them and feed them back to my hens. Great recycle and good calcium that way.

 

[Lunar]

alrighty. I will try a new food regime. I am also trying to make some fodder with barley/wheat seeds. Maybe I can get my picky "kids" to eat better.

Thanks for all the input.

 

[cybercat]

We have our first broody of the hens I hatched out this year. Wonder how many others will go broody.

 

[laughingdog]

My bantam dark Wheaton Americana keeps going broody on me. its cute, but she has spurs like thumb tacks, and a scardy cat, so only startles me when she starts up (you can't see her squashed down on nest box till i disturb her and she has a short lived go at me each time), and hope she is great mother come spring, but doesn't set younger pullets to broody mode, as so far my D' Uccle hen and dutch hens haven't taken up the cause.

note now about if getting low to no eggs, tiz da season to do worming anyway, at least piperzine17/wazine17, first to safety lessen load, cheap and mild. If only that to help bulk up for coming season. when butchering and necropsied (odd? Yea.. but i like knowing how my birds are really doing over all on inside while I'm culling anyway ect) my extra cockerels/culls i noticed roundworms bad in ones oldest and very mild to moderate in others (most only one).

If you follow up on worming with something else, threehorses and dawg.... and couple others trained in field have posted some really good economical and extremely detailed suggestions and directions. and stuff for newbs and all of us in disease parisites meds area of forum, or i can post or message what i got down before my phone spazed.

 

[RedRidge]

My bantam dark Wheaton Americana keeps going broody on me. its cute, but she has spurs like thumb tacks, and a scardy cat, so only startles me when she starts up (you can't see her squashed down on nest box till i disturb her and she has a short lived go at me each time), and hope she is great mother come spring, but doesn't set younger pullets to broody mode, as so far my D' Uccle hen and dutch hens haven't taken up the cause.

note now about if getting low to no eggs, tiz da season to do worming, at least piperzine (wazine), first to safety lessen load, cheap and mild. If only that to help bulk up for coming season. when butchering my extra cockerels/culls i noticed roundworms bad in ones oldest and very mild to moderate in others (most only had one adult). only one of birds ever showed shed worms, and he was mean and extremely hearty.

If you follow up on worming with something else, threehorses and dawg.... and couple others trained in field have posted some really good economical and extremely detailed suggestions and directions. and stuff for newbs and all of us in disease parisites meds area of forum, or i can post or message what i got before my phone spazed.

I have done it many ways... over the course of the last 10 years I finally have a worming protocol that works for me.
I do NOT worm - ever! It took a while to get there, and you have to be willing to do some serious culling.
But let me tell you - it IS worth it!
l do periodic fecals... have very low fecal counts.
I think the trick is to cull everything that doesn't have a good parasite resistance.
I have not wormed one bird, or any other livestock, in 10 yrs.
IF you cull those you should, AND you rotate intensely, it is possible.
It is not only a huge money savings, but a huge time savings as well.

 

[Lunar]

HAPPY THANKSGIVING PEEPS!

 

[cybercat]

Happy Thanksgiving to all.

 

[laughingdog]

the proper way to hold a scovy drake duckling (he thinks so anyway).

happy thanksgiving!

 

[sgribble]

I was wondering who is going to the show in Knoxville this weekend? I also have a few Largefowl Rhode Island Reds to sell and could bring them Friday when I bring my birds to show
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[Lunar]

I will be there this weekend. I am taking Seramas and a Showgirl Roo to show.