South Carolina

[WestKnollAmy]

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You don't have to do it but I like to add it for the health benefits. It boosts the immune system and helps to keep the organs stay clean. I only add it 2-3 days a week to their waters since I do other stuff too. But I do like it in the summer as it helps to cut the algae from growing in the water. I have well water and it grows quick in my water containers.

If you get to visit health food stores then you can find the apple cider vinegar that has not been homogenized and you can keep the "mother" to keep the organic stuff going.
I pour most all of the liquid into another container and leave the mother in the bottom of the original cider container and add water to get it "going" again. Meanwhile, in the gallon of apple cider vinegar (ACV) I add about 3-4 tablespoons of minced garlic along with some of the juice. I shake it well and splash about a tablespoon, maybe more, into a gallon of drinking water for the birds. Whether it helps or not, I can't promise. It is said to. Breeders often say that it helps with pasty butt in chicks but that has not been my experience.
If I add too much the birds won't drink it well and I have to cut it again but most times I can tell how much of a "splash" to add.

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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Someone decided that, uhm, buff brahmas are for, uhm playing with, and I found an expired chicken when I got home. BAD MIDAS!!!! I've introduced him to the babies, but he's grounded in his crate while we're at work now b/c I don't trust him. Once we get him altered I've researched that the 'playing' goes down and the guarding goes up. I hate that a chicken had to experience this first hand though. So, with that said, I'm going to need at least another brahma if they aren't all spoken for...

Amy here are the babies!
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/57425_all_4.jpg
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/57425_ashley_and_babies.jpg

 

[WestKnollAmy]

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I use Oxine to clean chicken stuff with. I put a few drops in the water in my incubators about once a week, clean water containers with it, brooders or whatever. It is safe for chickens. It even suggests putting it in drinking water for chickens or spritzing over chickens but I don't do that. Mostly it is the 'bators I use it for.
I bought mine online at First State Vet or somewhere like that, maybe Cutler Supply or Twin City Poultry supply.

 

[emptynester]

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That is eagle eye- one of my splash cochins. Here is a picture of him now, a few weeks later.

 

[DickGJ]

Man those Cochins crack me up, they are cute! My daughter calls our Buff Cochin (got her "the cochin" by accident at TSC) in a mixed pullet bin... "Trousers" cause she thinks it looks like it has a pair of pants on. Hey, a kid's imagination...ya gotta love it!

 

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need to bring her over here to see my llamas haircut...they have their "fancy dancin pants" look going on right now...lol

 

[WestKnollAmy]

Speaking of Cochins.....Chickychickybaby came over today to pick up Nicole's' bantam Cochin roo.
You would not believe that heathen boy!

He was meant for the freezer but Nicole saved him from other roos beating up on him a few months ago and he instantly fell in love with her. Follows her around and calls for her, does the wing dance to her and when she was not here he called for her still. I fed and watered him almost every day but he didn't like me. Not mean or anything, he just ignored me.

So today Kimberly and Nicole come up and he is miffed because she wasn't here for a few days. He fussed at her a bit but then she put the "touch" on him!
He forgave her and fell asleep in her hands. She turned him over and rubbed his tummy and his head fell back and I swear I think I heard him say "Aaahhhhhhh".

She was holding him and rubbing his head at one point and he had his eyes closed, totally enjoying being loved on by his "woman" and Kimberly reached over to touch him. He squawked at her! He did not want anyone touching him except Nicole! Now while he was miffed at Nicole, Kimberly picked him up and held him and I suppose he thought it would make Nicole jealous but when he saw she wasn't reacting he wanted down.

It just floored me the way that roo laid on his back and let his head lay back in total trust of her. She rubbed his foot and feathers and he almost purred in pleasure. I have never seen a bird take up with some one like that. As much as I care for so many birds and have my favs, I have not had one with such total devotion as that!
And Nicole is a duck lover!
I suppose to please her he will waddle and quack!

 

[emptynester]

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LOL I have a buff cochin that I swear has the best "pants"! They DO look like they are wearing trousers! I think it's one of the many reasons I love them so much. If she likes them that much, I have a couple of young cockerels that will be looking for homes soon

 

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I suppose to please her he will waddle and quack!lau

Nadine if he does we want pics! Your little red frizzle was one of them that was following me around the garden today...the other 2 have the attitude of bring it to me...yeah they are a bit spoiled!​

 

[DickGJ]

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I never heard of such a thing with a chicken...I couldn't stop reading your little story here and could picture every descriptive minute of it. How amazing! If I didn't here it from you (after seeing how highly regarded you are as an expert here on BYC), I wouldn't have believed this story. Amazing how a chicken would let anyone lay them on their back so they can get their tummy rubbed! I got dogs that don't do that!