Surviving Minnesota!

[KlopKlop]

Need some chick advice...

I like to give my chicks electrolites and vitamin mix in their water. Fleet farm is out, nobody else around here sells it I have half a package but it is left over from last springs chicks....

do i give them the old stuff? do i just skip it? I may go back to fleet farm tomorrow and see if they restocked

thoughts?

 

[Cebarmlds]

Need some chick advice...

I like to give my chicks electrolites and vitamin mix in their water.  Fleet farm is out, nobody else around here sells it  I have half a package but it is left over from last springs chicks....

do i give them the old stuff?  do i just skip it?  I may go back to fleet farm tomorrow and see if they restocked

thoughts?

There is a recipe for homemade electrolytes here somwhere. I have it written down and can post it tomorrow.

 

[Violetsfeathers]

I can't wait to make a toad. We gave up our last try. They weren't enjoying the love shack and it was getting so wet due to rain that we let them out to prevent them getting sick.

Soon though! Very soon!

What is a toad?

 

[Dandelioness]

Need some chick advice...

I like to give my chicks electrolites and vitamin mix in their water.  Fleet farm is out, nobody else around here sells it  I have half a package but it is left over from last springs chicks....

do i give them the old stuff?  do i just skip it?  I may go back to fleet farm tomorrow and see if they restocked

thoughts?

Instead of that, I give a mix of 1 qt water, 2T raw vinegar & 3T raw honey for the first couple weeks.
Hope this helps!

Enjoying the thread as always.
We've had cars getting stuck in the driveway, luckily the truck can pull them out, but sheesh. Dry up already. In our five years here, we've not had this nonsense.

Went out with The Boy this afternoon and put some roost bars in a hoop structure in the hopes of setting up a Guinea Gulag. Still needs the door put on. If I can keep the chickens penned for a couple months, it'll give the pasture spot seeding and new "lawn" area time to grow & toughen up. The areas where the CX growouts were tractored are already showing some deep green!

 

[duluthralphie]

What is a toad?

Toads are a "breed" I developed, well that is too strong a word. They are a cross of CX's and Rainbows. Frogs are the f1 of Cx's bred to each other. I was told I could not call them CX's as that was patented/copywrited word and a CX crossed to a CX is not the same genetics as a CX because they are a cross themselves. While I highly dispute the last part, I just started calling them frogs and toads.

 

[duluthralphie]

Need some chick advice...

I like to give my chicks electrolites and vitamin mix in their water. Fleet farm is out, nobody else around here sells it I have half a package but it is left over from last springs chicks....

do i give them the old stuff? do i just skip it? I may go back to fleet farm tomorrow and see if they restocked

thoughts?

I would not worry about it being old, as long as it was resealed and stored in cool dark place, I store everything in cool dark places.


However, not to give Blooie too much credit, I have not given electrolytes since I started using the MHP. Pasty Butt seems to be a thing of the past using it. Chick losses are way down compared to heat lamps. And I sleep better knowing there is on heat lamp in use.

That said I have heat lamps outside in the sheds. I am too chicken to rely completely on the lamps.

 

[duluthralphie]

Instead of that, I give a mix of 1 qt water, 2T raw vinegar & 3T raw honey for the first couple weeks.
Hope this helps!

Enjoying the thread as always.
We've had cars getting stuck in the driveway, luckily the truck can pull them out, but sheesh. Dry up already. In our five years here, we've not had this nonsense.

Went out with The Boy this afternoon and put some roost bars in a hoop structure in the hopes of setting up a Guinea Gulag. Still needs the door put on. If I can keep the chickens penned for a couple months, it'll give the pasture spot seeding and new "lawn" area time to grow & toughen up. The areas where the CX growouts were tractored are already showing some deep green!

That sounds more like a Guinea Gitmo than Gulag....

Very subtle difference between them.


I had planned to drill holes today for posts and start a new guinea area "Guinea Stalag #2". I am was also going to start larger breeding pens. I am hoping for an area approximately 8x30 Just to give them more room.... And because the local War Department does not like where I have the smaller breeding pens now. ( for being my farm. she sure seems to think she has a lot of say in it).....

Also I could use the current breeding pens for teenage birds. Considering I have about 2 million Creamers to raise to soup age.

 

[duluthralphie]

I am a little upset.

It appears to my semi-trained eye (aviation weather stuff) the storm is tracking north of the path the National Weather service had cleared it to travel.

I am hoping someone from the NWS gets out there and forces the storm back on the track it is suppose to be on.

I am hoping there is a high pressure area slipping in from the north to put the storm back on track, I would hate to get the snow Kloppers as spent so much time planning for and getting ready for. It would not be fair to him.

 

[KlopKlop]

good morning all! chicks left st. paul last night, so i am about to head into town to be at the PO when it opens. yay!

 

[Cebarmlds]

Homemade electrolytes

1 cup water
2 teaspoons sugar
1/8 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon baking soda

use full strength on severely ill chickens, one cup per gallon of water during high stress and heat.



* do not use honey on chicks under 4 months.