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[shewatson]

Looking for ideas. What do you do when you leave town? Do you have a neighbor care for your chickens, do you hire somebody, do you avoid leaving so that you can care for your chickens?

Now that I've decided to have our urban farm I am wondering what to do for extended stays away from home (i.e. family vacations out of town). Could I please learn from your experience?

I can't leave my brood longer than one night.

 

[hungnguyen]

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Besides the scaley leg mite, I saw 3 types around the vent. One is tiny black, one is tiny red, and the last one is Red but bigger body that we can pop it when killing them. What are the names of these 3?

 

[orumpoultry]

Tiny red might be chiggers. Are they vibrant red?

 

[ClovisMan]

Looking for ideas. What do you do when you leave town? Do you have a neighbor care for your chickens, do you hire somebody, do you avoid leaving so that you can care for your chickens?

Now that I've decided to have our urban farm I am wondering what to do for extended stays away from home (i.e. family vacations out of town). Could I please learn from your experience?

This




Plus a couple of these


And one of these


And you should be good to go for a week or so. Just hope you don't have any predations. You could also contact the local 4H club and see if any of the kiddos would be interested in Chicken-sittin' for a small wage.

 

[Brookshire11]

The link for the lady in Bonham won't work

If you decided to get them from her, that's not too terribly far from me, I don't think.
I could deliver, since she won't ship.

The Colonel and his girls are 4 weeks today! He is really showing his rooster-ness!

At what age do roosters start to crow?

Mine started obviously crowing one morning around 9 weeks.
I hadn't heard him do anything close before that. It was really random. Lol, but he was obviously a roo by 4 weeks too.

Hmmmm..... maybe you are expecting too? There seems to be a lot of that going around right now. Must be something in the water. Glad mine is filtered!

No rain for tomorrow. No twins either. If it isn't too windy I a going to try and get out on my bike. Doesn't look too good for that right now. I can do a trainer ride though. An extra ride for the week in the trainer is better than no ride at all.

Ain't that the truth!

Just a note here ! Today is April the 1st so lets all not be fooled today!!

Our accountant at work already got me...she put a sticky note under my mouse...took me 5 minutes to figure out why my mouse wouldn't work...lol

 

[jajeanpierre]

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You seem to have a huge problem. Get some of that Elector--you can use it on laying hens and there is no withdrawal.

The other bug might be a louse.

 

[gameandmore]

Well they are finally here! I received my 10 black ameraucanas this morning.

 

[jajeanpierre]

Besides the scaley leg mite, I saw 3 types around the vent. One is tiny black, one is tiny red, and the last one is Red but bigger body that we can pop it when killing them. What are the names of these 3?

Sorry, forgot to answer your question--the mites are probably Northern Fowl mites and Chicken (Red) mites. The other bug is probably a louse.

http://ohioline.osu.edu/vme-fact/0018.html

http://www.the-chicken-chick.com/2012/08/poultry-lice-and-mites-identification.html

 

[Ms Jellybean]

Looking for ideas. What do you do when you leave town? Do you have a neighbor care for your chickens, do you hire somebody, do you avoid leaving so that you can care for your chickens?

Now that I've decided to have our urban farm I am wondering what to do for extended stays away from home (i.e. family vacations out of town). Could I please learn from your experience?

I know people who have chickens and they get a neighbour, friend or coworker to care for them when they are gone.

Our accountant at work already got me...she put a sticky note under my mouse...took me 5 minutes to figure out why my mouse wouldn't work...lol

That's funny!

Well they are finally here! I received my 10 black ameraucanas this morning.

Where are the pictures?


I got a ride in - OUTSIDE!!!!! The 18mph winds about did me in. I've gotten too soft riding in the trainer. :/ A few more rides like today though and I will be right back where I was before this horrible winter hit. So glad it is Spring. Just need to get past these winds.... Looks like rain for the rest of the week - depending on what forecast you look at. It's going to be one of those stick your head out the window and see what is going on weeks.

 

[kkidsmom]

A1momof3

hardware, like screws, locks, brackets, that kind of stuff, seems it takes a lot of this to put the coop together.