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[TexasLisa]

Lisa, what browser are you using? I tried the link in Chrome and it wouldn't work. It does in Safari though.

I use Google. I can open the rest of your links, but not the one. O well...by now I know what ever you choose will be cute!

Whatknot taking a dirt bath in a hole she dug.
This hole is bigger. Miss Priss got out to see if I brought treats.

It makes your yard look like it has been bombed.

WE HAVE

A CHICK! Our very first hatch! So tiny! It must have hatched over night, it's already dry. Ran back to the house to get the camera and when I got back it was already tucked back up under Belle and I didn't want to disturb her. I'll get a pic when we go back down later. I heard peeping but thought is was coming from the 10 in the barn. Only saw it because momma got up when I opened the door to let everybody out. Gonna set a bowl of food right in front of her so she can eat.

Congratulations!!!

Lisa

 

[8isenuff]

We added a new group to our small flock! So excited!!! A HUGE thank you to Curtis Hale.

We now have 4 Cream Legbar pullets and a cockerel. I can't wait for our first blue egg! I tried to get a picture of each girl but one was a little camera shy and one loved it. Its a little picture heavy so I made them small but you can click on them to make them larger.

Pretty! That's exciting! I got my first two Cream Legbar chicks last weekend...it'll be a while before I get eggs, but I hope worth the wait! Enjoy!

 

[Ms Jellybean]

Can't wait to see the baby pics. Congrats!

Do all yards with big chickens look like that? ^^^ I don't think my neighbours do...

It's photo time! Wish the were of chicks.

My new bed in the sunshine. Still trying to figure out what else to plant there.


This is where I want my coop with attached run and big run to go. Could I use the fence as the lower section of the run and use plastic fence on top of it with a covering of plastic mesh and have everyone be safe? I had wanted to leave a runway for the dog, but I could build the more permanent run later and she would get that back.

 

[magpiesing]

Have to go do some "rat" killin. Must run out to the vet for flea meds, feed store etc. Will have some pics later.
Good day all. Magpie

 

[tjo804]

If you have a parasite problem, I don't think homopathic remedies will control it. If you can see a problem, you probably have a huge problem.

Thank you for you concern this site is always so helpful

I am doing the WHOLE coop and WHOLE Brood thing! I took out all my wonderfully mostly dirt ready to use deep litter and burned it little by little

I vacuumed and swept the coop then I put something from tsc down and on the Ladies.

I would have used just sulfur to treat them but was sadly unable to find it and I did not want them pulling feathers and scratching longer than they had to. The man at TSC told my husband DE wouldn't work. so we went with the recommended stuff. against my better judgement and research.
(my DH was getting impatient looking for plain old Sulfur and said it says "for poultry" right on the it!)

its called Garden and Poultry dust
Active ingredient is Permethrin if I had looked it up before I used it I NEVER would have! it is a synthetic chemical in the neuro-toxin family. I have epilepsy and stay away from negative-neuro anything even aspartame.

3 out of my 9 chickens showed signs on full inspection. So everyone got it.

I do not want to over poison the coop the ladies Myself the run or my yard since the ladies do so love when bugs come to visit. so I will be using Sulfur with wood ash and sand to keep any hatching eggs between treatments. I will not be using synthetic poisons Ever again and will treat the next full treatment with Sulfur dust like I should have done to begin with.

Homeopathic Remedies are mostly used for EVERYTHING AND EVERYONE in my home after all isn't that how pharmacies started in the first place?(mold into penicillin, What?) I have a 2 yr old granddaughter who loves *her* ladies and do not want to keep her away from them.

I will be doing a full treat again next Saturday With SULFUR but if eggs hatch every 7 days and there are 7 days between treatments that could be a lot of waiting to exhale eggs if there inst anything else being done to get the buggers Sunday through Friday. Since I really cant see them to pull them off Sulfur bathing quarters even if it rains.

 

[jajeanpierre]

Red tails are really big. A red shouldered is smaller. Still a big bird though!

I could just put fishing line up all over the yard.....

I have nesting Red Shouldered hawks just next door. They are constantly over my property. I like them because they are pretty small and not likely to go after a chicken--chick would be at risk--and they protect their territory, so if another hawk moved in, they set up quite the ruckus and drive it off.

I like my birds to have cover to dive under. I have 8 ditzy feather-footed bantams in my back yard and a more wily, clean-legged bantam in the front. My neighbor has lost a chicken this spring to a big red-tailed hawk.

All bets are off in the fall when the young hawks have left their parents are are very hungry. Some of them are desperate and will try anything.

 

[hungnguyen]

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Buy some rat poison for me. Last weekend, several batches were hatching. An old hen has 2 babies and 2 eggs not hatched. Apparently the rat kept eating her eggs. One hen, I remembered she had 10 eggs, but now 11 chicks or 110% hatching; i am proud of this hen. Tomorrow is time for the incubator .. not sure of the result but.. not much hope

 

[jajeanpierre]

Do all yards with big chickens look like that? ^^^ I don't think my neighbours do...

Yup, big chickens have big strong feet and legs that they use to hunt for their food with. That was one of the reasons I was strongly recommending a smaller feather-footed bantam. They can't do the damage to the yard with their feathered feet. Their eggs are about 2/3 the size of an extra large egg (which my large fowl don't lay, by the way) but they weigh less than half of a small large fowl hen. My little Silkies and Cochin are great little egg layers at one year of age.

 

[ClovisMan]

Quote: Sounds like that hen has been swiping eggs from the others! LOL

 

[jajeanpierre]

its called Garden and Poultry dust
Active ingredient is Permethrin if I had looked it up before I used it I NEVER would have! it is a synthetic chemical in the neuro-toxin family. I have epilepsy and stay away from negative-neuro anything even aspartame.

Permethrin is the same drug they use on kids with head lice. I think all the insecticides work as a neuro toxin. They generally over excite the nervous system, I believe.

I don't know what the withdrawal is for Permethrin--the label on the Permectrin II that I used to dip my new birds that had evidence of lice eggs and to spray premises only lists a withdrawal of five days for swine. No withdrawal is mentioned for poultry or cattle.

I like Elector as it can be used on laying hens and is very, very effective.