The 7th Annual BYC Easter Hatch-A-Long!

[Eps32]

Are you hatching barred rocks primarily?

Tell your husband to let you do like a 10 egg hatching experiment. And see how fast they sell. I usually can't keep them for more that two days without them selling out.

 

[Penny Hen]

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Isn't it though. Wowsers. We very rarely use anything on the list...mostly vaccinations for the cattle/sheep. Still, it takes away the choice if you already are familiar with the product and use it.

We use ivermectin for the cattle and sheep. Went to a seminar at Christmas put on by our Vet's regarding deworming. From what we heard...not surprised I guess about the ivermectin.

Do you have sulfur salt blocks in Canada? An old (80+) cattleman told me 12 years ago to use it and it would keep the mosquitoes from eating up my horses. I had one mare who was so allergic to them her whole back would pebble up with swelling and scabs. It worked and my sheep had access to it too. Then five years went by and I realized that my sheep had not had colds in all that time. When I first had them if I had a cold they had running noses too. I know not the same Rhino virus but they both will grow in like conditions. Then it started getting hard for me to get the blocks. People had forgot why the older farmers used them. I had to use some medicines a couple of years when I couldn't find any at Tractor Supply or the nearby Co-Ops.

 

[chicken pickin]

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X 2!!


X 2 again...lol!




Isn't it though. Wowsers. We very rarely use anything on the list...mostly vaccinations for the cattle/sheep. Still, it takes away the choice if you already are familiar with the product and use it.

We use ivermectin for the cattle and sheep. Went to a seminar at Christmas put on by our Vet's regarding deworming. From what we heard...not surprised I guess about the ivermectin.


I don't quite understand why your hubby isn't for selling chicks?

Mine would be saying "YES, YES, YES!!! Sell ALL the chicks!!!

(ok...he's already saying that)

Mine too lol. DH doesn't understand my love affair with my chickens

I cant help it I really do love them and not even in the pet sense because we don't name them(except the Silkies) and we even eat them. But I really do LOVE, love, love, love, chickens, daily conversations with them and everything lol. DH doesn't get it.

 

[LocalYokel]

Changes to Antibiotics Regulations Coming December 2016


sharing over here for those that use WAZINE, sulfa products, Tylan etc.

you will require vet RX for these thereafter....



https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/...arn-chat-meet-new-friends/53340#post_16537505

Well this is a buncha crap.

What is the shelf life for these various meds?

 

[KYTinpusher]

Quote: All the large farming operations already have a veterinarian on staff, so this is no big deal to them. This will only really be a problem for the small farm operations. Surprise, surprise...

Today's hatch

And I found out something interesting today - when you breed a Svarthöna (fibromelanistic) to a cockerel split to chocolate and the resulting chick (it's a girl!!

) is chocolate, it makes EVERYTHING chocolate!

The comb, the beak, the legs and all are chocolate! I imagine the bones and meat will be chocolate, too. I haven't been able to get myself to eat the black meat on the Svarthöna culls yet

, but chocolate chicken?

Maybe...

 

[LocalYokel]

All the large farming operations already have a veterinarian on staff, so this is no big deal to them. This will only really be a problem for the small farm operations. Surprise, surprise...

Today's hatch

And I found out something interesting today - when you breed a Svarthöna (fibromelanistic) to a cockerel split to chocolate and the resulting chick (it's a girl!!

) is chocolate, it makes EVERYTHING chocolate!

The comb, the beak, the legs and all are chocolate! I imagine the bones and meat will be chocolate, too. I haven't been able to get myself to eat the black meat on the Svarthöna culls yet

, but chocolate chicken?

Maybe...

Send me the culls , ill eat em

 

[LocalYokel]

Thats awesome on the chocolate birds

 

[LocalYokel]

For muh peoples!

 

[campingshaws]

For muh peoples!

 

[Cynthia12]

A friend of mine took a photo of a silkie that she bought from me..and got this! She made the Valentine's Day quotes for it. Have to share. Note, the heart butt!