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[Lacy Blues]

I was wondering why no one picked up on that one

I saw that and wondered but chose not to say anything. Seagulls? Well, to each their own eh?

 

[ronott1]

Slow cooking some supper


Spicy chicken soup is on the menu tonight. Yum!

Looking good!

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Are your coops heated? What temps are they at?

I just can't keep the chicks in the house for 4 weeks

and so they need to go out sooner and in warm weather.
Seagulls? We don't get to eat seagulls.....you do? I would think they would be oily. Hummmmmm

I don't use the hoop coop in winter (spring through fall). My all-season coop is definitely not heated. I can barely afford to heat my own house... and I don't think it's healthy to heat the coop. I do run an extension cord out there to a heated water base, but that's the extent I go to for their heating needs. The temperature is whatever the temperature is outside plus about 10 to 20 degrees if it's night time because the coop really holds their heat well even with all the windows and vents open.

 

[vehve]

Quote:
She tends to keep about a 24-24½h cycle.

Quote: Don't feed eggs to the chickens during the withdrawal periods either, especially with antibiotics. You'll contribute to building up resistant strains when a small amount of antibiotic residue is ingested with the eggs.

 

[ronott1]

Haven't had to deal with anything that calls for this, but have to ask just in case it happens some day..is there a with draw period for egg eating? Not for the chickens, but for us humans..thought I would set that straight.

There is no with draw period--It works by not letting the cysts get the nutrition they need.

That is why the chicks need B vitamins after the treatment.

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Adding that my basement is an unfinished concrete monster so the dander and dust isn't an issue. We have a few brooder boxes built and I use those to raise the babies in.

 

[vehve]

Adding that my basement is an unfinished concrete monster so the dander and dust isn't an issue. We have a few brooder boxes built and I use those to raise the babies in.

We had ours in the living room next to the sofa. Not doing that again...

 

[Lacy Blues]

A nifty thing about probiotics is that they MAKE all vitamins B while living in the intestine.

 

[LindaB220]

I don't try to break them, usually. I either let them hatch or just let them sit until they give up. I've had one stubbornly broody cornish who has been broody likely since March. She's lost some weight but I take her off the nest every day (after she hit the 2 month mark) and feed her high calorie food. The reason I try not to break them is I hate it when they scratch their face and rub their feathers off trying to escape their jail and get back to their eggs. That cornish needs to be broken, though. I gave her a baby turkey for a few hours before it died but that didn't seem to help.

As I was driving to work this morning, exhausted, I heard "in the mood" with chickens dubbed over it. I wasn't quite sure if I was hallucinating or not, but sure enough, it's a thing.

Sorry, I lasted as long as I could. Not too long.

 

[vehve]

Quote: I managed the whole thing, but I was writing a reply simultaneously, so I wasn't really concentrating. Horrible, horrible song though.