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[chickadoodles]

John the Contractor is free to start TODAY!! We're gonna go to the property to plan, then straight to HD to purchase materials. He will unload 'em tomorrow and begin the work for Coop #1.

Yea! Take lots of pics!

 

[RedPulletMama]

Oh, you don't have to worry about me, I'm bilingual. Shoot, thanks to all the BBC shows that have run on PBS, I can even do a fair job of understandin' "furriners" like you, mate.

I don't know, I may have told this story before. If so, excusez-moi, s'il vous plait. Due to my - ah - mixed parentage ( for many years, my parents had a card on an end table in the living room that read, "Both Yankee and Southern spoken here"), I have a fairly neutral 'Murkin accent. Anyway, I sang in the chorus when I was in college. Every year, we went on tour during Spring Break, and one year we wound up getting to spend a day in New York City. Some of my friends had never been out of North Carolina before - really! When four of us ate lunch at a restaurant, it was clear from her accent that the waitress was NYC born-and-bred (though my ear isn't good enough to guess at which borough). Don't know how far from her birthplace she had ever wandered, but I literally had to translate between my friends and the waitress - both ways!

I can soooo relate to this. I've never been more North than Tennessee, but my husband was born in New York. His dad passed away in February this year and we went there for the funeral. I have such a southern accent, that everywhere we went they would say "you aren't from around here are you?". I stood out so bad, finally my husband just told me to let him do the talking lol. Total culture shock up there too!

 

[Wisher1000]

I spoke with a man from the Ohio National Show this week. He went on and on about my accent. He even wanted me to speak to his wife because she has lost her accent (she's from the south) and he said he knew she would pick it back up if she talked to me. I spoke with her a bit, but never heard anything but "yankee" from her. LOL!

 

[insanity]

Quick question, I'm heading out to pickup those unwanted hens. They are coming from 2 different places (3older hens from 1 guy and 7 pullets from another) .Can I quarantine both groups together in one run?

 

[ronott1]

Quick question, I'm heading out to pickup those unwanted hens. They are coming from 2 different places (3older hens from 1 guy and 7 pullets from another) .Can I quarantine both groups together in one run?

You can quarantine them together. That would protect your flock but if one flock is sick the other flock will catch it.

Dust them and worm them while they are in Quarantine.

 

[chickadoodles]

Quick question, I'm heading out to pickup those unwanted hens. They are coming from 2 different places (3older hens from 1 guy and 7 pullets from another) .Can I quarantine both groups together in one run?

I put my birds I got from a swap in quarantine and I tried wearing different shoes to go into each pen so that I would not get my birds sick from the ones in quarantine. But one afternoon I forgot and went to get eggs out of my coop and then two days later my birds were sneezing. Now I am treating them all with tylan 50! Crazy! Be very careful to wear different shoes so you won't get your others sick!

 

[RedPulletMama]

Question of the day: My husband is a bee- keeper and we have roughly 12 hives with about 60,000 bees in each one, give or take a few thousand lol. Anyway the bees love to drink from my chickens waterer and they love the chicken poo. I've heard everyone talking about 'dusting' their chickens for mites and I haven't noticed any on mine, but I don't dust them. I would rather prevent than treat an infestation. Because of the bees we have to be extremely careful not to use any poisons on our garden, trees, and yard. Would the stuff you use to dust your chickens be harmful for the bees also?

 

[Wisher1000]

If I had bees, I would consider the pour-on wormer for cattle or the one-drop ivermectin instead of the Sevin dust.

Speaking of wormer, I wormed almost all of my flock with Valbazen this evening. There was one pen that got their Wazine late so I have to wait for their 10 days to be up, then there are the 4 day old chicks that didn't get any (but their mom got a dose) and it got too dark to try to do the duck tonight. I had two helpers to catch birds and hold them while I measured the dose and squirted it down their throats. It wasn't bad at all. It would have been even easier if the boys were better at catching chickens!

I used about a cap and a half full out of a 500ml bottle. Anyone want me to send them some? It's less than $.10 a dose (1/2 cc each.)

 

[scottcaddy]

Question of the day: My husband is a bee- keeper and we have roughly 12 hives with about 60,000 bees in each one, give or take a few thousand lol. Anyway the bees love to drink from my chickens waterer and they love the chicken poo. I've heard everyone talking about 'dusting' their chickens for mites and I haven't noticed any on mine, but I don't dust them. I would rather prevent than treat an infestation. Because of the bees we have to be extremely careful not to use any poisons on our garden, trees, and yard. Would the stuff you use to dust your chickens be harmful for the bees also?

YES!!!!!!!!! Most people use Sevin dust for mites.

Scott

 

[RedPulletMama]

If I had bees, I would consider the pour-on wormer for cattle or the one-drop ivermectin instead of the Sevin dust.

My dog was born with mange so I have the ivermectin still that the vet gave her. How do you use that for chickens?