I use Frontline for the flock, but you have to get it on the skin.
I was hoping he would go to roost with the flock tonight. He did... 30 feet above the coop in the trees.
Ahhhh, you know how it is.... The "bad boy" thingy.Sorry, I know I should not be, but I am chuckling here
You try and introduce a vaccinated, wormed, pest-free chicken to the flock and it gets picked on, ostracized etc and spends weeks trying to get accepted.
A pest-ridden stranger wanders in and they throw out the 'Welcome' mat
Catching up...oh my goodness these are beautiful. Nothing like fresh, just like our cherries. I can almost smell them.How about one prior to starting? These smell sooooo good and the picking was pretty good even if it was mobbed with people.
JW, have you tried sitting on the porch cleaning a shotgun when the 'boy' is going to arrive? I was somewhat difficult when the young men would appear at our house. On some level, I think that my daughter enjoyed my behavior??? All of this until she brought 'the one' home. She asked, "Dad don't embarrass this one - he's different." She was right - 20 years of marriage and 3 well adjusted kids/grandkids have verified that fact. Some sort of screening process is a necessity.
UPDATE -dosed her yesterday with with scrambled egg (could never resist that no matter how bad she felt) in a bit of water loaded with nutridrench and probiotics in the main water supplies for everyone. By mid afternoon she was no longer hiding but still moving a little slow and by evening she was back to her old squawky, energetic self and ravenously hungry. She was totally back to normal this morning. Thinking now she must have been the one that had stopped laying and a combination of our humid heat and her first egg in a while just had her not feeling so well???Should be picking berries here next week. Set back because of our really late spring and now weeks of rain. Lots of strawberry syrup and fresh berries soaking in maple syrup (much better than sugar) for shortcake and sunday pancakes!!!
Just in for a cool down break. reallly hot and humid but no rain till late in the day so I'm able to get a few things done.
Have sick hen. No clue. Fine yesterday a.m. then in afternoon hubby says I think something's wrong with her. i look and she had just laid an egg by our steps then just stood there. Never done that before but I thought ok, probably the heat. Her butt was a bit messy anyway so I decided to cool her down and clean her up at the same time and she got a bottom wash in the rain barrel. Later still acting "slow" and not interested in treats. This morning same way. came out of the coop but just found a place in the shade. Barely picked at a treat of mealworms. She was wormed, as they all were, with Valbazen, twice, at the end of April and a Butt dusting for crawlies with second treatment last week when I cleaned the coop. Oh well, if she doesn't perk up by tomorrow i may have to try some antibiotics. Unfortunately we don't have a poultry vet within a hundred miles or more of us. Other girls are all fine so far so at least it doesn't appear contagious at this point.
