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[just me]

have you tried tea tree oil? I don't know how sensitive his skin is, but if that were on one of us, I would be using straight pure tea tree oil. None of us are sensitive to it, and it works like a charm for everything lavender oil doesn't cure.
If you choose this route, test for skin sensitivity in an unaffected area a day or 2 before trying it on the boil.
Just throwing that out there.

The only real medicines in my cupboard are tea tree oil, lavernder oil, neosporin and peroxide. Everything else is in a jar, still an herb. I tincture, infuse, capsule, and decoct all of our medicines and grow most of the herb stock. The exotic stuff comes from my local herb store.

Haven't triedd tea tree oil. His skin is sort of sensitive....when he was a baby, I had to wash his clothes seperately, couldn't use anything with dyes or perfumes. Anytime he was held, one of his blankets had to be placed between him and the "holder", or else he'd break out wherever his skin touched their clothes.

He's "outgrown" a lot of that, but he's still sensitive. I've never used tea tree oil, though so I don't know if it would "set him off".

I was just thinking last night about making a plantain rub and seeing if he'd give that a try. He's 26 years old now, and gives me that "look" whenever I try to get him to use those "home remedies". Hoping he'll "outgrow' that soon!

 

[Beekissed]

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It's normal and the FF could definitely have caused that reaction...it happened for my flock within a day or two of being on the FF.

Here's one explanation and it was not what I thought...but here it is and it makes sense if you've ever butchered out a chicken:

http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v034n04/p0415-p0421.pdf

 

[just me]

It's normal and the FF could definitely have caused that reaction...it happened for my flock within a day or two of being on the FF.

Here's one explanation and it was not what I thought...but here it is and it makes sense if you've ever butchered out a chicken:

http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Auk/v034n04/p0415-p0421.pdf

Bee, you're really spoining us by doing giving us all of these links....why should we do any "research" when you've done it all for us!!

 

[Beekissed]

This one was tough to find!

I guess I'm so used to having to look things up in woefully inadequate country libraries so this tool of the internet is still a novelty to me...I love the accessibility to info and I often ask myself, "Don't they have Google?"

 

[memechick]

I'm not sure if I can account this phenonmena to FF but since feeding with the FF, Ruby ....... my RIR .... has been laying a gigantic egg once a week ........ its not a double yoker ...... one giant yolk inside the egg. She lays consistently 5 eggs a week ...... but once a week its a giant egg.

 

[Beekissed]

That's a RIR for ya! I love that breed! Always giving their best out on the laying field and sometimes it's a HUGE score.

 

[KPenley]

Thanks Bee! ok ok I'll do my own research. I was just over here and figured I'd ask all you smart chicken people

 

[Beekissed]

Thanks Bee! ok ok I'll do my own research. I was just over here and figured I'd ask all you smart chicken people

No, hon, that was not meant for you to do your own search....I was just explaining why I have a box full of links up my sleeves!

I'm a little bit of an info junky....

 

[aaggjg]

So some of you might remember that 2 of my hens got sour crop a week or so into the FF. A friend of mine started FF with her girls and emailed me saying help one got sour crop!!! She asked what method I used to cure my hens. I told her I had removed food from the hen and given her about 3 Ccs of red wine. I told her to feel the hens crop in the morning and if it hadn't gone down to give her more wine. Well she emailed me back shocked that it worked. She said her husband was convinced she was just trying to get the hen drunk!!! I found this buried in a thread about vomiting your hens, using monistat etc etc. I thought I'd give it a try as it was natural.... Well now we have 2 successful red wine sour crop eliminator test cases. The key is withholding the food so that you starve the yeast infection!!! Red wine alone won't do it.... I made that mistake the first dose as I missed that step in the instructions.

Just thought this might be a useful tip to tuck away.... Hopefully nobody else will have this problem .

 

[Mtn Laurel]

Haven't triedd tea tree oil. His skin is sort of sensitive....when he was a baby, I had to wash his clothes seperately, couldn't use anything with dyes or perfumes. Anytime he was held, one of his blankets had to be placed between him and the "holder", or else he'd break out wherever his skin touched their clothes.

He's "outgrown" a lot of that, but he's still sensitive. I've never used tea tree oil, though so I don't know if it would "set him off".

I was just thinking last night about making a plantain rub and seeing if he'd give that a try. He's 26 years old now, and gives me that "look" whenever I try to get him to use those "home remedies". Hoping he'll "outgrow' that soon!

As a redhead with a household of fair complected, sensitive skinned children - please be cautious with the tea tree oil. I can't get near it. Not only does it give my skin a burning sensation, it literally "takes my breath" and makes it hard for me to breath. No, have never had asthma but it does impact me in that fashion. It's a shame as I hear all the benefits but just can't use the stuff.

Let him have a smell and then put a tiny bit on the inside of his arm to see if it bothers him before using it.