The road less traveled...back to good health! They have lice, mites, scale mites, worms, anemia, gl

[Beekissed]

Sure would love a picture of that, 7L! Love unusual housing options...I was raised in a pretty rough, 2 room log cabin so that whole roughin' it is still in my blood too.

Update on the Gnarly Bunch: Three good eggs today. After working with some of the birds last night, I could tell just by lifting them that they are really putting on some weight. This makes me happy...really need to get a layer of fat under those hides for the winter insulation.

Could just be my imagination or wishful thinking, but I sense a more relaxed attitude in the second string hens today and they approached the feed trough more readily today. Usually they hang around outside the coop, watching the A team eating but won't come in the coop until that nasty Black Star comes out and moves away.

Today they all came in the coop at the same time and shoved into the feeder together....finally! Maybe now the B team, who needs it so much more, can get the choice bits of pumpkin seeds, BOSS, egg and other higher protein feeds within the FF. The A team will pick out all the good stuff and just leave the straight FF if the B team don't assert their rights. Now they seem to be doing so.....

Death to the chicken bullies!

 

[armorfirelady]

Here is the same area washed in Dakin's solution and warm, soapy water. The ulcers have healed tremendously and there was no bleeding when it was washed this time. If anyone is interested...this is what a vent looks like on a hen that is laying. Loose, moist, pink, fleshy.

Happy Vent.....






The improvement made in just one week is nothing short of miraculous on this hen....last week the smell and sight would make you gag. This week it shows vast improvement, no smell, healing is going on. I really didn't know the extent of the power of this NuStock but I am on a real quick learning curve....good stuff X10.

Bee the improvement in a week is AMAZING .......I am def going to get some nustock to have on hand as well as some bag balm. I have used bag balm in the nursing home setting and it always worked well there for bottoms. I also wonder if nustock would work on humans for those hard to heal sores? I will have to do some research on that.
Also thank you the picture of the healthy vent. I gave my hens a once over a few days ago. While their vents look healthy they are very very small. But hence they havent started laying yet.

What is dakins solution?

 

[7L Farm]

Here's my 54 Ford tractor in front of my house. Its changed since this picture I planted a tree where the tractor is in honor of my father.

 

[Miss Lydia]

Bee the improvement in a week is AMAZING .......I am def going to get some nustock to have on hand as well as some bag balm. I have used bag balm in the nursing home setting and it always worked well there for bottoms. I also wonder if nustock would work on humans for those hard to heal sores? I will have to do some research on that.
Also thank you the picture of the healthy vent. I gave my hens a once over a few days ago. While their vents look healthy they are very very small. But hence they havent started laying yet.

What is dakins solution?

I was wondering the same thing, never heard of dakins solution.

 

[7L Farm]

If someone says "Where are your manners? Were you raised in a barn?" you can smile and say "Yup. Still livin' there, too."
I envy you!

HA HA your right guess I wouldn't be lying its really nice inside though I built most of it myself. But have remodeled some in the inside & its way above what you would think. I'm styling in my mind. Here's the shower. You wouldn't think a guy living in a barn would have a shower this nice but they say cleanliness is next to godliness Think I said that right.

 

[off-grid hen]

For those of us who are a bit more precise with our recipes, I found the proportions to nustock on the tube.
Sulfur 73%, pine oil 2%, mineral oil 25%.

I mean... I can handle putting a few "glugs" of ACV in the water, but I'd be asking, "now is that a glug glug glug, a gluug, gluug gluug, or a glugluglglug?" It's just my nature.

 

[normanack]

HA HA your right guess I wouldn't be lying its really nice inside though I built most of it myself. But have remodeled some in the inside & its way above what you would think. I'm styling in my mind. Here's the shower. You wouldn't think a guy living in a barn would have a shower this nice but they say cleanliness is next to godliness Think I said that right.

Okay, I'm moving in.
Oh, wait. Like the TV show, I'm Married . . . With Children.
Awesome bathroom!

 

[Miss Lydia]

HA HA your right guess I wouldn't be lying its really nice inside though I built most of it myself. But have remodeled some in the inside & its way above what you would think. I'm styling in my mind. Here's the shower. You wouldn't think a guy living in a barn would have a shower this nice but they say cleanliness is next to godliness Think I said that right.

Beautiful 7L show off your gun room I like it too.

 

[Miss Lydia]

For those of us who are a bit more precise with our recipes, I found the proportions to nustock on the tube.
Sulfur 73%, pine oil 2%, mineral oil 25%.
I mean... I can handle putting a few "glugs" of ACV in the water, but I'd be asking, "now is that a glug glug glug, a gluug, gluug gluug, or a glugluglglug?" It's just my nature.

I usually do 3 glugs.

 

[Beekissed]

Okay, I'm moving in.
Oh, wait. Like the TV show, I'm Married . . . With Children.
Awesome bathroom!

That is a very pretty shower! I was picturing an old, red or black barn with Mail Pouch on the side of it.....

I was wondering the same thing, never heard of dakins solution.

These precise measurements and instructions should thrill Off-grid Hen to death!

Dakins is an old country doctor/nursing item that no one uses anymore, though it is incredibly effective on wound cleansing and a big aid in healing deep, long standing wounds.

http://www.virginia.edu/uvaprint/HSC/pdf/09024.pdf