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[delisha]

Yeah from reading those posts people where using Peroxide and Bleach on the seeds before they were starting them. The were having to rinse the 2 to 3 times a day. I was thinking about trying it but the FF seems WAY easier.

wow
I take wheat seeds, wet them, place them in a zip lock bag and hang it on my kitchen curtains No fuss no muss.

 

[nakstk]

wow
I take wheat seeds, wet them, place them in a zip lock bag and hang it on my kitchen curtains No fuss no muss.

does that work well? do you get mold at all? That's what I am worried about, is getting them sprouted then have them mold and go to waste.

 

[Beekissed]

Okay I keeping trying to post recent pictures of Tank but have been having nothing but trouble so now that I am at a real computer I am going to do it!!

Just to refresh your memory here are the very sad pictures of Tank from before ... she had mites, had pecked her behind raw and went into a molt.




CU Neck ........



Sad neck


Sad backside a days after 1st nu-stock treatment


I could tell she was starting to feel better as she was coming out of the coop for breakfast first thing. She had been hanging back and coming out 15 mins after the other birds. She has been challenging other hens to gain back her place in the pecking order and running for food.... and yesterday she just started talking again. She used to be a chatty bird but has been basically silent for the last 6 weeks..... So here we go

Tank today!!! Not a 100% but well on her way!!!
Look at those full glossy neck feather and she is FINALLY starting to get a little red back in her comb!


This was a few days ago and you can see she doesn't have much color in her comb ... so the pinking up is very recent!







No more red irritated skin and look fluff!! Thank you Nu-Stock



PS thanks to everyone especially Bruce for their help and to FF & Nu-Stock!!!

BIG change!!! Looks like a whole 'nother bird! I bet she is feeling so much better.

 

[delisha]

Quote: I hope more steal it..they were busy all day..only a few left..

I am glad I did it, it will be something for me to do when the snow gets deep and the weather turns nasty. It will keep them occupied in the coop when I can't get to it due to deep snow. We can get 2 and 3 feet dumped in a night and I now have a dang fence, so no more plow. I will have to do it by hand.

 

[maryhysong]

Just had a strange thing happen.

I have some redworms in an indoor worm bin that I'm growing for the ladies. They LOVE readworms out in the mulch pile and everywhere they can get their beaks on them.

So...I grabbed a few from the worm bins for the first time and wanted to just put down a single worm for each one, which I did. At first they all ran to participate then they stopped. No one would eat a single worm.

Now I have brought regular outdoor worms to them and they fight over them. But not these. Must be something they're smelling that they don't like. They smelled very strongly of the compost they were in...maybe there's something in the compost they don't like.

A very strange reaction.


Now, Aoxa, where do you find the rich text editor?

wow that is weird. I raise lots of them and the chickens line up at the fence whenever they see me by the worm box. The only ones I've ever had stop and stare at the worms are baby chicks, which tend to be suspicous of any new thing at first. But once one of them gets brave enough to grab one the feeding frenzy begins!

 

[delisha]

Quote: I have never had mold. I do not put water in the bag, just the seeds that I had let sit in water. I do not close the bag all the way. The sun heats the bag and puts condensation on the edges.

 

[delisha]

Tank looks lovely..well done!

 

[aaggjg]

Guess I should have clarified that, huh? I should have said I hadn't found any research done on a backyard, free range flock being fed layer mash and when I did, I'd believe the results.

Until then? I don't go on what others write in an article because I know that the majority of these people have never seen a chicken outside of a laboratory...maybe as a pic on a carton of eggs. They were not likely to be using the breeds I own, nor be feeding them what I am feeding.

My experience? Hard won and done by trial and error...not with a control group in a science experiment. You can trust them all you want and when you set up that lab in your backyard. let me know if their experiment will match your own.

One minute Walmart is the devil, the next minute scientists~funded by government grants~are helpful to the agricultural world and can tell me what is best for my flock.

I was not supporting or endorsing any opinions just trying to be a peacemaker

and I want to point out that ones state of mind when reading a post influences the way they interpret it... so if you are predisposed to think that every time someone quotes a study they are questioning your methods ... well then that is how you will read all those posts..... FYI I didn't even read anything that was quoted in that post as I currently have no chicks or need for chicks...

 

[aaggjg]

BIG change!!! Looks like a whole 'nother bird! I bet she is feeling so much better.

Tank looks lovely..well done!

Thank you guys!! She is almost back to her old self ... She was always a very glossy healthy bird.... this is my first time with mites and now I know how EVIL they are and what to look for! 2 of my other birds are in full molt right now and look so sad but I think the FF is really helping them through it!

 

[mrsamplias]

SOP
Standard of Perfection

The bible of the chicken world

Thanks!! I just kept thinking 'standard operating procedure' cannot be right...