Utah!

[Lilwanis]

But I have been know. To miss things. Particularly if it is not related to stocks I can find the most obscure information on investments, this whole agg world has proven to be less easy to navigate..,

 

[darbygill]

So, lockdown is tomorrow at noon for the Easter hatch along. I will be at work until 5 pm. Would I be better off locking down tonight, about 12 hours early, or tomorrow at 5, about 5 hours late?

 

[themadchicken]

I am so mad right now. I went and got some baby vitamins for my Icee chick, Vona. Gave her a drop diluted with water, and then I found lice on her head. I picked as many off as I could and smushed them, then gave her a little oil bath. she wasn't very happy with me, but I think it will help. Had to be really careful. I wonder if that's why she's struggling? Poor baby. Mama and babies are now in a new carrier with fresh bedding, and I'm going to commit insecticide on that first carrier tomorrow.

Red, I know the the feeling about the lice. Every broody i get ends up with lice, as does the chicks. I Make sure i give them vitamins in their water. I use the children's vitamins Poly-Vi Sol. It really freaked me out the first time so i done some research on it and apparently all chickens that are free ranged or have any contact with wild birds will have lice. We can dust them all we want but they will still get them. The problem is a broody will not get up and go dust bath even if there is dirt all around her and those couple little bugs go into breeding mode. I wait for the chicks to be a week old and then start the dust treatment. I don't know how early you can start but the chicks look so little at that age I'm afraid it will hurt them. I use DE but have wondered about the insecticides. Let me know if it works for you cause it takes about 4 DE dust to kill them all. I have read you are supposed to do it on the broody before she hatches the eggs but i forget since she just sets there and acts likes life is great and she doesn't have a care. In fact I'm just getting ready to get up right now and start Momo's fist dust with her chicks. This should be fun since Momo has became very over protective and will actually attack my hand and flogs it as some people put it.

 

[themadchicken]

Sorry my 3 yr old seems to think i spend to much time on BYC. this was his post.

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Herbs---Cilantro grows right in the garden as well--I plant herbs in the house in December, in rectangular window pots, because I love seeing things grow when it is awful outside. I grab a few packets of seeds in the fall when they are on sale. They get really overgrown and crazy by spring, but I will get them hardened off---setting outside in the shade for a few days, then a bit of sun, here and there, more and more sun, takes about two weeks. They will start to wilt then you know it is too much. Once they can handle the sun, and don't wilt you stick them straight in the garden and they turn into big bushes by fall. Then I dehydrate the herbs and crumble them up to use. Sage is actually a really pretty plant, I use them as an ornamental as well, plant them in the sun they get a couple feet high and wide, and do come back each year. I have one in my front flower bed and a few out back. In just one season, if you plant one of the little starts you get at the garden center...or one you grow in the house...it gets huge. Chives are a nice ornamental too, the ones with the purple flowers are nice, and you can start with one plant, then divide it into two or three in the fall, the next year again...you could have a hundred plants in a few years for sure. They dry really nice too. They look pretty mass planted in long lines along the fence or in edging.

 

[Cynthia12]

Here's what I get to deal with ... with a lot of my eggs. A lot of them have the whole saddle, this one is up one side..waay up! My Welsummer eggs don't have air sacs like this, they are nice.

That is a live baby in there!

 

[La Casa de Pollo]

Oh Cynthia I hope so bad you can get them to hatch
I got some eggs that were not even shipped, here locally that about half of them did that. I am sure they tilted them as they collected them, so I cannot figure out what happened. :/ How is your lettle bantam doing?

 

[Sphinx]

I would love some fence advice with regards to livestock and fencing. If you have expertise, could you PM me?

 

[Cynthia12]

Oh Cynthia I hope so bad you can get them to hatch

I got some eggs that were not even shipped, here locally that about half of them did that. I am sure they tilted them as they collected them, so I cannot figure out what happened.

How is your lettle bantam doing?

Funny you should ask! I was going to ask you the same thing. She is actually growing! Ha, she has a tail now. I can see that she has grown. Very active. East like a little piggy. Still pretty small though. I just love that little stink! Eats out of my hand, gets right up into it when I have the meal worm treats.

 

[blujems]

Hey Friends....I am worried about this silky hen....She is a year old, has not laid an egg in the month or so that I have had her. I don't think she is egg bound. But she doesn't move around much, She has been eating and drinking, but this morning when I picked her up, she seems to be drooling. Water was just running out of her mouth. Not sure if I should put her down or what to do. If you have any suggestions? Should I give her an antibiotic?
I have never had one like this so I am not sure what I should do.

Thanks all