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[Rare Feathers Farm]

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[ByN8ureHomstead]

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A big Howdy from Kansas

 

[Chickielady]

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That sounds so cute !
And the hen pecked the puppy !

 

[Chickielady]

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yup.
Hopefully hollow or I will never be able to pick one up !

 

[Ogress]

That's a long way from Washington!

Rare Feathers ... I was looking at the handsome Sussex Roo you had posted the other day. Did someone come get him, or is he in your freezer? When I get a 4th coop, I want some Sussex too.

I saw some posts about kids growing fast ... I was just shopping online to find my son who recently turned 12 some wrestling shoes in mens size 14!!!!!! He's over 6 feet tall now (was 5'9" in August) and went from a mens 11.5 shoe to a 14 in a year! I spent $800 for shoes last year, every pair on sale! My hens better start laying some golden eggs.

 

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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I sold him....I will have eggs and/or chicks available next spring, though.

 

[Illia]

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Sure thing! I should expect them tomorrow evening or the next morning. I've got a completely separate coop complete with nesting boxes, brooder space, a temporary run, and everything else for them. (But actually, once they're used to our place, they'll be free ranging the yard. And I mean FREE ranging, not fenced in a pasture. . . These Shamos will be our yard ornaments/pets/guardians.

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After the Shamos, next up is Partridge or Buff Laced Brahmas.

Can't wait to have such enormous, fluzzy, beautifully patterned birds!

 

[Rainwolf]

Hi Ogress and welcome to byc!

I could not catch the goat last night but will be leaving for work earlier today so I can see if she(?) is still there or if they called Animal control yet. If she is there I will try the grain feed to catch and leash.

I now have 1 new button quail, 15 new coturnix quails, 1 buff orp x leghorn, and a ton more piped and peeping!

Chickielady the BBS marans are pipping!

 

[Chickielady]

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We buy these tubs at Home Depot for $5 or $6 ...they also come in a bigger size ($8) and a smaller size which may be OK for Batam fowl, but too small for LF.
Add a half a sack or fine sand (also home depot) and a can pf permethrin poultry dust (feed store) and a big scoop of Diatemaceous Earth if you have some.
Put the dry stuff in the tub in the chicken house where the birds can dust bath and the tub of stuff stays dry.
You may have to clean bits of straw out of the dust bath and add more sand and poultry dust as needed.

The birds will take care of their mite problem all by themselves.
With alot of birds you may want to get the big tub, add a sack or 2 of sand, and maybe 2 cans of poultry dust.
If you have no DE, don't worry, the sand and permethrin will kill the mites and lice well enough, DE in the mix helps alot though.

This is the poultry/vegetable dust.
If alot of birds are bathing it can look like your coop is on fire for the dust...but for all the mess, it is easier on you to let the birds take care of themselves this way.
I have never seen a bug since doing this...it is winter when the lice and mites take a nasty foothold as the birds have little or no dust to bathe in...we have MUD here, it does not work for bugs !
Good Luck !!

 

[Chickielady]

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