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[hallerlake]

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https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=490027

I noticed after i posted that you were already bidding on them.

 

[broodytood]

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Would one soak one's own head in bleach? Might be a good starting question.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

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Good Lord! At our 4H Spring Fling show last year one of the older 4H kids did a demonstration on how to bathe your birds, and he used bleach in the soapy water. When he was done, I made sure ALL of my 4H kids were making eye contact with me, AND I was within ear shot of this kids mother, and I said "If I EVER hear of ANY of you using bleach on your birds you will NOT be allowed to show at fair." They ALL got it. They were even asking me before I said that if it was such a good idea that he was doing it.

 

[jbear]

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Good Lord! At our 4H Spring Fling show last year one of the older 4H kids did a demonstration on how to bathe your birds, and he used bleach in the soapy water. When he was done, I made sure ALL of my 4H kids were making eye contact with me, AND I was within ear shot of this kids mother, and I said "If I EVER hear of ANY of you using bleach on your birds you will NOT be allowed to show at fair." They ALL got it. They were even asking me before I said that if it was such a good idea that he was doing it.

i bet she didn't realize it is supposed to be the Bleach Alternative... I wish people would quit yelling at her though, that isn't going to help.. no wonder people become afraid of asking for advice and then instead of asking and learning.. keep bleaching or whatever.

Sometimes common sense isn't so common.. See it ALL the time in Veterinary Medicine.

 

[Kaneke]

yes!

while I did use a dilute bleach solution to spray everything I could in the donated coop and run --- I let it dry thoroughly first, in the sunlight, and then I PAINTED it (and of course let the paint dry) before I let my chickens use it

DH and I hauled two more of the ore troughs across the yard this morning .. one more to go -- it still needs to be bailed out after the rain the last couple of days, but we can get to it more easily now, that the one which was butted up against it, is out and away

I was going to fence in the run as an 8 by 8 ... however since I discovered there were FIVE of the eight foot troughs, I think it is going to expand to a 16 by 12 if not a full 16 by 16 -- depends on how far I want to cut back the Indian Plum bushes that it will impinge upon

(we have 50 feet of fence wire to play with ... plus the chicken wire we can salvage from the existing donated run; I plan to buy 50 feet of hardware cloth too, for doubling up the lower part of the run fencing)

three of the ore troughs have no drainage holes in the bottom, so I am thinking of planting Himalayan blackberries in those, since the roots of those nasty spreading things can NOT go through a full inch of resin (which is what the troughs are lined with) -- and the blackberry canes should discourage most of the larger predators here --- we have LOTS of blackberry shoots available -- DH cut down a fifty foot swath of those a couple of weeks ago

then as they grow upwards, I can interlace them to make a pergola type roof above the chickenwire netting

I found the old tomato cages that I used to use to grow snow peas on ... so at least one of the drainage-hole-equipped troughs will become a raised vegetable / flower garden ... I might even be able to raise carrots (in this glacial-till soil, they won't grow ... can't go down and won't grow outwards)

that may be more work than I want to do, but it's an idea, and if it doesn't work we can always chop them back down

 

[jbear]

Kaneke~i love your "East of Mckenna, South of Yelm"

referring I am guessing to East of the Moon, West of the Sun?? I love that story.. have you read East, by Edith Pattou? One of my favorite books.

 

[TheReidHomestead]

Just a quick posting to say hello!

Welcome to all the newbies!!!

CGG, so very sorry about your Chloe.

4213- Sorry to hear you lost an egg in your Brinsea. I do stack eggs in mine, but you have to brace the upper deck of eggs by securing them in there so they can't roll. I used folded up paper towels and/or I tear apart a cardboard egg carton to create "single" egg holders, pop the egg in there, then use a rolled up piece of paper towel over or in front of the egg top to hold it into the egg cup.

Today is hatch day for my Serama's and possibly the 6 Orp eggs under my broody. It's day 21 for both. I have not candled the eggs under the broody, the 6 I had in the incubator were clear. I have 8 Serama eggs in the bator that were doing great on day 18, no pips yet though!

Then tomorrow is lockdown on my big Lav Ameraucana hatch along with a few Lav/Split Orps and Crele OEGB. If the broody hasn't hatched any of the eggs she's on, I'll stick a couple of these standard size chicks under her this weekend.

 

[ReiMiraa]

yay won the bid on the norwegian jaerhorn eggs.
next bid closing is for some arucana eggs i figured to get some from this person and from illa to have a more diverse gene pool for this breed.
and working on talking with a person on getting icelandic eggs. i think i will start with 24 eggs. i hear they hatch early and are very strong at surviving shipping

 

[Kaneke]

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nope, I hadn't read that one, looking forward to finding it in the library or bookstore

I used to use "north Thurston County" -- but people thought I lived up by the Delta wetlands ---
if you know where Stewarts Meats is ... we are a long spit behind that ... LOL

just south of the Centralia Power Canal .. about a quarter of a mile from the river at this point ... and up on a big heap of glacial till (Mount Saint Helens revealed that we have a fault line just at our south property line ... but it didn't open up during the last Olympia area earthquake)

 

[Stumpfarmer]

Freaking *cold* out there,; got water to the chooks and making them oatmeal for a treat, waiting for Del's to call about the gate, I hope I hope I hope I hope.

Younger offspring is 23 today. Tood some time off work to celebrate, and helped with levelling the ground and setting cinderblocks yesterday. She seems to have inherited her father's unique relationship with three-dimensional space; I was afraid of that.