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[T Hi]

---------------------- Duckling update!! ------------------------

Out of 13 eggs 9 hatched happy and healthy!!

The 4 that did not hatch were all at the same development stage. So I'm thinking that I may have shrink wrapped them when I brought the incubator out to the kitchen. I'm not going to lose sleep over losing 4.




---------Blueducklings.... DO NOT read the next paragraph!!!-----------------------


The 2 girls that spent the weekend over here helping us are also on track for veterinarian school. So, we took the 4 eggs out back and cracked them and inspected them. It was really neat! It was the 1st time that these girls had ever seen anything like it. They were all digging right in. It was kinda fun to watch them teach eachother about the different parts, membranes, yolks ect.... I love these girls! I'm so blessed with awesome teenagers!

 

[blueducklings]

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My holderread babies are coming home tomorrow...or thursday.

 

[Chickielady]

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There are BYCers all over the planet raving about Eprinex...and have used it with fantastic results, so next time that is the route I go, especially the no egg waite AND ease of application verses the Ivermectin injectible...yuk, or Ivermectin soluble drops in the mouth..what a hassel that is...counting drops in a wiggling hens mouth, especially when you have so many birds !
NOTE: I always do the Wazine treatment first, suppose to relieve a good portion of the parasite load first, then a few days later do the Ivermectrin or Eprinex.

I have done quite a bit of reading/research too. This is the route I am taking. Did the Wazine a week ago. I am now ordering the Eprinex. How many times a year do you do? I was going to do just in spring or maybe spring/fall type prophylacticly.

I have been doing wazine 2 X a year and Ivermectin 1X, but from now on I think I will do Eprinex 2X a year, in early spring before they begin to lay, and are recovering from winter, and in the fall, so they hopefully have no parasite load taken into winter stress.

 

[blueducklings]

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RIP already. YUCK YUCK.

and I just ate yogurt with chunks of mangoes in it.

Washing it down with green tea.

 

[Chickielady]

.....hopefully the girls opened dead eggs, right ?

 

[Chickielady]

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I did the Wazine the first time I wormed some older birds that I wasn't sure on the parasite load of, but MY birds that I know I deworm regularly, I don't bother with the Wazine first....but that's just me.

Okay, which brings me to a newbie question since I'm reading all of these posts about medications, which, when, how much, what method, etc. I've had my flock together in the coop for just a few weeks. Do I need to deworm them regularly just as a preventative measure? And what product do I want to use for that? I'll bet I could find this information in my Chickens for Dummies book, (which I love), but I'm looking for instant gratification this morning.

There is no such thing as worm prevention.
You worm 2 X a year to kill the parasites the birds likely will have, and in between they can and more than likely will, pick up more parasites.
During this time between wormings, there is no preventing more...worm medication is not like a flea collar that hangs around.
You dose it, it hopefully kills everything, and that is that.
there is always a chance of more parasite eggs in the soil (from poop) or new parasites they can come across, like the kind snail carry, for example.
So, the birds are wormed 2X a year. That is my schedule anyways.

 

[Ogress]

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I love looking at the freebies! saves me the hassle of hunting.

 

[Chickielady]

Congrates to Mama Duck T-Hi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Cool! I hope they're still available when I'm ready for them!

Interesting bit from the Wikipedia article on Hamburgs:

Famous Hamburgs

Perhaps the most famous devotee of the Hamburg chicken was L. Frank Baum, author of the Oz books. He began a monthly trade journal, Hamburgs, in 1880 and in 1886, published his first and only book on the subject, The Book of the Hamburgs: A Brief Treatise upon the Mating, Rearing, and Management of the Different Varieties of Hamburgs.[3]
In Baum's third Oz book, Ozma of Oz, he introduces Dorothy Gale's chicken, Billina. He must have drawn on his experience in breeding Hamburgs when creating her character, as she is appropriately spirited and active.

 

[Stumpfarmer]

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Okay, which brings me to a newbie question since I'm reading all of these posts about medications, which, when, how much, what method, etc. I've had my flock together in the coop for just a few weeks. Do I need to deworm them regularly just as a preventative measure? And what product do I want to use for that? I'll bet I could find this information in my Chickens for Dummies book, (which I love), but I'm looking for instant gratification this morning.

There is no such thing as worm prevention.
You worm 2 X a year to kill the parasites the birds likely will have, and in between they can and more than likely will, pick up more parasites.
During this time between wormings, there is no preventing more...worm medication is not like a flea collar that hangs around.
You dose it, it hopefully kills everything, and that is that.
there is always a chance of more parasite eggs in the soil (from poop) or new parasites they can come across, like the kind snail carry, for example.
So, the birds are wormed 2X a year. That is my schedule anyways.

The only way to keep chickens from picking up worms would make them miserable, because being chickens means digging in the dirt and eating questionable stuff like insects (which carry some sorts of ascarids) and grass. If they're not in entirely controlled artificial conditions, even more environmentally deprived than commercial operations, they're going to be exposed to parasites. More than twice a year doesn't increase coverage, because most internal parasites have part of their life cycle either pupating in the soil or as larvae in insects or mammals.

I may end up worming on the same schedule as the cattle, I'll see how it works.