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[Chickielady]

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Available at most feed, and garden stores:
Flip the birds over & powder their behinds, between legs and not directly IN the vent. flush so the powder gets down in there.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/50801_poultry_dust.jpg

Thanks for answering. It makes sense that they would use permethrin. Do I need to toss the eggs the hens lay for 2 weeks afterward, then?

I never have.
I also have a dust bath (in a home depot tub $8 each) in every coop with half a bag of sand, 2 feed scoops of DE, and 1/2 can of poultry dust, mixed up for the birds to dust themselves, and inside, so they stay dry.
Clean poops or shavings out every few days with a cat pan spoon, toss poops in a 5 gallon bucket.

 

[Chickielady]

Just talked to T-Hi, and she does not want anyone running out to buy her a washer & dryer (and you know who you are)

But thanks.
She is goig to HD to look at a 12-mo no interest deal I told her about that will set her up (delivery too) with a new set, and be a cheaper monthly paymnet than doing 1 week at the laundry mat.
I hate the laundry mat !!
Seriously, $5 a load to wash in a tiny washer?
$10 to dry ????
Not to mention sitting there all day..................in such a yucky enviroment...with maybe bed bugs & fleas from other people's laundry crawling about..or worse....

T-Hi is also needed seriously to get rid of 5 wine bottle adult runner ducks!

Chocolate & black.
# hens & 2 drakes $50
AND a metal 2 foot high by 3 1/2 foot long stock tank for their bathing pleasure...$30 (an $80 value there)

Or $75 for all of the above.
Or best offer, she says.

Anyone interested, PM me, Blue Ducklings or CR for her phone number as she has no computer right now, but does have unlimited text.
Oh, and she is sick with a cold but otherwise doing OK~~

Bye again!!!!!!!!

 

[pettec63]

omg! I just perused the Walmart pics!!!!! Some of them actually made me sick!!!! Really??? Unbelievable?? Did their mommas teach them to dress that way?? I think not!!

 

[Ogress]

Wow, we had one expensive weekend! Started with a letter from the bank a couple weeks ago that showed our wire transfer to our checking accout to pay property taxes did not go through as Don had tried to wire the $ to an account we closed a few years ago. Got that straightened out, waited a few days, county website showed paid, so I figured they re-submitted. Wrong! Got a nastygram from the county! $700 extra in interest, fines and fees, mostly fines! I looked at their interest rate, that was only $70 of it. Crap. Mad at Don and the brokerage he wired from - a PHONE CALL should have been made to us, not just a letter that ends up in our big locking box which I open only once or twice per week unless I'm expecting something I want.

Then we bought the Sawzall and lamber so Don could make some steps on the incline to the coop. 6 pm last night he pounded a piece of rebar through our water line so we had a gusher, went to shut it off and the pressure was too great, busting another line where it comes down from the street

! Emergency repair which is not yet complete. $$. The first line we broke was never mapped out. A friend installed it for me when I wanted water and electricity out to my garden shed. The ditch witch had a bear of a time breaking through the ground because of all the huge boulders we have just under our soil, so he ended up bundling the year-round water pipe with the sprinkler system pipe and the power line! Totally not to code, and not mapped out. I tought it was under the flower beds, but apparently every time I mow the lawn, it gets wider and the beds get narrower. Don is super lucky he missed the power line by less than half an inch! (I did turn the power off out there a few weeks ago). The bundled utilities were less than a foot deep due to a big boulder underneath them.

And kids summer camp $ is due this week.

Thank Goodness I bought $1,000 in Starbux stock when Alex was born and set it aside for an emergency fund! As soon as I can locate the account info, it is being cashed out!

 

[pettec63]

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I hate laundry mats too!!!! hope that works out for her!!!! sorry she's sick!!! and hope things will continue to get better for her and her kids!!!

 

[Ogress]

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When I was in college, I rented the cheapest apartment I could find - a cockroach infested, cracked walled, mostly threadbare 2 tone green shag carpet, uneven floors yucky dump of a place between the railroad tracks and the ambulance in Davis CA about a half mile up from the train depot. (1988 and I split the $470/month rent with 2 others). No washer and drier in the place so we had to take our clothes to the laundromat. One stormy afternoon, as the train was pulling into the depot, about 7 hobos jumped off with their blankets and nasty old clothes. They came into the laundromat, dug through the trash for all the used dryer sheets, stripped down to T-shrts and shorts and they stuffed all that nasty smelly stuff into the dryers without washing it first!!!!!!

That is the last time I have been to a laundromat other than at a motel (and then I was washing stuff my kids got sick on).

 

[Chickielady]

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Gawd...I hate days like that!!!!!!!!
CR will be right on here telling you that you should have checked for lines before you dig...rent a metal detector or whatever from home depot....

 

[Chickielady]

The last time I was in a laundrymat, was in Tonasket.
It was deep winter, like January, and I had saved up 3 Trash bags of laundry to wash.
Off we went..had the laundry in back of the truck.
When we got there, we carried the soap, dryer sheets & bags inside, and my kids were about 6 and 4 years old.
Nasty cold outside.
All the bags were frozen in big trash bag shaped wads and we had to pry & pull the clothes apart & stuff the rigid frozen clothes into their respective colored washing machines.

It took up 12 machines...After this ordeal, we settled in to read a book, and in walked 5 Native American mothers, with trash bags after trash bag of laundry, and about 8 kids, all under 6 years of age.
The moms proceeded to strip the toddlers down to nakedness, and stuffed all their laundry in the remaining 12 washers and then hovered over me waiting for my 12 washers to be done.

Naked little brown babies all over!!

It was kind of cute, and a total surprise!!!

They were running past, smiling , precotious little cuties...climbing on the chairs, hollaring, chasing & frolicking completely oblivious to their nakedness in public.

 

[Ogress]

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Thanks for answering. It makes sense that they would use permethrin. Do I need to toss the eggs the hens lay for 2 weeks afterward, then?

I never have.
I also have a dust bath (in a home depot tub $8 each) in every coop with half a bag of sand, 2 feed scoops of DE, and 1/2 can of poultry dust, mixed up for the birds to dust themselves, and inside, so they stay dry.
Clean poops or shavings out every few days with a cat pan spoon, toss poops in a 5 gallon bucket.
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/50801_joys_black_java_eggs_017.jpg

I made them too, but only 1 orpington hen will use them. The rest of the birds dust bathe in the yard where the dogs dug them up some baths. I sprinkled them full of poultry dust. The coop is always dusty because I make the mix now like you posted a couple months ago and dust everything with it- kind of icky to breathe in twhen the big birds flap their wings.

 

[Chickielady]

http://www.buyhardwaresupplies.com/largerImage.cfm?path=images/products/newJPGs/72/7206311.jpg&title=%22Ortho%22%20Ecosense%20Outdoor%20Insect%20Killer&width=195&height=384

Don't know if this link will work, but I use this spray around the home, garden & in coops, on roosts, poop boards & nest boxes every so often to prevent mites.
Ortho Ecosense.