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[Farmin Momma]

Quote: Ok so I have the tetracycline powder already. At the feed store they said for a gallon of water to use two table spoons of the powder. Does this sound about right? Instead of 1/4 tsp for a pint?

On another note, I have been trying to decide what breeds I would like my flock to consist of. It is so hard because I love so many of them. I know EE's will be a big part of my flock as I love their blue and green eggs. Also I need some that will just pop me out eggs every day and don't eat very much so for that I want a few White Leghorns. I will NEED some dark chocolate eggs in my basket next year so a couple Black Copper Marans will have their place here. Now I just need one (maybe two) more breed and what breeds of roosters I want. The other thing I need to figure out is a cut off number for my self.....thinking around 25-30-45-50-65-........

Ok so that will be an even harder part.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: Ok so I have the tetracycline powder already. At the feed store they said for a gallon of water to use two table spoons of the powder. Does this sound about right? Instead of 1/4 tsp for a pint?

On another note, I have been trying to decide what breeds I would like my flock to consist of. It is so hard because I love so many of them. I know EE's will be a big part of my flock as I love their blue and green eggs. Also I need some that will just pop me out eggs every day and don't eat very much so for that I want a few White Leghorns. I will NEED some dark chocolate eggs in my basket next year so a couple Black Copper Marans will have their place here. Now I just need one (maybe two) more breed and what breeds of roosters I want. The other thing I need to figure out is a cut off number for my self.....thinking around 25-30-45-50-65-........

Ok so that will be an even harder part.

You need you some FUDGE and Cloverleaf is THE BEST source!!!!

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Quote: Ok so I have the tetracycline powder already. At the feed store they said for a gallon of water to use two table spoons of the powder. Does this sound about right? Instead of 1/4 tsp for a pint?

On another note, I have been trying to decide what breeds I would like my flock to consist of. It is so hard because I love so many of them. I know EE's will be a big part of my flock as I love their blue and green eggs. Also I need some that will just pop me out eggs every day and don't eat very much so for that I want a few White Leghorns. I will NEED some dark chocolate eggs in my basket next year so a couple Black Copper Marans will have their place here. Now I just need one (maybe two) more breed and what breeds of roosters I want. The other thing I need to figure out is a cut off number for my self.....thinking around 25-30-45-50-65-........

Ok so that will be an even harder part.
That's a really heavy dose. There are 8 pints in a gallon, so that would be 2 teaspoons. I gave you the measurement for a pint, because you have to change the water every day, and if you're treating more water than she is drinking, you are wasting the powder...

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Quote: Ok so I have the tetracycline powder already. At the feed store they said for a gallon of water to use two table spoons of the powder. Does this sound about right? Instead of 1/4 tsp for a pint?

On another note, I have been trying to decide what breeds I would like my flock to consist of. It is so hard because I love so many of them. I know EE's will be a big part of my flock as I love their blue and green eggs. Also I need some that will just pop me out eggs every day and don't eat very much so for that I want a few White Leghorns. I will NEED some dark chocolate eggs in my basket next year so a couple Black Copper Marans will have their place here. Now I just need one (maybe two) more breed and what breeds of roosters I want. The other thing I need to figure out is a cut off number for my self.....thinking around 25-30-45-50-65-........

Ok so that will be an even harder part.
That's a really heavy dose. There are 8 pints in a gallon, so that would be 2 teaspoons. I gave you the measurement for a pint, because you have to change the water every day, and if you're treating more water than she is drinking, you are wasting the powder...
Shoot. I double checked the spoon I use for this, and it's 1/2 tsp / pint, not 1/4...that's what I get for doing things from memory! But that's still only 4 tsp / gallon, which is just 1 1/3 Tbsp....

 

[itsren]

And to that end. NO see just because everybody is tying themselves to bridges with rubber bands and jumping off that don't mean I is gonna do it!!!

Oh my goodness! I needed that laugh!

 

[Chicken Rustler]

Quote: Well sadly it is nice to see that I am not alone today!!!

 

[Farmin Momma]

Quote:

I am not to sure about that. See I happend to find a pink piece of fabric that looks to match your hidden identity scarf (I had to use the word scarf because what those darnded things are called has at this moment escaped me brain) and cought on the barbed wire was a bit of brite pink TAPE, the kind possible used to cover some ones phone!

Quote: Ok so I have the tetracycline powder already. At the feed store they said for a gallon of water to use two table spoons of the powder. Does this sound about right? Instead of 1/4 tsp for a pint?

On another note, I have been trying to decide what breeds I would like my flock to consist of. It is so hard because I love so many of them. I know EE's will be a big part of my flock as I love their blue and green eggs. Also I need some that will just pop me out eggs every day and don't eat very much so for that I want a few White Leghorns. I will NEED some dark chocolate eggs in my basket next year so a couple Black Copper Marans will have their place here. Now I just need one (maybe two) more breed and what breeds of roosters I want. The other thing I need to figure out is a cut off number for my self.....thinking around 25-30-45-50-65-........

Ok so that will be an even harder part.

You need you some FUDGE and Cloverleaf is THE BEST source!!!!


I have seen this boy on here so many times, Oh yeah I LOVE me some Fudge!

Quote: Ok so I have the tetracycline powder already. At the feed store they said for a gallon of water to use two table spoons of the powder. Does this sound about right? Instead of 1/4 tsp for a pint?

On another note, I have been trying to decide what breeds I would like my flock to consist of. It is so hard because I love so many of them. I know EE's will be a big part of my flock as I love their blue and green eggs. Also I need some that will just pop me out eggs every day and don't eat very much so for that I want a few White Leghorns. I will NEED some dark chocolate eggs in my basket next year so a couple Black Copper Marans will have their place here. Now I just need one (maybe two) more breed and what breeds of roosters I want. The other thing I need to figure out is a cut off number for my self.....thinking around 25-30-45-50-65-........

Ok so that will be an even harder part.
That's a really heavy dose. There are 8 pints in a gallon, so that would be 2 teaspoons. I gave you the measurement for a pint, because you have to change the water every day, and if you're treating more water than she is drinking, you are wasting the powder...
Oh ok, I missed the part on the bag about changing the water every day. Those chick waterers, do you know if those are pints?

Quote: Ok so I have the tetracycline powder already. At the feed store they said for a gallon of water to use two table spoons of the powder. Does this sound about right? Instead of 1/4 tsp for a pint?

On another note, I have been trying to decide what breeds I would like my flock to consist of. It is so hard because I love so many of them. I know EE's will be a big part of my flock as I love their blue and green eggs. Also I need some that will just pop me out eggs every day and don't eat very much so for that I want a few White Leghorns. I will NEED some dark chocolate eggs in my basket next year so a couple Black Copper Marans will have their place here. Now I just need one (maybe two) more breed and what breeds of roosters I want. The other thing I need to figure out is a cut off number for my self.....thinking around 25-30-45-50-65-........

Ok so that will be an even harder part.
That's a really heavy dose. There are 8 pints in a gallon, so that would be 2 teaspoons. I gave you the measurement for a pint, because you have to change the water every day, and if you're treating more water than she is drinking, you are wasting the powder...
Shoot. I double checked the spoon I use for this, and it's 1/2 tsp / pint, not 1/4...that's what I get for doing things from memory! But that's still only 4 tsp / gallon, which is just 1 1/3 Tbsp....
Thanks for going back and double checking, that would have been a whoopsy! Thank you for your help.

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

The little skinny chick waterers with the quail-trough...yes, those are pints.

 

[HoneysuckleHills]

Oh, sorry. These are all very good questions. Seriously. I believe I asked all of these same questions when I first considered getting chickens. Living in the city, I thought we'd get a nice backyard flock of 4-6 chickens. I knew there were SO many pretty chickens that laid different colored eggs so I tried hard to narrow down my choices. I studied and reshuffled breed pictures, considered all of my choices and finally settled on 8 different breeds. Hmm... a couple more than I'd anticipated. So I hatched some baby chicks of my favorite breeds to add to the POL pullets I'd purchased from some of my favorite BYC breeders, and then had to keep a few more than I'd planned on because I'd hatched them myself for crying out loud and now I'm like their MOTHER, so my flock grew to 10. That was the first year.

I also realized as I was hatching that I would need a grow out coop which would also double as an integration coop so the chickens could see each other without hurting each other until they could join the big flock. So I purchased one of those "kit coops" sold by Garden Sphere. I do not like the quality of the coop and have had to do a lot of jeri-rigging on it, but it's functional. So, now I was up to one large layer coop (8X12 footprint) and the mini coop.

Oh, then my light Sussex went broody that first year, so that small coop also became a broody/nursery coop. Wow, that mini coop is really getting a workout with all of it's uses. Maybe I need to add a third coop to our backyard?

Fast forward to Summer 2012 - VF Coop Building World Tour. Wow. Now I have a beautiful new strongly built coop with a nice 4X4 house and enclosed run. In the meantime I hatched some beautiful little Silkies so now that coop is being used as a banty pen. Huh. I sure don't remember planning on raising banties. I'm not sure exactly when that became a decision.

Oh well, I'm hoping when they go broody they can hatch in there and maybe the banty pen can double as a nursery since it's just Silkies... I mean, they're small, right?

Somehow -

I have no idea how this happened, my small suburban lot that I thought I could raise 4-6 layers on, has turned into a lot filled with 12 layers, 5 Silkies, and 3 coops! And let's not forget the 2 small Seramas living in a bunny cage in my computer room that are also providing me with teeny tiny eggs... Thank goodness I got rid of those 8 roosters I accidentally hatched this spring. At one point I think there were over 20 chickens at my house.

It's a sickness I'm telling you.

Dana - best post ever! Had to read it twice it was so good.

Time for regular meetings...
"Hello, my name is Dana and I've not hatched for 3 months...."

I'm taking a break from work and your post made my day.
Thanks much for the laughs.
It IS a sickness.

 

[Breshcandra]

Well the lady does not want my new found rooster. So he went up on criagslist. I have just hatched out a very light blue sex-link pullet. (are they called pullets at a week old if you know what they are?) As soon as she is old enough to live on her own I will be selling her.