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[Chickielady]

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Oh well...I have a second coop that's about 1/2 done...I have found the best way to get hubby to finish a project is to have 15+ chirping chicks patiently growing out in one of the spare bedrooms! LOL

Not true !!
The best way to get DH to build a coop is to start building it yourself, get a notepad and start your design and try to figure out the shopping list and ask him if he can help take you to the lumber yard and before long he will take over the whole sheebang !!!

Works for me everytime !!!

 

[Chickielady]

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She's doing alright, I guess. I've just been feeding her medicated chick feed and giving water when I can. It's hard for the injured girls because they're not steady and tend to dump it out on accident

I wish I had a better setup than I've got. She sits with her leg out in front of her, instead of tucked under like normal. She doesn't like me trying to pick her up, but I like to take them out once in a while so they get exercise, but she flaps her wings, trying to get away from me. She's just scared... I guess only time will tell...

get a metal or old plastic tub...like from margarine, and poke 2 holes and wire (or string it) to the side of the cage, then maybe can't tip over...good luck !!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Montesano Farm and Feed has the 50# bag and it is food grade, pure, and sells cheap !

 

[Chickielady]

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Thanks~
I really should have delt with her impaction days ago...I noticed she had a pndulous crop about a week ago...but figured it would pass, and in the process she probably starved...she kept eating, and drinking, was ravenous actually starving..my bad.
But I know better now !!!

 

[Chickielady]

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Me too....but there are some breeds that you can't get anywhere else so it's worth it for me to take the risk and then breed from that group to improve what I can and hope for the best.

I'd really wish I could give the White faced Whites another chance...but they were TERRIBLY flighty and egg-eaters....but so cool-looking...sighs...

OK, I want to see what they have !

 

[justbugged]

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Montesano Farm and Feed has the 50# bag and it is food grade, pure, and sells cheap !

So does BILL'S COUNTRY FARM AND FEED. It is about halfway between Auburn and Enumclaw. I think that I pay about 27.00 for it. If I remember right someone said that the grange in Issaquah also carries it in 50 lbs.

 

[Chickielady]

My dust bath mixture:
get a hunk of 2x6, cut and screw together a box about 24" everyway, lay on the coop floor, toe-screw down, and add:
1 bag of finish play sand, and 2 scoops of DE, and a can of poultry dust, mix up.
Has to be somewhere where the birds, or the weather cannot get it wet.

Poultry dust is a derivative of carnation flowers, pyrethrins, and this sytem works great.
I also mix 1/2 poultry dust and half DE and put in a puffer, and can foof the hens bottoms with it.
I also spray down the inside of the coops with pyrethrin spray, get in the roost/cracks and nest boxes, every week or so.
That's what I do>>>
Oh, and poultry dust also comes in a bag, and it is found at feed and garden stores, it is also called garden dust...

 

[Chickielady]

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Did anyone take any photos ???????

I wanna see !!!!!

 

[jbear]

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It was so fun!!

Can't wait till Chehalis!
Hope your back recovers soon!

 

[justbugged]

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I am hanging in. It still doesn't feel like I am completely over my over doing it episode back at the end of August. I am still getting everyone fed, but I am not doing very much else. DH and I built a real cover over part of the run. At least the girls have a dry spot in the run. I need to find homes for the 2 younger pupies. They can't be trusted with the cats, chicken, and the bunny that lives in my sewing room.

As for the avatar it is a chicken in the pot. It says something on it, but it is to small for me to read. I have had a lot of troubles trying to get a picture to be small enough for it to post, so when i finally get one I tend to use it. I think I found this one about the time we sent the meat birds to freezer camp.