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[Chickielady]

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You have brown egg layers ?
Any brown eggers will work.
And assortment of brown egg laying hens with an Ameraucana Cock will provide various colors of OE chicks when you hatch the eggs.
You can eat the brown eggs, or hatch them & raise up your own OEs.

 

[Chicken Rustler]

I just got text from Michelle she has surgery at 2:00 tomorrow. Waiting to hear if they found anything wrong with her shoulder.

 

[RedReiner]

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sounds like she will be fine, just needs time to heal. and CR, your exactly right, there are no shoulda woulda coulda in that situation. sounds like she did everything she could do, it happens. I know a world champ trainer who had the same exact thing happen. exact same way and he also broke his pelvis. he is back to showing.

 

[broodytood]

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Keep us posted. We"ll be prayin'. We are close, I hope you know you can ask us for anything. You would not be putting us out or imposing!!!! You know that right?

 

[broodytood]

Ok, all you experts, I need help figuring out what this little one is. This is one of the eggs (from Pips&Peeps) that was labeled lav or b/s. Any guesses? Thought I kept them straight and that it was a b/s but it looks so light and has no splashes(yet). Do the slashed come later? Could I have been wrong; could this be a lav? I've never seen a lav in person so I'm clueless! Thanks for any thoughts! Oh, and the small dark spots down by the leg in the first pic are poop spots not colored feathers.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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Yep, and it's really cool if you look at it under a microscope, you can see all sorts of fossils.

Yes, it cuts them up internally and they loose their bug juice & die.
It is good in your intestines (or the birds) as internal parasites eat it in the intestines and die..It is amazingly smooth too,
A heaping Tablespoon mixed in a little water and drink it down (food grade) and it tastes & feels like nothing in your mouth.
I thought it would be sand-like, but is not.
I mix some poultry dust with some DE & dust birds or put it in the sand in their dust bath.
I also mix some DE in their feed.
I also mix DE in the garden box I grow radishes & root crops in, to prevent root maggots.
Haven't seen a root maggot since.
I dust my lettuce with it before I row cover (as rain will wash it away) to kill earwhigs & deter baby slugs...they must eat the DE to eat the leaves.
Have not had any bug issues there either.

Oh, my gosh. I never thought about in my garden. If it every warms up enough, I will use it there too.

 

[snapkrackelpop19]

Today we found an egg with blood in it, but we have no roosters. I thought you only got blood in fertile eggs...anybody know what's up??

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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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.

I have been reading and researching and reading and researching. I am going to use as much natural methods as possible, ie. the DE in their food and i ground up pumpkin seeds and unfiltered apple cider vinegar. But I have decided for my group, that I would at least once a year (maybe twice - I have not decided exactly yet) I will prophylactically worm. first the Wazine 7. This is a more "gentler wormer" ... it paralyzes and expels adult parasites (mostly roundworms) and then I will follow this with a more broad spectrum, ie. the Eprinex, topically. The Eprinex also helps to kill external parasites.

I have asked like a bajillion people and from what I have read....this is a system that will work good for me. But it is definitely an each to his own type of thing. My birds do not show signs of having worms....but, that said, they free range and eat icky things. When I pulled out the insulation in the coop, they at the mice that fell out (if they could catch them). So, I am just worming.

 

[KMHunter]

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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.

Ok, I was under the impression that Ivermectin and Eprinex were kind of the same. Both deal with internal and external parasites. Can someone tell me why Eprinex is better? Maybe someone explained it and missed it, but I would love to have the info.

Ok Never mind....I must be braindead not to see what was written above.

And I realized that I have Ivomec pour on for cattle which is the same thing if I have read it right.

 

[4cats3kids1hubby2many]

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It makes me jealous as I cannot access any of it...but I like to look at the goodies you post.