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[DwayneNLiz]

Do bluejays bother chickens? I have a couple that keep flying over my Seramas!!

This is going to be a horrible year for mosquitos and bugs. I'm seeing mosquitos as big as my Serama chicks.

i wonder if they are nesting nearby, they're a pain

You know I've noticed over the past couple years I don't have to many health issues with my birds (knock on wood).... (i did just knock on wood for reals).... Am I doing something wrong or missing something?

A couple years ago I had a duck with a infection in its eye.... A little ACV in the water and it cleared up.

Granted I only have 7 ducks and 6 chickens.... But an i just getting lucky or is it cuz is so cold that we don't really have any time for these things to set in.?

All my birds seem good and healthy and really happy.... If course I spoil them like crazy not having kids at home the animals all become like kids.

I'm not trying to sound dumb just should I be looking harder for issues?

I've never seen lice or anything?

And I've never wormed my birds should I?

Everyone thinks my chickens are beautiful.... They like the all black look.... Just wondering?

Sounds fine to me, I've had em 5-6 years and done nothing but trying to get stuff ready for worming

Pile of poults

Spring is here

awwwww and pretty!! I can't wait for lilac!!

Are you sure? I could have taken Pic of my yard today.... It was white and 28

sorry

It may sound hard but when leg mites hit I usually cull.  The girls are hurting and a slow cure is a bad thing.  I'd pull those birds into a pen and dose them and just trash their eggs, but those things are pervasive.  If they don't heal then I end up with soup birds with residuals that are not acceptable.  So I usually either sell for meat or process them for meat.

I've heard gasoline works but dang that sounds painful.

or kero

Kathy, I came within a gnat's you-know-what of submitting my first flag. There's no reasoning with her.

Grrrrrr

I feel bad for the OP.

i think we all do but her

 

[WVduckchick]

Dudley came within an inch of catching rabbit stew dinner tonight.

Went out to lock the ducklings, and two big rabbits were in the yard. The last one barely squeaked thru the pickets.

 

[WalnutHill]

awwwww

and pretty!! I can't wait for lilac!!

That's a deep South lily flowered magnolia...borderline hardy here, but it hangs on.

 

[casportpony]

OMG, what a perfect reply Banty just did,

 

[WVduckchick]

OMG, what a perfect reply Banty just did, 

That was awesome. Now mine will probably get it locked. But I said my peace. I'm done..

 

[BantyChooks]

Yeah this is my third year with birds.... I think maybe ducks are easier and less prone to stuff.
Cuz yes I've had a few injuries... Last one was in the fall when my dogs were playing to dang rough.

I will worm my birds this spring I think at sometime.... But I'm really anti chemical.... Anti anything that isn't organic in my garden (and birds).
But I'm not a hippie type person.
Just my body has had so many chemicals of into it I try to avoid more.
If I'd not been exposed to so much benzine in the Air Force I probably wouldn't have gotten leukemia.

I've had ducks off and on since 2014, and they have far and away been the easiest. I don't count Chrissy in the calculations.

Kathy, I came within a gnat's you-know-what of submitting my first flag. There's no reasoning with her.

Can't say I was annoyed to that point, but her attitude is rather sour.

OMG, what a perfect reply Banty just did, 

That was awesome. Now mine will probably get it locked. But I said my peace. I'm done..

Couldn't help it. Gonna get on the naughty list now, but I just couldn't leave it alone.

 

[BantyChooks]

Walnut, love the "bug-up-your-shorts" comment

 

[WVduckchick]

I've had ducks off and on since 2014, and they have far and away been the easiest. I don't count Chrissy in the calculations.
Can't say I was annoyed to that point, but her attitude is rather sour.

Couldn't help it. Gonna get on the naughty list now, but I just couldn't leave it alone.

Me neither. Oh well, such is life.

I think bantam chickens are by far the easiest for me to raise. Ducks have been more self sufficient as grown birds though.

 

[sourland]

Can't say I was annoyed to that point, but her attitude is rather sour.

"Rather sour" ? You are the mistress of understatement.

 

[BantyChooks]

Me neither. Oh well, such is life.

I think bantam chickens are by far the easiest for me to raise. Ducks have been more self sufficient as grown birds though.

Biggest issue I've had with banties is leg mites. Jace, however, seems to be more resistant than the others so here's hoping she stays clean.
Haven't ever lost a bantam chick, though, they seem to be super tough and amazingly cold and predator resistant. They just won't give up.

I had an OEGB with severe head injuries... Gash down to the skull all along her face.... She was face down in the run with flies on her when I found her. Thought she was dead. Cleaned her up, force fed her water, and put her in a dark spot -- she was eating and drinking in 24 hours. Sold her recently, but in the year or two I had her after that she healed with no scar or health repercussions. I was shocked.