*If your chicken has a booboo, you can apply neosporin or triple antibiotic ointment, but be sure it's the kind WITHOUT pain reliever. Pain relievers that end in "caine" are toxic to your bird.
*Food Grade Diotamaceous Earth or D.E. is a wonderful multi-purpose, natural helper of chickens.
-mix it with their feed to help prevent worms
-dust them with it to prevent mites and lice
-mix it in their bedding to kill and prevent mites and lice and fleas
-mix with water to white wash coop walls that may be infested with mites or other critters
-use to kill fire ants without putting poison in your grass where your chickens might get it
*Practice Chicken Biosecurity
-have visitors hose off their feet before coming to visit your coop
-protect your flock from unseen diseases by quarantining new birds for 30 days or more - and then introduce only one of your flock to the new bird.
-set aside a pair of shoes that you wear for trips to the chicken coop that you don't wear anywhere else, and hose them off often
**Remember, we can track in all kinds of diseases from other places on our feet and clothes.
My girls FREE RANGE almost every day ...... ONE Of them is HONKING like a goose...... everytime I hear it I am startled and then remember that my chicks have all grown up and sound like HENS now..... honk honk bok bok
THAT is so funny.... Mine are ususally under my bedroom at HIGH NOON HONK HONK HONK mixed with an occasionally normal chicken sound, but I do not hear any peeps anymore from anyone, even the younger back forty flock have all matured. SAD but so exciting.... eggs are due to hatch MONDAY MONDAY and JULIET looks like she will be a wonderful MOTHER.
She is lovely in BLUE..... and she looks happy....and SAFE.....
ReplyDeleteI really like DAFFY!
My girls FREE RANGE almost every day ...... ONE Of them is HONKING like a goose...... everytime I hear it I am startled and then remember that my chicks have all grown up and sound like HENS now..... honk honk bok bok
ReplyDeletei love the development of adolescent honking. it's very funny. i think they surprise themselves a lot of the time.
ReplyDeletenow i enjoy listening to her sing her hen song. she seems so happy when she's doing it. =)
bok bok bok bok bok bok baGAWK!
ReplyDeleteTHAT is so funny.... Mine are ususally under my bedroom at HIGH NOON HONK HONK HONK mixed with an occasionally normal chicken sound, but I do not hear any peeps anymore from anyone, even the younger back forty flock have all matured. SAD but so exciting.... eggs are due to hatch MONDAY MONDAY and JULIET looks like she will be a wonderful MOTHER.
ReplyDeletehow exciting! rhode island red chicks?
ReplyDelete5 minus 1 equals 4
ReplyDeleterefer to candling post if you need reminding of what I put Juliet through
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