Tuesday, September 15, 2009
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A place to talk about all things chicken.
Chicken Tips
*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.
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awe! they look so sweet and cuddly!
ReplyDeleteWow, what great pictures! These lil chicks are perfect and sooo cute...amazing!
ReplyDeleteChris
now have 10..... another Favelle so cute
ReplyDelete4 more hatched around 3am..... and a bomb exploded (bad egg).. I have to wait for all the hatches before I dismattle and clean. The hatches were 3 more favelle and 1 Buttercup... the bomb was a Buttercup also..
ReplyDelete14 and counting... I am praying that all my Wheatons hatch ... so far I only have 4 chicks.
not even a peep from the rest of the wheatons DADgummit....
ReplyDeleteA BYC lady said that some of hers hatched at 26 so I will not give up.. Just afraid of more bombs!