*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.
Big News! All chickens are under the same roof. The Girls were all getting out of control and fighting all the time trying to show eachother whose the boss.... so this morning after coffee I finished putting up the baby chicken wire... I prayed for protection for the chickens and let them all free range while I worked. As soon as I was close to being finished, I noticed that all of the chickens except 3 were back in the coop. I put cinder blocks up to block the unfinished baby wire and caught the other 3 chickens and walla..
NOW James is the boss again.... so all the fighting has stopped... Juliet is kickin boody and taking names.,.. even if you accidently wander within 10 ft of her chicks... so everyone is under the rule of James and Juliet again and miraculously everyone is all of a sudden getting along.
This looks like a mixed breed of some sort..... Maybe a Cockadoodle Poodle or a Choodle...
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Cockapoodle!
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silly silly silly =D
ReplyDeleteBig News! All chickens are under the same roof. The Girls were all getting out of control and fighting all the time trying to show eachother whose the boss.... so this morning after coffee I finished putting up the baby chicken wire... I prayed for protection for the chickens and let them all free range while I worked. As soon as I was close to being finished, I noticed that all of the chickens except 3 were back in the coop. I put cinder blocks up to block the unfinished baby wire and caught the other 3 chickens and walla..
ReplyDeleteNOW James is the boss again.... so all the fighting has stopped... Juliet is kickin boody and taking names.,.. even if you accidently wander within 10 ft of her chicks... so everyone is under the rule of James and Juliet again and miraculously everyone is all of a sudden getting along.
They crave order.. wow.... news to me.
LOL
ReplyDeleteThat is a full blooded poodle.
ReplyDeleteI think?!
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