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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.

Saturday, February 20, 2010

While you were sleeping..........

Posted by Joy! at 6:33 AM

The Rescued Hatch continues to amaze me. I woke up this morning to three more babies.

Another BA, RIR and "Dobbin" are here! They are so sweet. Now we have NINE.

2 BA - 1 Fuzzy Mutt - 5 RIR - and Dobbin.... click on Mr Bennet's for more info on her daddy.

Manly version of sexing baby chicks.

If this video is correct, I have all pullets and only one cockeral. WOW!

Last year out of the three RIR that Juliet hatched.... all three were ROOs so this is fantastic!

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