*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.
What a neat blog! I have become a follower! Check out our blog at thechickenkeepers.blogspot.com We would love some Easter eggers, but not tell spring. Many be if you have some then, we would love to get some. The Chicken Keepers
What a neat blog! I have become a follower! Check out our blog at thechickenkeepers.blogspot.com We would love some Easter eggers, but not tell spring. Many be if you have some then, we would love to get some.
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I will always have Easter Eggers... they are one of my main breeds....
ReplyDeleteIf you get them now.... they will be laying in March
Oh how I love baby chicks!! Sadly one cannot keep them all... hope you find good homes for them :)
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