Chicken Chat: chickens

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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Thursday, June 9, 2011

Big BERTHA thinks she is a CHICKEN!!

Posted by Joy! at 9:37 PM 0 comments

Bertha is a dear friends' lone surviving one day old GUINEA who came to live with a

chicken clutch at the JoyHouse.

She has been outgrowing her peers by leaps and bounds..... I wonder how long this peace and harmony will last.

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Local Artists Love Chickens

Posted by Joy! at 6:13 AM 5 comments

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

chickens

Posted by Joy! at 1:12 PM 0 comments

Lola and Lacey like to "free range" on the front porch .... look-ing for dog food.

The Goose after only 48 hours.. flew the coop.

Claire the golden buff is hard at work.. Sparkle and Juliet are FAKERS

Bambi is an Easter Egger and Cracker is a WHITE rock.

Jackie is a Black Australorp..... Jane is a Wheaten Ameracauna and Miss Charlotte is another Easter Egger

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