Chicken Chat

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.

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.

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Beautiful Flock Roosters! Soon to be homeless and flockless! Help!

Posted by Beth at 8:17 AM 1 comments

This is Rocky. He's a 1 1/2 year old Rhode Island Rooster, who needs a new flock. Yesterday, his flock just picked up and moved in to some other guy's new place. Ungrateful biddies! And now he has no one too look after. He's unaggressive toward humans, gentle on the ladies, and great and watching for predators. Besides all that, he's really nice to look at. In person is much better than it is in this picture. Won't you please give him a home?

This is Edgar, Rocky's son. He's about 9 months old, and his mom is a beautiful buff orpington. His beautiful orange color and his skill at escaping from butcher knives earned him a treasured position in Rogers Country, but now it is time for him to move on to his own flock. He has had a great teacher, and he is amazing to look at. Will you give him a chance?

Friday, February 4, 2011

Chickens for Sale

Posted by Beth at 10:29 AM 2 comments

Hello Chicken Friends,

I have already written a sizable post on my personal blog, so please mosey on over to see pictures and descriptions of chickens and rabbits that i am putting up for sale.

Beth

Sunday, January 9, 2011

Local Artists Love Chickens

Posted by Joy! at 6:13 AM 5 comments

Wednesday, January 5, 2011

More Recent Pics of Super Chicken Mama

Posted by Joy! at 7:28 PM 4 comments

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Kyckling's Growing Clutch

Posted by Beth at 6:01 AM 7 comments

I couldn't believe the cuteness when i passed by the brooder this morning. It's chilly, and apparently, all the babies were trying to get in to cuddle under mama's feathers.