fuzzi's "Gardens and Chickens...and Goats? Oh My!" Journal and More Thread

[fuzzi]

Wednesday after work, no eggs in the Sussex coop. I moved a block to expose insects. I think Joanna got really excited, suddenly she squatted, and laid a shell-less egg!

They have oyster shell flakes, so it's strange. I got out the calcium citrate with D, dosed Joanna, Rahab, and Priscilla. Hannah was too wily to catch.

This afternoon I found a small egg, probably Hannah's, she has always laid slightly smaller eggs. I caught her, and the aforementioned hens, all got a pill.

After dark I took two of the cockerels off the roost, secured them in a basket. In the morning I am taking them to meet their new owner.

 

[fuzzi]

Interesting observation: two of the cockerels were on the end of the roost, with Zaccheus! If he had been mean to them I doubt they'd be that close.

 

[drstratton]

Wednesday after work, no eggs in the Sussex coop. I moved a block to expose insects. I think Joanna got really excited, suddenly she squatted, and laid a shell-less egg!

They have oyster shell flakes, so it's strange. I got out the calcium citrate with D, dosed Joanna, Rahab, and Priscilla. Hannah was too wily to catch.

This afternoon I found a small egg, probably Hannah's, she has always laid slightly smaller eggs. I caught her, and the aforementioned hens, all got a pill.

After dark I took two of the cockerels off the roost, secured them in a basket. In the morning I am taking them to meet their new owner.

I always have oyster shells for my girls. Once in awhile they will lay soft eggs. I never thought to dose them with calcium citrate

 

[fuzzi]

I always have oyster shells for my girls. Once in awhile they will lay soft eggs. I never thought to dose them with calcium citrate

I got that tip from someone at BYC who knows her stuff.

 

[SageHill]

Wow - you pilled your chickens??

 

[fuzzi]

Wow - you pilled your chickens??

Yep. Pill-popping chicks!

 

[drstratton]

I got that tip from someone at BYC who knows her stuff.

What dose do you use?

 

[fuzzi]

What dose do you use?

They're bantams, so I'm giving them half a tablet, the whole tablet is too big. I'm supposed to dose for 5 days.

 

[drstratton]

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They're bantams, so I'm giving them half a tablet, the whole tablet is too big. I'm supposed to dose for 5 days.

Thank you. I will pick some up. This will be good to have on hand.

 

[SageHill]

OK - I've never had to pill a chicken. You just pop it in their beak?? LOL - mine chickens only have slight interest in me when I'm tossing scratch. Admittedly I don't go in their run to sit and snuggle them either. Dogs and sheep get that time (though at the old house they did come when called until they had to be "Fort Knoxed" because of the coyotes).