Kristen, You need 5 or 6 healthy chickens. Five or 6 are easy to care for and not much bother, do not make much of a mess and will give you plenty of eggs. You could assign your chicken coop to your children as part of their schooling and responsibility problem solving as part of the design cycle of thinker/problem solver/trsutworthy, ET....
I called Twin State and left a msg but didn't hear back til late the next day and I had just gone ahead and ordered the 4 in 1 powder. It says on the jar that you should use the AvioEntro-Mune w/ it which seems to not help the crop canker problem. I will use the 4 in 1 anyway starting tomorrow but quite honestly I'm preparing myself mentally for the reality that I should really cull my whole flock of 12, which consists mostly of 7+ old hens. It's warm here now thankfully but there's so much sneezing going on in the coop and quite honestly I'm just drained from all the chicken problems I've had, all the effort to try to fix the problems w/ this drug and that, all the drama of chickens having to be separated b/c they fight or are sick, and work in bringing water out when it's cold here so many months of the year. I'm a busy homeschooling mama w/ two jobs w/ 6 sheep and perhaps a lamb or two on the way this spring, and everyone thinks I'm nuts for coddling my dear old hens. sigh.... am I terrible for considering this option? They've been so spoiled and several of them are rescues who lived awful lives before they came here.
Kristen
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, Dale Clark wrote:
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> Hi Cathryn,
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> It was in the early 80s when I was raising poultry. I had not seen a silkie up till that time. A lot of poultry has been bred in several different colors since that time. I live about 7 miles south of Norman which is where the University of Oklahoma is. I live about 30 to 40 miles south of Oklahoma City.
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> Dale
One thing I would make sure to do is wild bird fence your chicken run so that they cannot bring in diseases to your pullets. There are hatcheries that sell pullets close to the point of lay or sell chicks that are mycoplasma/pullorum/typhoid free.
I would not continue with a sick flock. I would put them to sleep, clean it all out, use a garden spray or power washer and scrub, Tek Trol disinfectant the coop out and the ground all around it including the run, and dry the coop out with a fan. Let it sit for a month to 6 weeks. Then look for reasonably priced pullets from hatcheries and start all over. There are several that sell 4 month and 3 month old pullets.
Cathryn rainbowsilkiesTM in Michigan
On Saturday, January 11, 2014 4:50 PM, Kristen Langlais <laughingcrowfarm@yahoo.com> wrote:
I called Twin State and left a msg but didn't hear back til late the next day and I had just gone ahead and ordered the 4 in 1 powder. It says on the jar that you should use the AvioEntro-Mune w/ it which seems to not help the crop canker problem. I will use the 4 in 1 anyway starting tomorrow but quite honestly I'm preparing myself mentally for the reality that I should really cull my whole flock of 12, which consists mostly of 7+ old hens. It's warm here now thankfully but there's so much sneezing going on in the coop and quite honestly I'm just drained from all the chicken problems I've had, all the effort to try to fix the problems w/ this drug and that, all the drama of chickens having to be separated b/c they fight or are sick, and work in bringing water out when it's cold here so many months of the year. I'm a busy homeschooling mama w/ two jobs w/ 6 sheep and perhaps a lamb or two on the way this spring, and everyone thinks I'm nuts for coddling my dear old hens. sigh.... am I terrible for considering this option? They've been so spoiled and several of them are rescues who lived awful lives before they came here.
Kristen
--- In CHICKENS-101@yahoogroups.com, Dale Clark wrote:
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> Hi Cathryn,
>
> It was in the early 80s when I was raising poultry. I had not seen a silkie up till that time. A lot of poultry has been bred in several different colors since that time. I live about 7 miles south of Norman which is where the University of Oklahoma is. I live about 30 to 40 miles south of Oklahoma City.
>
> Dale
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