Recent content by Folly's place

Welcome from southern Michigan, near Lansing! Mary Join us on the Michigan thread, and come to our 'ChickenStock' pot luck party June 29th, at a park in west Lansing.

On leash training first, a very good 'leave it!' command response, and then a longer leash, and finally a shock collar (used as a long leash) while working with a trainer. No puppy starts by ignoring chickens! It depends on training, months of training. Worse, you've started her learning to...

Any rooster will try to mate with any hen, but actually fertilizing her eggs can be problematic. Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Mary

I'm using Victor live traps, the metal ones that can catch multiples overnight. Then they take a drive elsewhere into wild areas. Individual snap traps (the old wood and metal spring traps) work well in places the chickens can't access. We have used bait, in secure bait stations, next to the...

An aside here: A couple of years ago i got CX birds from TSC, and then couldn't schedule processing until they were fourteen weeks of age. The ten birds had Flock raiser (20% protein) free choice their first three weeks, and then restricted to about eight hours daily, in feeders ten feet from...

Ingredient list on package?

Here too, it's out near the pond, like mint, a happy plant. Mary

Sorry you aren't coming, but rebuilding and helping is more important. Next year! And I'm not sure what to bring yet... Mary

More AI, this time in Ionia county!

It may take three years before newly planted asparagus is ready for even a small harvest. it's longer term than most veggies! And one of our dogs loved the stuff, and cleaned us out completely. Mary

Good response, but this thread died in 2020. Mary

HPAI: highly pathogenic avian influenza, it's been here for two years, and with millions of poultry and many wild birds and some wild mammals dead. Now it's also involving dairy herds, at least the cattle are only mildly sick, and a very few people, also not dying. Look at the CDC's website...

I too have hatchery chicks, birds from breeders (not often!) and raise some of my own. I have chicks from hatcheries vaccinated against Marek's disease, and my own birds aren't vaccinated for that. They are the 'canaries in the coal mine', who would get sick well before any of the vaccinated...

Best to use permethrin on your clothes, and something safer if you insist on spraying the yard, rather than that product you mentioned. And that daily tick search will be necessary anyway! Here in Michigan, the MSU Veterinary path lab will test individual ticks for the five commonest diseases...

:goodpost: Dog crates or cat crates will work, with some food on the bedding for them, and those waterers attached to the door that can be filled without opening the doors. There are transport cages designed for poultry, if that's what the airline wants. Get all your paperwork done as soon...