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Post by lavandulagirl on Jul 16, 2011 8:23:22 GMT -5
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Post by steev on Jul 16, 2011 11:38:50 GMT -5
Gross! Looks like another use for Bag Balm.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jul 17, 2011 7:26:01 GMT -5
Your pics don't look anything like the one I pulled up. Yours a much closer to what we've got. I'll be getting some Vaseline on their little feeties later today. THANKS!
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Post by lavandulagirl on Jul 17, 2011 8:29:12 GMT -5
Are the babies in a brooder, or are they being raised by their Mama? You'll want to clean your brooder out, hospital fashion. Also, if they are out with the general bird population, all your birds should be checked, and their housing needs a scrub down. All kinds of poultry mites can be hard to get rid of. If you are using straw as bedding, know that mites will hide in the hollow "tubes" that are straw. You might want to switch to pine bedding. Mites can kill the babies very quickly.
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Post by grunt on Jul 17, 2011 16:46:29 GMT -5
Dust everywhere with lots of diatomaceous earth. It's not necessarily fast, but it will do the trick. Put enough in their favorite dust bath location, and they will do the rest for you.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jul 17, 2011 18:32:57 GMT -5
The only population afflicted are the keets and a few chicks in the brooder. We'll get them "hospital" clean as recommended though I'm not sure where the heck we will be able to come up with pine straw this time of year. What we had is all on the gardens.
Dan, you'll be VERY pleased to know that the boys had already determined the need for the diatomaceous earth! They'll be very pleased to know that the famous "Mr. Dan" has affirmed their thoughts on the matter! ;o)
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Post by lavandulagirl on Jul 17, 2011 19:47:36 GMT -5
Not pine straw, pine shavings. And yes, use DE. However, if your keets are getting mites in the brooder, that brooder needs a thorough cleaning, and it needs to be immediate. The birds cannot be born with scaly mites. They are picking up the mites in the brooder.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Jul 18, 2011 5:56:33 GMT -5
It will be easy to clean the brooder. It's a "ConEx" box set on it's side. A giant metal thing. We'll be doing that very thing this morning. Thanks for clearing that up about the straw. Mike said he though it should be shavings. I was kinda wondering why pine straw myself.
We figure to wash their feeties with an alcohol/water solution... 50/50 perhaps, to cleanse, then coat them with Vaseline.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Apr 13, 2012 11:12:13 GMT -5
What is the most humane way to euthanize a baby who is deformed?
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 27, 2012 8:35:23 GMT -5
I answered this privately at the time that Jo needed input.
But I started thinking that there might be others down the road, needing an answer to this same problem. So answer I must.
I just held them underwater and drowned them. It has to be the most difficult thing to have to do, but putting them out of their misery is a fact of life sometimes. Thankfully, not often.
I have heard of other using Carburetor ether, but I've never tried that.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Apr 27, 2012 19:45:46 GMT -5
I didn't need to try either method. The poor wee mite had passed by the time the question was answered, but there will always be a next time. =o(
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 27, 2012 22:55:06 GMT -5
I hope not for your sake Jo, but unfortunately, odds are that yes you will need to know for future.
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Post by steev on Apr 27, 2012 23:20:18 GMT -5
Only the good die young.
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Post by mnjrutherford on Apr 28, 2012 18:48:59 GMT -5
We lost 3 out of the last hatch. All the last to pop out. They had leg and neck problems so we knew right away they wouldn't last. This will be the last hatch for the season. Next in line are the guineas. We learned our lessons the hard way with them last year though. Let the guineas take care of the guineas! So far we have 2 nests in "controlled" areas with 2 mamas on each. The first one is in the coop and should start hatching on the 30th. The other is by the front porch steps and should start hatching a week or two after the first. There may be a third nest somewhere, but we haven't seen any obvious signs of it. IF, and this is a BIG if, we get the whole flock to survive the summer (winter is easier with guineas) and IF we have at least 60 birds next spring... we may eat some of the eggs. I am SO looking forward to that!!!!
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Post by bluelacedredhead on Apr 29, 2012 6:43:50 GMT -5
You haven't eaten any of your eggs, instead chose to hatch them all? Oh No. Eat some. So you hatch a few less. It's worth it!
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