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by Ontario Chick
Sun Dec 13, 2015 3:06 pm
Forum: Health
Topic: Scaly leg mites, continued
Replies: 40
Views: 18336

Re: Scaly leg mites, continued

Sounds like a plan :) it can easily take a year to go from couple of lonely scaly mites, to full blown extended family, especially if the birds are otherwise very healthy.
by Ontario Chick
Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:40 am
Forum: Health
Topic: Scaly leg mites, continued
Replies: 40
Views: 18336

Re: Scaly leg mites, continued

Scaly leg mites spend their whole life on the chicken (no intermediate host) so after treating all the birds with Ivomec and doing a second treatment 5-7 days later, I would keep a real close watch on any other developments and wait a while before you burn the coop down. ;) For cleaning up the legs,...
by Ontario Chick
Sun Dec 13, 2015 9:20 am
Forum: Around the Waterer
Topic: Good Morning! <=2017
Replies: 5865
Views: 1333017

Re: Good Morning!

Good morning all, In expectations of freezing rain, last of the garden implements stashed away, fresh pea stone in front of barn, car and truck parked "not under a tree" and we are as ready as we will ever be. This year's pullets are starting to lay, pretty exciting to have some little eggs in the b...
by Ontario Chick
Sat Dec 12, 2015 9:29 pm
Forum: Coop Designs and Building Plans
Topic: Fort Coop!
Replies: 71
Views: 28124

Re: Fort Coop!

Looks great Al, can't wait to see it in the summertime.
20 pictures downloaded here, which is absolutely amazing on dial up, great work. :iheartpto:
by Ontario Chick
Sat Dec 12, 2015 11:14 am
Forum: Photos
Topic: First blue pullet egg...
Replies: 7
Views: 3822

First blue pullet egg...

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To celebrate PTO, first blue egg from a Blue pullet 5.5 month on the nose. :)
Also testing the picture thing, is this too big?
by Ontario Chick
Sat Dec 12, 2015 10:18 am
Forum: Around the Waterer
Topic: Good Morning! <=2017
Replies: 5865
Views: 1333017

Re: Good Morning!

How Cool is that?/ I feel like I have gone in to a tunnel and came back in to sunshine :wee:
Was so excited, misspelled my name twice while registering.
Congrats to all who made it happen, pure magic. :iheartpto:

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