I have a chaddiction, it's an illness!

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Mon Oct 31, 2016 11:09 am

Just a heads up, Wyandottes with their lovely skirts of fluff and an irresistible invitation to mites and even if you don't see any, after a day at an auction, it's always safer to treat them with Ivomec or any other cooties treatment of your choice.I know you are an experienced poultry keeper, just a "motherly" reminder.

Satellite · Post by **Satellite** » Mon Oct 31, 2016 4:58 pm

We are al chaddicts I think! Very sweet looking

Skinny rooster · Post by **Skinny rooster** » Tue Nov 01, 2016 1:00 am

It's alright OC, your advice is always welcomed. I used that powder some people call sevin. I am disappointed with something, I checked the birds a hundred times before I bought them, everything looked good, no coughing or runny parts. When I took the older pair out of the box, they have that rattled breathing, they will infect the chick for sure. I guess I should have been more aggressive in trying to get some more from the same place. I have a new bottle of vet rx, maybe I will try that. Speaking of mites, the perches in one of the pens that has been empty for a long time, suddenly were infested with mites. I soaked them with mineral oil but they were back in a few days so I used my powder. Not sure how that happened but gross!

Post by **WLLady** » Tue Nov 01, 2016 8:33 am

it's fall and the mites will be hopping off the mice and wild birds like crazy for nice warmer climes in chicken underfluff. i always end up treating at this time of year, a couple of times....and dusting perches and birds and nesting boxes LOL. once i'm sure i got them off the birds i clean everything out, and start all over with nice clean bedding for the winter.

Skinny rooster · Post by **Skinny rooster** » Thu Nov 03, 2016 12:00 am

Ya know what the funniest thing about buying more chickens is? It's that not only do I not feel bad about getting birds back, it's the ones I let go at the sale that are bugging me! Like there were a bunch of bantam hens, marked like light Sussex chickens with a little orange tinge on their backs, pretty girls. They went for $5 for two birds. I was watching them but the sales guys mixed up the boxes between good ones and the ones I didn't want so I was too shy to bid and sort them out. There was a really good quality buff Brahma bantam rooster and if I used him on those girls the chicks would have been so pretty I bet because the Columbian colour would have come out strong and the babies would have been either white Columbian or buff Columbian and I missed out on that experiment. The hens looked like they would be very clever and alert. Should have gotten them. Lol.

Ontario Chick · Post by **Ontario Chick** » Thu Nov 03, 2016 9:26 am

.........and now he is breeding the birds he didn't get....

let me repeat my self, you got it bad my friend, but seriously, why fight it ????