Spring is here!
The sun is out, but the nights are still cold! Spring is here! It's the time of year where egg laying goes into overdrive and we're getting on average 5 eggs a day from our 9 hens. What else has been going on up here?
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Poultry Lice Treatment - Pyrethrum bath
I bet not many of you can't boast that you gave chickens a bath on the weekend! I had, by far, the best answer to "what did you get up to this weekend?" at work today. Anyway, let's wind back a bit. It was a gloriously hot spring weekend and it was time for me to get on top of the poultry lice on my chickens. I've been regularly dusting them with poultry dust, but it wasn't having much of an effect. So when a hot weekend was forecast, it was time for a two pronged attack. Bathe the chickens to get rid of the lice and a spring clean of the coop.
Chickens as pets or produce?
Yeah, yeah, I know, a pretty horrific picture for our two ladies! (Plus I've stopped eating chicken now, can't stand the guilt when I see my little ones). Anyway, onto the point of this post...