Who saw the mystery chicken? 😜🤫 Remember, if you believe you have an active infestation in your flock, it's always best to work with a licensed veterinarian (if possible!) so that you can find out exactly what parasite you're dealing with and treat accordingly. If you desire, you can always do a synthetic dewormer and then work on prevention using natural means. Do what works best for YOUR specific situation and follow your heart! No one knows better than you what's best for your flock.
Dalia, I just saw an article on Riverside that had a list of businesses that have sold out, he stated Bragg's was bought out by " Gill Yates" 😉& now apples with "apeel" the chemical preservative we're being used by Bragg's. So not good for human or animal use. This preservative was compared to p-faas a forever chemical. Once it is in us it's there to stay. I don't & won't buy Bragg's any more.
The ACV brand at ALDI is now better than the "Bragg's" brand since the Bragg's brand was bought by a woman who seems to probably be a practitioner of Egyptian magick, commonly called witchcraft. So just out of basic common sense I now avoid that brand of ACV.
Hi Dalia! I'm a big fan and have been watching your channel for a long time. I take pride in my chickens and I love them so much. But after work this evening, my little broody bantam has abandoned her eggs and looked really poorly. I checked her over and she was covered in lice! Her tail had clusters of eggs. She's really pale and can hardly stand! Yesterday she looked totally fine. Im horrified. They have a dust bath but she clearly hasn't been using it. I fed her a raw egg with some vitamins in it, cut off the louse egg feathers, covered her in natural louse powder and applied ivermectin. Some of the others have them too. What do i do to totally get rid of them? I can't believe it, they look so healthy but they're suddenly infested! 😓
Honestly? I have noticed that I am at peace when Im with my babies. I have lots of issues health, mental, as a mother, grandmother, wife… it’s so stressful! But being with my chickens… Like I actually want to be there with them! I pick them up and hug them 🥰!
I heard my husband (also my personal chef) talking to himself whilst neck deep in his spice etc. cabinet, "where's that thyme and oregano....honey have you seen the...". I didnt hear the rest cuz i was sneaking out the back door with saesoned scambled eggs for my babies. 😁
@katharinecox5200: seasoned scrambled eggs to share with my 3 chixies. Great idea, and hilarious mental picture of your World. Thx for idea. Tee in N.M.🐣
Thank you for all your help with chickens Dalia! It's very much appreciated. It's very expensive to send fecal samples to the vet, but there is a lab that you can send fecal samples to test your animals for internal parasites. It's not nearly as expensive as taking samples to the vet. I believe it's called Mid-America Ag Research. I've sent goat, horse, dog and chicken fecal samples there. If you send 10 or more samples, it's only like $7.00 per sample. Hope this helps!
@theresalawton: thx I will check this out. Imagine all those envelopes arriving. Actually I did one of these for myself. Lol Rotor Rooter procedure was to gruesome to contemplate. Owww
Lol 😆 third comment. Wormwood is a great herb that usually doesn't get any attention. It is great for deworming people and most animals. 😂❤ Great video Dalia 😆
@@kelleyleblanc5025 My chickens eat it fresh, but if it's dried you could mix in it with their food, especially if it's Fermented food. Lol I've tried to find seeds for it this year, but no luck. Where did you find yours if I may ask?
@@kelleyleblanc5025 I would give them a few inches of stem fresh (with leaves) but dried you only need a bit. I don't know the exact measurements. I recommend trusting what feels right.
@@SequoiaRaven thanks. I don’t give my girls fermented feed however I soak a few cups of feed with some homemade kefir 2-3 times a week. I’m also growing sweet Annie for them. From my research the plants are pretty much the same however wormwood is perennial and sweet Annie is annual. At least where I live. I’m in northern Ontario. The seeds for those I ordered from Annapolis seeds. It’s a Canadian company.
You are amazing and wonderful. I have used. VermX it is a great product. I have gotten a few great products while in England that I was not able to get in the US. So glad VermX is available more readily in the US now. Thanks again Madame President. 💕
You have the cutest and sweetest personality ever! Love all the important information you share. I’m raising 10 chickens for the very first time and I’ve learned so much.
DE doesn't do anything for parasites. It's a common myth. DE kills bugs because it's microscopically sharp. It cuts and dehydrates them to death. If DE gets wet, it doesn't work. When chickens eat it, it immediately becomes wet. Studies have shown that the silica in DE helps chickens build stronger bones though, so it's still good to add a small amount to their feed.
@@pdnarus1 I don’t measure it. I either sprinkle it on top of their food, I feed fermented food usually. Or I’d dump a scoop full of it in a bucket, full of meal, worms, and coat the meal worms with it really well. They love that. I don’t worry about dosage at all. I usually do it two or three days in a row. Skip a week then do another two or three days. A couple times randomly through the year. I will just do one dose. If the eggs start getting a little poopy if I put diatomaceous earth in the food, it will clear up in 24 hours and there won’t be any more poopy eggs. so you could do it once a year, two or three times a year. Whatever works. also, twice a year I clean out the coop really really well and I’ll sprinkle food grade DE all over the place before I put in new bedding. It’s a good all around item to use.
I have some hens that have dirty butts, what could cause this? I have washed them, trimmed poopy feathers, some clean themselves. I do give acv in their water. What else can I do?
I have all this natural remedies, I use also fire cider and tanacetum ( this is well known as a dewormer plant). Chicks hatched in the incubator have a low hymmune system and can get easier coccidiosis. If you have already coccidiosis it's really hard to save your flock, you have to give a specific remedy prescribed from your vet and to get it your coop must be registered; I was able to save just two of 9 chicks from coccidiosis thanks to my vet. So my suggestion is to start the natural prevention from the beginning and at least until they are two months old, the risk starts mostly wen you put them on grass ( this is what happened to me).
I saw the mystery chicken at the 4:23 mark, but I'd have to go through a bunch of videos and pay particular attention to see if it was named to make a positive ID. Anthelmintic is pronounced like "ant hell mint ick" but just with all those words uttered one right up against the other in one fluid vocalization. 100 % friendly... yep! ---- Backyard chicken education... brilliant!!! and intertainment... Fun indeed! And rest assured WE LOVE IT!!! 😍💗
@SequoiaRaven, my girls do too. We have an old fire pit where we put our wood stove ashes, and they love to dust bath and scratch around in there 😅. I see them eat some charcoal sometimes too.
Mine bypassed the Oregano garden and went straight to my blueberry bushes (1st yr producing). Broke and/or dug up all plants surrounding, to get to blueberries. I no longer have any blueberries. 🙃 Will be more prepared next yr! 😎
People go crazy and act insane about DE and pumpkin seeds! I say use what you feel is best for your flock. No judgement from me. My job is to give information. :-)
I grew up on farms/ranches and had friends who raised goats. There was one mountainside that mixed in with the mesquite brush a lot of rosemary, thyme, other herbal plants growing wild up there. I would see not only the goats, deer, wild boar eat on those bushes but wild turkey, quail, pheasants also eating seeds from those shrubs, herb plants. I figure if most wild animals know how to find and eat plants, seeds etc. that are helping to keep them healthy why wouldn't it work for domestic chickens, ducks, etc. ?
❤Deborahtorp, I've always used wood chips out in the chicken yard. Not fine ones. Like chips from a wood chipper. The fine ones break down too fast. Use a really thick layer, about 6-10 inches to start. As the years go by, the constant rototilling by your chickens will stir into the chips all the poop and you won't have flies or smell. After a year, rake back a spot and dig with a shovel. It should be compost and soft as potting soil! Use it everywhere! It takes a few years for the soil, wood chips and poop to blend and compost, but it WILL and it's wonderful! As the chips get shallower and shallower, add another 3-4 inches of chips and or all your fall LEAVES! The girls LOVE LEAVES! Just keep topping off the materials and your girls will till it in for you. That will keep them out of the mud and make the best potting soil you've ever seen! All the time I have people ask me for buckets of chicken dirt. I tell them bring a bucket(s) and I hand them a rake and shovel. It's composting w/o all the work. 😂
@@nancyunderwood6776 hey Nancy! I've used our tree wood, chipped by my husband or a couple times by the power company. One time the power company was across the street and I asked them to dump on our property. We have an acre and one side is open with no obstacles like fences, power lines, gardens, so they could get in and turn around easily. They took me up on that and dumped about 10-12 yards! It was all elm and willow. Only once when we first moved here did I pay and had 18 yards delivered. That was 17 years ago! On our property we have willow and elm also. The willow breaks down pretty fast but the elm really lasts. We have lots of leaves and we use about 12 inches in the 15x30 ft yard. Whenever we trim trees we chip them for the chicken yard.
My hens always chest bump with the ruffle feathers. I never see them pecking at eachother in a mean way or anything. Is this bullying or just normal pecking order stuff?
One of my chickens is acting Strang she eat and drink perfectly fine yesterday I checked her vent because she had a little poop on her feathers and saw what looks like fly larva so I sprayed some homemade chicken bug spray and I checked today and I don't see any of those bugs that looks like fly larva. She is also acting weak just curious to what that could be and how to prevent it.
I bought galvanized waterer. Label said not to put vinegar in galvan. waterers, may switch to plastic one . Mistakes will be made,as I navigate Chic herding.
Has anyone ever tried nematodes? They kill parasites. In my hen houses stall I use a saline solution to help keep down the build up. Parasites can not live in a salt environment .Vinegar keeps the body acidic therefore keeps out parasites. Nice video and thanks
Our chicken are on Poulin Layer Pellets and they are doing awesome! Last Fall we made the change and we’re so happy. 12 hens = 7 eggs daily(average). They are 5 and 4 years old. Thanks for the info, our feed has herbs in it!
We love, love, love, your videos. My kids actually ask for "chicken-linda" instead of Bluey!! Wow, that's high praise. I just wanted to ask how often you put apple cider vinegar in the water. Is it every time, or just periodically? Does the taste ever bother your chickens? Thanks for all your amazing info. and wonderful attitude.
I can't speak for Dalia, but if I had ACV water next to water without it the ducks will choose the ACV and the chickens will go for the water without it. If I put it in all their waterers then they have no choice lol so they drink it. Very cute story 😍
Hi! Great video! I grow Wormwood and I wonder if you know anything about if I can just periodically sprinkle dried or fresh wormwood in their run like with the scratch. Thoughts?
Great video, thank you. I see if I use Verm-X I can still eat the eggs. If I use the Molly's Herbals formulas on my chickens, can I still eat the eggs?
Dahlia, maybe you can help me. I have three 4 1/2 month old chickens. They just started laying eggs. The eggs are very small and I am guessing the eggs will get bigger over time. My chickens are Easter Eggers. Two of my young chickens seem to be laying just fine. One is laying eggs with jelly like shells and I find them all over the chicken run. She doesn’t lay those eggs in the nesting box like the other two hens do. My chickens get Kalmback Henhouse Reserve and I put oyster shells in their feed. Why would two chickens be laying perfectly good eggs while an other one is laying jelly eggs. The yolk looks good but the white is clear and the shell is jelly? What can I do about it to help my poor hen lay strong shelled eggs?
Antihelmitic would be the word I use. I had a guy I dated I called the “helminth” because he didn’t want a job just wanted to move in and live off me. He’s why I have land, LGDs, chickens, goats, a garden etc. I want to live on land. But no one jesters my kids is gonna try to use me ever again.
I have 4 Rhode Island Whites. One of them died, in the morning I found her dead and lying on the coop, next to her there was yellowish discharge and also like placenta liquid. 2 Days before she died, she did not look good, all she wanted to do was sit. Do you have any thoughts and ideas on what she might have died from? Thank you. I am just trying to be alert, so the other 3 chickens do not die on me suddenly.
Would a mixture of oregano, thyme and garlic be too much at once? I’ve got tons from my garden to use up, maybe I could dry it and make a mix for winter?
Great information! Thank you Our parents and grandparents used these spaces on their food all the time. They were healthy than us today. Mine live over 100 years old
A thought, can fermenting feed lead to sour crop at times? I had soaked chick feed and pondered this after loosing two chicks. Mind you they very well could have come sick since witnessing other sick birds on this farm. Some where just fine while others where sick. Odd how that works given how contagious these illness where. Really makes me think genetics are very real with chicks. Better more careful selective breeding should take place. People just wright it off like it makes no difference with chicks. Yet it does with every other species on this planet. Inbreeding weakens the gene pool.
It's cluck and co organic chick feed. I feed the babies I Hatched out with it, but when I've fed other babies I've purchased, just seems like I'm being left with issues. Could be other things though who knows their background
@@ThatAnimalChannel Yes, I feel like it's probably not the feed but I'm not familiar with that brand so I'm not sure how it ferments. In general, the chickens you hatch there that don't have the stress of traveling from other places are going to be healthier, though. Especially since you don't know their background.
Question 👋🏽 I helped my adult chicken recover from coccidiosis at Christmas (it took 2 full months to get her back to her sisters) but she's never quite been the same since. She won't/cant eat treats from the ground, won't fly only walk up to her perch, she's not a fan of her usual feed of layer pellets. She prefers mash. She seems like she's reverted to being a chick. She's otherwise healthy. Any ideas ANYONE? Thanks❤
@@tabp8448 not antibiotics, we treated her with Amprolium which blocks the parasites ability to uptake and multiply. Once she finished that treatment we gave probiotics to get her gut health back on track. She was really poorly. I think many would have put her down but she's my 10 year olds pet and is very loved so we knew we had to at least try. because she was handled so much by me as I brought her back to health it seems as if she's reverted back to acting like a chick. I also think she may have lost some vision in one eye
If it's really hot I would stop the ACV and switch to electolytes during that time. It's not like it's super dangerous for them but it's thought to affect their calcium absorption.
@WelcometoChickenlandia hmm that may answer a mystery I've had as my shells have been very thin and I was doing a tablespoon acv in their water. I thought maybe it was the sprouted sunflower seeds. So interesting. Thank you for sharing all you know!
I'm not the author and just tossing my two cents in. I love using natural methods to care for my chickens. However, when it comes to gapeworm, it's usually at crisis level before it's noticed. My vet's office recommends Valbazen. Wild birds visiting and soiling waterers, earth worms, and slugs can carry them. With the best efforts, sometimes these things can happen.
@@WelcometoChickenlandia Ha ha.....I watch Witt Acres Farm & Cody the Channel owner has a collection of Chickens. 1 is a Sarema and has a main role in his latest Vids. "Lil Roe" as he calls her, went Broody and kept grabbing all abandoned? Eggs, unless she "stole" them. Idk lol. Me, being a new chicken "herder" for this past year of raising my 3 peeps kept my brain crammed with new info from you and a couple other chicken channels, as I came across them. Lil Roe is a feisty gal, who reminded me of a Piece of Pizza, on legs with a huge attitude, fiercely defending this nest of hers with way too many eggs. ( Cody sneaks some away) as she hasn't hatched any into Chix, yet. I noted Sarema breed, if I was going to try and add new Hens. So far so good with my 3, even tho I sometimes wonder if I am too close to being over my head, already. Your "set up" is sooo,nice. And your info really helped me in my early days of Hens. Thank you for that. My 68 y.o. brain enjoys the learning experience. I raised 3 kids who are grown now. My Hens were 52ish weeks March '24. Nobody has croaked from my cobbled together set up. So I take it day by day, week by week. My "empty nest" is in complete disarray as I focus on my Chixie girls. I don't even care,tho. Did not expect to be this far,but, I'm loving it so much! See you in your comment section. Tee🐣
How cam a duck not clean its face?? They ARE water fowl they clean themselves in water as well as feed from it on the larve and water weeds. Water IS ESSENTIAL for ducks health. No water poor duck health. They are NOT CHICKENS. They fly and swim.
She is a special needs duck that has a very short bill and short neck. This is a problem for lots of call ducks who are bred for this quality because it's cute but they end up with problems, such as not being able to preen properly. This can lead to them not wanting to get into the water. I take in lots of special needs birds.
It will definitely help since it’s all immune boosting stuff. But mites and lice have to be treated with products made specifically for external parasites.
Who saw the mystery chicken? 😜🤫
Remember, if you believe you have an active infestation in your flock, it's always best to work with a licensed veterinarian (if possible!) so that you can find out exactly what parasite you're dealing with and treat accordingly. If you desire, you can always do a synthetic dewormer and then work on prevention using natural means. Do what works best for YOUR specific situation and follow your heart! No one knows better than you what's best for your flock.
Dalia, I just saw an article on Riverside that had a list of businesses that have sold out, he stated Bragg's was bought out by " Gill Yates" 😉& now apples with "apeel" the chemical preservative we're being used by Bragg's. So not good for human or animal use. This preservative was compared to p-faas a forever chemical. Once it is in us it's there to stay. I don't & won't buy Bragg's any more.
10:42 ! 🤣
Vets out here don't 'do chickens'.
Unsure where I heard this, but was told we shouldn't use apple cider vinegar in the summer. Is that true?
Yes! Crack up~mystery chicken sightings 😉🤪
Heading to the checkout at my Tractor Supply today, what do I see???? Front and center sat your book!!!!
Small Rural town and there you were ❤
Yay!!! 🥰🥰🥰
The ACV brand at ALDI is now better than the "Bragg's" brand since the Bragg's brand was bought by a woman who seems to probably be a practitioner of Egyptian magick, commonly called witchcraft. So just out of basic common sense I now avoid that brand of ACV.
Indeed...and I stopped buying Braggs, too!
Hi Dalia! I'm a big fan and have been watching your channel for a long time. I take pride in my chickens and I love them so much. But after work this evening, my little broody bantam has abandoned her eggs and looked really poorly. I checked her over and she was covered in lice! Her tail had clusters of eggs. She's really pale and can hardly stand! Yesterday she looked totally fine. Im horrified. They have a dust bath but she clearly hasn't been using it. I fed her a raw egg with some vitamins in it, cut off the louse egg feathers, covered her in natural louse powder and applied ivermectin. Some of the others have them too. What do i do to totally get rid of them? I can't believe it, they look so healthy but they're suddenly infested! 😓
Baby Chicks LOVE SCRAMBLED EGGS--eggs are the food they have INSIDE THE SHELL
Honestly? I have noticed that I am at peace when Im with my babies. I have lots of issues health, mental, as a mother, grandmother, wife… it’s so stressful! But being with my chickens… Like I actually want to be there with them! I pick them up and hug them 🥰!
Awesome blessing!
Me too!!
❤😂me too , my family knows they are my emotional support 😊
@MD: I feel the same peace w. mine. Tee
Its so therapeutic! I could sit and watch them for hours too 😊
I always use apple cider vinegar with the mother for my babies but must confess that I don’t for the grown ups. That’s gonna change! 😇
How in the heck do you have grass where the chickens are. Amazing!!!!!!
Space!
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I use Oregano essential oil in my chickens water, two drops per gallon
Again, oregano is a natural antibiotic. Would u take low level antibiotics all the time? Nope, perhaps best left for treatment
I use oregano oil and switch to ACV from time to time 🎉
@@honeyb867 Apple Cider Vinegar
yes i grow it and dry it and throw it in the feed of all my animals. best stuff ever
I heard my husband (also my personal chef) talking to himself whilst neck deep in his spice etc. cabinet, "where's that thyme and oregano....honey have you seen the...". I didnt hear the rest cuz i was sneaking out the back door with saesoned scambled eggs for my babies. 😁
😂😂😂
@katharinecox5200: seasoned scrambled eggs to share with my 3 chixies. Great idea, and hilarious mental picture of your World. Thx for idea. Tee in N.M.🐣
Thank you for all your help with chickens Dalia! It's very much appreciated. It's very expensive to send fecal samples to the vet, but there is a lab that you can send fecal samples to test your animals for internal parasites. It's not nearly as expensive as taking samples to the vet. I believe it's called Mid-America Ag Research. I've sent goat, horse, dog and chicken fecal samples there. If you send 10 or more samples, it's only like $7.00 per sample. Hope this helps!
That’s an excellent tip!!
@theresalawton: thx I will check this out. Imagine all those envelopes arriving. Actually I did one of these for myself. Lol
Rotor Rooter procedure was to gruesome to contemplate. Owww
Lol 😆 third comment. Wormwood is a great herb that usually doesn't get any attention. It is great for deworming people and most animals. 😂❤ Great video Dalia 😆
Thank you!
How do you give your chickens wormwood? I’m growing a few plants and wanted to dry them for the chickens but I’m not sure how much to give.
@@kelleyleblanc5025 My chickens eat it fresh, but if it's dried you could mix in it with their food, especially if it's Fermented food. Lol I've tried to find seeds for it this year, but no luck. Where did you find yours if I may ask?
@@kelleyleblanc5025 I would give them a few inches of stem fresh (with leaves) but dried you only need a bit. I don't know the exact measurements. I recommend trusting what feels right.
@@SequoiaRaven thanks. I don’t give my girls fermented feed however I soak a few cups of feed with some homemade kefir 2-3 times a week. I’m also growing sweet Annie for them. From my research the plants are pretty much the same however wormwood is perennial and sweet Annie is annual. At least where I live. I’m in northern Ontario.
The seeds for those I ordered from Annapolis seeds. It’s a Canadian company.
I add turmeric powder to their food and sometimes crushed garlic for worms and parasites infections
Also onions
Does this work.
The jokes are writing themselves here. I like to use wormwood for de-parasiting my husband periodically.
@@twopeasinapod7554 LOL! have to try this, thanks hahaha
You are amazing and wonderful. I have used. VermX it is a great product. I have gotten a few great products while in England that I was not able to get in the US. So glad VermX is available more readily in the US now. Thanks again Madame President. 💕
You’re so welcome!
This is a timely episode. Love the information and the music.
me too
You have the cutest and sweetest personality ever! Love all the important information you share. I’m raising 10 chickens for the very first time and I’ve learned so much.
Wormwood is a great antiparasitic but it is a treatment herb, not for ongoing use. Try DE for regular use
DE doesn't do anything for parasites. It's a common myth. DE kills bugs because it's microscopically sharp. It cuts and dehydrates them to death. If DE gets wet, it doesn't work. When chickens eat it, it immediately becomes wet. Studies have shown that the silica in DE helps chickens build stronger bones though, so it's still good to add a small amount to their feed.
I’ve never given my chickens anything except diatomaceous earth.
Dosage how much?
@@pdnarus1 I don’t measure it. I either sprinkle it on top of their food, I feed fermented food usually. Or I’d dump a scoop full of it in a bucket, full of meal, worms, and coat the meal worms with it really well. They love that. I don’t worry about dosage at all. I usually do it two or three days in a row. Skip a week then do another two or three days. A couple times randomly through the year. I will just do one dose. If the eggs start getting a little poopy if I put diatomaceous earth in the food, it will clear up in 24 hours and there won’t be any more poopy eggs. so you could do it once a year, two or three times a year. Whatever works. also, twice a year I clean out the coop really really well and I’ll sprinkle food grade DE all over the place before I put in new bedding. It’s a good all around item to use.
@@nogames8982 thankyou
Me too!
Same
We do apple cider vinegar once a week in their water!
Black walnut powder works too.
This is a strong herb best used for treatment not ongoing. Would you take antibiotics all the time? No
@@pinschrunner did I say all the time? Try not to read things into what’s not there.
How often do you use these supplements? Like the garlic in water and the vinegar in water.
I have some hens that have dirty butts, what could cause this? I have washed them, trimmed poopy feathers, some clean themselves. I do give acv in their water. What else can I do?
I would check them really well for mites. Sometimes they are hard to see but you can see the eggs collected on the feather shaft.
Have you considered a chicken bidet?
😁✌️🍩
Wet droppings means??
Could it be vent gleet?
So many people worry about deworming their animals but don’t realize that we also full of parasites
You knows this from...??? In school we seek parasite and we have problem to find...
We can use the same spaces on our food deworming ourselves etc.
Love the visit with you, I appreciate your time work on all our flocks.
DE,Apple cider vinegar, pumpkins, Squash, no problem so far😊
I have all this natural remedies, I use also fire cider and tanacetum ( this is well known as a dewormer plant). Chicks hatched in the incubator have a low hymmune system and can get easier coccidiosis. If you have already coccidiosis it's really hard to save your flock, you have to give a specific remedy prescribed from your vet and to get it your coop must be registered; I was able to save just two of 9 chicks from coccidiosis thanks to my vet. So my suggestion is to start the natural prevention from the beginning and at least until they are two months old, the risk starts mostly wen you put them on grass ( this is what happened to me).
I saw the mystery chicken at the 4:23 mark, but I'd have to go through a bunch of videos and pay particular attention to see if it was named to make a positive ID. Anthelmintic is pronounced like "ant hell mint ick" but just with all those words uttered one right up against the other in one fluid vocalization. 100 % friendly... yep! ---- Backyard chicken education... brilliant!!! and intertainment... Fun indeed! And rest assured WE LOVE IT!!! 😍💗
Parasites are normal in all living beings including humans. Its a misbalance that is an issue.
I mix diatomaceous earth food grade with their morning salad every day. My hens are very healthy and beautiful, their feathers are very shiny.
@@demeterestela2618 My chickens like to eat some of the ashes I give them and now I know why!! It's also good for gut health.
Not all parasites are good ones tho
I prefer to have NO parasites. These things aren't helpful but are in us bc of our lack of clean foods, etc.
@SequoiaRaven, my girls do too. We have an old fire pit where we put our wood stove ashes, and they love to dust bath and scratch around in there 😅. I see them eat some charcoal sometimes too.
Mine bypassed the Oregano garden and went straight to my blueberry bushes (1st yr producing). Broke and/or dug up all plants surrounding, to get to blueberries. I no longer have any blueberries. 🙃 Will be more prepared next yr! 😎
Great video Dalia, thank you for sharing your wealth of knowledge!
I also heard that DE food grade as well as cayenne pepper
Very touchy subject on chicken groups 🙃 Oh, the arguments I had on diatomaceous earth, pumpkin seeds and toxic chemicals...
People go crazy and act insane about DE and pumpkin seeds! I say use what you feel is best for your flock. No judgement from me. My job is to give information. :-)
@@WelcometoChickenlandiawhy do people go insane about DE?
@@baddogcustoms7496 There's a lot of info about it online that isn't correct. It leads people to falsely believe it's going to kill their chickens.
@iwona: DME a plus or minus iyo? I use it for various things. Tee in N.M.
Are parasites visible?
I grew up on farms/ranches and had friends who raised goats. There was one mountainside that mixed in with the mesquite brush a lot of rosemary, thyme, other herbal plants growing wild up there. I would see not only the goats, deer, wild boar eat on those bushes but wild turkey, quail, pheasants also eating seeds from those shrubs, herb plants. I figure if most wild animals know how to find and eat plants, seeds etc. that are helping to keep them healthy why wouldn't it work for domestic chickens, ducks, etc. ?
How do we prevent them living in mud (and their waste) during spring rainy season?
I hear ya! I live in the Pacific Northwest ☔️☔️☔️😅.
❤Deborahtorp, I've always used wood chips out in the chicken yard. Not fine ones. Like chips from a wood chipper. The fine ones break down too fast. Use a really thick layer, about 6-10 inches to start. As the years go by, the constant rototilling by your chickens will stir into the chips all the poop and you won't have flies or smell. After a year, rake back a spot and dig with a shovel. It should be compost and soft as potting soil! Use it everywhere! It takes a few years for the soil, wood chips and poop to blend and compost, but it WILL and it's wonderful! As the chips get shallower and shallower, add another 3-4 inches of chips and or all your fall LEAVES! The girls LOVE LEAVES! Just keep topping off the materials and your girls will till it in for you. That will keep them out of the mud and make the best potting soil you've ever seen! All the time I have people ask me for buckets of chicken dirt. I tell them bring a bucket(s) and I hand them a rake and shovel. It's composting w/o all the work. 😂
Do you buy the wood chips or do your own chips? Is there a certain wood type?
@@nancyunderwood6776 hey Nancy! I've used our tree wood, chipped by my husband or a couple times by the power company. One time the power company was across the street and I asked them to dump on our property. We have an acre and one side is open with no obstacles like fences, power lines, gardens, so they could get in and turn around easily. They took me up on that and dumped about 10-12 yards! It was all elm and willow. Only once when we first moved here did I pay and had 18 yards delivered. That was 17 years ago! On our property we have willow and elm also. The willow breaks down pretty fast but the elm really lasts. We have lots of leaves and we use about 12 inches in the 15x30 ft yard. Whenever we trim trees we chip them for the chicken yard.
Mulch
we used to deworm dogs with Days Work chewing tobacco...
Hi, I just bought the mixed Herbs from
Scratch and peck.
I absolutely love it. The birds seem to enjoy the small bits and it sure smells good.
My hens always chest bump with the ruffle feathers. I never see them pecking at eachother in a mean way or anything. Is this bullying or just normal pecking order stuff?
It’s normal! I wouldn’t worry unless they were drawing blood and keeping each other from food and water.
I saw your book at TSC the other day! I said, Hey- I know her! LOL!
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TSC is on my list of errands.
Aww thank you!!! ❤️❤️❤️
I thought the jazzy music was very sophisticatedly appropriate for our feathered babies. ❤
One of my chickens is acting Strang she eat and drink perfectly fine yesterday I checked her vent because she had a little poop on her feathers and saw what looks like fly larva so I sprayed some homemade chicken bug spray and I checked today and I don't see any of those bugs that looks like fly larva. She is also acting weak just curious to what that could be and how to prevent it.
Sounds like fly strike. One of my chickens had it.
I agree. It sounds like fly strike. Dalia has a video on fly strike. It is very serious. I would do some fast research so you can help your chicken.
That does sound like Flystrike. It must be treated very quickly: ruclips.net/video/cQVmVZ5Rtj0/видео.htmlsi=_qtiJxPd2k3k9voc
Old school, pumpkin and buttermilk don’t care birds anything but natural ingredients
You can never have too many Pickles! Great info, thank you for all you do!
What about diatomaceous earth for deworming? Or First Saturday Lime?
Ive used DE for deworming but never first saturday lime. i do use it in their dirt baths and roosting areas.
I love pickles ❤😊
I bought galvanized waterer. Label said not to put vinegar in galvan. waterers, may switch to plastic one . Mistakes will be made,as I navigate Chic herding.
I buy ceramic casserole bowl at goodwill.
Has anyone ever tried nematodes? They kill parasites. In my hen houses stall I use a saline solution to help keep down the build up. Parasites can not live in a salt environment .Vinegar keeps the body acidic therefore keeps out parasites. Nice video and thanks
Our chicken are on Poulin Layer Pellets and they are doing awesome! Last Fall we made the change and we’re so happy.
12 hens = 7 eggs daily(average). They are 5 and 4 years old.
Thanks for the info, our feed has herbs in it!
That is awesome!
Who is the manufacturer ? Thanks
@@HelmetVanga Poulin they’re in the New England Area.
Love your music and info. You SHOULD be sponsored by these good products you can vouch for.
Don’t forget diatomaceous earth sprinkled on their food.
Just fresh garlic or is g. powder ok?
Fresh is best but if all you can do is the powder that’s good as well!
Gates bought braggs
I thought it was Katy Perry ?
So many people are talking about using Red pepper flakes in their food and pumpkin???? What do you think???
Good compliment 🎉😊
Thank you very much Dalia! 😊 I just bought your book and I'm so exited to learn about Natural medicine on chickens. ❤🎉
It’s a fantastic book. I regularly refer to it.
@@hattiedraper1061 I've started reading it and I agree!
Can you still eat the egg if they're on verm x ?
We love, love, love, your videos. My kids actually ask for "chicken-linda" instead of Bluey!! Wow, that's high praise. I just wanted to ask how often you put apple cider vinegar in the water. Is it every time, or just periodically? Does the taste ever bother your chickens? Thanks for all your amazing info. and wonderful attitude.
I can't speak for Dalia, but if I had ACV water next to water without it the ducks will choose the ACV and the chickens will go for the water without it. If I put it in all their waterers then they have no choice lol so they drink it. Very cute story 😍
What is a quuart of water"???"
1 quart ( common American and Canadian measurement). Equivalent to 0.945 litres or 32 ounces, or 4 cups.
Does red pepper flaked work?
I was told by the feed store that using a product called Pig Swig works for deworming and you can still eat the eggs.
How do you keep chicken water clean with ducks?....Sue from Arizona
Hi! Great video! I grow Wormwood and I wonder if you know anything about if I can just periodically sprinkle dried or fresh wormwood in their run like with the scratch. Thoughts?
Great video, thank you. I see if I use Verm-X I can still eat the eggs. If I use the Molly's Herbals formulas on my chickens, can I still eat the eggs?
Yes! 😃
Lovin today's music! Gonna check the products you've linked.
So good, it made me want to go and dance :)
Dahlia, maybe you can help me. I have three 4 1/2 month old chickens. They just started laying eggs. The eggs are very small and I am guessing the eggs will get bigger over time. My chickens are Easter Eggers. Two of my young chickens seem to be laying just fine. One is laying eggs with jelly like shells and I find them all over the chicken run. She doesn’t lay those eggs in the nesting box like the other two hens do. My chickens get Kalmback Henhouse Reserve and I put oyster shells in their feed. Why would two chickens be laying perfectly good eggs while an other one is laying jelly eggs. The yolk looks good but the white is clear and the shell is jelly? What can I do about it to help my poor hen lay strong shelled eggs?
Kichen scraps? 3 Hens i can't find the time to cook....😂
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I use everything here she talks about plus Diatomaceous food grade for outer dirt baths and put in food on occasion for worms ❤
I get Durvet Strike 2 natural dewormer pellets (they have wormwood in them), but they're spendy.
Antihelmitic would be the word I use.
I had a guy I dated I called the “helminth” because he didn’t want a job just wanted to move in and live off me.
He’s why I have land, LGDs, chickens, goats, a garden etc. I want to live on land. But no one jesters my kids is gonna try to use me ever again.
I have 4 Rhode Island Whites. One of them died, in the morning I found her dead and lying on the coop, next to her there was yellowish discharge and also like placenta liquid. 2 Days before she died, she did not look good, all she wanted to do was sit. Do you have any thoughts and ideas on what she might have died from? Thank you. I am just trying to be alert, so the other 3 chickens do not die on me suddenly.
I love your channel so much. Your awesome. Much respect and thank you so much for all of the great info.
How do you keep grass inside run?
Haha I just did a video about that! ruclips.net/video/_wIeHoFmhag/видео.html
Would a mixture of oregano, thyme and garlic be too much at once? I’ve got tons from my garden to use up, maybe I could dry it and make a mix for winter?
I was waiting to see your new teenager chicken. Anyway, love your videos.
Next video!!!
Is it safe to eat the eggs if they have worms...??? Should they be thrown out or ???
Great information! Thank you
Our parents and grandparents used these spaces on their food all the time.
They were healthy than us today. Mine live over 100 years old
A thought, can fermenting feed lead to sour crop at times? I had soaked chick feed and pondered this after loosing two chicks. Mind you they very well could have come sick since witnessing other sick birds on this farm. Some where just fine while others where sick. Odd how that works given how contagious these illness where. Really makes me think genetics are very real with chicks. Better more careful selective breeding should take place. People just wright it off like it makes no difference with chicks. Yet it does with every other species on this planet. Inbreeding weakens the gene pool.
I would think that fermenting would actually help to prevent sour crop. What kind of feed was it?
It's cluck and co organic chick feed. I feed the babies I Hatched out with it, but when I've fed other babies I've purchased, just seems like I'm being left with issues. Could be other things though who knows their background
@@ThatAnimalChannel Yes, I feel like it's probably not the feed but I'm not familiar with that brand so I'm not sure how it ferments. In general, the chickens you hatch there that don't have the stress of traveling from other places are going to be healthier, though. Especially since you don't know their background.
Question 👋🏽
I helped my adult chicken recover from coccidiosis at Christmas (it took 2 full months to get her back to her sisters) but she's never quite been the same since. She won't/cant eat treats from the ground, won't fly only walk up to her perch, she's not a fan of her usual feed of layer pellets. She prefers mash. She seems like she's reverted to being a chick. She's otherwise healthy. Any ideas ANYONE? Thanks❤
Did you treat her with antibiotics? If so, she may need some probiotics to get her gut health back to normal.
@@tabp8448 not antibiotics, we treated her with Amprolium which blocks the parasites ability to uptake and multiply. Once she finished that treatment we gave probiotics to get her gut health back on track. She was really poorly. I think many would have put her down but she's my 10 year olds pet and is very loved so we knew we had to at least try. because she was handled so much by me as I brought her back to health it seems as if she's reverted back to acting like a chick. I also think she may have lost some vision in one eye
Any egg withdrawl with these? I just ordered Molly’s.
No 😃
Food grade DE deworm naturally as well I'm sure you can add some to their food
Someone said ACV should be avoided in warmer temps - is this a thing?
If it's really hot I would stop the ACV and switch to electolytes during that time. It's not like it's super dangerous for them but it's thought to affect their calcium absorption.
@WelcometoChickenlandia great to know - thank you!!!
@WelcometoChickenlandia hmm that may answer a mystery I've had as my shells have been very thin and I was doing a tablespoon acv in their water. I thought maybe it was the sprouted sunflower seeds. So interesting. Thank you for sharing all you know!
Can you grow the oregano and thyme around the chicken coup so they could have access to it
I’m surprised that DE wasn’t part of the natural options.
Diatomaceous Earth.. thoughts on using?
My chickens get fresh spinach and tomatoes
I have been using Verm-X for years. It is very good.
Diamtious earth easy and sprinkle over food
Suggestions on treating gape worms if chickens have them. Seems this isn't really talked about.
I'm not the author and just tossing my two cents in. I love using natural methods to care for my chickens. However, when it comes to gapeworm, it's usually at crisis level before it's noticed. My vet's office recommends Valbazen. Wild birds visiting and soiling waterers, earth worms, and slugs can carry them. With the best efforts, sometimes these things can happen.
Is pickles a Sarema?
Yes!
@@WelcometoChickenlandia Ha ha.....I watch Witt Acres Farm & Cody the Channel owner has a collection of Chickens. 1 is a Sarema and has a main role in his latest Vids. "Lil Roe" as he calls her, went Broody and kept grabbing all abandoned? Eggs, unless she "stole" them. Idk lol.
Me, being a new chicken "herder" for this past year of raising my 3 peeps kept my brain crammed with new info from you and a couple other chicken channels, as I came across them. Lil Roe is a feisty gal, who reminded me of a Piece of Pizza, on legs with a huge attitude, fiercely defending this nest of hers with way too many eggs. ( Cody sneaks some away)
as she hasn't hatched any into Chix, yet. I noted Sarema breed, if I was going to try and add new Hens. So far so good with my 3, even tho I sometimes wonder if I am too close to being over my head, already.
Your "set up" is sooo,nice. And your info really helped me in my early days of Hens. Thank you for that. My 68 y.o. brain enjoys the learning experience. I raised 3 kids who are grown now. My Hens were 52ish weeks March '24. Nobody has croaked from my cobbled together set up. So I take it day by day, week by week. My "empty nest" is in complete disarray as I focus on my Chixie girls. I don't even care,tho. Did not expect to be this far,but, I'm loving it so much! See you in your comment section. Tee🐣
I saw her sneaking behind you. 🐔
🥰 She’s a funny little thing!
You don't mention red chili flakes for keeping internal parasites at bay?
That’s what I give my girls a few times a week👍♥️
Can I use powdered garlic?
How cam a duck not clean its face?? They ARE water fowl they clean themselves in water as well as feed from it on the larve and water weeds. Water IS ESSENTIAL for ducks health. No water poor duck health. They are NOT CHICKENS. They fly and swim.
She is a special needs duck that has a very short bill and short neck. This is a problem for lots of call ducks who are bred for this quality because it's cute but they end up with problems, such as not being able to preen properly. This can lead to them not wanting to get into the water. I take in lots of special needs birds.
Very cute little chicken,, pickles 🥒 lol
We have 😢 chickens 🐔 that died to of them
I just noticed your "Flux capacitor" sign. LOL!!!
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I use hot pepper seeds a few times a week
I use papaya and pumpkin.
I thought it was 1 tsp per gallon
Vets ? They are like Dr.’s
Does this include lice and mites?
It will definitely help since it’s all immune boosting stuff. But mites and lice have to be treated with products made specifically for external parasites.
@@WelcometoChickenlandia okay! Is there a good way to prevent them? I just got my first chickens!
@@elliegault Watch the playlist I put up at the end of this video. It will help so much!