Single hen

[wiblick]

or overkill...

 

trying to get things straight in my head. The food is fairly straight forward and I've already decided not to go mad on dietary supplements (sticking to Poultry Spice and the odd clove of garlic) or treats.

 

Am I right in thinking that if I have a wormer & red mite powder that to have Diatomaceous Earth would be overkill.

 

That Garden Lime and Stalosan F are more than enough to be using in the run? And I shouldn't need anything else.

 

The cleaning of the eglu will be done with a pet friendly disinfectant.

 

 

Thanks

 

Aoife

[mountainboarddude]

that sounds more than enough and it is entirely up to you if you want to buy more health products. i would say that it is always useful to have it as it will be used up anayway at some stage.

[Christian]

I agree. Get what you need when you need it. A good disinfectant for cleaning, poultry spice, flubenvet, red mite powder and stalosan and my top 5. I do have a tube of savlon for minor s"Ooops, word censored!"es and purple spray on stand by too.

 

Edited to add red mite powder - I am addicted to the stuff

[wiblick]

Thanks.

 

I stuck some Diatom in with my order of my second eglu, that's 2 eglus now and no run built or hens sourced!

 

Yeah I've gone with

 

Red mite powder

Flubenvet

Stalosan F

Poultry Spice

 

Diatom - for adding to dust bath

 

 

Scaly Leg treatment - because the person I'm getting some of my hens from says it is the one things hers suffers from, so mine might be carriers.

 

I'll get some garlic granules & bokashi to assist with the poo situation. And I ordered a couple of sachets of Virkon to do the quarterly major disinfect of the eglus. And cod liver oil to help mix the flubenvet in with the pellets.

 

I've also had to order my mixed grit online as getting it here is proving to be a bit of a headache.

 

With only 6 hens most of those will be a year's supply, so that's great.

 

Just want to have at least 4 months supply of everything in to make the start off as easy as possible.

 

So just garden lime, sand and a container for the dust bath, food and hens to get!

 

Argh!

[Hen Watch]

Scaly Leg treatment - because the person I'm getting some of my hens from says it is the one things hers suffers from, so mine might be carriers.

 

According to Practical Poultry Magazine, Scaley Leg Mite is very infectious with feathered legged birds more prone. Reading their advice it sounds like a long-term thing to crack. Is it best to perhaps get them thoroughly checked before purchase or sourcing elsewhere?

[Lewis]

Scaly Leg treatment - because the person I'm getting some of my hens from says it is the one things hers suffers from, so mine might be carriers.

 

According to Practical Poultry Magazine, Scaley Leg Mite is very infectious with feathered legged birds more prone. Reading their advice it sounds like a long-term thing to crack. Is it best to perhaps get them thoroughly checked before purchase or sourcing elsewhere?

You can just paste vegetable oil on with a paint brush, and out vaseline on their legs. It smothers the mites and they die.

[laurmurf]

 

Diatom - for adding to dust bath

 

It's good for other stuff too: I add diatom to their pellet mix and porridge every day as I read it's good for management of parasites in between worming. It's good stuff, or so I've read! As my girls seem fit and well, i'm sticking to it!

 

sounds like you'll have a brilliant set up when your girlies arrive, well done!

[wiblick]

I know I should vet the birds but the scaly leg is only a possibility and my friend allowed her broody hen to stay as such specially for me. I know, silly!

 

I'll only be able to do annual orders of things - so as not to suffer postage costs too often (to Ireland) so I wanted to get set up for most eventualities.

 

Thanks everyone for the advice.

 

Now anyone want to come over and help level the ground for the run?! I'm so unfit!