Re: scaly leg question

"Jill" <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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The chances are that its been "brewing" for months but became really
obvious as the scales of the legs lifted.

i must say i had wondered. would there have been the odd stray mite egg left
in the chook house or yard, & it's happened that way?

Once this happens then the result you have seen - scales falling off- can
occur one treatment.
Keep them in very clean house and run and treat all the birds as many more
times as you can over the next few weeks to make sure that ALL the mites
and emerging mites are dealt with.

oh good. i am cleaning their house as much as i can. gah, it's just dreadful
though. i feel like a slum landlord ;-)

Welcome -- crumbs, we are getting some great new Aussies here - can you
please export some of your warm dry up here and we will send you some of
our cold rain !

i would be happy to! (i don't suppose you could supply warm rain instead,
could you?) we got 19mm in 24 hours recently, it was just heavenly. lo, 4
days later i'm back to having to water the garden. sigh!

Get a chunky cockerel - like Susssex or Plymouth Rock or Australorp - and
then keep the girls you have now and use them to raise your table birds
You want to put birds in the pot before they are 18 weeks old preferably
to get really tender meat
So keeping your game girls is the right thing to do !

we'd love a rooster one day (i'm just not ready for that yet...). one
problem is that, er, nobody wants to be the one to Do The Deed on the
edibles. we'll have to sort that out. i volunteered to pluck it, but i'm
just not good about killing stuff. pathetic, is it not?

should we plan for a "chunky" one so the babies will be good-sized? i must
admit, _eating_ a game hen strikes me as barely worth the bother ;-)

see above -- you may have found your impetus!

indeed!! it's next on my list, now. i'm appalled that the ladies are living
in such squalor that they are buggy.
thanks!
kylie


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