tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210982388002297798.post8703553135339186114..comments2024-03-24T08:32:51.794+01:00Comments on The Holistic Hen - How to raise quail, chickens and pigeons organically in a food forest: Lice Menacanthus stramineus - Treatment with essential oils - Prevention through diet.Pavlovafowlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11578592110340773950noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210982388002297798.post-14525421819738947462021-05-19T13:17:10.388+02:002021-05-19T13:17:10.388+02:00Hi there Kirsty, Thanks for your comments, much ap...Hi there Kirsty, Thanks for your comments, much appreciated and I don't believe we can divorce anything from the narrative at the moment - everything is linked in some way, keeping chickens included. I meant to write back sooner but we have been putting a massive spurt on here with growing food and sorting out the outbuildings and the time just seems to have gone. Also now I've got a new bird - a rescued baby goldfinch - which is keeping me very busy too - more to follow on film hopefully! I love pheasants - we rescued one once, one of those caged bred for hunting, it was stuck in a garden fence, they are so tame and so beautiful!<br /><br />Is this impacted crop you have with your birds - are they ex batts? I always associate impacted crop with toxins - chemicals from feed or old pesticides in soil like lead arsenate but any heavy metal including lead from paint chips can cause this condition. You could think about them drinking 'clay water' - just follow the protocol for using clay on my injured pigeon article: <a href="https://holistic-hen.blogspot.com/2018/08/green-clay-treatment-wound-on-pigeon.html#.YKTx0rpvaV5" rel="nofollow">https://holistic-hen.blogspot.com/2018/08/green-clay-treatment-wound-on-pigeon.html#.YKTx0rpvaV5</a> and use one dessertspoon of clay to a breakfast bowl of mineral water, mix well and then allow to settle and give the hens the 'clay water' to drink off the top. This will bind to any heavy metals and then pass them out through the poop, I would do this in a run of sorts, so you can collect the poop and dispose of it, so it doesn't go onto your land. Hope this helps and all the very best, Sue xxPavlovafowlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11578592110340773950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210982388002297798.post-67898321078135128842021-03-06T17:15:05.410+01:002021-03-06T17:15:05.410+01:00Hi Sue
Thanks so much for your reply, which I enj...Hi Sue<br /><br />Thanks so much for your reply, which I enjoyed very much to read ... feel very good within my heart that people matter very much and we CAN overcome by simply helping each other, as your local community have obviously done ... that is such great new!! People do not realise how powerful they actually are ... I wont go on as this should be chook business only lol!<br /><br />I'll definitely look into the kale and watercress, thank you!<br /><br />We've been having some pheasant beauties visiting, and my Hubby saw a bunny in the garden this morning ... being giving one of the 5+ year old adopted chooks some maggots daily, in the hope it'll help her crop ... the liquid paraffin isnt a success sadly as they are all very flighty ( 4 big lasses) and most of the stuff goes down me or squirts around the room, although handling her daily to give her some maggots is definitely helping lol!! Also have a crop bra that I need to try again with her... I have been able to hand feed a female pheasant with some maggots, and there appears to be one boy in particular that has started waiting for (chook food) breakfast, and I can get quite close to him without upsetting him :-) Best wishes. Love Kirsty xxxKirstyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10723113872531436319noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210982388002297798.post-77181209603574496412021-03-05T14:41:40.668+01:002021-03-05T14:41:40.668+01:00Hi there Kirsty, Good to hear from you and yes we ...Hi there Kirsty, Good to hear from you and yes we are all doing well.<br />I am so please this treatment worked so well for you, it certainly did for my flock. One thing I also started doing in earnest last year, was to start growing kale. The way things were going at one point, it sadly wasn't certain that small shops would survive and as you know I get a lot of trimmings and damaged organic veg and fruit from my local organic shop. As it happens, here anyway, there was a big public reaction and in fact the small shops are doing better than ever! Kale is a real 'Hungry Gap' forage crop, so although we had quite a few hard frosts it still sprung back during the day. I grew a bog standard animal forage kale but there is a 'Jersey Walking Stick' Brassica oleracea longata variety, which not only is for the suggested use of making sticks from the stalks but which grows up into a tall 'palm tree' so, well above the height of jumping chickens! I also love that kale is both easy to grow and that it self-seeds really well, so after your initial purchase, you are off to a perpetual harvest. Watercress is another easy and very nutritious crop <a href="https://holistic-hen.blogspot.com/2018/04/organic-quail-and-watercress-winning.html#.YEIxs7rk-V5" rel="nofollow">https://holistic-hen.blogspot.com/2018/04/organic-quail-and-watercress-winning.html#.YEIxs7rk-V5</a> and you don't need water just damp soil. The drawback being that can be badly damaged by frost. However there are several other really low temperature green leafy crops which I grow; mizuna, mibuna and American land cress, which make for great Winter salads too. You are so right though about egg - it is a super food. Hope this is of use and I can't tell you how pleased I am you took time to tell me of your experiences! Big hug to Roddy and friends and love to you from sunny Normandie, Sue xxxPavlovafowlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11578592110340773950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8210982388002297798.post-75754860961146535372021-02-27T13:00:57.940+01:002021-02-27T13:00:57.940+01:00Hi Sue
I hope you, Andy and all your feathered fr...Hi Sue<br /><br />I hope you, Andy and all your feathered friends are well? :-)<br /><br />I just wanted to say how well the natural lice treatment works. I love using all natural in my own life as well as for our rescue/adopted fur and feathered friends, the wild visitors and environment, as much as possible. Roddy, our adopted chamois bantam Rooster, has always had lice now and again throughout the year, and he is usually the first one I treat ... they free range in their own decent sized garden spaces that include grass and a large compost heap, along with enclosed tent business with tyre-filled/cat litter box dust bathing spots. I do add shredded cabbage and apple to their feed, but know I should do more regularly. During autumn and winter when it can become scarce, especially this winter, for greens, I noticed that Roddy, and everyone else appears not to have a single louse upon them!! I have been giving almost all of the eggs they produce as hard boiled, daily, and think this super food treat has done the job! <br /><br />All the best, Kirsty xxKirstyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10723113872531436319noreply@blogger.com