calling any one from missouri

[karenerwin]

I've actually never seen a tomato horn worm they are always tobacco horn worms here.

JT

Maybe that’s what they are here too and I’ve always just called them by the wrong name.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

 

[ChickenCanoe]

I've picked about 70 tomato horn worms in the past 2 weeks. 9 tonight. The blacklight is a wonder, but this is getting ridiculous.

I never knew about the blacklight trick. Thanks for that.
I've never tried row covers with tomatoes because it may not work. However, for European cabbage moths, floating row covers work like magic.

 

[jthornton]

Maybe that’s what they are here too and I’ve always just called them by the wrong name.

They do look almost the same, a tobacco horn worm has a red horn and the tomato horn worm has a blue horn. There's some differences in the stripes but the horn is the easy way to tell. They both eat tobacco and tomatoes.

JT

 

[karenerwin]

They do look almost the same, a tobacco horn worm has a red horn and the tomato horn worm has a blue horn. There's some differences in the stripes but the horn is the easy way to tell. They both eat tobacco and tomatoes.

JT

I never knew that!

 

[jthornton]

Lucy has the green apple trots the last couple of days and today I noticed flies bugging her so I washed her back side off and the flies still were bugging her. Not wanting to deal with fly strike again I put Lucy in a kennel in the Florida room which is screened in and that's keeping the flies away. Does anyone know anything I can do to help her with the diarrhea?

JT

 

[ChickenCanoe]

Lucy has the green apple trots the last couple of days and today I noticed flies bugging her so I washed her back side off and the flies still were bugging her. Not wanting to deal with fly strike again I put Lucy in a kennel in the Florida room which is screened in and that's keeping the flies away. Does anyone know anything I can do to help her with the diarrhea?

JT

Good move on getting her out of harm's way.
All I can suggest for the diarrhea is a good avian probiotic. It is essential to re-establish a benign microbiome.
My go to is Gro2Max probiotic powder. Can be used in water or feed but I prefer water as you can more accurately administer it.
It is formulated specifically for chickens with an array of yeasts and bacteria. If you have well water, use that. I'm on city water so I use tap water dechlorinator. The chloramine has to have the ammonia chlorine bond broken before the chlorine can gas off.
After discussing it with the scientists at BioNatural they recommended not having chlorine involved as it can kill some of the bacteria.
https://gro2max.com/
I know it isn't the same thing as the apple issue but for a bit of anecdotal evidence. I never had chicks with pasted vent after using it in chicks first water. That is many hundreds of chicks.

 

[jthornton]

@ChickenCanoe Thanks, I'll see if I can find some.

JT

 

[jthornton]

We got 2 1/2" of rain yesterday and it rained all day and into the night. The radar screen was totally covered with green and yellow.

How did you guys make out?

JT

 

[SueT]

We only got cloudy all day....