I bet you and I live in the same area. I got rid of all my ducks. Just have some layers and a few show birds. About the permit is, best to do it. $ 50 a year isn't much. And honestly how many actually bother looking for "illegal" fowl.
Thankyou, I think it would be for the best to just restart... I have a relative with it also(we both brought it into our flocks from auctions) so I'll give her the birds I can't bear to kill... They actually have very few signs of it, aside from the occasional sneeze and inexistent egg...
Got my birds NPIP tested and got the results back. 15/15 samples Mycoplasma Gallisepticum positive and negative for the other four.
I have 50+ chickens, most of laying age, 60+ ducks(34 of laying age, although only 19 have ever laid eggs) and 8 goslings... I WAS planning on breeding them but...
Those teeny steyrafoam incubators are too flimsy and touchy(they suck). I suggest finding something better that would be worth the time, money and parts you are inveating into it. :) Either way... I wish you the best of luck, newbies. ;)
Crummy pic(and I've put aluminum foil on,the bottom to help increase humidity) but this was the very first HM incubator. My dad made tge box about Nov. 2010 and about 6 wks ago we gave it a nice,revision. :) works great- I think I got about 65% on these duck eggs
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Ok, I've been sick since thurday so I hadn't been paying as much attention to my birds as usual... On Saturday morning I was well enough to go sell some ducklings at a local swap w/out me keeling over... When I got back I noticed my 4wk old gander's face was swelled...
Lol. I don't think I mentioned or clarified this so I'm doing it now:
*injecting* tylan into the birds one by one according to body weight would be impossible, i mean.
And by 95% mite and lice free I mean the chickens. The living conditions and water is good enough so mites on watersfowl is...
Hi, for a while now I have had my chickens one by one start to sneeze. in the last few months they have ALL STARTED SNEEZING! OMG IT SERIOUSLY PISSES ME OFF! In May I bought 10 Pekin and 4 Muscovies. Now THEY and the rest of my ducks sneeze too! I was going to breed them... but it would be wrong...
Oopsie! lol y'all miss me? Ah yes well i apologise for my rather delayed reply. but anyways, i took out the incubator that was successful with a single PC fan, lightbulb and thermostat and important thinking about once again tinkering, as people call it. i was going to tear it apart but decided...
Okay i sincerely apologise for being MIA so long. lol i go on a local Facebook forum for most of my questions. but anyways the problem was that they had too much protein 19-20% is too much for birds that were only ten or twelve weeks old. i have three young muscovies i got in the middle of...