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I am currently trying to find a vet willing to help me do the cheap test on all my birds. But not sure if it would prove anything.

The blood or swab test for it is relatively inexpensive but will only catch a case if it is symptomatic, (according to the State vet.) and none of my birds are...they seem to be perfectly healthy! In order to detect carriers, you have to do a PCR? PR? PRA? (something like that) test that is...

Walt mentioned him and I am thinking about it but they want my credit card number to even talk to him. I haven't decided yet. I am not culling my entire flock at this point because they are completely asymptomatic. Even the 3 birds that are still in quarantine haven't developed even a...

and yes, I am heartsick.

I am new to chickens but I wanted (past tense...my plans are now derailed as follows) to do heritage breeds seriously with a smattering of a bit of everything in a laying flock. I have a quarantine pen and two of the birds I had in it (after many many weeks…I was coop building and it took a...

But what about diseases where the birds could be carriers but not show any symptoms? I do not ask this randomly. I suspect my flock of asymptomatically carrying Mg. I don't have proof, because the PR tests for being a carrier are $75 each(!!!!!!) and an asymptomatic bird wont test positive on...

I am fairly new to Chickens. had them less than a year. how do people show birds but not have them bring home the myriad of poultry diseases? once a flock tests positive for something like Mg, do you then cull the entire flock? I would think with the statistics, there is a lot of things out...

maybe that's what it is, then. our house is a timberframe with stress-skin panels and the roof is 9" of styrofoam with wood on the inside, styrofoam, an air gap, then osb on the outside then felt and shingles. The manufacturers said that if we didn't have that air gap, that we'd be in big...

The problem is that you can have issues from the roof heat actually melting and damaging the foam. you need ventilation above the foam so that the heat doesn't build up there.

I was going to suggest exactly this...they call it a vent skin and it really helps keep the temperature down. it's also imperative if you use rigid foam insulation so that it wont melt. it is amazing how hot solar energy can get. well to my inexperienced eye, he's a beauty! sigh...gotta...

I have built one but have no really great advice. except that gorilla glue can go a bit crazy on you if you don't know how it works, try it out on something else first...LOLOLOL

I’m so thankful that I don’t actually have to make money on my chickens. (fingers crossed that nothing changes in that regard) but something you might want to look into if you do need to is using spent brewer’s grain to augment your feed expenses…if you can find people who brew beer. The...

Well part of my struggle will be UNDERSTANDING the standard. I seriously have never been into chickens before now. Hopefully there will be lots of pictures from all angles! LOL

Whew. finally finished reading through this thread!!! I thought I'd introduce myself, but I am mostly going to lurk due to being very ignorant (but interested.) I am very new to chickens and have decided on Red Dorkings, Barnevelders and maybe Sussex of some sort in the future, or silver...