New Hampshire!!

Yellow House Farm said:

Greetings! In NH NPIP testing also includes the Avian Influenza (AI) test. It's all done from the same blood sample at the NH Veterinary Diagnositics Lab at UNH.

The NPIP test isn't really a benefit or concern with egg sales for consumption. Concerns to consider there are about proper hygiene and egg handling, cleanliness, and storage, The NPIP program is about attempting to control and monitor flock and, especially, inter-flock contamination and disease transference. It's really important for (and because of) large producers. It serves to monitor them and protect them from loss.

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puglady said:

I've begun selling hatchery chicks at the chicken swaps and it was a requirement of this. Any that I get are from tested hatcheries. I have yet to purchase any older chickens. Currently I'm drooling over Jubilee Orpingtons on the Green Fire Farm site but am wishing they were sexed.....

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DraigAthar said:

Is anyone else in NH having losses of younger birds to sour crop? I lost two cockerels over the weekend, both 10-11 weeks old. The only real symptoms they had were soup crop (foul breath, squishy, balloon-like crop) and general lethargy. They both died within 24 hours of me noticing symptoms. I have one other cockerel that has been acting lethargic but is still eating and plugging along normally otherwise. He hasn't developed the foul smelling breath or squishy crop like the other two, but he hasn't gone back to energetic behavior yet either. I was so upset, I was convinced that somehow I've been a terrible birdy-momma. I went around scrubbing the heck out of every feeder and waterer, and changing the bedding, and watching all the other younguns for symptoms. I haven't lost any more since that first two, but I was feeling so bad. Then I just happened to be talking to a woman at the store down the road who also keeps chickens. I told her about the sour crop, and she looked stunned for a moment, then told me that one of her other customers told the exact same story earlier today. So now I wonder what could be going around that causes sour crop? Or, could it be a feed contaminant, since most people in my immediate area probably buy feed from the same place? Or could it somehow be weather related, since we had a streak of unseasonably warm followed by cold and wet? It's a mystery to me, so I thought I'd ask if any of you are having similar problems!

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memechick said:

Hi Everyone,  Concord, NH here!  I'm also new to the world of chicken ownership and already loving it.   Two weeks ago I purchase 4 pullets.  1 Black Australorp, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Rhode Island Red, 1 Plymouth Barred Rock.   All are now 10 weeks old and very sweet.  I love sitting in the yard when I get home from work and just watch them ..... it's very relaxing.   I commute 63 miles each way to work everyday to Woburn, MA and can't wait to get home to spend time with the "girls".  LOL   I plan on going to Chickenstock in Claremont next Saturday, July 7th to meet other chicken lovers and learn all I can ....... maybe come home with one or two more.   That's my limit: 6 !    At least that's what the coop says it can handle comfortably.  I would love a Cochin because I heard they are very docile and loveable.  I'm still reading everything I can get my hands on but would love to meet people with real life experience.   I've fallen in love with these 4 little girls. 

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memechick said:

OMG!! This is my first "reply" to a post of mine. LOL. How can you tell I am new to this!! Hello Aceschix .......... I saw a posting on craigslist about the chickenstock. I'm going to check out your link now.

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memechick said:

Hi Everyone, Concord, NH here! I'm also new to the world of chicken ownership and already loving it. Two weeks ago I purchase 4 pullets. 1 Black Australorp, 1 Buff Orpington, 1 Rhode Island Red, 1 Plymouth Barred Rock. All are now 10 weeks old and very sweet. I love sitting in the yard when I get home from work and just watch them ..... it's very relaxing. I commute 63 miles each way to work everyday to Woburn, MA and can't wait to get home to spend time with the "girls". LOL I plan on going to Chickenstock in Claremont next Saturday, July 7th to meet other chicken lovers and learn all I can ....... maybe come home with one or two more. That's my limit: 6 ! At least that's what the coop says it can handle comfortably. I would love a Cochin because I heard they are very docile and loveable. I'm still reading everything I can get my hands on but would love to meet people with real life experience. I've fallen in love with these 4 little girls.

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nhnanna said:

The chickenstock and our weekly swaps are so much fun. Glad to have you join us.

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