Rebuilding my Farm - Page 15

Sending postive thoughts your way for a clean hatch!

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Originally Posted by Farmerboy16 

I lockdown 38 eggs today! They are due on Sunday. Please pray that they hatch clean!

Praying.
 

Farmerboy, I just read your thread!  When I was chatting with you about my problem I didn't know how much you have lost.  I posted my plan of attack but thinking maybe it needs to be posted else where.  I am hoping that my plan will give me an MG free flock.  Even as I look at the plan I am finding other ways to protect my flock.  I will miss my chickens free ranging on the farm and coming to my door begging for treats everyday.  I already miss it.  Everyone I have left is on lock down.  The coop/cage that the vet said has it was culled already.  After culling, I spoke to MSU who told me the test the vet did was NOT a MG test.  He did a blood test and told me (while I was still in the office) that they had slightly elevated white blood count.  I'm pretty sure he was right though. 

I am thinking I got it when I purchased my first breeders from a farm near us.  We did have people on our farm who had a chicken die at their farm while they were here.  BTW you asked where we are located, between Lansing and Flint.

If only I had read a story like yours 5 years ago when I researched chickens and the breed I wanted.  I would have been much smarter about my flock.  I would have been more careful about where I got my birds.  I would have had them tested as soon as I got them.  I would have never let anyone into my coops.  And I would not have taken someone's word that their chickens have never showed signs of illness.  I would have quarantined my new birds differently, I would have sacrificed an old bird in the quarantine pen to see if anyone got sick.

I hope and wish you the best of luck starting over.  Hopefully we can help each other through this process of starting over and finding "clean" birds.  The breed I had has very few breeders so I have a feeling this is going to be painstakingly hard and expensive. 

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Originally Posted by Wickischickies 

Farmerboy, I just read your thread!  When I was chatting with you about my problem I didn't know how much you have lost.  I posted my plan of attack but thinking maybe it needs to be posted else where.  I am hoping that my plan will give me an MG free flock.  Even as I look at the plan I am finding other ways to protect my flock.  I will miss my chickens free ranging on the farm and coming to my door begging for treats everyday.  I already miss it.  Everyone I have left is on lock down.  The coop/cage that the vet said has it was culled already.  After culling, I spoke to MSU who told me the test the vet did was NOT a MG test.  He did a blood test and told me (while I was still in the office) that they had slightly elevated white blood count.  I'm pretty sure he was right though. 

 

I am thinking I got it when I purchased my first breeders from a farm near us.  We did have people on our farm who had a chicken die at their farm while they were here.  BTW you asked where we are located, between Lansing and Flint.

 

If only I had read a story like yours 5 years ago when I researched chickens and the breed I wanted.  I would have been much smarter about my flock.  I would have been more careful about where I got my birds.  I would have had them tested as soon as I got them.  I would have never let anyone into my coops.  And I would not have taken someone's word that their chickens have never showed signs of illness.  I would have quarantined my new birds differently, I would have sacrificed an old bird in the quarantine pen to see if anyone got sick.

 

I hope and wish you the best of luck starting over.  Hopefully we can help each other through this process of starting over and finding "clean" birds.  The breed I had has very few breeders so I have a feeling this is going to be painstakingly hard and expensive. 

I'm so sorry you're going through this. These things are just heartbreaking!  

I am the type that always looks for the silver lining, and I think in this case, it would be all that you have learned.  Although you wish you could have done things differently, what is done, is done, and how you handle it going forward is really what counts!    Also, I'm a believer in sharing information - if even just ONE person is helped by this thread, then it was so worth posting it here!

Daron - any hatching going on?  (Did you put down your Longcrower trio, and were there any of their eggs in this hatch?   )

Thank you so much for the reality check.  I imagine most people new or old to chickens will take something from the lesson you have passed on to us.

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Originally Posted by Wynette 

I'm so sorry you're going through this. These things are just heartbreaking!  

 

I am the type that always looks for the silver lining, and I think in this case, it would be all that you have learned.  Although you wish you could have done things differently, what is done, is done, and how you handle it going forward is really what counts!    Also, I'm a believer in sharing information - if even just ONE person is helped by this thread, then it was so worth posting it here!

 

Daron - any hatching going on?  (Did you put down your Longcrower trio, and were there any of their eggs in this hatch?   )

 

Wynette,

There is always a silver lining, sometimes it takes a while to see it.  Our silver lining is that we will be starting over with hatching eggs.  We will be able to work with the chicks and tame them.  The rooster we have (for a few more days) always calls danger when he sees my son, which makes my son upset.  I am looking into the vaccine Monday for the new chicks, hopefully it isn't too expensive.  I did a little reading about it, and I will not be able to use it but maybe the hubby will (if we can afford it).  It say 10/2000 doses.  I am wondering if that means that it is 10 mixes totaling 2000 doses or what.  I'm really hoping that it means 10 mixes totaling 2000 doses because then I could split the price and doses with others.  Guess I'll know more very soon because I'm calling the company this week, even though my eggs won't be here until May.

I am really hoping that Farmerboy's trick works.  I am so excited they are pipping! Praying they make it and pass the test!