Ok. Caught back up.
Hi evvybody!!!!
Debi, sorry about the cat
g~ People named 'Granny' need to be supervised as if they were teenagers....
dacs, welcome aboard. We did say nice things. I'm sorry you can't remember any of them. We almost even named the thread after you.
Batty, you can break quarantine if you wish. There may be consequences though. How long have you had them? Do they act healthy?
I've gone ahead and integrated birds right away before, with no quarantine, and had no trouble. Some peeps quarantine their showbirds, after a show, but I don't. Picked up lice from a neighbor bird at the Feb show, but I treated everyone and sprinkle a DE/Sevin combo in the coop every other week anyway since the wild birds have pests and I let my kids forage. (I don't use the drops because that can affect fertility from some info I've been reading.) But I digress...
Yes, you can break quarantine. If the poop looks normal, they breathe clear and they act perky, then I
think you'll be okay. Especially if you've had them for a couple of weeks and they act that way.
I am currently sitting on my deck being thankful for my weather bubble. When we had the drought 2 years ago I was not thankful for the bubble. But as the radar has shown storms passing to the right and left of us all afternoon, I am thankful now. Got some wicked gusts of wind, but no hail so far. Other local areas have not been so lucky.
I hatched out 4 more chicks lastnight/ this morning. I am now the owner of 120 chickens, if chicks count. Only 30 if they don't. Everybody except the newborns got to play outside for 2 hours until the storms made DH panic. In his defense, they always look like they're coming right at us until they hit the invisible bubble.
And I have a lovely spring sunburn on my face.
Well, the laptop's gonna die soon, and I don't want to plug it in until I know the bubble has turned away ALL the storms. Catch ya'll later!!
Wow. Didja hear that sound? It was a margarita calling my name...
