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    Advice - neighbor wants us to cull

    Update: My neighbor talked to my husband just a few minutes ago and convinced him to cull the chickens. The ducks and guineas are all seeming to be very healthy, so he didn't ask him to cull them. Our neighbor said he would do it for us. My husband just took our 4 year old out to say goodbye...
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    Advice - neighbor wants us to cull

    From everything I have been reading for weeks, many hatcheries get certified as MG free and participate in a national program. The moot point of killing birds if they have it is because you can sanitize your yard and coops, cull all your birds, get certified MG-free babies and they will still...
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    Advice - neighbor wants us to cull

    Our vet said that the Newcastle was a super mild form and very minor infection in our bird. She didn't recommend culling for any of these infections unless we wanted to. And any of these can be spread by air, rodents, and wild birds. Our neighbor probably would kill his whole flock and all wild...
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    Advice - neighbor wants us to cull

    This is more of a what would you do question. Our neighbor has chickens, ducks and turkeys. We have chickens (had 21), 11 ducks and 2 guineas. Over a month ago (late August?), my husband brought home some adult chickens totally against my advice (because we didn't have sufficient quarantine...
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    Flock infected - IB, MG, Newcastle :(

    That link was really helpful when we thought it was gapeworms and you shared it on that thread I had started. It seriously led me to think about the IB, which it turned out to be the main culprit. Thanks for the info. We are pretty bummed with how things have turned out and how sick they all...
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    Suspected gapeworm

    Just following up in case anyone reads later. Our vet said super high infection of infectious bronchitis, with secondary infections of MG and a mild strain of Newcastle disease :( I posted another thread for input specifically related to those. Thank you, eggcessive, for the info. Sent from my...
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    Flock infected - IB, MG, Newcastle :(

    We took one of our roosters to the local university AG hospital this past weekend because of respiratory illness, and it turns out he had super high titers for infectious bronchitis. He also had the mild form of Newcastle, and was positive for mycoplasma gallisepticum. We've actually lost about...
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    Broad daylight predator attack

    Thanks. We've had a terrible few weeks with them. We have lost 4 just to illness and now this one. We were hoping she could recover from whatever they have, but then this. It's been pretty heartbreaking :(
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    Broad daylight predator attack

    I suspect a raccoon, but it's totally broad daylight and my daughter and a neighbor dog were playing yards away. I heard a hen going crazy, went out a few minutes later and found a bird that has been sick (still trying to figure out with what) was near our gate, head and neck completely off...
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    Suspected gapeworm

    We lost another one today :( Taking one of the Roos to the university AG vet on Friday. They said they've seen a lot of MG in the area the last couple of weeks, but of course they can't say it's that over the phone. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Suspected gapeworm

    We've been giving them oxytetracycline for several days with no improvement. We've lost 2 hens already. I'm thinking now maybe not gapeworms because from what I've read you should be able to see them in their throat and my husband didn't see any. The sickest ones are also keeping their eyes...
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    Suspected gapeworm

    Just bumping - looking for help still! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
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    Suspected gapeworm

    I've been searching the site for info about our sick flock. Our chickens looks like everything I have seen about gapeworm - head bobbing and shaking, yawning, gurgling if you pick them up, etc. So we are going to TSC to pick up the treatment. But how do we need to treat the yard to get rid of it...
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    Guinea eggs

    Just curious - and I know this is an older thread - but do they store like chicken eggs on the counter? Or do you have to treat them differently? We have 2 guineas in with our chickens and they have just started laying. Totally surprised us because they are only a couple of (maybe 3) months old...
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    Easter Egger Sexing "tips and tricks" *Pictures Included*

    Here are the now pics, albeit not very good ones. Roo 1 with hen 1 Roo 2 with a barred rock hen Hen 2. I think she's gorgeous. For a long time I thought she was going to be a roo with all the rusty red. I love her collar of gold and black though!!
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