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Thanks all for your responses. I sent another hen in who started showing respiratory symptoms 2-3 weeks after all the others had stopped, I wasn't sure if it was the same thing but she came up positive for MS (the first came up negative for everything, including Laryngotracheitis). Is...

My flock recently came down (in December) with a gurgling and raling respiratory issue, which started in a humid poorly ventilated coop. I got a bird necropsied about a month after it started, when only a few different ones each night would gurgle (like it was quickly spreading through them)...

I have been having trouble with sick birds, which started in a poorly ventilated coop with moisture buildup. I had just about given up hope (all blood tests are negative except for virus isolation which aren't back yet) and read somewhere about Viral Pneumonia - What is it? Do the birds become...

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Could you link to Speckled Hens page on fungus for me? I would like to read that. Thanks for the info! I doubt it could be fungus though, because it spread to my adult birds who are in coops 50-100 feet away, and their coops are well ventilated.

Sorry if all that was rambly . . . I guess the real question I can't find an answer too is: ARE ALL VIRAL INFECTIONS CHRONIC (do they pass on to the chicks), or are there some that don't? I know the adults will be carriers, but again, is it chronic? Thanks again

Mid December some of my young birds started "gurgling" at night. It sounded like water in the lungs, or a crackling noise. They were 2-3 months old. It started because I had poor ventilation in the coop they were in, I know that for a fact. Lincomycin-Spectinomycin was ineffective (for 8 days)...

Hi, I want to buy an still-air incubator to do some extra hatching, but I am just a kid with a limited amount of money, so my price range would be around 40-80$. I have read little giants are variable, but also in reviews on amazon I have read not to buy hovabators because they are variable too...

Yeah, thanks, DOES that include production birds? And by Sandhill not being MG/MS, do you mean they have it, or they just are not tested for it? Thanks again!

Hi all, I am interested in placing an order in the next few months with Sandhill, but was wondering, are they MG/MS tested negative? I know they are NPIP, but that doesn't cover MG or MS, does it? I am wondering because one of my friend's bird's are sick with what is probably MG, and I have read...

Thanks, I'll let him know all this. In the meantime I found out that geese can carry MG (as in they might not show symptoms but if infected they do carry it chronically). He is waiting for a necropsy report, lets for him

Are geese susceptible to MG? I have a friend who's chickens are showing symptoms, he is getting one autopsied soon, but I told him I would ask all you if geese are susceptible (he has 2). They are penned separately from the chickens, the geese nighttime coop is about ten-fifteen feet upwind from...

hi all, I was wondering about a health question - Our neighbors some laying chickens they keep in a single pen, about 400 feet from our property line. My chickens are in tractors that move around, anywhere from a couple feet from the property line to a couple of hundred feet. How far would be a...

Thanks to both of you. I mix my own feed so I can adjust what I put in as necessary, so the main reason I am switching is financial. Even with selling birds I just can't sustain $25 dollars a bag for ground corn (non-organic is $10). Soybean meal is about 7-10 dollars more per #50, so I will...

I am planning on starting to buy non-organic food again. Is there anything that could immediately damage my bird's health by switching from one to the other? I'm not worried about the chemicals, I don't like GM crops, and I know they are most likely more harmful in the long run, but I really...

(1) BB red Manx Rumpy (2) Blue wheaten Americauna (3) ?red un-dubbed modern game? (4) White sultan

Quote: Awesome looking white stag Gamefowl Guy. What is the make up of his blood line? He is a blend of Old English bantams and some of my friend's phoenix. I plan on breeding him to a brown red pullet I have in the spring.

Here is a cockerel from my line of games I am working on - it has been raining here so his tail is kind of beat up, but I am happy with progress so far, he has many of the traits I am looking for.

It depends on how closely related and gentically compatible two species are whether they can 1, breed and 2, produce fertile offspring capable of reproducing. It is like a mechanism nature has so that there isn't cross-species breeding to a damaging extent. Swans and geese are different...

It depends on what you want which way to cross them - you should do some reading on genetics and sex-linked traits, although if you just want to see what you get, then either way would work. And silkies do go broody, but lay few eggs, and cochins go broody also (not as much as silkies) and...