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Quote: I'm gonna try and clean it up some and make a sticky. Right now I'm trying to forget.

Again I will say a BIG THANK YOU to all of you for your kind words. Chickens will come again in time. For now I'll get my chicken fix here on BYC.

Quote: Well, my friend JoeOxford dropped off too MG positive roos for me to cull for him so I'm not chickenless today. They are pretty boys and since I won't be around other flocks for a while I may just keep them until I get attached to them and have to cull pet birds again. I told ya all...

Quote: Hmmm...just makes me wonder about this "sudden" panic over MG/MS. It sounds like, once again, the gov't is trying to take control away from its citizens in some strange way. I mean, if they can convince people that there's a new "epidemic" and prevent people from free ranging their...

Quote: Wow Rim, again such good info and I COMPLETELY FEEL YOUR PAIN!! I went through my barn a lot of times at 1 am just to check on them and listen. Oh that was a memory I was trying to bury.

Quote: This is the type of information and case studies we need to be sharing. We need a Vet to coordinate all this. Again, from my understanding, your birds have MG and are carriers. MG reduces hatchability and increases chick mortality. Most of my birds were not showing any symptoms at all.

Quote: In my case even with this board I'm lost in ignorance. I did have to cull and very well may have made the decision to cull them all anyways to be safe. I really don't know. Some of the birds that tested negative showed symptoms earlier in the year. I'm not sure if that means they...

Quote: Good questions. Here are the answers as I understand them: 1-No, symptoms do not have to show or may be too mild to notice. 2-No, so far almost everything I know I have learned here, from experience, or from the vet. 3-Turkeys can. Guineas I'm guessing yes. Ducks-Unknown. 4-The...

Quote: There are many different strains of MG and, as I have found, birds can be exposed and not get it. My flock did not get sick until I introduced the sick silkie into it. My birds free ranged every afternoon and never got it, at least never got a strain that showed up. But yes, the...

Quote: I just read this and it said you had your quail tested and they had to be destroyed to do it.. Does this mean you cant get quail tested for this disease with out killing them.. Just wondering.. Also if you buy eggs from infected birds.. How do you know if the chicks are carriers of...

Quote: I think we are bonded in some strange chicken hell now SB.

Update 6-16-09 The birds have been gone since last week but I'm still learning from this. Yesterday I brought my remaining quail, and a few birds from a local friends flock who had been exposed to mine, to the Vet Pathology lab at UCONN. My remaining 8 quail showed negative for MG along with...

Quote: The number is hard to say. I culled 10 silkies a few months back and have culled several individuals since then too. This past Tuesday I culled my 4 favorites which inspired the video. Yesterday I did the remaining 7 hens/pets. Today I processed approx 16 standard roos and 1 quail...

Final Update: Meat roos have all been slaughtered. Remaining 8 quail are going to the lab for final testing tomorrow.

Update 6-13-09: All my hens/pets are now buried in the garden. My non-chicken friends joked with me about my "pet cemetary" in my front yard. Wasn't really cool but heck, they're just chickens right? The meat roosters and 9 quail still remain alive until I can have them processed or do it...

You people are killing me with all these nice things you are saying. I truly am humbled by this. Now, since I have the remaining birds to cull tommorrow afternoon I need to keep my anger at myself up so I don't cry or throw up. By the way, sharing my frustration in that video was a very...

Quote: You can call me friend anytime you want. I'm the richer one for it.

With as fragile as MG is I doubt it would survive for long in a processed bird. There are thousands of various types of bacteria in everything we eat. Most have no effect on us, even if we eat it live. Oysters anyone? Pass the Sushi please...

Quote: I try and be a good friend because so many others here have been good friends to me.

Quote: You are panicking and letting fear take over!!! Take a deep breath. I've ordered 100's of hatching eggs and not been infected with MG. I've never even heard a case of it but have read it's possible for MG to pass through the egg. I also read it is killed by running the bator up to...