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Wry neck is also VERY prevalent with breeds like my silkies and polish with the vaulted skulls. Those skull plates don't fully fuse and it leaves them with soft sots just like on a newborn baby. Its usually your best pullets affected or so it seems. All it take is a peck or hard blow to that...

I've been looking around in our own County to join 4-H again. My daughter turns 6 soon and can officially be a cloverbud then. Hardest part for me is finding a club that meets on days I'm off from work. Many of the parents running the clubs now were in it with me way back when....

;) it's been 22 years since I've shown in 4-H. My mom was the secretary at the county extension office so of course she had me involved in most projects. I showed mainly horses back then and my siblings were hardcore into the pigeons and poultry. My brother who is now 29 was on the poultry...

I will second what MNChickMom said. First you need to enroll your kids in 4-H and pick a club that fits your style. Some are more oriented towards certain projects and some are more local to certain townships. Yes there is a lot of volunteer work, but it will help your kids in the long run...

G'morning! I sold out on the WC black polish last year and just have the bantam buff laced left. Even that breeding group will be for sale if the price is right.... On the silkies, I'm not selling chicks yet at all. Its time to replenish my own pens this year. So it will only be extra...

I had that same problem with feral cats last year too. Somebody I work with thought it was a great idea to drop off 20+ adult cats that he had trapped. He even left me a 40 pound bag of cat food too. Cats that have been raised around birds are one thing, adult feral ones used to hunting to...

If you do decide to go to IA, you'll need the import permit in advance. Super easy...just basically have to give them your NPIP number and send it off to our state vet to confirm it for them. Here is the link for it...

* March 19, April 16, May 14, June 18, July 16, August 20. BCPPA Small Animal & Bird Swaps. Brown County Fairgrounds, New Ulm MN. Gates open at 8am. $3 admission for 16 and older. Contact Trevor Nau (507) 375-4716 or Al Christle (507) 210-5741

Life happens! I had that kid of my own 5 years ago and that put a major monkey wrench in things. My grandma that I lived with and took care of, died 2.5 years ago and we had to get all that dealt with and house cleaned out. It was fall of 2014 that I had my own health problems and they kept...

So sorry to hear this, but sometimes it just has to be done. There's only so many hours in the day! Look after your family first and you can always rebuild on the birds. If you are looking for good places to sell ALOT, there is a small swap in New Ulm on June 18th and then later that...

Psssstttt Holm there is a poultry swap at the Brown County fairgrounds in New Ulm on Saturday morning. Gates open at 7am and $3 admission. Lots of nice birds showed up at the last one.

I've seen all sorts of poultry get lice/mites. I can remember a 4-H show 10+ years ago and a certain family's birds all had them. It was across the board from poultry to waterfowl.... I can just remember them crawling on everyone's arms that touched any of them and eventually they were taken...

These are my own birds from about 5 years ... you can really see the wing faults on them. Pretty otherwise, but it passes on like wildfire if you continue to keep them in your breeders. When you spread the wings, you can actually see a visible split, instead of a nice fan of feathers.

I just found a pet home for one of my show hopefuls for same darn thing. Basically the wing primaries don't tuck correctly and flip out instead of next to the body.

https://www.bah.state.mn.us/poultry There are multiple links on both right and left side to click on when you get to that page. They also have a Facebook page under MN Board of Animal Health. I do both the wing bands and leg bands. Wing bands are put on young stock before they move out to...

It all depends on how many you have and what method you want to do it. On the pullorum testing, the first time has to be the plate test and after that you can opt to send in debris samples every 90 days. Otherwise you can go through and do that test just once a year via the plate test. For me...

We went through that joyous process last week. As long as we had birds caught, we did both the PT testing and AI swabs. Mom also got those 4 royal palm turkeys so they had to have vials drawn for MS/MG testing as well. I know I'm late with sending in my hatchery permit renewal, but the MPTL...

Out of state sellers have to have an import permit to sell anything into MN (eggs, chicks, adults). In order for us to sell to any other state we have to check their restrictions too. For example, both SD and IA require an import permit too even if the people drive over here to pick them up.

I'm also guilty of just piling more bedding on top of the old frozen gunk too. State vet came out 2 weeks ago to train my mom on how to AI swab and I thought I'd make everything look all nice by throwing down another layer of straw on top of all the shavings. Now its just a bigger mess and...

I tried last week and stuff was still froze solid at the base though. A good week of these temps has everything solid mush though. I got the 3 smallest coops done yesterday and it took as long as it normally takes to do all my pens. Its all that wet heavy crap! Stopped at Runnings last night...