➡I accidentally bought Balut eggs: 2 live ducks! Now a Chat Thread!

[The Farmers' Daughter]

I thought you all might find these interesting...I love these kind of maps!
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Back shaving?

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

So then yes, the STD causing trichonomas species can theoretically be transmitted between species, and the lung disease causing species can definitely be transmitted between species.

But I wonder if you actually get the lung disease/STD, or if it just passively lives in the wrong host until it’s transferred.

I’m thinking it’s passive, unless perhaps in a comprised immune system? I know that T. vaginalis is found in normal biota sometimes and is opportunistic when in a comprised system.

 

[NanaKat]

On a different note, anyone ever had to file down a chickens beak tip? I have a 5 month old pullet that constantly has a super sharp razor tip and she got my finger with it last night.

Dremel or sanding block

Oh geez. Do you think a tall multi-level cage would work? I thought they needed longer open areas, like guinea pigs.
Are they very dusty?

Quail are very messy...I was always cleaning poop out of the water feeder and off the walls of the cage. They did eat from a feeder without wasting the feed. A wire mesh bottom on the cage and a catch tray worked well from droppings. For the vertical cage, use a parrot barrier to contain the poop spray. Quail are ground foragers and rarely use a roost...the "loft" won't be used...no need for a nest box either...they lay eggs along the walls of the ground pen. Finding quail eggs is an Easter egg hunt every day.

That's a great idea!!
I actually heard her squawking but I assumed the roosters were at it again (I had briefly forgotten that they are gone now, lol). She laid it next to the pool... i'm hoping I can train her to lay in the nest box.

Note the time she lays her egg. Keep her contained in her coop until she lays her egg each day. Then let her out.

LOL
Stop that right now.



I did laugh just now.
I can't help it, I promise.

I thought about your question.
It is going to depend what type of stuff you use in the cage as to whether or not they are dusty. I am going to say they will probably be dusty.

Multi level-probably not so much.
When I was building my quail cage I really wanted to add an "upstairs" area but I didn't see very many quail cages built with one so I figured they don't do stairs/ramps too well.

I really don't know.
I may still add a loft like thing inside my cage just to test it out.

See my notes for Tesumph.

Did you give the whole quail to the dog or do you take feathers off and such first
Cobra (black boxer) might get a little too excited if I feed him a quail.

Too much trouble to pluck...much easier to clip off the wing tips and lower legs, then skin and gut the birds.

 

[Tesumph]

I’m thinking it’s passive, unless perhaps in a comprised immune system? I know that T. vaginalis is found in normal biota sometimes and is opportunistic when in a comprised system.

That’s what I’m thinking. The treatment for infected cows is to sexually isolate them until their immune system overcomes the disease. Since it’s harder on bulls, I believe they’re generally just sold for meat if they test positive.. not worth spreading it through the whole herd.

There’s tons of trace diseases found in any given healthy body anyway. I don’t think zoonotic spread is a huge deal with this but definitely possible.

 

[Kiki]

 

[Kiki]

 

[littleprairieheartsfarm]

That’s what I’m thinking. The treatment for infected cows is to sexually isolate them until their immune system overcomes the disease. Since it’s harder on bulls, I believe they’re generally just sold for meat if they test positive.. not worth spreading it through the whole herd.

There’s tons of trace diseases found in any given healthy body anyway. I don’t think zoonotic spread is a huge deal with this but definitely possible.

Agreed, it’s not likely to become pandemic or even endemic, the fact that the bird influenza or the swine influenza jumps species was incredible.

 

[Tesumph]

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Well.. herpes is a DNA virus, much different from a parasitic Protozoa that causes disease (as you know).
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2815145/

 

[Kiki]

Saving site for tomorrow here
https://www.viprbrc.org/brc/vipr_genome_search.spg that was a search for chicken
https://www.viprbrc.org/brc/search_landing.spg?decorator=herpes homepage

 

[Tesumph]

http://aevm.tamu.edu/files/2010/06/Trich-Article-Feb_2009-Davidson.pdf
“Trichomonads are unicellular protozoa that have a global distribution in livestock, poultry, companion animals, and people. The pear shaped organisms are similar in size to white blood cells and also bovine sperm cells. Though Bovine Trichomoniasis is not a zoonotic disease (can’t be spread to people), it is worth mentioning that the human version of the disease is also devastating.”