Australia - Six states..and that funny little island.

[Fancychooklady]

I've been wondering about something. I read that Marek's or coccidiosis (sorry brain dead at this hour forget which) lives in the soil for up to 5 years and is transferred through contact with faeces.

So when we throw dynamic lifter around our garden which is made from chook poo do you think we are risking disease?

And hubby works on a farm where they regularly fertilise with chicken manure bought by the truckload. Could he be bringing it home on his boots?

Mareks can live in the soil for several years, it is transmitted by birds inhaling dander from infected birds. However if hubby is working with chook poo I would be asking him to remove his work clothes before he came home and keep his work shoes at work or in the car, cause most of the dander from the roosts ends up on the poop . Better to be safe than sorry. There is a product that I use to spray everything called Virkon .

https://www.backyardchickens.com/a/the-great-big-giant-mareks-disease-faq


http://www.neogen.com/animalsafety/pdf/ProdInfo/Tech_Bulletins/VirkonS.pdf

 

[K Spot]

Congrats on your hatch @tandykins

@Ashburnham your Ara's are stunning!

I went to a poultry sale on Saturday to try and sell some of a friend's d'Uccles. I came home with a new addition

A white Faverolles girl - she's lovely, even if she's lacking most of her foot feathers, but no matter, since I don't breed anyway.
She is replacing my BSL I lost a couple of weeks ago.

 

[K Spot]

Fancy - your new paddock addition is beautiful

 

[tandykins]

Went out this morning to change the water for the chooks and on a whim opened up the box they're in. I immediately discovered that the second chick was stood upon mid-hatch and was killed. I removed it and found a third hatching. Hopefully this goes better for him. My husband is -very- sad. He always takes this sort of thing very hard. :/

 

[K Spot]

Awwww, I'm sorry to hear

 

[satay]

Went out this morning to change the water for the chooks and on a whim opened up the box they're in.  I immediately discovered that the second chick was stood upon mid-hatch and was killed.  I removed it and found a third hatching.  Hopefully this goes better for him.  My husband is -very- sad.  He always takes this sort of thing very hard. :/

 

[satay]

Congrats on your hatch @tandykins


@Ashburnham
 your Ara's are stunning!  

I went to a poultry sale on Saturday to try and sell some of a friend's d'Uccles.  I came home with a new addition    A white Faverolles girl - she's lovely, even if she's lacking most of her foot feathers, but no matter, since I don't breed anyway.
She is replacing my BSL I lost a couple of weeks ago.

Pics

 

[satay]

Think this ones suits most of us on this thread

 

[satay]

Went out this morning to change the water for the chooks and on a whim opened up the box they're in.  I immediately discovered that the second chick was stood upon mid-hatch and was killed.  I removed it and found a third hatching.  Hopefully this goes better for him.  My husband is -very- sad.  He always takes this sort of thing very hard. :/

It is sure hard when you loose them young or old. I found my rir hen drowned in the duck pen this morning. She was getting really old but I have no idea what she was thinking flying over into the duck pen. I doubt the ducks had anything to do with it as they are not the slightest aggressive to chickens I would say she has misjudged her landing into the duck pen. R.I.P reddy.

 

[tandykins]

It is sure hard when you loose them young or old. I found my rir hen drowned in the duck pen this morning. She was getting really old but I have no idea what she was thinking flying over into the duck pen. I doubt the ducks had anything to do with it as they are not the slightest aggressive to chickens I would say she has misjudged her landing into the duck pen. R.I.P reddy.

:/ Sorry for your loss.

I generally deal with it in a "that's really sad but such is the way of nature" way. I used to get really upset but being so emotional over everything took a huge toll on my mental health and over time I slowly detached myself from it enough to be able to cope with it. I think that if you're going to raise animals you've got to be able to do that. :/