B.Y.C. Dorking Club!

[ki4got]

If a bird gets sick here it will be quarantined and never used for breeding.

I disagree with that... if they get sick but BEAT the disease, then those are the genes that should be passed along, IMO.

 

[heritagehabitatfarms]

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[blessedacre]

ok sorry for the delayed update but I was reluctant to give one until I felt pretty sure we are on the up swing around here.
I did 2 days worth of research and spoke with 2 vets/ their techs (both of which were not sure of the withdrawl time although they do perscirbe it to laying hens

) came across many studies (here is one that might be of use to others, it helped me the most but is covers livestock in general http://www.farad.org/publications/miscellaneous/LayingHensEggResidues.pdf) because I was not able to find the info I was needing in a timely fashion I began treating my flock with alternative methods (another reason I delayed updating First signs of sickness was Monday morning so we are 5 days into it and everyone is eating, drinking, laying eggs, no more blood in poop, poop is taking form again, so I feel like all is going in the right direction. I did find that the with amprolium there is a 2 week or more withdrawl time (depending on dosage) for the eggs. The UK has banned it because there is lack of study on the effects of the food chain (meaning us eating the eggs with the residue in them) One study I came across showed that the eggs that tested the highest for amprolium concentrations were ones from the grocery store ( meaning companies are not repecting the withdrawl time...... no suprise)...anyways if thing were to change in my flock and I felt the parasite was coming back I would use the corid and just wait the 30 day withdrawl. I don't know what the chemical is exactly and because their is no study of it's effects on us I am overly cautious, I say this in realization that much of what I eat is some how contaminated with something but that is why I wanted my own chickens so I could at least have good healthy eggs with my fres garden veggies to off set the GMO in everything else

. Just to let you know my sweet girl did die the next day, I had seperated her and gave her the corid but that didn't help, she was in bad shape that first moring to begin with

. Thanks to all of you for your responses and I do appologize again for the delay in updating. Homeschool has started and the alternative methods make for more work in the day as well as I am overly observing them so I know that all is still progressing as I would like.

Blessings
Lisa

 

[dncarr09]

We don't use medicated chick feed here either. One of the biggest reasons we raise our own chickens is to get away from eating medicated live stock.

We do quite well with non medicated feed.....

I never use medicated feed either. I did when I first started out and I didn't even get finished with the first bag. I felt like it made mine sickly. It seem to give them very runny poo. I switched them to regular unmedicated feed and it instantly eneded the constant runny poo. I started researching and it seemed that alot of people had that problem with their birds on medicated feed. I am sure it has it's benefits, but I haven't found any personally yet.

 

[Ksane]

I've been looking for Silver Gray Dorking eggs and would love to hear from anyone who might be able to send me some. 6 or 12, whatever you've got would be much appreciated.
Lisa, FYI the ingredient in the medicated feed is amprolium, which is corid. Actually Sulmet is superior to Corid and kills more strains of coccidia than Corid. If I remember correctly Sulmet kills 9 different strains and Corid like 4. I'll have to dig through my links and find the info if I need to.
All medicated feed does is give your chicks a small amount of the medication, not enough to kill coccidia but just enough so that they develop their own immunity to it when exposed to ground/dirt when they're little. If they never are exposed to any ground that's ever had coccidia shed on it then they're not getting any exposure so they won't build up any immunity at all. So if they're exposed later on in life they'll then come down with the disease itself. I hope that makes sense.
Anyway, if anyone knows of ANYone at all with Dorking hatching eggs I'd sure love some.

 

[ki4got]

I've been looking for Silver Gray Dorking eggs and would love to hear from anyone who might be able to send me some. 6 or 12, whatever you've got would be much appreciated.
Lisa, FYI the ingredient in the medicated feed is amprolium, which is corid. Actually Sulmet is superior to Corid and kills more strains of coccidia than Corid. If I remember correctly Sulmet kills 9 different strains and Corid like 4. I'll have to dig through my links and find the info if I need to.
All medicated feed does is give your chicks a small amount of the medication, not enough to kill coccidia but just enough so that they develop their own immunity to it when exposed to ground/dirt when they're little. If they never are exposed to any ground that's ever had coccidia shed on it then they're not getting any exposure so they won't build up any immunity at all. So if they're exposed later on in life they'll then come down with the disease itself. I hope that makes sense.
Anyway, if anyone knows of ANYone at all with Dorking hatching eggs I'd sure love some.

i would have eggs, but everyone's free ranging right now, so i wouldn't be able to guarantee that my sg girls are being bred by the right roos... sorry. but i am planning on penning them back up soon. so i should have eggs available in another month or so, i hope.

 

[Ksane]

I just got on someone's waiting list but in case that doesn't pan out I'd love to keep you in mind!
Thank you

 

[dncarr09]

Ok, has anyone ever had a chick that is maybe just a slow grower? I have 2 SG dorking chicks that are about 3 weeks old. One is more than double the size of the other one. Is that common with this breed? I haven't seen this with my other breeds as chicks before. They both have free range of food and water and are very healthy.

 

[dncarr09]

I just got on someone's waiting list but in case that doesn't pan out I'd love to keep you in mind!
Thank you

Just sent you a PM of someone who should be able to help you.

 

[greenhorn]

I disagree with that... if they get sick but BEAT the disease, then those are the genes that should be passed along, IMO.

I would rather use breeders that have been exposed and didn't get sick. To me, those are the stronger birds. If you have a sick bird, you can pretty much figure the entire flock was exposed.....

The ones who truly beat the disease are the ones that didn't get it to begin with....