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Robert Blosl
Rest in Peace 1947-2013
i have had rattle be for in my big white rocks, it does not seem to bother the birds to the point of death or lack of appetite or egg producing. I may get one every year or two. It seems to clear up. I have very open aired pens at my place for them so I never pay much attention to it. When I had the large fowl reds I dont recall any thing like this either.
He told me the first ones started to improve so that's a good sign. When you do not have a lot of birds and you just getting started killing a bird because of these systems is premature. Naturally, if they are laying around cant eat they need to be moved and kept away from the flock. I normally kill the birds if they get to that level.
One of the fears when you take your birds to a chicken show is exposing them to germs they may not have been ever exposed to. He did take them to a show this fall and could have carried this back home with him.
Where I work at we had a new lady admitted to our memory care unit found out she came from another health care center that had a big outbreak of a flu like virus. Sure enough she comes down with it about six days ago and the whole place which has 30 residents are going through it. Its a 24 hour to 36 hours event then its over. But it works the same as it does on our chickens.
They think its a virus like you catch on a cruse liner and then you here about it on the news.
Seeing nice Java pictures on Fred education page. I thought at first I put a voodoo curse on it with my old Mottle Javas.
How to ship hatching eggs: Got two requests in two weeks so will talk about this for a miniute as it is sometimes the only way to get a start of a rare breed.
Lots of orders this year for Rhode Island Reds and even Rose Combs. Hopefully, next year we will have two or three more Rose Comb breeders here to help the demand. I went to Scott's thread on how he ship ed his eggs and some one elses excellent ideas to ship. He even puts some of the foam stuff from a can to fill the voids in the package. I think the secret is do not let them move around, keep the large size of the egg up, and nothing wrong with shipping them UPS ground if not a long distance. John Wonderluch who shiped Cornish eggs thought about 15 years ago this was better than the Post Office. I plan to experiment this year with two friends with eggs. One method is to pack them like Scott suggested but ship them in a single nest two bantam live shipping box and ship them two day priorty mail. They just might get put in the live section of the air plane with the live birds. I tried about four years ago to have two sentences added to the Post Office Regulations and that is to have the eggs put into the live section with the bees, chicks and other live animals on the air plane. If they where shipped two day priorty male you would have a label saying live employees on the box and hatching eggs. If they had this they would go into the live section of the plane and would also get better care. What they do today is put it in a cargo shelf on wheels then they mount up to a wall on the plane. They are on wheels. If the box is on the top or middle they may do ok. Then when the eggs get to their hub like Seattle then they cart is wheeled out to the terminal and the eggs are then put into a truck and ship ed to Olimpia or Vancouver by normal means. They clam these Fed Ex planes are pressurized as they are converted old passenger planes so the barometric pressure should be normal. Now the temperature is a question at 20,000 feet or more it could be very cold. The pilots and the live birds have the same temps say 76 degrees. So that the story on how eggs are shipped today. Some have had good luck but if you don't pack them correctly, then you may get a 10% hatch.
For the fun of it if you read this and have a method all ready written down with pictures on another web site or somewhere on this site please post it for the new folks. There was a lady in Arkansas who had one of the best methods I read about two years ago and a few others. Eggs should start hatching this weekend for me. I hope to raise about 40 reds, 20 white rocks, 15 buff Brahmas and 15 or 20 white leghorn bantams. Got more orders for chicks and eggs than I think I can handle. O I forgot about the black and white chickens. Hope to hatch about 15 to 20 of them and if I get good egg production from them will hatch and share chicks in lots of five or ten to those who want this old strain.
He told me the first ones started to improve so that's a good sign. When you do not have a lot of birds and you just getting started killing a bird because of these systems is premature. Naturally, if they are laying around cant eat they need to be moved and kept away from the flock. I normally kill the birds if they get to that level.
One of the fears when you take your birds to a chicken show is exposing them to germs they may not have been ever exposed to. He did take them to a show this fall and could have carried this back home with him.
Where I work at we had a new lady admitted to our memory care unit found out she came from another health care center that had a big outbreak of a flu like virus. Sure enough she comes down with it about six days ago and the whole place which has 30 residents are going through it. Its a 24 hour to 36 hours event then its over. But it works the same as it does on our chickens.
They think its a virus like you catch on a cruse liner and then you here about it on the news.
Seeing nice Java pictures on Fred education page. I thought at first I put a voodoo curse on it with my old Mottle Javas.
How to ship hatching eggs: Got two requests in two weeks so will talk about this for a miniute as it is sometimes the only way to get a start of a rare breed.
Lots of orders this year for Rhode Island Reds and even Rose Combs. Hopefully, next year we will have two or three more Rose Comb breeders here to help the demand. I went to Scott's thread on how he ship ed his eggs and some one elses excellent ideas to ship. He even puts some of the foam stuff from a can to fill the voids in the package. I think the secret is do not let them move around, keep the large size of the egg up, and nothing wrong with shipping them UPS ground if not a long distance. John Wonderluch who shiped Cornish eggs thought about 15 years ago this was better than the Post Office. I plan to experiment this year with two friends with eggs. One method is to pack them like Scott suggested but ship them in a single nest two bantam live shipping box and ship them two day priorty mail. They just might get put in the live section of the air plane with the live birds. I tried about four years ago to have two sentences added to the Post Office Regulations and that is to have the eggs put into the live section with the bees, chicks and other live animals on the air plane. If they where shipped two day priorty male you would have a label saying live employees on the box and hatching eggs. If they had this they would go into the live section of the plane and would also get better care. What they do today is put it in a cargo shelf on wheels then they mount up to a wall on the plane. They are on wheels. If the box is on the top or middle they may do ok. Then when the eggs get to their hub like Seattle then they cart is wheeled out to the terminal and the eggs are then put into a truck and ship ed to Olimpia or Vancouver by normal means. They clam these Fed Ex planes are pressurized as they are converted old passenger planes so the barometric pressure should be normal. Now the temperature is a question at 20,000 feet or more it could be very cold. The pilots and the live birds have the same temps say 76 degrees. So that the story on how eggs are shipped today. Some have had good luck but if you don't pack them correctly, then you may get a 10% hatch.
For the fun of it if you read this and have a method all ready written down with pictures on another web site or somewhere on this site please post it for the new folks. There was a lady in Arkansas who had one of the best methods I read about two years ago and a few others. Eggs should start hatching this weekend for me. I hope to raise about 40 reds, 20 white rocks, 15 buff Brahmas and 15 or 20 white leghorn bantams. Got more orders for chicks and eggs than I think I can handle. O I forgot about the black and white chickens. Hope to hatch about 15 to 20 of them and if I get good egg production from them will hatch and share chicks in lots of five or ten to those who want this old strain.
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