California - Northern

[tommysgirl]

I found an article about proper hand washing:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-204_162-57588795/

Thanks Chiquita and Ron. So far I haven't walked into the quarantine area yet, just handed them things from the door way but I will be sure to always take care of them last or change my shoes. I have been using hand sanitizer after touching them or other things in their pen so I have been doing things pretty much OK so far.


Ali I will wait as long as you would like. My new pullet is just 2.5 mos old so she won't be mature in 2 mos but there is ALWAYS next spring if timing works out. I'll see where you are in 2 mos and we will go from there.

 

[Happy Chooks]

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What is this sponge? When I feed the starter, I put it in the oven with the light on overnight. Then it goes in the fridge until I need to feed it again. Do I need to put it in the oven overnight before I make the bread too?

 

[ronott1]

Thanks Chiquita and Ron. So far I haven't walked into the quarantine area yet, just handed them things from the door way but I will be sure to always take care of them last or change my shoes. I have been using hand sanitizer after touching them or other things in their pen so I have been doing things pretty much OK so far.


Ali I will wait as long as you would like. My new pullet is just 2.5 mos old so she won't be mature in 2 mos but there is ALWAYS next spring if timing works out. I'll see where you are in 2 mos and we will go from there.

The order that you work with them is important too. Since the worry is that the chickens in quarantine will infect your flock, you should go to them last, after washing your hands and maybe changing your shirt.

 

[ronott1]

What is this sponge? When I feed the starter, I put it in the oven with the light on overnight. Then it goes in the fridge until I need to feed it again. Do I need to put it in the oven overnight before I make the bread too?

You need to read the Brochure on how to take care of starter. The starter should never go over 80 degrees. Barely warm water or occasionally milk is used.

Most bread recipes have you make an over night sponge, which is usually a cup or sourdough, water and flour. It is quite wet and bubbles over night on the counter. I never use the oven for sourdough. The next day the rest of the bread ingredients are mixed in. Weak sourdough will take double the time of yeast breads to rise--two hours for the first rise and the two hours for the second rise. Strong sourdough can raise the bread more quickly--closer to an hour for each step.

By the way, I do not use a bread machine. I have been working with sourdough since 1984.

 

[ronott1]

To those interested in sourdough, I give this to people when I give them some starter:

 

[lawatt]

i took a few update pictures of my growing chicks yesterday, so thought i'd share a few here:



first, the newest (and not chicks!) -- the two silver campines!



eating a piece of apple -- they are still skittish of me, but am trying to win their trust with treats...

 

[lawatt]

ooops, hit submit too early -- here are a few more:



harold, the young CL boy, from two eggs of Deann's -- the other is a girl



he has a lot of personality already...



blue the isbar



fern, one of two isbar/marans crosses -- the other is black, & i didn't get a good photo of it...



learning to drink from the big girls' waterer -- at 4.5 weeks now, they are just tall enough to reach if they stand on some bricks i piled underneath



the two birchen marans chicks, nearly 3 weeks old & the youngest of the babies

 

[ronott1]

i took a few update pictures of my growing chicks yesterday, so thought i'd share a few here:



first, the newest (and not chicks!) -- the two silver campines!



eating a piece of apple -- they are still skittish of me, but am trying to win their trust with treats...

ooops, hit submit too early -- here are a few more:



harold, the young CL boy, from two eggs of Deann's -- the other is a girl



he has a lot of personality already...



blue the isbar



fern, one of two isbar/marans crosses -- the other is black, & i didn't get a good photo of it...



learning to drink from the big girls' waterer -- at 4.5 weeks now, they are just tall enough to reach if they stand on some bricks i piled underneath



the two birchen marans chicks, nearly 3 weeks old & the youngest of the babies

They all look so nice!

Thank you for the pictures.

 

[chiqita]

Hand sanitiser kills nothing according to my chemist friends. What you are mostly worried about is things that a bird can have without showing symptoms that get brought out by stress. The biggies are infectious corzya and mg. The birds will get stress shed the virus and then maybe get sick. I don't know if soap kills it. It may but I know bleach will so that's what I use.

I know too many people from the hatching swap threads that have gotten their flocks sick so I'm paranoid.

Bleach your hands? With my sensitive white skin I would be covered with rashes.

Washing with soap and water while singing happy birthday to me two times should do it(What movie was that in?)

Okay, okay!  Today!  I need to shuffle the brooders around and move them into a bigger one.  First I have to catch the scalped quail that is currently living in isolation in my big brooder.  It is a crazy bird that I'm starting to believe wasn't scalped by the others but scalped itself by flying into the hardware cloth.  It has already gotten loose in the spare room once and we were fortunate to be able to catch it.  I have almost decided that raising bobwhites is not for me.  I have limited space and would rather be using their pens to raise more chickens.

 

[tommysgirl]

ooops, hit submit too early -- here are a few more:



harold, the young CL boy, from two eggs of Deann's -- the other is a girl



he has a lot of personality already...



blue the isbar



fern, one of two isbar/marans crosses -- the other is black, & i didn't get a good photo of it...



learning to drink from the big girls' waterer -- at 4.5 weeks now, they are just tall enough to reach if they stand on some bricks i piled underneath



the two birchen marans chicks, nearly 3 weeks old & the youngest of the babies

Good Looking Babies and Teens! The Silver Campine make me drool.

The order that you work with them is important too. Since the worry is that the chickens in quarantine will infect your flock, you should go to them last, after washing your hands and maybe changing your shirt.

Thanks I have been doing that but it is good to know that it is the right thing
I don't think I thanked you for responding to my Icelandic breeder question. So Thanks! I got my chicks from Deann who got them from eggs that came from thebirdguy (maybe thebirdman) who got his parent stock from kathyinmo and Mary O'Brian I should have remembered that she was in Northern California but I forgot.