California - Northern

[The Yakima Kid]

Good info. I have recently cut my flock from 24 to 9 and still trying to home the rest. I will take my best efforts to segregate the poults from the chickens until the chickens are homed. We are hoping to keep the house but no guarantee, which is why I'm parting with most all the birds. If we are able to keep the home I will have to start with a fresh flock obviously but more organized. As mentioned about separating the chickens from Turkeys. I want to till the whole area and clear all the old hay here and there. Any other suggestions on how to clear of most possibility of virus about please suggest. Until then this is the agenda. It'll be at least till next spring before we do chickens again. I'm taking that should be plenty time to get situated with the house issue, new baby and clearing the yard of possible contaminates.[/quote]

Apologies in advance as I'm not very good at explaining things.

Blackhead is not a virus, it's a protozoa, and I believe it's very similar to giardia, but don't quote me on that. Even if you got rid of all of your chickens, their poop and a top layer or dirt they can still get it from earthworms. I'll post more on it later from the computer.

Maybe someone else can explain it better?

-Kathy[/QUOTE]

http://msucares.com/poultry/diseases/disproto.htm

https://www.extension.org/pages/68108/blackhead-in-poultry#.U-Wy3zp0yM8

http://www.ksre.ksu.edu/bookstore/pubs/EP69.pdf

http://archive.defra.gov.uk/foodfarm/farmanimal/diseases/atoz/blackhead/index.htm

http://www.agriculture.com/livestoc...nting-blackhead-disease-in-turkeys_289-ar6800

http://www.nwtf.org/conservation/bulletins/bulletin_25.pdf

http://www.millerhatcheries.com/Information/Diseases/blackhead_disease.htm

 

[KristyAnn]

Look at the extension sites; they suggest that keeping turkeys and chickens on the same property if you have had blackhead outbreaks is inadvisable.

Haven't had one yet. Cross my fingers. Thanks. I'll check it out.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Haven't had one yet. Cross my fingers. Thanks. I'll check it out.

Good. because right before you posted, I posted a few of the more relevant agricultural extension articles on blackhead.

 

[KristyAnn]

Good. because right before you posted, I posted a few of the more relevant agricultural extension articles on blackhead.

Crazy coincidence . So would you say Chicken regulations are treated the same for Turkeys?

 

[KristyAnn]

Crazy coincidence . So would you say Chicken regulations are treated the same for Turkeys?

As in how many this and that.

 

[caychris]

Most regulations apply to "poultry" as a whole.

 

[KristyAnn]

Most regulations apply to "poultry" as a whole.

That's what I thought, just wasn't sure. I know the turkey can be louder than the rooster so just wanted to make sure. Having trouble finding literature on it, thanks.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

As in how many this and that.

It depends on your jurisdiction. Generally, these codes are available online.

 

[KristyAnn]

It depends on your jurisdiction. Generally, these codes are available online.

Then we should be good.

 

[The Yakima Kid]

Crazy coincidence . So would you say Chicken regulations are treated the same for Turkeys?

Here is a website that contains some unincorporated Santa Clara County information.

The full code is available at the municode site.