California - Northern

[tommysgirl]

UCD will take them, euthanize them and test them for you.

If you can find out what it is then you can make a plan of action

Thanks I was planning to send them off but I didn't know they did the euthanization as well. I assume that I would have to drive them there and it is the second to last week of school so really I can't. I want to get this under control with as few losses as possible so I can't delay until school is out to get it done. That is good to know though and I am grateful.

If you all were culling would just do it the same way you do for birds you plan to eat?

 

[ronott1]

Thanks I was planning to send them off but I didn't know they did the euthanization as well. I assume that I would have to drive them there and it is the second to last week of school so really I can't. I want to get this under control with as few losses as possible so I can't delay until school is out to get it done. That is good to know though and I am grateful.

If you all were culling would just do it the same way you do for birds you plan to eat?

There is an after hours submission room with a refrigerator in it. You could cull one or two and drive them there at night and drop them off in the fridge with the submission form.

They get back to you quickly that way. You are not terrible far from UCD. It is a straight shot down I-5 to 113 and then hutchison in Davis.

I am so sorry you are having trouble like this!

Edited to add: Yes, I cull them the same way as for processing them--I use a stick to break the neck. I wold leave the head and you do not need to bleed them out though.

 

[Alyssaremeeb]

@capayvalleychick[/URL] here's a link explaining its history! Basically, it's a teapot shaped service station meant as a reminder of the teapot dome scandal during the Harding administration(which none of us really remember...) It used to be right off the freeway, but they moved it a few years ago to be closer to "downtown" and to turn it into a visitor center/tourist attraction.Zillah (where it's located) is a tiny town, even by eastern WA standards... Basically nonexistent to those of you who grew up in the Bay Area

http://www.cityofzillah.us/Teapot.html

 

[tommysgirl]

There is an after hours submission room with a refrigerator in it. You could cull one or two and drive them there at night and drop them off in the fridge with the submission form.

They get back to you quickly that way. You are not terrible far from UCD. It is a straight shot down I-5 to 113 and then hutchison in Davis.

I am so sorry you are having trouble like this!

Edited to add: Yes, I cull them the same way as for processing them--I use a stick to break the neck. I wold leave the head and you do not need to bleed them out though.

Thank you Ron. This is difficult but in the scheme of things it is small and I know I am doing the right thing.

 

[TheKeeper]

New additions - silver crele & regular crele polish chicks

Thank you @juststruttin

 

[tj74roberts]

New additions - silver crele & regular crele polish chicks

Thank you @juststruttin

omg! They are adorable. Love those lil poofs on their heads.

 

[Lavender Wraps]

Well now, that's got to be a can of worms, lol! I was raised in Gridley, Ca. and we considered ourselves to be in Northern CA.
We now live in Santa Rosa, NORTH of San Francisco. Still considered in the Bay area, NORTH BAY? I too thought Redding
to be way North in CA. Guess there needs to be a line some where, think? As long as there's not a battle with the North and
South other this, lol

 

[caychris]

Well now, that's got to be a can of worms, lol! I was raised in Gridley, Ca. and we considered ourselves to be in Northern CA.
We now live in Santa Rosa, NORTH of San Francisco. Still considered in the Bay area, NORTH BAY? I too thought Redding
to be way North in CA. Guess there needs to be a line some where, think? As long as there's not a battle with the North and
South other this, lol

We like to say its more a state of mind than a line on the map. Welcome

 

[OR4-hmom]

Well now, that's got to be a can of worms, lol!  I was raised in Gridley, Ca. and we considered ourselves to be in Northern CA.
We now live in Santa Rosa, NORTH of San Francisco.  Still considered in the Bay area, NORTH BAY?  I too thought Redding
to be way North in CA.  Guess there needs to be a line some where, think?  As long as there's not a battle with the North and
South other this, lol

Welcome! To me it's all relative. I grew up in WAY northern CA, Dorris, Tulelake, Hornbrook, Dunsmuir, and considered SF southern CA.
Now I'm just North of CA.
Welcome to a fantastic thread with wonderful people!

 

[capayvalleychick]

I am heartsick. Discovered one of my girls with a swollen face yesterday. She doesn't stink so I think it is some form of respiratory condition. Spent hours yesterday cleaning the coop, waterers etc. with a bleach solution. This morning another girl is developing swollen eyes. I have them quarantined but the more I read the more I know that I have to cull them and anyone else who turns up with the same symptoms. I am praying that no one else gets sick. I will do the culling tonight.

I was going to be meeting a guy this coming weekend to sell him two girls but now I have to tell him that I can't

In addition today is the last ship day for Urch for the year. I sent my order in February and they haven't shipped yet and no phone call today. It is just after 11:00 am in Minnesota I would have thought I would have heard by now but maybe not. Anyway...I have two other people roped in on this order with me and I don't know what to do if I don't get the call today. I can certainly refund their money in hopes that the Urches will refund mine but I feel badly just the same and really disappointed too.

On the other hand since I have sickness in my flock I am almost hoping they don't ship. I would rather wait a year and get this whole infection thing under control and eradicated.

I am assuming the peacocks or some of the wild birds that are plentiful around here brought it. I keep a pretty clean coop and my flock free ranges so it is not an overcowding/unsanitary conditions thing. All runs are covered but ground squirrels and small birds can get into the pens and I often leave the gates open when the girls are ranging so they have a nesting place.

I am just sad and not looking forward to what I know I have to do.

So sorry about the illness. Definitely have a necropsy, so you know for sure what you are dealing with and how to proceed.

I read that MN has banned poultry shows due to AI. They may not be allowing birds to leave the state. That would effect your order.