EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[OneMountainAcres]

It's not me - Microchick has Mareks in her flock and has lost a lot of birds.   (I just have one who can't see well, all the rest are fine.)

Oh, oops. I thought you were having problems. I'm glad you're not. Just so you know, we stayed some luffa seeds inside last week since it's been so beautiful lately. We have 2 sprouted already

@microchick I'm so sorry that merek's has found its way in to your flock It's such terrible disease

 

[BantyChooks]

I love you. LOL I'll be 32 this year. I still get carded for alcohol pretty much everywhere........ but I know that's going to stop soon.

Ain't no surprise you still get carded. You look great.

ETA: If I didn't know you had a teenager, I'd have said 20.

 

[kajira]

Ain't no surprise you still get carded. You look great.

ETA: If I didn't know you had a teenager, I'd have said 20.

hahha, thanks. I need some ego stroking, the "40" keeps looming in the back of my mind and I'm feeling old. I know 40's NOT that old........... but my doctor told me "your getting close to advanced maternal age" and I about had a heart attack.

I don't know if this is our last baby or not.

Ugh. okay, sappy me. Hubby poured me some vodka, since we triggered to night, (2 eggs, actually) and said "this is hopefully the last time you get vodka for the next year and a half or so.......................................................................

To be honest, i'm jealous of my husband, he's 45, and people think he's 30. I hope his genes get passed to our daughters. I want them to age well.



Edit : my teen decided he might want to be a massage therapist when he grows up. He rubbed my shoulders to keep me awake when driving that 6+ hour drive today on 3 hours of sleep and said "mom, this is kind of fun, I can get paid for this?" and we had a long talk about massage school. hahaha

Edited 2x : He said it was fun, because he'd find a knot in a muscle and push and make me say ow and it would crack him up that I was all knotty and old, apparently.

 

[microchick]

@kajira, just tell your husband that someday you are going to make a changed man out of him.....when you change his depends. Make sure you duck after you say it though. I have to admit, tho, he's a pretty youthful looking guy himself.

I'm almost 64, trust me both of your are pups. I spent 5 years as an OB nurse, your eggs might be getting a little older, but trust me, your age group does the best in labor and delivery. It's all about maturity.

Today was a good day. Went out to the coop, counted beaks. Nobody died. YAY!

 

[Akrnaf2]

 


I'm so sorry - I just don't know. My issues were so much milder than yours, and I certainly spent some time crying about it. All the symptoms can be due to the same infection. You might want to try the vaccine after all, but I wanted to warn you that it doesn't always work, and basically it just makes the disease milder and they still shed all over - and you won't get anywhere in breeding for resistance. If it were me, in your shoes, for now I would continue to keep them as you are, keeping them as healthy and happy as you can, knowing that you may continue to lose some, and breed from the survivors. 

Have you seen this thread?

Moving Forward - Breeding for Resistance to Marek's Disease

- Ant Farm 

That is pretty much what I've been thinking I'll be facing. The fact that the majority of my birds that have fallen victim so far with the exception of one pullet are cockerels and one two year old rooster would pretty much add up to the breeding stress. The pullet that succumbed was at POL, once again a prime time for Marek's to show. My first rooster to succumb died at 14 months and his death is a puzzle as he was Alpha rooster one of three.

I've touched upon the Moving Forward thread. I need to read more of it.

Thank you for your help. Bless you!

Did you know that the Fayoumi have an EXELENT resistance to Marek?

 

[BantyChooks]

@kajira, just tell your husband that someday you are going to make a changed man out of him.....when you change his depends. Make sure you duck after you say it though. I have to admit, tho, he's a pretty youthful looking guy himself.

I'm almost 64, trust me both of your are pups. I spent 5 years as an OB nurse, your eggs might be getting a little older, but trust me, your age group does the best in labor and delivery. It's all about maturity.

Today was a good day. Went out to the coop, counted beaks. Nobody died. YAY!

Good news.

 

[BantyChooks]

Edited 2x : He said it was fun, because he'd find a knot in a muscle and push and make me say ow and it would crack him up that I was all knotty and old, apparently.

Kids, eh?

 

[microchick]

Did you know that the Fayoumi have an EXELENT resistance to Marek?

Akrnaf2,

תודה רבה

I am so grateful. I've been reading about the Fayoumis and just finished reading the description to my husband. Without hesitation, he said. "You've got to get some of those!"

Not this season. I have to let this settle down, see where I stand number wise and get a bird necropsied. But next spring I will buy me some Fayoumis.

You gave a heart sore old....er older woman some hope to hang onto.

God bless, Microchick/Becky

 

[BullChick]

 

[BullChick]