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

[kajira]

Prebiotic and probiotic. I have a really glitchy immune system. I've had Rheumatic Fever at the age of 23 and have lots of allergies, most of the serious ones popping up after I was diagnosed with Lyme which isn't unusual. The RF and Lyme disease mean I'm on antibiotics a LOT. Not good but like I said, better than the alternative. So I do a lot of pre and pro biotics.

Okay, here's a question for all you duck lovers out there. If I have a virulent strain of Marek's on our property and want to hatch ducks, what are the chances that the duck version of Marek's is on the property also? Is there any way to tell?

I've never had lyme disease, but I have issues with a bad immune system and have to take a lot of antibiotics too.

 

[BantyChooks]

We live in a tick-heavy place. We find ticks *all* the time with in a couple of minutes of being onour skin, or with in a few hours of biting. We talked to our doctor and unless we show symptoms, get a rash, or it's been more than 12 hours, we are fine.

We routinely search for ticks on everyone, too. Getting lyme disease is a possibility, as well as many other infections, but it's very, very low unless you live in a huge lyme disease heavy place - and even then, you usually need 24+ hours of exposure.

Daily tick checks are a must around here, unless you wanna get real sick. Sometimes twice daily in heavy tick season.

Edited to clarify for Ralphie, who evidently thinks we copy the apes and sit there pulling ticks off each other....

 

[OneMountainAcres]

@Fire Ant Farm I'm so sorry you are having problems I really haven't read back so I don't know the full extent of what's going on but I really feel for you.

 

[duluthralphie]

Daily tick checks are required for us. Sometimes twice daily in heavy tick season.

And what do you do as punishment to the checker if they miss a tick??


I need to know....

 

[BantyChooks]

And what do you do as punishment to the checker if they miss a tick??


I need to know....

What do you think we are up here, apes?

 

[BantyChooks]

Daily tick checks are a must around here, unless you wanna get real sick. Sometimes twice daily in heavy tick season.

Edited to clarify for Ralphie, who evidently thinks we copy the apes and sit there pulling ticks off each other....

 

[duluthralphie]

What do you think we are up here, apes?

Well, there are certain locales on the human body one cannot see themselves.....Therefore, you must rely on a "checker" do check for you in these locales.....


I recently had my designated checker miss one, so I have a PITA today. I think she should suffer as much as I am....It is only fair...

 

[BantyChooks]

Well, there are certain locales on the human body one cannot see themselves.....Therefore, you must rely on a "checker" do check for you in these locales.....


I recently had my designated checker miss one, so I have a PITA today. I think she should suffer as much as I am....It is only fair...

Mirror... Unless the sight makes you faint, in which case you gotta deal with the Lyme disease, cos nobody else is gonna look.

 

[The Duck Ladie]

Time for afternoon tea, or rather, afternoon scones!

 

[microchick]

Yes and it's amazing where you can find some of those little devils trying to latch on to you.

As for stress in a flock. Ye gads! My flock is like a bunch of 2 year olds in a day care. They seem to create their own stress. There is the Coop Girls. 4 Buff O hens, 2 years old and 2 two year old Welsummer girls who seem to like to sit on the roosts all day except to get down to lay an egg and grab a quick bite to eat and drink before running back to the roost again. Like a bunch of teen age girls giggling over the new boy in class, the try not to draw the attention of the coop rooster who sticks pretty close to them, you know, in case one of them makes the mistake of getting off the roost and drawing his attention. Then there is the bantam rooster who is always fighting through the fence with the BO rooster because well, the Welsummer hens are more attractive then the bantam hens and he MUST have them.

Guess it's better that they create their own stress rather then me create it for them, LOL. I'm not planning any major changes in the coop outside of adding some more run room, which should be good for them. I'm going to try to be optimistic here.......

Well okay, maybe I have a way to go yet but I am TRYING to be more optimistic. I just told my husband that I'd have another year before I would know if one of my standard roosters was going to make it past two years. I'm hoping maybe three years for the hens may be a magic number.

Or I could hunt for hatching eggs from proven flocks.....