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

[Lazy Farmer]

Animals and birds are quite different. If they were closer in the way they each react to drugs, we would use chickens instead of mice for lab studies

I Florida they do for Equine Encephalitis studies.
There are random coop/cages placed about you can see from some roads.

 

[duluthralphie]

I did some of this today already...but on maple bugs.

What is a Maple bug? Is that the same thing we call box elder bugs?

 

[DwayneNLiz]

What is a Maple bug? Is that the same thing we call box elder bugs?

yes, i think so

 

[kwhites634]

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@ruralking.. I am in the wrong end of the bizzness..

You seen the ones on BYC? Some of them aren't much better. You almost have to turn over your first born & the title to your house & truck for some of them!

 

[duluthralphie]

yes, i think so

I googled it...You know those VWN'ers can never use the proper name for anything!

 

[ronott1]

I Florida they do for Equine Encephalitis studies.
There are random coop/cages placed about you can see from some roads.

Chickens are used to test for West Nile Fever. They carry it but do not get sick. That may be what you are seeing.

I did check a bit into the wormers and Valbazen and Safeguard are very close to the same thing. Safeguard is a bit safer so it might be better to use safeguard. Both can be used and hatch eggs though

 

[Lazy Farmer]

You seen the ones on BYC? Some of them aren't much better. You almost have to turn over your first born & the title to your house & truck for some of them!

I try not to laugh.. We are blessed to be mechanically inclined. It's just that I sell birds for 5 bucks to go into a $1200 house. I think it could be duplicated for a fraction of the price.
There also a since of satisfaction of building your own creation. Not to mention pride.
Do you know how many birds I have to hatch/feed/raise to see $1200 bucks? We should pre fab hutches and forget this egg factory thingy I barely profit on.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

What is a Maple bug?

a cockroach stuck crawling across your wet pancakes.

 

[Lazy Farmer]

That may be what you are seeing.

they had signs posting Equine Encephalitis.. wasn't this year. That was during the peak of the hype of Equine Encephalitis since we live in the horse capital of the world.. self named btw.
Now a days.. zeka is the buzz..

 

[ronott1]

they had signs posting Equine Encephalitis.. wasn't this year. That was during the peak of the hype of Equine Encephalitis since we live in the horse capital of the world.. self named btw.
Now a days.. zeka is the buzz..

They do use them for testing like that. The purpose is to use the chickens as an early warning system to see if the mosquito born illness is in the area. They will kill a chicken every once in a while to test for the virus.

I was posting about tests where you expose the test subject to a drug or toxin to see if they get side effects or if the drug works to help a health issue.
And example is here at UC Davis where there was a study to see if fat in the diet had an effect on longevity.

Mice that had a higher percentage of fat in their died lived longer! That study would not have used chickens because their digestion is a lot different