Fluffy Butt Acres: Stories of our flock

[Pastel the Rooster]

Oooh so, my eggs that I gave to my riding instructor hatched!
Pastel is a daddy! Bolt, BBQ, and Splotch are all mommies!! I don't like it!
7 or the 14 fertile eggs have hatched, with one more zipping! I am so eggcited!
I don't have any pictures yet, as I am waiting for better quality pictures!!

 

[LhickenChicken]

Republichens?

Or Republihens.

 

[LhickenChicken]

Oooh so, my eggs that I gave to my riding instructor hatched!
Pastel is a daddy! Bolt, BBQ, and Splotch are all mommies!! I don't like it!
7 or the 14 fertile eggs have hatched, with one more zipping! I am so eggcited!
I don't have any pictures yet, as I am waiting for better quality pictures!!

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

What exactly is "Ask Aurora day?"

Ask Aroura is when a chicken (well, their servent) writes Bob's alpha, Aroura, a letter, asking for Aroura to give her answers to all their troubles.

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Bolt incoming, Willow with good one-foot balance by the milk crate, Splotches booty, Pastel's booty, and BBQ's booty

Phoenix the baby boy guinea

BBQ super surprised after a snatched her up for cuddles

 

[RoyalChick]

So, @BY Bob My take-away from this article is: it is a leaky vaccine, that has at least helped Mareks become more deadly (hot), but, you don't want to not vaccinate (at least if you are a commercial enterprise), because essentially, any unvaccinated chicken will die if exposed, and it will be exposed (or there will be exposure - maybe the better way to put it) in a commercial hatchery.

Is that take-away correct? And, if so, where does that leave backyard farmers? And, this means I essentially have endangered my future hatches by having vaccinated birds, as it sounds like there is some immunity passed from mother to chick, but not clear how strong...and that since I have vaccinated, I can't ever bring in unvaccinated birds, without essentially giving them a death sentence? Yes? No?

No. That isn’t right.
I am in a rush so will come back to this.

 

[RoyalChick]

Hmmm, Is the vaccination a good thing or not, and does it mean I HAVE to vaccinate all newbies to me (chicks ordered/bought) for them to survive...since the vaccinated shed the virus?

And if this is the case, since all of my birds have been vaccinated (except for hatched on site), why did my tests for Marek's come back negative (3 different swabs of 3 different coops)?

Now I am really confused!

@RoyalChick @BY Bob ?

Yes, Bob, I know you said you needed time to put something together - I'm not rushing you, just trying to piece this together in my mind.

I will come back on this.

 

[RoyalChick]

I suspect with Aurora, it would be the first of the two!

I think they are Indechicks.

 

[Pastel the Rooster]

Ask Aroura is when a chicken (well, their servent) writes Bob's alpha, Aroura, a letter, asking for Aroura to give her answers to all their troubles.

Oh, and it happens every Wednesday, unless Aroura's servent is busy with work or something else. Sadly that is quite often... I wish people didn't have to work

 

[bgmathteach]

Oh, and it happens every Wednesday, unless Aroura's servent is busy with work or something else. Sadly that is quite often... I wish people didn't have to work

I think she only missed 1 week..maybe I am wrong

But what I really think it is, is that we enjoy her responses and can't get enough, so it seems like forever between her posts when, in fact, it is only 1 week.