Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[ozexpat]

Ozexpat I was told to seek your advice. I am attempting to raise quail but am failing my little ones just up and die no signs of distress will literally look great and in hours dead. They are Georgia Giants. I am down to 2 and have 101 in the bator

sorry to hear

at what age a they keeling over?

 

[Fowling around]

Less than 2 weeks old

 

[Wisher1000]

Cocci?

 

[Fowling around]

Don't think so but I could be wrong. I have young dogs here because I also breed dogs and they are not sick and I go from my birds to my dogs never reverse

 

[DaveOmak]

 

[scottcaddy]

I am wondering also?

Scott

 

[ozexpat]

I am still alive. Its been pretty crazy.

In my real world life I am trying to play catch up as the job market is now demanding more and more letters after my name. As a consequence, I am actually doing 28 units at college this semester. No point just piddling along. I need a masters degree real soon. This takes up lots of my time so forgive me.

Aside from school, CocoPoultryFarm is doing well.

We have a replacement for Ompoy (the BS in Ag guy). I will be training him on the paperwork and reports on Saturday next week via Skype.

I had advertised the caretaker/gardener position on a classifieds site as well and I have a guy that is really keen. I may just bring him on and see what happens. From a budget standpoint its going to be tough. We have a condo in Manila that we initiated purchase 6 years ago. It was supposed to be finished 3 years ago. We put 50% into it over the first 3 years and then waited. We just got word its ready and time to come up with the balance. Our bank gave us a mortgage no problems but now I need to find the payment each month til i can rent it out. Its going to be tight.

So we need to sell more chickens.

And we just might....

I was contacted by a customer that raises Boer goats. They have just invested imported some excellent stock from Australia and are marketing them at Agri-Link, the largest Ag fair in the Philippines. They want me to have a chicken display at their booth as it will help people stop. So now I have 30-50,000 people walking past our chickens each day. I will give the customers a promo that will track sales back to the trade fair and give DVBoer Farm a decent commission. This could be really huge. Its something I always wanted to do but logistically almost impossible.

Back on the farm. We now have 8 chicken tractors built. It feels really good to have birds outside earlier.

 

[ozexpat]

I am wondering also?

Scott

I AM GLAD TO KNOW WE WERE MISSED lol

 

[Wishing4Wings]

Yes Oz, we are all suffering withdrawal while you are busy with school. Good deal with the goat man at the Agri-link.

Don't think so but I could be wrong. I have young dogs here because I also breed dogs and they are not sick and I go from my birds to my dogs never reverse

Hope your chicks are ok.
Cocci is mostly species specific, so your dogs and chickens will not infect each other. Toxoplasmosis, that spreads from cats to humans, is a big exception.

 

[Fowling around]

Should have more hatch this week