One open class young lady brought in a sick Auracauna (unbeknownst to the superindendants) and now a whole row has upper respiratory INCLUDING a pen of 12 white coturnix who now have swolen faces. I got with the intendants last night and we planned to get them out of there as well as others and educate the kids. These were open class kids ...not guided by 4-H leaders that were bringing in a sick bird. The Quail child is going to suffer a big problem.
I emmediately spotted the whites put in with the rest of the general population. Their eyes and nares began swelling the first night....we are talking 7 hours after arriving....
Spoke with two poultry leaders and the head of the County's program. Biosecurity will now be a class for 4-H kids AND LEADERS for heaven's sake.
Decided at last minute not to enter any of mine due to wanting to keep all of my birds producing for the eggs for consumption business I am getting going.
We sanitized shoes and changed clothes and washed up after visiting fair.
OK...PAMPHLET TO INCLUDE BIOSECURITY MEASURES. The problem is not so much in the Quail being at fair. It is the allowing a of a chicken who can barely hold it's head up, being allowed in. Perhaps it looked well at first, but at first sign of illness....GET IT OUTA THERE!!!.
Well, we are. We are fixing this. I had been in so much pain this summer I did not get down there for the set up. I was judging record books (22 kids...EXCELLENT upturn in poultry participation).
What say you Quail Jedi? Shall I suggest that this Quail entry preteen cull these birds and not take them home?
We are trying to watch symptoms and I am going to call my own Vet who normally cruises the Poultry barn like a silent protective hawk... He used to "show up" with a black Doctor bag to some of my cruelty cases when I was an officer "on a tip".
Tonya
I emmediately spotted the whites put in with the rest of the general population. Their eyes and nares began swelling the first night....we are talking 7 hours after arriving....
Spoke with two poultry leaders and the head of the County's program. Biosecurity will now be a class for 4-H kids AND LEADERS for heaven's sake.
Decided at last minute not to enter any of mine due to wanting to keep all of my birds producing for the eggs for consumption business I am getting going.
We sanitized shoes and changed clothes and washed up after visiting fair.
OK...PAMPHLET TO INCLUDE BIOSECURITY MEASURES. The problem is not so much in the Quail being at fair. It is the allowing a of a chicken who can barely hold it's head up, being allowed in. Perhaps it looked well at first, but at first sign of illness....GET IT OUTA THERE!!!.
Well, we are. We are fixing this. I had been in so much pain this summer I did not get down there for the set up. I was judging record books (22 kids...EXCELLENT upturn in poultry participation).
What say you Quail Jedi? Shall I suggest that this Quail entry preteen cull these birds and not take them home?
We are trying to watch symptoms and I am going to call my own Vet who normally cruises the Poultry barn like a silent protective hawk... He used to "show up" with a black Doctor bag to some of my cruelty cases when I was an officer "on a tip".

Tonya