grannys gone and done it

[Sally Sunshine]

Someone wants me to explain my quarantine program...... I will try to keep it short......

I have a small coop with a wire floor beside my house, FAR from the coop. New chickens go in there for at least 4 weeks. The have a 5 gallon waterer and a large feeder. I only have to feed aned water once in a while, I do this last thing in the evening. ALL clothes I am wearing go in the wash and I go in the shower when I am done feeding them. The feeder and waterer are NEVER used anywhere else on the property. During this 4 weeks, they get wormed twice and treated for external parasites twice. At the end of the 4 weeks, I pick my least favorite chicken, usually a rooster headed for the crock pot, he spends at least 2 months with the new chickens. If ANY of them get sick, they are ALL culled. I don't care how pretty they are, how much I paid for them or how valuable they might be. After all this is over, I scoop the poop up off the ground, if the chickens were healthy, I put the poop on thegarden. If they were sick, I scoop it up and trash it. Any eggs that are produced during quarantine are put directly in the trash.

I know it sounds a little extreme, but I dont have ilnesses in my flock. I don't and never will use antibiotics on my chickens. If Corid, Safeguard, Valbazen, probiotics or vitamins won't cure the chicken, it will be culled. Any chicken that gets coccidia goes right into the fattening up pen to be butchered.

I am seriously butt about this, I refuse to bring a live bird here unless its a day old chick from a well tested NPIP. I hatch my chicks and even then I am a bit butt about them too! Most Diseases stays in the chickens no matter how long they are quarantined. I read too much, but it works for me. it sure limits your stock, but
then again you have the ability to grow out so many more and have a good hand on your breeding.

hey all, Dr. never called .
Sally I didnt get a tag ??
Enola, Why not corrid, why do you eat those chickens ?

a few this morn, Dr. never called? How far did you get on the bator before it got too cold?





Mutt! where do you find this stuff ?

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Hello TippyLove!!

 

[rIrs roost]

Billy which one?  @rIrs roost

I hate the bottom one so go with the top lol.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

I havent really started on the bator and I have run into a problem already. the hatch.. 2 shelves, one glass I had planned on using. day 18, take the turner out. wire is outside ,ok just make the opening one of the vent holes and leave it big enough to slip the cord out ? then what ? they hatch and fall off the shelf. I dont have a hatcher...

 

[Sally Sunshine]

HEY ! That kangaroo question was mine . And I still think it plausible.

Quote: oh geez!!! will I kick you off when I try it? Guess we find out

I havent really started on the bator and I have run into a problem already. the hatch.. 2 shelves, one glass I had planned on using. day 18, take the turner out. wire is outside ,ok just make the opening one of the vent holes and leave it big enough to slip the cord out ? then what ? they hatch and fall off the shelf. I dont have a hatcher...

how is the air to circulate through glass granny? not sure I get what your explaining. Dang wish I could be close to work on it! sorry granny

basket you can make a wire basket or dollar store but need VENTILATION air has to circulate through that bator, and when its lockdown remove turners and hatch in baskets

they have to turn at a 45 degree angle granny, he has ours at 50 I think, pushed to the max. you can go the 45 angle do you have a small carpentry square that you can put there and see what the angle is or to find your angle?

 

[Granny Hatchet]

guess I will be building some shelves . crap !

 

[Sally Sunshine]

guess I will be building some shelves . crap !

do you have a drawing of this plan granny? or you runnin with whuts in yer head? help me out here to help you

 

[Granny Hatchet]

oh geez!!! will I kick you off when I try it? Guess we find out


how is the air to circulate through glass granny? not sure I get what your explaining. Dang wish I could be close to work on it! sorry granny

basket you can make a wire basket or dollar store but need VENTILATION air has to circulate through that bator, and when its lockdown remove turners and hatch in baskets

they have to turn at a 45 degree angle granny, he has ours at 50 I think, pushed to the max. you can go the 45 angle do you have a small carpentry square that you can put there and see what the angle is or to find your angle?

basket

the glass, hahaaaaaa One is wire one is half glass. I wasnt thinking so I will be making one shelf. thank you. This is why Im in no hurry to start. everything has to be built in my head first.

 

[Granny Hatchet]

do you have a drawing of this plan granny? or you runnin with whuts in yer head? help me out here to help you

I guess I just answered that . LOL

 

[Sally Sunshine]

you know those old time drop ceiling tiles they put in a basement so the light comes through those long florescent fixtures? wonder if those cut down would be solid enough for a turner to set on

let me see if lowes has them on the site... something tells me that some of them are nice and thick, I tend to walk though these home improvement places determined to find something that will work the best and cheapest way

 

[Granny Hatchet]

if your turner is only 5 off from what it can be then mine must be at least 10 under.