Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[BHep]

Yeah... I'm addicted.

 

[crazypetlady]

Morning y'all. Going to check on the bresse now. Was up and down all night so DH let me sleep in this morning and made breakfast. I'm trying to keep my chin up. I guess I just try to prepare myself for the worst? I just pray that its nothing big.
I do know that stress does really being out nasty things in birds especially. Honesty GFF had them packed well. It's just a really long journey from Florida to Oregon which is why I drove like a crazy person into Portland to get them. I'm just praying that they pull through and that nothing contagious shows up.
I'm going to email Jenny today to let her know that I'm going to call an avian vet to have some testing done. I'm not sure what they can do but they should know. We had a swap in the fall here where some stressed out birds wound up getting some other birds sick with ILT. There were about 30 birds in various flocks lost. Thankfully none of mine but it illustrated just how easily adult birds can present illness under stress. It's also why I refuse to bring adult birds to those events.
Anyway. I hope y'all are all having a fantastic morning! Much love from Oregon!

If it makes you feel any better I got my white Breese before you and mine are just fine. And I have lots of GFF birds and I had bio security testing done 12 tests. 2x this year the 1st time just because our local university does it for free and they test the eggs so they can tell if you EVER had any of the diseases active even if your flock is not sick at the time of testing. Then I got some sick chickens from another BYC member I isolated them from my flock but I had gotten them for a friend so they were at my place less than a few hours but when my friend took them home he had some problems. This Is why I had my flock re-tested recently and was negative for everything again. I don't have the list but it included staph, salmoniella, AI, mycroplasmas and a bunch of other stuff.

That said good bio-security should always be practiced. I include in my program outgoing chicks. Chicks go straight from the incubator to the shipping boxes so they never have contact with any of my adult chickens. I sterilize my hands EVERY TIME I go in the incubator and between brooders. If chicks happen to have to stay in a brooder before shipping they are away from any other chickens and the brooders are sterilized between chicks with anti bacterial soap, bleach, alochol, hydrogen peroxide and oxzine. I know it sounds like over kill but it works for me. I feel better because I do buy alot of chickens. I know I'm a spaz. When the bielefelder roo came by himself when the hen died I needed some chicks to put with him, I was going to keep the pair together. I sprayed the other chicks with oxzine, lol I know how stupid that sounds, it didn't hurt them at all in fact it might be my imagination but everything in that brooder is growing super fast.

 

[BHep]

Where is Wallie????
I haven't seen any posts from her....

 

[crfarm]

Where is Wallie????
I haven't seen any posts from her....

she was just lurking on the swap page.

 

[chicken fever]

that's prob why I wert it lol cuz that's what we do with or horses. i'm gonna try not wetting it next time! thanks for the insight guys n gals

yeah no, we change the brooder house stalls very rarely, rake to dry, scoop the biggest messes, add new as needed. It lasts for ever. In horse stalls you are suppose to wet lightly and rake it out before putting the horse on it.

 

[AyeUpChuck]

If it makes you feel any better I got my white Breese before you and mine are just fine. And I have lots of GFF birds and I had bio security testing done 12 tests. 2x this year the 1st time just because our local university does it for free and they test the eggs so they can tell if you EVER had any of the diseases active even if your flock is not sick at the time of testing. Then I got some sick chickens from another BYC member I isolated them from my flock but I had gotten them for a friend so they were at my place less than a few hours but when my friend took them home he had some problems. This Is why I had my flock re-tested recently and was negative for everything again. I don't have the list but it included staph, salmoniella, AI, mycroplasmas and a bunch of other stuff.
That said good bio-security should always be practiced. I include in my program outgoing chicks. Chicks go straight from the incubator to the shipping boxes so they never have contact with any of my adult chickens. I sterilize my hands EVERY TIME I go in the incubator and between brooders. If chicks happen to have to stay in a brooder before shipping they are away from any other chickens and the brooders are sterilized between chicks with anti bacterial soap, bleach, alochol, hydrogen peroxide and oxzine. I know it sounds like over kill but it works for me. I feel better because I do buy alot of chickens. I know I'm a spaz. When the bielefelder roo came by himself when the hen died I needed some chicks to put with him, I was going to keep the pair together. I sprayed the other chicks with oxzine, lol I know how stupid that sounds, it didn't hurt them at all in fact it might be my imagination but everything in that brooder is growing super fast.

Honestly I'm not angry with GFF. There are so many variables. I'm just praying that it's nothing, if that's possible. Going to contact the avian dept at OSU tomorrow and see what I should do as far as testing. Luckily I do have a quarantine space. I'd never throw foreign birds in with my flocks.

 

[BHep]

she was just lurking on the swap page.

 

[crfarm]

SHE'S HERE NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[BHep]

HI

 

[sonew123]

If it makes you feel any better I got my white Breese before you and mine are just fine. And I have lots of GFF birds and I had bio security testing done 12 tests. 2x this year the 1st time just because our local university does it for free and they test the eggs so they can tell if you EVER had any of the diseases active even if your flock is not sick at the time of testing. Then I got some sick chickens from another BYC member I isolated them from my flock but I had gotten them for a friend so they were at my place less than a few hours but when my friend took them home he had some problems. This Is why I had my flock re-tested recently and was negative for everything again. I don't have the list but it included staph, salmoniella, AI, mycroplasmas and a bunch of other stuff.
That said good bio-security should always be practiced. I include in my program outgoing chicks. Chicks go straight from the incubator to the shipping boxes so they never have contact with any of my adult chickens. I sterilize my hands EVERY TIME I go in the incubator and between brooders. If chicks happen to have to stay in a brooder before shipping they are away from any other chickens and the brooders are sterilized between chicks with anti bacterial soap, bleach, alochol, hydrogen peroxide and oxzine. I know it sounds like over kill but it works for me. I feel better because I do buy alot of chickens. I know I'm a spaz. When the bielefelder roo came by himself when the hen died I needed some chicks to put with him, I was going to keep the pair together. I sprayed the other chicks with oxzine, lol I know how stupid that sounds, it didn't hurt them at all in fact it might be my imagination but everything in that brooder is growing super fast.

And THIS is why I cannot wait to get my chicks from you!!!! Hugs !!!