Hatching Eggs / Paypal CHAT Thread

[madamwlf]

I have a question for those who sell adult birds. If you sell your birds then find out you have mites or lice do you contact the people you sold to and let them know? If you already know you have lice or mites would you tell the buyers? I ask because last year I got in a bird with lice from a breeder. Now even though it is entirely possible that I already had them here, I just got some birds in almost 2 weeks ago, which it was only shortly after that I started to see issues. I didn't even know I had mites until my poor little chick died. Then it started to click when two of my previously healthhy birds started to act cold and hunched over-we had just went through a warm spell and then it dropped back down again in temps, so thought they just were feeling crappy. I was checking often for lice after last year but after checking over the winter so much I just got lazy and stopped checking. But if they came in on the birds it would explain why one died in transit and why one of the new ones has been so "scared" of everybody when she is a 2 yr old in a pen full of much smaller pullets.

I don't bring in adult birds from anyone and I treat birds before they leave here. Quarantine all new birds.

 

[GableBabble]

Any good links on what to look for with lice and/or mites? I have 5 birds in quarantine that have been there over a month and they look healthy to me but I don't want to release them until I am sure.

Pick them up and look for feather loss, and mites crawling. I have seen some on a silkie's face before. Ugly little things.

 

[madamwlf]

Any good links on what to look for with lice and/or mites? I have 5 birds in quarantine that have been there over a month and they look healthy to me but I don't want to release them until I am sure.

For lice, look around the base of the tail and vent area. Go all the way to the skin. Usually you can see the lice, if not you can see the eggs on the shaft of the feathers.

 

[debs_flock]

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Except I'd love to have a colony of Domino roaches. They are truly pretty in my book. I fell for them at a reptile show. Of course, they spend a lot of time underground........

For those of you that track your chicken expenses, is there an app you use?

I have made a couple of spreadsheets over the last year to track income vs expense but never remember to log anything. A couple of years ago I used an app, lemon, that would scan your receipts and log them itemized with out any work besides taking the picture, but I also wanted to be able to log my paypal activities as well. Been google searching for an app tht fits the bill, but coming up empty handed.

I DON'T want to know. Poultry are my hobby. I can guarantee more money goes out than comes in. It makes me feel good when I sell a few hundred dollars worth of something in a week, but I know I'm not covering my expenses. My theory, if I can still afford the bills and I don't have to give up other interests in my life (like groceries for us), I'm good.

LOL

 

[madamwlf]

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[madamwlf]

Except I'd love to have a colony of Domino roaches. They are truly pretty in my book. I fell for them at a reptile show. Of course, they spend a lot of time underground........

Oh yes, those are some beautiful roaches.

 

[babymakes6]

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X2!!!!

 

[wife2abirdman]

Are you not using a 30 day strict quarentine for all new birds?

I usually do I have a whole pen designated for this but because of a mixup I have to use the pen for Bantams. Plus the crate that I use as my overflow quarantine was with my mom who is 6 hrs away, used it and had never given it back,she said she couldn't get to it. Another thing was the trio of LF Cochins I had just gotten, one was a very young pullet 3 months old and I didn't want to put her in the same pen as the bantam roo(they had come from the same farm). Although I probably should have he is only a tiny roo and probably wouldn't have hurt her but hindsight right.

 

[Thespoiledchicken]

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[thebirdguy]

Oh yes, those are some beautiful roaches.

Is it just me or is that a pair of words you wouldn't expect to see together????