HEY! Now that Spring's Here....Suggestion/Warning re: purchasing birds

[shortcake1806]

I think this is a great post. Nothing here to be scolded for actually I think you should be praised for posting it.

 

[SundownWaterfowl]

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Ditto.

 

[gumpsgirl]

This is fantastic advice Cyn and I would also like to caution everyone to check over their birds they are purchasing well also.

As many of you know, I ended up bringing home a sick chick last summer that infected my whole flock with Coryza. I spent my whole summer nursing my flock back to health and culling out the sick birds. It was horrible and something I would never wish upon anyone, but it does happen. Especially to those who are trusting and not expecting another person to be misleading about the health of their flock.

Please, please, please take heed to Cyn's suggestions. It will only save you a lot of heartache in the long run and your flock from having to be culled.

 

[gumpsgirl]

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Cyn already answered this in a manner that I completely agree with. Do as she says and help warn people. I hate to see someone go through what I did last summer if they can be warned ahead of time via PM.

 

[crazyhen]

I totally agree with you Cyn. By the way those are some growing chicks I got from you.. Love the Br's. Jean

 

[speckledhen]

I hope everyone plays it very safe this spring with their buying and selling. Would love a no-hitch season!

 

[herechickchick]

Well said Cyn! I agree completely. I wanted to add if you think your birds may be sick contact your local agriculture extension for testing options. Costs for testing are usually reasonable.

 

[Cetawin]

As always wise advice from a wonderful woman.

I might add that even though your chickens are accident prone (I refer now to Zane and poor mace running amuck with Dutch) I still want suede eggs from you when I get a broody

I will take my chances that they are not or are accident prone. I am aware and willing to accept that challenge

 

[Crunchie]

This is starting to scroll down off of the 1st page, but I think it needs a bump.

Good advice. I would second QUARANTINING birds. We have a separate quarantine pen in a stall in our horse barn--far way from my pens--in a place that can be completely closed off from any free-ranging birds (and those darn nosy peafowl of mine!!

). And this isn't just for new birds to your farm (I actually haven't bought birds in a long time). Any birds that go to a show should come home and spend the next month or more in lock-up.

Separating birds is an easy way to make sure you don't spread something nasty to your entire flock.

 

[speckledhen]

Thank you for the support! We don't want any heartache and bad feelings within our BYC family if we can help it. Too many tears have been shed lately over losing birds because of one sick one brought in unawares.