Ideal poultry

[WalkingWolf]

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I believe Teri is a she, girls are the only ones I have seen that spell the name that way.

 

[Brunty_Farms]

LOL... well I can't believe I'm the only one that sees what is happening is wrong... WOW.

Any how. I sell broilers and eggs for eating I do not sell anything live off of my premises... I do not spread what I have. I don't send 5 million chicks all over the united states spreading this disease. The birds are processed or composted.

I have a slight case of MG in a flock of 200 broilers this is only 1 of 4 current flocks of broilers. I treated with the apropriate medication and they are now fine. There is a withdrawl period of 3 days.... I'm waiting 4 weeks as I want to make sure it's cleaned out of their system before processing.

I had about 12 layers come down with symptoms of MG... they are now culled and composted. Seems that I found out today that the MG came from the layers.

I find it funny that in the mist of all of this... I get a phone call from Moyers Chicks today asking how my started pullets where doing. Here to find out they are having problems with these birds. A few other producers that bought started pullets from them are now complaing that birds aren't laying... and other complications that gear towards MG. Here to find out that they test the chicks but after they leave the hatcheries hands they are no longer tested.(example... the birds are tested.... and shipped of to a grower to be sold at a later date) I bought started pullets from them and that's where I picked up my mistake.... Now come October.. the whole flock will be disposed of and started over. Since MG can't live outside of a host for more than three days... I will take my chances that the new flock will stay clean. I'm quite aware of the danger of wild birds traveling with this disease and will take it into consideration. However the disease is more likely to get transmitted through direct contact than from me going to the feed store.... but since I don't go to a feed store... and have my feed delivered... I will take my chances with the wild birds. It's funny as I'm raising 800 broilers at the moment with 500 turkeys and 300 layers and have limited my MG to only one flock of broilers (layers brought the disease in) I find it weird that I'm more at risk with wild birds and feed stores.

At least Moyers knows what happend and are trying to get to the bottom of it. Moyers is the second hatchery that I know of that has MG free stock.

The reason why this keeps coming up is the fact that it's wrong and needs to be fixed. If you count on the USDA to make things safe thats not a good safe guard to lean on. The government has let us down so many times with food saftey issues that's it sickening.