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[BullChick]

Good bye, people!

 

[Pensmaster]

What a great idea.. Are you the one with the white bucket nesting boxes ? Thinking of setting some up on a shelve.

Yes. Usually that set up is their egg laying area till one goes broody. That really messes with them. Buckets work well and I can get all I want from our company painters.

 

[Pensmaster]

Good bye, people!

Good night get a great one.

 

[h2oratt]

Yes. Usually that set up is their egg laying area till one goes broody. That really messes with them. Buckets work well and I can get all I want from our company painters.

Do you have a picture of your setup?

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

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One infected Cream Legbar pullet, from a hatchery. My very first chick I ever had. I hatched her eggs when she was about 32 weeks old. Her offspring are in the group that is being culled, and the "risk" ones are offspring from a well hen who lived with her.

It only takes one.

I should emphasize that percent losses are often low even if a lot of birds are infected flock. I just want to remove tolerant high virus excreters that got it in baby-hood... Reducing risk for the rest of the flock.

- Ant Farm

If anyone wants a good reason to wait to only hatch eggs from hens over 1 year old, this would be it.

 

[h2oratt]

Sorry ant farm. It sounds like a learning experience. Animal husbandry can have very difficult decisions at times. I have been breeding dogs for 20 years. I learn something new with every litter.

 

[Fire Ant Farm]

Sorry ant farm. It sounds like a learning experience. Animal husbandry can have very difficult decisions at times. I have been breeding dogs for 20 years. I learn something new with every litter.

Learning experience doesn't even begin to cover it...

But yeah, it's part of the process...

- Ant Farm

 

[Beer can]

@MotorcycleChick ,,,best potty training I can advise, not saying ours are the best, just a little advice from what I've experienced, not to say I'm the authority on it, far from it, all kids are differen't. We have five, 17 to 3. All of ours were 'house trained' by two. Worse thing in my experience was putting 'pullups' on them, we thought they were great....they change themeselves....pee, poop, they don't care, remove it and put another on, makes it to easy for them. Skip the 'pullups' IMHO of course....

 

[BullChick]

@MotorcycleChick
,,,best potty training I can advise, not saying ours are the best, just a little advice from what I've experienced, not to say I'm the authority on it, far from it, all kids are differen't. We have five, 17 to 3. All of ours were 'house trained' by two. Worse thing in my experience was putting 'pullups' on them, we thought they were great....they change themeselves....pee, poop, they don't care, remove it and put another on, makes it to easy for them. Skip the 'pullups' IMHO of course....

I agree. I have one pack, but I still see them as just diapers. Most kids do too. Put underwear on a kid, no accidents. A pull-up, they know they can go without consequence.
I could not find the actual training pants anywhere. Now I have them, and that's what I was using.

 

[h2oratt]

Learning experience doesn't even begin to cover it... :/

But yeah, it's part of the process...

- Ant Farm 

Yes I have yet to cull anyone. Except a puppy with poly cystic kidneys. That was hard. I didn't do it, the vet did but making the decision to euthanize a young dog so full of life. She had chronic UTI s with very resistant bacteria.

We have some older hens we need to cull but as long as they are enjoying their little life I think I will let them be. They are under my red wood trees eating my ticks I hope. We haven't seen a tick yet this year.

Anyway hugs to you.