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[mlm Mike]

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OK, I'll put them down gently. Great advice!

 

[BullChick]

OK, I'll put them down gently. Great advice!

Though how gentle can you be when a hen is trying to take your hand off?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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of course!

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Could yall take a look and see if you have any ideas?
https://www.backyardchickens.com/t/1116727/8yr-old-hen-with-strange-lump-on-comb

I was there! Good luck with her sweets! and good mornin

Hi all I am back.Picked up a play house and toys from a co- worker, then pressure washed it and have it set up. Progress was interrupted by visitors but it's done and in the yard for my son's girlfriend's son.He isn't our grandson but he gets treated that way. Can't wait till they see this!

Two more eggs pipped, and one is zipping as I type!

I will post pics of the one I assisted soon. Sally, do you mind if I name her after you? You can say no if you don't want me to! I just figured that was the biggest compliment a fellow chicken-lover could give. Thank you SO MUCH for all the informative articles!

YAY congrats!!! Of course you can name her anything you wish! too cute! <3<3 your very welcome!

Well I am taking my last 4 ducklings to swap meet tomorrow...hopefully I can sell them.....I'm only wanting $5 each.
If I sell them it will pay my gas money....I might pick up some odd ball eggs to hatch....someone had exotic pheasant eggs last time.

good luck! thats a very good price!

@Fire Ant Farm
@Sally Sunshine

And anyone else.

Here's the temp that the Christmas rope gets too. I put pipe insulate around it and put thermometer on the rope light just to show the temp.

Chicks will lay directly on the light or beside it to stay warm. It stays plenty warm Inside a cardboard brooder box.

Thank you Peter!!!

Well, I just spent a couple hours reading more on the whole Avian Leukosis Virus thing (I have access to several very specific articles via the medical library online access). Initial hopes I had of keeping the Aloha NN girls are gone now - good evidence from a very well done study looking at exactly this issue is that if they are contact infected at 4 weeks, they have a decent chance of producing congenitally infected chicks. (And that's the whole reason I wanted to keep them and put them with Tank, to get chicks, so - not worth it.) Congenitally infected chicks are the BIG exposers in a flock, as they shed millions/billions of viral particles in their poop. Interestingly, most efficient contact exposure leading to infection is feather picking.

I realize that even with culling these pullets in the "congenital" pen and a good clean up of their area, it's unlikely for my yard to be totally ALV clean after all of this (though I do have 6 separately housed groups), especially since it's common anyway. But this cohort of pullets is a known high risk that I've decided I'm not going to take (oh, and they fly really well and like to escape their area, even more reason...).

Sooooo, I'm back to the plan to cull them all.

I am not sure what the situation is with the adult CLs that were with the original hen who passed it on and died, but they are isolated from the others, are essentially pets and won't breed again - from what I've read, they are not at high risk of passing virus into the environment/to others, more that they might pass it to offspring. Here's the thing - offspring from one of those hens are in with ALL of my growout chicks right now, including the GNHs, the marans, everybody. Unlikely, but if one of them turns up with it, this is going to get a lot uglier...

I need to get my chicken numbers down anyway - I think things happen for a reason sometimes, and at a minimum, it's always easier to try to find a bright side. So I will cull this group of pullets, and I will keep those chicks growing out away from any of the adult Naked Necks until they get to an age to "declare" themselves (they usually begin getting tumors at ~14-16 weeks) - If everyone makes it past POL safely, I think that's the best I can expect for my backyard flock. If not, my number of chickens is going to go down a lot faster than I expected. The good thing is that ALV is relatively straightforward to get out of the environment with cleaning, etc. Doesn't survive long outside of the chickens...

Still, this sucks...

- Ant Farm

oh Kristin I am so sorry

 

[kwhites634]

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[mlm Mike]

Quote: True, and she is also in the corner under a platform in the goat barn. This is going to be fun!

 

[BantyChooks]

True, and she is also in the corner under a platform in the goat barn. This is going to be fun!

Am I the only one with nice broodies?

 

[BullChick]

Am I the only one with nice broodies?

Well, Bonnie Tyler didn't growl at me at least. She just put a hole in my hand when I tried to give her the two green eggs from the other box. I still don't when the chicks are due. Could be Duckling's birthday.
I also don't know where my duck eggs are being laid. She changed her spot.

I am hoping the neighbor doesn't find them That would be a bad situation

 

[kwhites634]

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Good morning Kathy
What has CA up at this hour?

Hi there! My bladder woke me up.
I know how that goes

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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Originally Posted by BantyChooks

Oh, forgot, one was cracked a bit so I tossed it.

Mike sent me eggs too, two rolling a few loose but majority looks good, when will you set? @mlm Mike you setting too?

Yes, tossing some eggs under that broody.

GREAT!!!! so remind me when its time to lockdown Banti and Mike! lol
Thank you so much for the beautiful eggies Mike!!!

Quote: yes do that gentle like lol

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.

@h2oratt have you ever had a pup born with bald spot on head? I have a lil girl that was born like that and the vet basically accused us of burning her with a heat lamp or something, saying she never seen anything like it! I was poking around on google and found that it sounds like birth marks displaced cells.

@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, loose the diapers and pullups and put on the undies, roll up the carpets and let them learn they dont like having wet pants! use the treats when they go potty make a big huge deal out of it when they go, and show your true disappointment when they piddle on the floor. I have potty trained our own 5 kids, my sisters two, and seven littles over the years of babysitting. It works, but you have to follow through, and even though its tough to show that disappointment it needs done. And I keep the potty in the same area they are in so they can use it themselves, loose fitting undies and ONLY undies and a tshirt and they have to pull their own undies down to go too. and learn to pull them up.

Mornin' y'all. Today's CIL's birthday and i'm making cake. Slowly becoming famous for my cakes and pies over here.

Bird's still doing well, only occasional coughing now. She's got water right now but I need to clean her food bowl before I feed her.

Cleaning out the coop tomorrow, today's an organizing and cleaning day for the house. I managed to throw out literally half my closet last night.

How cool!!! I want some cake and pie!!!! Enjoy your day! Would love to see the cakes you have made! @hippiestink

My second coffee touday, a sip Abi?ī

coffee this late?

 

[mlm Mike]

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You could be!