INCUBATING w/FRIENDS! w/Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs No problem!

[LocalYokel]

I hope it gets better soon!

 

[NestingHillsSC]

So what kinda chickens you got @NestingHillsSC ?

I have 70 right now. Plus rabbits and goats and a dog. LOL. white rocks, heritage reds, wheaten ameraucanas, buff Brahmas, barred rocks and my experimental birds. Cross between a buff brahma and an assie.

 

[lozerface79]

This is also a prime example of why you should always quarantine any new birds you plan to bring into your flock. This gives you time to notice if they show any symptoms of disease before there is cross-contamination, and to respond to it. Even when you do this and there are no symptoms, the new birds can still be contaminated and already passed the symptom stages. It's always a gamble, but you can take steps to minimize the risks. Take Coryza for example. Once contracted, birds that survive the symptoms are carriers for life, easily capable of infecting any other birds they come in contact with. You might have a single strand of this highly contagious virus from this bird on your body, and walking into a hatchery would put the entire facility at risk. 

Quarantine. Does that count for introducing chickens youve hatched from your own eggs?

 

[lozerface79]

It's in his sig...

[COLOR=797774]Buff Brahmas, Heritage White Rocks, Barred Rocks, Heritage Rhode Island Reds and Wheaten Ameraucanas.[/COLOR]​

Im on mobile. Cant see sigs..

 

[NestingHillsSC]

This is also a prime example of why you should always quarantine any new birds you plan to bring into your flock. This gives you time to notice if they show any symptoms of disease before there is cross-contamination, and to respond to it. Even when you do this and there are no symptoms, the new birds can still be contaminated and already passed the symptom stages. It's always a gamble, but you can take steps to minimize the risks. Take Coryza for example. Once contracted, birds that survive the symptoms are carriers for life, easily capable of infecting any other birds they come in contact with. You might have a single strand of this highly contagious virus from this bird on your body, and walking into a hatchery would put the entire facility at risk.

That is why I will not buy grown birds. Chicks have a lower risk.

 

[fire370]

I will explain it like this. My mother's family farmed and had hogs. They went to confinement in the 60's. Well mom married a farmer that milked and that's how I came about. Although we have beef cattle and farm now, no dairy herd. Thank God. Anyway, PRRS and other illnesses would decimate a pig farm. My grandpas employees were not allowed to be at any place there was swine nor could they have them. It was sanitize into the buildings. Every other week a semi came in for a load of butcher pigs. Truck and trailer had to be sanitized and washed prior to entering the farm. Pigs were loaded from an outside pin and not from the finishing house. Once a pig went on the trailer, it could not come off. If at any time a pig got off the trailer, it was shot where it stood. Period not up for discussion. Sale barns were off limits. Etc. you get the drift I'm sure.

 

[BullChick]

Just a little tease

Just a little teaseI'

I'll give you one better....

I refuse to go outside Saturday!

 

[Jessimom]

Quarantine. Does that count for introducing chickens youve hatched from your own eggs?

x2 ????

 

[OneMountainAcres]

LOL, would love to, but closest snow for me is a couple of hours away. It was 86 degrees when I went out at lunch time....

Not nice. Not nice at all :/ I'm freezing my tooshie off here!

I just hate math. If someone put a gun up to my head and said "solve this problem: 2+2" i would let him shoot me

I actualy was going to go to school to teach math lol. I anyways loved it. All this common core stuff though that my kids are doing is super frustrating.

I'll give you one better.... Sorry to everyone else that is still dealing with winter temps and other signs of winter, like snow.... Haven't you had a pretty mild winter so far? Yes, my chickens prefer our cooler weather. It gets creative trying cool things down in the summer.

Again, no fair

 

[Jessimom]

I refuse to go outside Saturday!

I'm so sorry!!! Sat night is going to be ugly.....