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

[daxigait]

You're not gonna stop at my place first and let that dog teach my dog?    
Good dogs are fun to take care of!

I never had the right time zone, but I couldn't find mine! Do I live on the moon or somethin and not know it? 

Sorry, but you will never grow up. I just know it.



But-
but- ............
No fair! 

Sorry not sure. Hope you can figure it out, though!

 

[Sally Sunshine]

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OK, I'll put them down gently. Great advice!
The best advice, busy day planned Michael?

I'm thinking about going out to the lake for the day. Maybe cut grass there.

fun, measure the drive while your there

Sally, lemme know when you set yours, and I'll set mine. Bator is at 100 & holdin steady!

setting today, so have at it!

Good morning everyone. A new birth for a new morning!

awwwwwww morning Dax what a great way to wake up!

 

[BullChick]

I was just being a sarcastic jerk in my head (full disclosure. I am very mean) and decided that I was going to possibly make a loaf of French toast today.

Then I thought about all the other stuff that needs done.

I need more energy, and less stuff to do.
It amazes me that in one night I tore up a carpet, disposed of it, swept twice, vacuumed a few more times, mopped four times (the floor was bad after forty years or so) moved in two recliners, added throws and end tables, and still cleaned and rearranged two other rooms.
I am an odd person, aren't I?

 

[Sally Sunshine]

I was just being a sarcastic jerk in my head (full disclosure. I am very mean) and decided that I was going to possibly make a loaf of French toast today.

Then I thought about all the other stuff that needs done.

I need more energy, and less stuff to do.
It amazes me that in one night I tore up a carpet, disposed of it, swept twice, vacuumed a few more times, mopped four times (the floor was bad after forty years or so) moved in two recliners, added throws and end tables, and still cleaned and rearranged two other rooms.
I am an odd person, aren't I?

nope, you sound like a normal woman to me MC

 

[daxigait]

@Sally Sunshine Thanks! That was supposed to be my last birth for the year, but the broody disagreed. She is very a dedicated Olive Egger
That was the nice part of the morning. After my banana for breakfast I have to go clean the chicken coops

 

[BullChick]

nope, you sound like a normal woman to me MC

I have never been called normal before! "Abi"normal, but never normal.

 

[BullChick]

@Sally Sunshine Thanks! That was supposed to be my last birth for the year, but the broody disagreed. She is very a dedicated Olive Egger

That was the nice part of the morning. After my banana for breakfast I have to go clean the chicken coops

What is it with the broodies? I had decided I was done with babies for the year too.

 

[mlm Mike]

Good morning everyone. A new birth for a new morning!

Good morning! What a wonderful thing to wake up to. Cute

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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!!!

That's on Banti, if I use a broody I won't know.

You're welcome.
thanks so much, yer the best

no I have not lol I am a simple gal ya know. Did I mention I crushed a egg in my pocket and my cell was in there?
Wrote set day down on post it note.

You may have mentioned. Oh darn, I forgot to send you an egg collecting apron.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

@Sally Sunshine Thanks! That was supposed to be my last birth for the year, but the broody disagreed. She is very a dedicated Olive Egger

That was the nice part of the morning. After my banana for breakfast I have to go clean the chicken coops

I never minded cleaning coops, until asthma got the best of me. I just throw a tarp down use a big plastic shovel and throw everything on it and drag to the compost pile in the woods.

 

[daxigait]

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

After culling cleaning and starting over myself, I have little I can say all I can offer is