INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[LonelyPageTurne]

I had a mishap today.  I was changing out waterers in one of my brooders today, and while I was filling them, a turkey poult jumped out and one of my dogs got to it before I did. 

It's my own fault.  I've been planning on moving them to the larger brooder in the basement where the dogs aren't allowed, but hadn't got around to it.  So I made the switch today, even though it made me late for work.  

On a brighter note, I just completed a 9/10 hatch on poults, and the next set goes in the hatcher tonight!  Getting near the end of my hatching season.  After these poults, I have mottled java chicks due to hatch on the 23rd.  Planning on shutting the incubator off after that.   Might do a Bresse hatch in late June to have meat birds to process just before winter sets in.

If anyone is interested in learning how to process chickens.  I have some cornish cross that are about 2 weeks from being ready.  Can't wait to get them done.  6 of them generate more poop than 30 of my heritage chickens.

I would like to. Are you going to sell any?

 

[RavenLenore]

Hi! I am new here, and new to the whole urban farming thing. We just got our first chicks, and I am super excited! They are all already super awesome with great personalities.
I am in Hartford City which is pretty much a whole in the wall kind of city. LOL
Pleased to meet you all!

 

[kabhyper1]

So apparently the food dish is more comfortable than mom. This is how I found them a little while ago.

Its about 76 degrees in there. They are 4 days old. No wonder so many chicks get too hot under heat lamps.

 

[bradselig]

Hi! I am new here, and new to the whole urban farming thing. We just got our first chicks, and I am super excited! They are all already super awesome with great personalities. 
I am in Hartford City which is pretty much a whole in the wall kind of city. LOL 

Pleased to meet you all!

welcome! Im not too far! Work in marion and live between Warren and van buren. What breed (s) did you get?

 

[Webechickens]

Hello, and welcome! I'm from Modoc, a smaller hole in the wall city.

 

[ChickCrazed]

Hi! I am new here, and new to the whole urban farming thing. We just got our first chicks, and I am super excited! They are all already super awesome with great personalities.
I am in Hartford City which is pretty much a whole in the wall kind of city. LOL
Pleased to meet you all!

Welcome! I used to work at the Marion paper and spent some time in Hartford City!! I hope you post often! This is a really good group!

 

[racinchickins]

Quote: I could probably sell a couple. I mainly got them to experience the difference between raising non-commercial breeds and commercial hybrids. I don't believe I would be credible talking about them i had never raised them. I have 2 BBB turkeys I am raising for the same reason.

 

[ellymayRans]

Ok. I cleaned EVERYTHING. I had just bought a new bag and actually was using that instead of the last of the feed from the bag that got wet. But everything is totally cleaned. Fingers crossed.

Have they been outside? If they haven't been outside or around dirt or other chickens poop it wouldn't be cocci.

Any I ever had struck by it they don't get bloated bellies, they stop eating and there's no question that it's bloody stool. .it is blood. You can get bad feed without it getting wet and molding too.

 

[LonelyPageTurne]

Have they been outside? If they haven't been outside or around dirt or other chickens poop it wouldn't be cocci.

Any I ever had struck by it they don't get bloated bellies, they stop eating and there's no question that it's bloody stool. .it is blood. You can get bad feed without it getting wet and molding too.

They haven't been outside with the other chickens but they are in my garage, and I don't change clothes to feed everyone. So it's possible. I think whatever hoosiercheetah's orps had my chickens have. :/

 

[hoosiercheetah]

They haven't been outside with the other chickens but they are in my garage, and I don't change clothes to feed everyone. So it's possible. I think whatever hoosiercheetah's orps had my chickens have.

I don't know if those orps ever had an actual illness, or if they were just dirty. They never showed any signs of feeling badly, and as far as I've seen in the reading, every place that talks about cocci says that the birds will be listless and lose appetite. The orps have never had those symptoms. Just dirty feathers and runny poop, which has cleared up with no intervention other than a bath.

I'm not saying they couldn't be asymptomatic carriers of something, because that's always possible. I'm just saying that what I was reporting before was based mostly on my own ignorance, and I've been told that the things I was seeing were more likely the symptoms of stress and poor living conditions than an acute infection.

But I'm new enough that I could be wrong about everything.