INDIANA BYC'ers HERE!

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Howdy! I'm in Indianapolis. 

I have Rhode Island Reds, White Leghorns, one ISA brown, one Broad-breasted Bronze tom, five Pekin ducks (four drakes, one hen), one Swedish Black hen, two Rouen hens, one EE roo, one mille fleur D'Uccle roo, two Golden Sebright hens.

I'll be open to trades and swaps when I can be absolutely certain nobody's contagious, but a new hen turned out to be ill and passed her bug shortly before dying. Long painful story. I've moved the only symptomatic bird inside and will be continuing 1cc of Liquamycin for another nine days just to be sure I kill this bug. So far the only one who's come down with it is Buttermilk, an adopted white Leghorn pullet. She's a super sweet gal and takes her shots better than I do Hopefully it's not CRD because I really don't want to cull her.

Just because they ones aren't showing symptoms doesn't mean they are clean. Honestly it is not safe to pass on these birds to someone else.

I had someone sell me birds that had CRD and luckily I quarientened. I would not wish the disease in anyone's chickens. It is sad and a pain in the butt to deal with.

Good luck with your hen

 

[SallyinIndiana]

Quote: I have a single RIR hen that is a year old that I'm willing to sell. She is in molt. She came from the Ron Fogle line and is extremely pretty. She tends to lay a double yolk egg about every other egg though. I was going to keep her for my layers but if you want her, message me. my zip is 46106.

 

[pipdzipdnreadytogo]

Howdy! I'm in Indianapolis. 

I have Rhode Island Reds, White Leghorns, one ISA brown, one Broad-breasted Bronze tom, five Pekin ducks (four drakes, one hen), one Swedish Black hen, two Rouen hens, one EE roo, one mille fleur D'Uccle roo, two Golden Sebright hens.

I'll be open to trades and swaps when I can be absolutely certain nobody's contagious, but a new hen turned out to be ill and passed her bug shortly before dying. Long painful story. I've moved the only symptomatic bird inside and will be continuing 1cc of Liquamycin for another nine days just to be sure I kill this bug. So far the only one who's come down with it is Buttermilk, an adopted white Leghorn pullet. She's a super sweet gal and takes her shots better than I do Hopefully it's not CRD because I really don't want to cull her.

and welcome to the thread! Sorry that your hens have been sick. It's a shame that people aren't honest enough not to pass sick birds on to others. :/ However, on the subject of possibly selling your birds, I have to agree with this:

Just because they ones aren't showing symptoms doesn't mean they are clean. Honestly it is not safe to pass on these birds to someone else.

I had someone sell me birds that had CRD and luckily I quarientened. I would not wish the disease in anyone's chickens. It is sad and a pain in the butt to deal with.

Good luck with your hen

This is one big reason you have to quarantine new birds, no matter who you get the birds from. If the disease spread to one bird, it's most likely that the rest of your birds have caught it as well, and if they haven't, they will when you reintroduce your Leghorn. The reason it's called Chronic Respiratory Disease is that it's chronic--even if your birds pull through, they are still carriers. I believe CRD is another name for MG, which is a nasty one from all I've read. It also passes through the eggs to the offspring, so hatching eggs would be contaminated as well. The only way you can know for sure if your birds are carrying it now is to have them tested. Not sure if NPIP tests for that or not. CCCCHICKENS?

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

and welcome to the thread! Sorry that your hens have been sick. It's a shame that people aren't honest enough not to pass sick birds on to others. :/ However, on the subject of possibly selling your birds, I have to agree with this:
This is one big reason you have to quarantine new birds, no matter who you get the birds from. If the disease spread to one bird, it's most likely that the rest of your birds have caught it as well, and if they haven't, they will when you reintroduce your Leghorn. The reason it's called Chronic Respiratory Disease is that it's chronic--even if your birds pull through, they are still carriers. I believe CRD is another name for MG, which is a nasty one from all I've read. It also passes through the eggs to the offspring, so hatching eggs would be contaminated as well. The only way you can know for sure if your birds are carrying it now is to have them tested. Not sure if NPIP tests for that or not. CCCCHICKENS?

Yep, quarantine saved my whole flock. You should always quarientene for a month.

Yes it does test for mg

 

[bradselig]

I'm pretty sure that this free testing does test for ms and mg.
http://www.inpoultry.org/documents/T-12.pdf

 

[CCCCCCCCHICKENS]

Yep, quarantine saved my whole flock. You should always quarientene for a month.

No it does not. NPIP tests for pt. Pullorum typhoid. I believe the only way to be 100% sure is a neurotopsy, but that egg kit test might test for it-though I don't think so

Blonde moment. It absolutely DOES test for mg. Now I can't tell you if it is the same as CRD or not

ETA-I have my mind in other things right now lol. If you want to know everything it tests for the NPIP website says or I can tell you when I am actually think

 

[iamfivewire]

we had an unexpected suprise saturday - our 2.5 month old chantecler / iowa blue mix pullet decided to crow .
:- (

 

[Minminme]

we had an unexpected suprise saturday - our 2.5 month old chantecler / iowa blue mix pullet decided to crow .
:- (

ROFLMBO...that would definitely get a shocked look out of me!

 

[iamfivewire]

she (i mean "he") is looking like he'll be a pretty looking bird (prob will end up being "invited to dinner" in a couple months tho)

 

[Indyshent]

Thank-you very much for that link! I filled it out right away and sent it!

I am so hoping that this isn't MG/CRD (they are the same thing the same way HIV/AIDS are. One is the agent, the other is the resulting syndrome caused by the agent).

There are so many things about this case that I find horrifying. The man who traded this hen knew she was dying and still thought she was a fitting trade for three drakes (I had one female duck at the time, and they were raping her into the ground so I had to find them new homes or I wouldn't have even thought about this trade). He brought his prepubescent son with him, and I can't even fathom what makes a parent think that this would be okay. He is teaching his son to cheat people, to take advantage of hapless newbies in the trade, and he is making his son party to these practices and thereby endorsing them. After all the care I gave these animals--my birds are pets! I brought them into my house to treat them and care for them when they were injured. They were all tame and healthy, and the whole reason I was talked into them was because they could provide some necessary therapy for my children. But the hen he gave me died right in front of my children, right after the loss of their favorite hen who was mauled by an unknown animal only days before.